Whats Missing?

[Slinky Skills]

With those 5 or 6 in the team, you wonder exactly what the problem is. I mean, I could justify any of them getting a game in any team in the Premiership.

As for the rest, would anybody be upset if any were sold now or in the summer? Babel and Lucas may well be for the future but for the others surely if a reasonable offer came in we should look to cash in on them?

I think the other thing we are missing is some belief, confidence and stability on the pitch which has got to come from Rafa. He can't do much when the boys cross the line on match day but he has got to instill that confidence that we have had but for some reason have lost recently.

The rest of them are good players too, good enough to play for this club, it's just their attitude that is wrong. I know that players like Gerrard, Carragher etc very rarely get dropped but the others need to change their whole approach to games.

I don't think that it's down to Rafa motivating and putting self-belief in to them, there's only so much he can do. The spine of the team very rarely have problems with confidence, Mascherano is sometimes dropped but when he comes back into the team he plays well and with a lot of confidence. It's puzzling.

[Gaz]

Why do you think hes right? Queresma is not a full back. Attacking full backs my arse, we need at least one top class winger pronto.

I never said he was a full back, he's a top quality winger who carries a goal threat and likes to run at defenders, yes he's a little rough around the edges but he'd add a new dimension to our team.

[Kilteragh]

The rest of them are good players too, good enough to play for this club, it's just their attitude that is wrong.

I don't agree and here's why?

We don't have wingers that strike fear into the opposition. Only by having these can we stretch opposing teams to make space and pass the ball, make runs etc into those spaces. This is what the Scum and the Arse do and this is why we are so often described as beinf narrow or playing with no width.

As someone said earlier, our preferred choice for left wing is Kewell who has spend most of his LFC career injured and doesn't seem to have it any more. If we had the two wingers in place then the next priority would be the overlapping fullbacks. you might argue that Riise and Finnan could do this with two quality wingers in front of them. I'm not convinced, either by Finnan's attacking ability (he has no left foot) and while Riise is okay going forward his defensive capabilities would leave us exposed at the back.

Finally we need a second deadly finisher to take the burden away from Torres.