James Milner

[The_weatherman]

I think he can very important in team like Klopp is building. Him, Can and Henderson look like they'll be able to run most teams to the ground as we get better. I'll try to refrain from judging the players while they are adjusting to a new approach.

[frank the tank]

I think he can very important in team like Klopp is building. Him, Can and Henderson look like they'll be able to run most teams to the ground as we get better. I'll try to refrain from judging the players while they are adjusting to a new approach.

[Rich]

I think he can very important in team like Klopp is building. Him, Can and Henderson look like they'll be able to run most teams to the ground as we get better. I'll try to refrain from judging the players while they are adjusting to a new approach.

I'm still confident that he'll more than prove his worth at LFC. He's too good a player not too.

[Yozza]

I think he can very important in team like Klopp is building. Him, Can and Henderson look like they'll be able to run most teams to the ground as we get better. I'll try to refrain from judging the players while they are adjusting to a new approach.

I have to admit I haven't been overly impressed by his contributions so far but early days yet

He'll always be more of a cog than a real driving force but I think he'll end up being an important part of the team with the likes of Firminho & Coutinho around him

[Doc_Piptorious]

Milner will flourish in Klopp's pressing game. He covers the most ground with Henderson.

Thought someone put up the average distance stats for Henderson recently and they were not outstanding or unusually high.

Think it was someone like Lallana who was near the top for us in terms of distance ran per 90 minutes played and that Henderson was somewhere around the 10km to 10.5km mark.

[Maxiedge]

I have to say, we seem to regard our midfielders as some sort of olympic distance runners but I don't think we're the only side to have hard working midfielders

[Doc_Piptorious]

I have to say, we seem to regard our midfielders as some sort of olympic distance runners but I don't think we're the only side to have hard working midfielders

Exactly. At times I think we are guilty of thinking that our guys are the hardest working, longest running uber pressing mofos in the game, whereas the reality is that a number of teams have players that can match and surpass what our guys have being doing so far this season and certainly last season.

[Maxiedge]

Exactly. At times I think we are guilty of thinking that our guys are the hardest working, longest running uber pressing mofos in the game, whereas the reality is that a number of teams have players that can match and surpass what our guys have being doing so far this season and certainly last season.

uber pressing mofos

[Yozza]

Exactly. At times I think we are guilty of thinking that our guys are the hardest working, longest running uber pressing mofos in the game, whereas the reality is that a number of teams have players that can match and surpass what our guys have being doing so far this season and certainly last season.

Far from it mate - we haven't been uber pressing mofos enough lately under BR & that's been one of our biggest problems

It's just good to see us doing it again

[Maxiedge]

Far from it mate - we haven't been uber pressing mofos enough lately under BR & that's been one of our biggest problems

It's just good to see us doing it again

I don't think he was saying we were doing it, just that we seem to have this presumption that we potentially have the only midfielders in the league that can do this.

[Buzzo]

He's a vanilla shade of beige.

I want to see him biting folk . Steady, reliable, good engine = boring.

Nobody's scared of playing against Jimbo Milner - the question is, can he raise his level to do anything about it?

[Doc_Piptorious]

I don't think he was saying we were doing it, just that we seem to have this presumption that we potentially have the only midfielders in the league that can do this.

Not so much that we have the only midfielders doing it but rather the presumption that our midfielders are far better at it than those at other teams.

[The_weatherman]

Thought someone put up the average distance stats for Henderson recently and they were not outstanding or unusually high.

Think it was someone like Lallana who was near the top for us in terms of distance ran per 90 minutes played and that Henderson was somewhere around the 10km to 10.5km mark.

I think that's in a large part to due the former manager's approach, I think I remember that when Jordan was at Sunderland he posted very high figures, and in our good season as well.

Edit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...ns-season.html

In 2014 Henderson was fourth and Lallana fifth in terms of ground covered.

[Doc_Piptorious]

I think that's in a large part to due the former manager's approach, I think I remember that when Jordan was at Sunderland he posted very high figures, and in our good season as well.

Edit: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...ns-season.html

In 2014 Henderson was fourth and Lallana fifth in terms of ground covered.

Yeah but there has been a full season and a bit since then, and many of us (myself included at times) seem to have bought into us being something special on that front when in fact the past year and a bit has shown that we are not stand outs in that department - not on a regular basis anyway.

[The_weatherman]

Yeah but there has been a full season and a bit since then, and many of us (myself included at times) seem to have bought into us being something special on that front when in fact the past year and a bit has shown that we are not stand outs in that department - not on a regular basis anyway.

I think it showes that Jordan and Lallana, and Milner of course are well capable of playing a physically demanding game, OK Lallana comes off after 70 mins but that's fine by me. But you are probably right in that most midfielders in the league are capable of this nowadays, depends mostly on how their managers setup the teams. My point was no-less that the former manager had Henderson playing high octane pressing one season and then he just pulled him back.