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Ninja
Carvalho's a weird example because Rojo is both taller than him and I'd say stronger too. He certainly looks pretty strong, and has a scrappy sort of determination that will see few players better him one on one. Obviously doesn't read the game as well as Carvalho at his best, but few do.
At 24 I see a lot to be positive about he's 6ft 1 (not massive by any means, but the same height as Terry), quick along the ground, strong and good on the ball. He does read the game fairly well, and I think the only time I've ever seen him properly out of position is when his central defensive partner did something stupid and unexpected.
Given that the alternative was Vermaelen, I'm very happy with him so far and he's far exceeded some fairly low expectations.
George14brfc
Ninja
To be fair, opinion seems very divided on him from yesterday. Some think he was excellent and others think he was appalling. He definitely showed that he's a very good defender at times though but I thought Navas got in too easily. I reckon LVG would try him at centre back if we had an alternative to him at left back.
On his game, he's top class defensively, but offers little going forward. That will probably develop, but he's got all the tools to move inside.
Based Jorge
Ninja
He's not better at Left Back.
Based Jorge
tmatthew
Sam
tmatthew
Ninja
No, sorry. A liverpool fan wrote an article for Sporting Witness that more people saw so we're going with that version of events.
tmatthew
He's a liability. And a left-back being played out of position.
Sam
Which I've seen him do quite often. He had Mauricio to cover for him at Sporting. I'm not saying he definitely won't come good (I hope he does), I'm just not convinced he's a very good CB. I think he's a better LB.
£16M isn't too bad, but Garay went to Zenit for only £12M - and we really could have done with him. Plus we're paying £4.8M to loan out Nani as part of the Rojo deal. Argh.
bluemoon.
To be fair that guy runs a site on Portuguese football. He's about as much of an expert as Tom Kundert.
tmatthew
I'm not saying he's perfect, but that above quote shows he was certainly not a liability. And Mauricio is wank.
tmatthew
Are we talking about Jan Hagen? I thought he was just a freelancer? Kundert runs a Portuguese football site.
Not that it matters. But criticising Rojo's Sporting form when people hadn't even heard of him a few months ago is ridiculous.
bluemoon.
Yeah, if I remember rightly he specialises on Portuguese football and has his own site. Might be me wrong mind.
Yeah, I agree with you there.
Ninja
Slashman X
bluemoon.
Chera
Also, Gerrard hasn't been outstanding, especially this season but also most of last season, Henderson carried him most of last season.
He also said its hard to replace 80% of your goals from last season in Sturridge and Suarez missing when in fact they scored around 50% of the league goals.
Based Jorge
Slashman X
Ninja
The worst thing about that nonsense is that their official twitter account tweets it.
this is my all time favourite Rodgers quote from a game when he was Swansea manager though:
'“It is great for the public here at Sunderland to see us,” said manager Brendan Rodgers. “They must have been wondering what this team everyone is talking about are all about and now they have seen"
In a game they got beat 2-0 and had one chance in.
Tommo.
Sam
Poe
BR.
Hmmm, have to disagree Sam.... He's got a struggle on his hands this season but came within a whisker of winning the league last season and gave Liverpool their most exciting league campaign (playing excellent football) for god knows how long.
Let's see how he copes with this tough period (looking at their next two games things might be about to get worse before they get better), but I think he's a good manager, although his summer signings can definitely be questioned.....
.verse
Liverpool's challenge last season had more to do with Suarez's sheer footballing ability than that of Rodgers managerial nous. Was easy to play attacking football when Suarez was firing. When it came to actually relying on more than that, Rodgers faltered.
Naturally, trying to replace someone like Suarez is basically impossible, but expecting a regularly injured Sturridge to replicate and exceed his efforts last season was always going to backfire. Rodgers has also invested a lot of money into average players who've ultimately not really improved the squad whatsoever. Along with believing he could summon sense into Balotelli to deliver on his footballing ability.
Now, most of Liverpool's hopes are pinned on a 19 year old Sterling.
Crane
I really hope you're saying that to try and get in on the Rodgers bashing, rather than actually believing it.
Croy
I still have great hopes for BR, he is still young and inexperienced, did some mistakes this season but hopefully he will learn from them and get the team firing again.