Lucas

[Chris]

Wash ur mouth out!!!!! Lucas is boss these days no doubt - but he ain't got nothing on didi. Not even close . . . . Maybe many many years down the line but didi was immense year on year!!

Agreed, I love Lucas but he's nowhere close to Didi yet. Hopefully we can talk about him in the same way in 3-4-5 years or whatever but he's got a way to go.

[saj]

Wash ur mouth out!!!!! Lucas is boss these days no doubt - but he ain't got nothing on didi. Not even close . . . . Maybe many many years down the line but didi was immense year on year!!

Agreed, I love Lucas but he's nowhere close to Didi yet. Hopefully we can talk about him in the same way in 3-4-5 years or whatever but he's got a way to go.

Ok let me rephrase what I wrote. He has having the same impact on games that Didi used to. There is striking stat which both have in common - Didi was frequently on top of the most tackles for (what was known as back in the day) the Carling Opta stats. And Lucas is the same. In fact Lucas is top in Europe. I can never in my life recall a player improving so much when playing at the same club (obviously Torres improved a hell of a lot overnight when he signed for us but he came from a different team).

Didi was an amazing player - I learnt the art of holding the ball up just by watching him play. But Lucas for me is definitely playing at the same level Didi used to.

[Craig_H]

Dunno about same level, but Lucas certainly fulfils the same crucial role in he side and does it brilliantly.

[BillobShaisley]

Didi was bloody slow though and that affected the way the rest of the team played.

[JohnDoe]

He has become some player. I'd go as far as saying one of the best holding midfield players in the world, easily in the Top 10. Anderson and Mascherano can go suck balls

I would say he (brace yourselves, this is a big statement coming up), he has or is coming close to becoming a better player than Hamann was for us. Hamann is one of my favourite LFC players of all time

[Shaggy]

Nothing too outrageous about that IMO. Hamann didn't join us til he was 26 and kept improving into his 30s. Lucas is still just 24 and already playing at a very high level whether you like it or not.

I'm not really into comparing players of different generations but Lucas is a future Liverpool captain and that says it all.

[little dave hedgehog]

gwan, shaggy.

[JohnDoe]

Lucas is still just 24 and already playing at a very high level whether you like it or not.

He's really not. He's playing at a John Obi Mikel level and being hailed as a world class player. It's beyond funny now, it's just sad.

[Chris]

He's really not. He's playing at a John Obi Mikel level and being hailed as a world class player. It's beyond funny now, it's just sad.

He's playing far better than that. He's a quality player who's mastering the art of winning the ball back and is effective in giving it like he did with that brilliant pass to Suarez for Carroll's goal on the weekend.

He's not at Didi's level yet, I'd swap him for Mascherano in an instant but he's a really good player.

[Shaggy]

He's really not. He's playing at a John Obi Mikel level and being hailed as a world class player. It's beyond funny now, it's just sad.

[Assassin]

Obi Mikel, you have got to be having a laugh

[Shaggy]

John Obi Mikel

[Assassin]

Its ****ing comical

[JohnDoe]

Laugh all you want, there are dozens of players I'd take before Lucas at CM. Dozens. He's "alright", he's a good lad and a top pro, but if we want to be a top side, we've got to have stronger presence in the middle, and he's not one.

He's overrated beyond madness and to mention him in the same breath as Hamann is disrespectful to Didi.

[Assassin]

List these dozens of players