Naby Keita

[danperkins]

Just on the highlighted bit. I would say we need two midfielders coming in in the near future and not one given the ages of some of our midfield and the fitness issues of others.

yeah agree with this. I'm hoping we have something up our sleeves.

[Doc_Piptorious]

I think a big issue is we can't seem to get our strongest 3 which imo is (Hendo/Fab/Thiago) on the pitch for any sustained period so we did look disjointed. We absolutely need another CM, personally I think Keita will be moved on in the summer & Milner will be phased out. Hendo has struggled a bit this season alright but I think his role has changed since Gini left, maybe he is finding it harder to adapt. Milner has had a brilliant career everywhere he has been & Henderson has proven to be a fantastic captain and been outstanding for us for years. Keita has done none of these things and we paid €50 odd million for him, he's either injured, coming back from injury or bang average in most games, fair play to anyone desperately trying to pull any sliver of positivity from his performances in a LFC shirt but there is a reason why people are pointing the finger at him. For value for money he has been a pretty bad signing.

He did cost us two goals last night and was whipped at half time.. that is why the thread was bumped

Just on the highlighted bit. I would say we need two midfielders coming in in the near future and not one given the ages of some of our midfield and the fitness issues of others.

[~LFCHistory~]

I think a big issue is we can't seem to get our strongest 3 which imo is (Hendo/Fab/Thiago) on the pitch for any sustained period so we did look disjointed. We absolutely need another CM, personally I think Keita will be moved on in the summer & Milner will be phased out. Hendo has struggled a bit this season alright but I think his role has changed since Gini left, maybe he is finding it harder to adapt. Milner has had a brilliant career everywhere he has been & Henderson has proven to be a fantastic captain and been outstanding for us for years. Keita has done none of these things and we paid €50 odd million for him, he's either injured, coming back from injury or bang average in most games, fair play to anyone desperately trying to pull any sliver of positivity from his performances in a LFC shirt but there is a reason why people are pointing the finger at him. For value for money he has been a pretty bad signing.

He did cost us two goals last night and was whipped at half time.. that is why the thread was bumped

We've been outstanding this season, nobody has stated otherwise. We have been left short in the midfield and have been filling gaps by not being able to play our strongest line up. We are strong defensively, clinical in front of goal this season & have the best player in the world smashing it this season.. that is why we have played 12, won 9 and drawn 3. Once bodies get back, we should be able to played our strongest midfield which will only improve us imo.

Needs to be moved on ASAP maybe as a swap load deal in January or wait until the summer and get 20m or so for him. As I said last night Naby is Klopp's biggest flop in the transfer market by a long way but it happens all managers **** up from time to time even ours who get's it right 90% of the time.

[danperkins]

After all the tantrums during the summer and people being made to look like complete idiots, they need to cling on to something they can moan about and hepefully get to say "I was right" eventually.

coming from you jesus

[RedReet]

Played 12, won 9, drawn 3 yet apparently we are "disjointed" and carrying "bang average" players.

After all the tantrums during the summer and people being made to look like complete idiots, they need to cling on to something they can moan about and hepefully get to say "I was right" eventually.

[danperkins]

We certainly do injuries well at LFC that's for sure.

[Mark79]

Yeah this thread is bumped usually with news that Keita is injured

At least there’s parity with some other player’s threads in that respect

[danperkins]

The thread is often bumped, usually for things that others wouldn’t be.

Yeah this thread is bumped usually with news that Keita is injured

[danperkins]

Played 12, won 9, drawn 3 yet apparently we are "disjointed" and carrying "bang average" players.

We've been outstanding this season, nobody has stated otherwise. We have been left short in the midfield and have been filling gaps by not being able to play our strongest line up. We are strong defensively, clinical in front of goal this season & have the best player in the world smashing it this season.. that is why we have played 12, won 9 and drawn 3. Once bodies get back, we should be able to played our strongest midfield which will only improve us imo.

[Mark79]

The thread is often bumped, usually for things that others wouldn’t be.

[Pablo]

Played 12, won 9, drawn 3 yet apparently we are "disjointed" and carrying "bang average" players.

[danperkins]

I think a big issue is we can't seem to get our strongest 3 which imo is (Hendo/Fab/Thiago) on the pitch for any sustained period so we did look disjointed. We absolutely need another CM, personally I think Keita will be moved on in the summer & Milner will be phased out. Hendo has struggled a bit this season alright but I think his role has changed since Gini left, maybe he is finding it harder to adapt. Milner has had a brilliant career everywhere he has been & Henderson has proven to be a fantastic captain and been outstanding for us for years. Keita has done none of these things and we paid €50 odd million for him, he's either injured, coming back from injury or bang average in most games, fair play to anyone desperately trying to pull any sliver of positivity from his performances in a LFC shirt but there is a reason why people are pointing the finger at him. For value for money he has been a pretty bad signing.

He did cost us two goals last night and was whipped at half time.. that is why the thread was bumped

[danperkins]

Milner and Henderson have proven themselves though, and nobody thinks they're the future. I would've let Henderson go in the summer too, so its not Nabby being picked on, he's just a very average player.

this

[Exiled_red]

Playing Midfield for us is a totally thankless task.

We win and the forwards get the credit. We keep a clean sheet and the defence and keeper gets the credit.

Our midfielders, particularly 6 and 8 rarely get credit. Thats not to say that Hendo and Milner have been great, Hendo in particular needs to rediscover hs levels, but - we are unbeaten in 20 odd games and scoring 3 goals per game, so something is working.

I said earlier I think the entire midfield was poor, Hendo hasn't been on it for a while for me and last night the 3 in midfield looked out of shape on a number of occasions and much like at the back it's about getting the right partnerships working, the 3 last night to me just felt disjointed.

We look much better when we have Fab sitting, I like Naby and he does offer things that most of our other midfielders don't the issue I guess is finding that balance to allow him to do that.

I'd be surprised if we looked to move him on.

I agree with both these posts people have been complaining about our midfield being **** for the last few years, in that time we've won the CL and PL, so it hasn't been as bad as many have been suggesting. Again this season we have been on a decent run but individual performances in midfield have looked dodgy at times. Henderson hasn't been great Elliot was looking good but got injured Thiago got injured, Fabinho has missed a few games too. There hasn't been a settled unit in there for much of the season and for me it shows.

Naby is a difficult one, as people have said the likes of Henderson and Milner have credit in the bank whereas Naby doesn't he's scored a couple of spectacular goals this season but it seems at times he just can't do the basics which is frustrating. I think that he is a player who would benefit from knowing his role and if he could get a run of games in a settled system I think he could do quite well for us. The problem is I've been saying that more or less since he signed and it hasn't happened yet...

[Angryred]

The Anfield one if we're lucky.

Probably!