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[BigChief]

He's different class.

Up there with Pacheco.

[fidget]

He's different class.

[rudedog]

Yeah mate, slightly improved before the last game but he's certainly not pulling up any trees.

I disagree, thought his performances have been one of the few positives recently. He gets a pass for the Leeds game due to his injury/fitness (Slot should have rested him)

[Slinky Skills]

Was that the first game you have watched recently? He’s been one of our best player the last few games. Slot has also said he wasn’t fully fit and had been feeling his ham string (and was why he was subbed)

Yeah mate, slightly improved before the last game but he's certainly not pulling up any trees.

[rudedog]

He looks ****ing rubbish tbh, his passing looks awful, his attacking and shooting looks awful, he doesn't tackle. He looks lost in this league and he has an awful haircut as well.

Was that the first game you have watched recently? He’s been one of our best player the last few games. Slot has also said he wasn’t fully fit and had been feeling his ham string (and was why he was subbed)

[peterbread]

Elliot got dropped into a performing team and anything he did well was seen as a bonus coming from such a young player.


Wirtz, a month younger than Elliot which I think sometimes gets forgotten about him, came into a misfiring team and if he has an average to decent performance it is seen as a let down regardless of his age.


What is very noticeable about Wirtz (and Jones for that matter) is that the level of control we have up the pitch drops off to a huge degree with subs get made.

Wirtz and/or Jones comes off, and our ability to recycle and keep the ball drops off a cliff and we go into backs to the wall mode.

They are building a nice relationship on the pitch.

[Buzzo]

Elliot got dropped into a performing team and anything he did well was seen as a bonus coming from such a young player.


Wirtz, a month younger than Elliot which I think sometimes gets forgotten about him, came into a misfiring team and if he has an average to decent performance it is seen as a let down regardless of his age.


What is very noticeable about Wirtz (and Jones for that matter) is that the level of control we have up the pitch drops off to a huge degree with subs get made.

Wirtz and/or Jones comes off, and our ability to recycle and keep the ball drops off a cliff and we go into backs to the wall mode.

100% - the Leeds game was a massive example of this. We created nothing when they went off and maybe only slightly improved when Ngumoha came on.

[Doc_Piptorious]

We weren’t playing ****e back then. Hard to compare.

Elliot got dropped into a performing team and anything he did well was seen as a bonus coming from such a young player.


Wirtz, a month younger than Elliot which I think sometimes gets forgotten about him, came into a misfiring team and if he has an average to decent performance it is seen as a let down regardless of his age.


What is very noticeable about Wirtz (and Jones for that matter) is that the level of control we have up the pitch drops off to a huge degree with subs get made.

Wirtz and/or Jones comes off, and our ability to recycle and keep the ball drops off a cliff and we go into backs to the wall mode.

[Buzzo]

Elliotts numbers were a lot higher. Not saying Wirtz is a bad player, but Elliott could pick a pass without over thinking it.

We weren’t playing ****e back then. Hard to compare.

[Charly]

Elliotts numbers were a lot higher. Not saying Wirtz is a bad player, but Elliott could pick a pass without over thinking it.

[Paul12]

He looks ****ing rubbish tbh, his passing looks awful, his attacking and shooting looks awful, he doesn't tackle. He looks lost in this league and he has an awful haircut as well.

The haircut definitely worries me. Thank god Elliott will soon be back to give him some advice.

[danperkins]

Still far from convinced he can physically succeed in the prem. Bit better recently, some nice combinations with Jones and great to see him get some production even if it's 1 goal and 2 assists in 18 games, it's something but we need so much more from him and the team for that matter.

Wirtz seems a luxury player at the moment and with half the season gone now we've only seen glimpses of magic from a 116m player and that is simply not good enough.. nowhere near it. It's very evident what this Liverpool side lacks and that is physicality, pace and power. It also lacks an identity but that's on the manager. I would like to see additions to the side that would compliment the attributes Wirtz has, considering we clearly bought him to build a team around. We've been so dysfunctional this season and the manager has really struggled.... it's hard to make a proper assessment on the player as we do know he has genuine quality. Whether or not that can translate to the league is the question and for that money.. let's hope it can and asap. Wirtz will get a fair crack at it and will have ample time to prove himself, time will tell.

[labourRed]

His hamstring yesterday wasn't a 100% going into the game, hence the sub.

[Buzzo]

Less good today than recently, but we didn’t create anything at all once he and Curtis went off.

He was on the back of 3 or 4 MotM’s his form has recently been good.

[Slinky Skills]

He looks ****ing rubbish tbh, his passing looks awful, his attacking and shooting looks awful, he doesn't tackle. He looks lost in this league and he has an awful haircut as well.