Martin Skrtel

[The Birdman]

Dan was doing so well with his relentless argument until he said Skrtel was one of the best CB's in the PL last season.

He was that good we had to go to 3 at the back to protect him.

There isn't a ****ing piss myself laughing hysterical emoji but if there was I'd be using 4087 of them for that post.

[Muddled]

Muds not a chance mate. Karl Henry was the best defensive midfielder in the league the other season according to the stats

Can we agree that we've named at least five better central defenders though?

[Exiled_red]

posted on 6th May

Since joining us in 07/08 in the season's where Skrtel has played more than 25 league games, so a regular/first choice we have finished -*
10/11 6th
11/12 8th
12/13 7th
13/14 2nd
14/15 5th (in all likelihood)

That is not someone we should be bending over backwards to pay fortunes to and keep, Skrtel is a good, experienced squad player, too do consistently better he needs to be replaced as a first team starter.
An appearance type deal is exactly the right contract to offer

Opinions are like arse holes, those facts are indisputable

I don't think that those positions are solely down to Skrtel those are basically the seasons since Rafa left. The last couple of years of Rafa's time here we had no investment in the squad thanks to H&G and IMO we have never really recovered from that. This might be controversial but I don't think that over the last 5 years our team/squad quality has ever surpassed the level we were at when Rafa left despite fairly significant investment and a fairly large turnover of players. The 2013-14 season we did well but Suarez and Sturridge's goals papered over alot of cracks and the squad itself was wafer thin. With all due respect to Kenny and Rodgers I don't think we have had a manager that has had the ability to make us compete at the top end of the game since Rafa. (Again the 2013-14 season might suggest otherwise but I think that since we have proved that was more due to Suarez than Rodgers.)

[danperkins]

Can we agree that we've named at least five better central defenders though?

Already said take out Terry and Cahill so forget that. Koscielny I like and have said previous and got pelters on here. Arsenal are so dominant in possession that they have the ball most of the time, takes massive pressure off their defence. The rest of the names you mentioned :

Fonte: nobody mentioned his name up until recently and hadn't got a clue about him. People guessing now that he must of been the reason Lovren looked so good (which he didn't)
Jagielka : Gets dogs abuse on here for being ****.
Ashley Williams : Est nearly exploded when linked with him.
Mert:

And the rest aren't worth even mentioning. Nobody is pretending that Skrtel is world class. I've said he is a decent CB and imo that is spot on... No more and certainly not no less. The reactions are ridiculous and you'd swear I was nominating him for the best player of all time ffs.

[Chazza]

Can we agree that we've named at least five better central defenders though?

Apparently not.

[danperkins]

Inspecto patronum

[Chazza]

Beanser.

[danperkins]

Innit

[Chazza]

How was your holiday? Where did you stay?

[Tribute]

Apart from the abuse Skrtel's getting for being crap as a CB, I think he's a very, very lucky boy that he hasn't had 5+ penalties against him a season for shirt pulling/arms around the opposition at corners... Yes, he's not the only defender in the league to do it, far from it - but he certainly seems to do it the most often. So infuriating.

[danperkins]

How was your holiday? Where did you stay?

Hogwarts

[Chazza]

Hogwarts

Nice.

Did you rate it in trip adviser?

[BobTheCharmer]

If the bloke was scoring a few from corners I'd keep him. But he doesn't get anywhere near these days.

[danperkins]

Yeah, decor needs updating.

[Chazza]

Tricky sell for the travel agents.