Yep, āHe occupies space as a false number 9ā, superfans line.
Mitrovich would have more than 4 goals in this Liverpool team with Robbo and TAA putting those crosses in.
Andy Carroll should have been kept then in that case.
Is this the same Aldridge that @mikehunt thinks is some sort of football sage?
@mikehunt wants to revert to lump it up to the big full forward
The same Aldridge who gave it loads back in 1996 about how he wasnāt granted an interview for the vacant Ireland job at the time yet it was then discovered that he didnāt turn up for the interview!
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No, they got 25m for Carroll, Iām not sure when Aldo mentioned getting Mitrovich but would it have been after Fulham were relegated and could have been bought on the cheap? Liverpool have done quite well from purchasing players from relegated clubs.
I think itās fair to say that John Aldridge is a bit of simpleton
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Heās the Scouse @mikehunt
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Superfans saying how Firminho is one of the worldās best and then using the likes of Mitrovich and Andy Carroll to put him in a good lightā¦
5 goals in 12 games for a club that was relegated compared to a player with 4 goals in 17 for a team top of the league by 10 points.
The only thing Aldo got wrong is that with those stats Mitrovich would be a starter, not a Plan B option.
Easy do all the scoring when youāve a bunch of donkeys around you that donāt know where the net is.
Firmino, on the other hand, has star players all around him.
Itās odd that theyāre doing so well even though heās so poor, particularly when only 4 players have played more minutes than him. It would seem a bit strange for Klopp to drop the player who has the most assists though
Firminoās form is somewhere in the middle of whatās being said hereā¦ He could honestly do with a month off. Heās had a serious amount of football over the last three years and while the other two up top have as well, you could argue Firminoās role has been far more attritionalā¦ Particularly in the previous two seasons.
He really opens things up for the attack thoā¦ And he can be frustrating at times by not doing the easy thing but heās very clever in drifting into space which not onky dictates the pass coming up the field but also the space up top for the other two. Heās also a great defender and breaks up a lot of play in the oppositionās halfā¦ He looks tired tho, as does Salad.
Liverpool need to pick up a couple of lads in the Christmas window, squad players will do. It seems like any three lads will do for midfield but if the wing backs, big virge or the front three get injured they are in trouble.
Heās trying to rotate it a bit to be fair to him but thereās a big drop in quality behind the first 11
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What realistic target would you prefer to see up front?
Thereās a couple of young lads on the verge of the squadā¦ He should be giving them the last 5 minutes in games to start properly blooding them in.