DoF Fantasy Series Part 4: Premier League Restricted
We’ve all been screaming, sighing, boiling, enraged, agonized, infuriated, and outraged at the thought of buying Premier League proven players rather than vying for the rising talents of Europe, and rightly so, because there’s not such thing as Premier League proven players when statistically there’s been no difference between the performance of a player that arrives from a different country as to players who’ve had experience in English football.
But to be the devil’s advocate, I’m going to try and …
Europe and the League - Klopp's superb Juggling act
Liverpool's Premier League season petered out towards the end with all efforts going towards setting the players up to have the best chance possible of winning the Europa League. Reds boss Jurgen Klopp decided to field weakened sides in six of the last eight league fixtures, fully utilising the youngsters within the squad to enable the 'first teamers' longer breaks between games. Four wins, three draws and a single defeat isn't a bad return all things considered.
It worked, to …
Liverpool Need To Convert Leads into Victories - It's Not Easy
If it happens once you can pass it off as being normal. You're told that It happens to everybody and not to worry about it. You nod in agreement at the reassurance being offered.
If the same problem continuously happens then you have two choices; bury your head, pretend it's normal and carry on nodding or actually acknowledge there's an issue and look to rectify it.
Liverpool have a few problems, too many to state and if you attempted to …
Daniel Sturridge is Priceless, Selling Him would be Foolish
In Premier League history Daniel Sturridge ranks fourth when you look at goal involvement per minutes on the pitch.
Yet there are a large portion of Liverpool fans that want to sell him and he's nowhere near his peak.
Since the inception of the Premier League in 1992 many great strikers have graced it. The likes of Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler, Dennis Bergkamp, Eric Cantona, Fernando Torres, Alan Shearer and Titi Camera.
Our very own no.15 is more effective than …
Analysis: Liverpool Goals scored with and without Benteke
Christian Benteke has had a mixed debut season with Liverpool. From the match winning goals to the many missed chances, he's really showed why every single Liverpool fan was 'right' about the Reds signing him this summer.
On one side are those that wanted him for his 'goals', and yes he does score goals and win you games.
On the flip side to that though are the ones who thought goals aside he offers very little else and doesn't really …
Managing Daniel Sturridge - Cup or Premier League?
Daniel Sturridge's return to the Liverpool bench against Sunderland caught everybody off guard. In the pre-match press conference a day earlier Jurgen Klopp implied if everything went well then the earliest time fans would get a glimpse of their hit-man would be against West Ham in the FA Cup.
The disappointing 2-2 draw, in which Sturridge didn't make it off the bench, all but ended Liverpool's interest in challenging for the top 4 this season. The Reds currently sit in …
Christian Benteke - Harshly Judged or Fairly Criticised?
The story of Christian Benteke at Liverpool is that of a sorry tale about a misfit. He's our Buddy the Elf to Liverpool's elves. He stands out and not in a good way. When he gets involved the other players seem to have to increase their workload to accommodate him. It may not be Christmas but it's still winter so you're allowed to watched Elf.
Signed for big money, £32.5 million, the pressure to fire Liverpool into the Champions League …
James Milner, Time To Say Goodbye?
James Milner, seasoned England international, Premier League winner, FA Cup winner, League Cup winner. These are all impressive stats from Liverpool's most high profile signing from last summer. And I'm sure there were some fans out there who thought the same as me when he was announced as one of Brendan Rodgers first summer signings; great what a fantastic signing, I had hoped that maybe Rodgers had learned from his mistakes from the previous summer and instead of bringing in …
Time To Step Up - Jerome Sinclair
Liverpool just can seem to catch a break lately with injuries. With almost a full compliment of attackers out injured, any hopes of fans seeing Belgian striker Divock Origi in the next few games have been dashed with the news that he's going to be out for at least another month after under going surgery in Belgium which is a shame for him because before he picked up his hamstring injury on Boxing Day he was starting to show a …
The Sturridge Replacement - Michy Batshuayi
It's not often you hear that a Premier League club, one that regularly qualifies for Europe, is prepared to sell arguably their best player for as little as £25 million when the player has three and a half years remaining on their current deal. Stories came out over the weekend that Liverpool are set to do that exact thing.
According to reports the Reds are prepared to entertain offers of £25 million for Daniel Sturridge.
Twitter was divided when this …