Emre Can

[Pureblood]

In my opinion Emre Can already is the finished article and that's why he's attracting interest from the likes of Juve and able to command a reported £160k p/w. 

 

He's a marvelous midfielder and we're lucky to have him.

 

He'll be a loss but presumably Naby Keita will soften the blow. 

[INTORRESTING]

We shouldn't be chasing after average players. We can do better, it's no great loss and if he doesn't want to be here or wants a way out, he can go.

 

160k to watch him plodding about is a joke in my opinion.

[stringvest]

Can propensity to switch off hasn’t gone away. They’ll be less forgiving of that at Juve.

[El Dangerous]

Can will be boss at Juve. Less so at Munich. Hope he stays just because it's absolutely depressing having a recruitment/club policy that seeks out youth with an eye to moulding them in to top talent then watching them fuck off as soon as that talent comes to fruition.

[Chip Butty]

You're either with us, or against us - thats my scan on it all.

 

He quite evidently isn't, so bin this kid off soon and make sure we do the binning off, not this lad. 

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[El Rojo]

He's a good player, but a very replaceable one. Opposition players don't waste much time fretting over how to deal with him when we play them in the way that they might have over our midfielders of a few years ago.

 

Silly to lose him for nothing, though.

[VladimirIlyich]

In my opinion Emre Can already is the finished article and that's why he's attracting interest from the likes of Juve and able to command a reported £160k p/w.

 

He's a marvelous midfielder and we're lucky to have him.

 

He'll be a loss but presumably Naby Keita will soften the blow.

If he is already the finished article I am more than happy for him to leave.

[G Richards]

I think he's average, and the average comes from some very good stuff and some very poor stuff. That's what is so infuriating. Lots of average players are at least consistent in being average. They are what they are, and it's hard to have strong feelings about them one way or the other. Most teams can accommodate, and even need, this sort of water carrying player if the blend is right. But for me, Can is a different type of average to that.  

 

When I see a player like Emre Can score a good goal or make a bursting run past a couple of players, he looks like an elite midfielder. No two ways about it. But on the other hand, when I see him dawdle on the ball and get his pocket picked, or when I see him turn like an oil tanker, or when I see him switch off and be unaware of a runner going past him, it infuriates me. 

 

This is why you get some posts saying he's a great player and other posts saying he's not all that. 

 

What will be will be with this one. If he leaves I'll think of the poor stuff. If he ends up staying I'll hope for more of the good stuff. But for me, he's not so good that I would upset the apple cart and give him the sort of wage that will give us bigger problems.  

[LFC 6 Times]

He should be playing as the number 6. It's his best position, he's a vastly better player than Henderson in the role. We need to stop trying to shoehorn him into one of the attacking midfielders, it's not his game.

[Strontium]

There's no way a player who gets regular game time for the top ranked international side can realistically be defined as "average". It defies sense.

[3 Stacks]

He should be playing as the number 6. It's his next position, he's a vastly better player than Henderson in the role. We need to stop trying to shoehorn him into one of the attacking midfielders, it's not his game.

 

Agreed. At a big club, he's a #6. Doesn't have the consistent technique or the guile to play further up the pitch in a side that needs to dominate the ball.

[G Richards]

There's no way a player who gets regular game time for the top ranked international side can realistically be defined as "average". It defies sense.

 

 

Fair enough. The term "average" isn't adequate. In fact, even rubbish players that we sometimes talk about are far better than most posters on here ever were!

 

If I haven't got the vocabulary right, I hope the thrust of it made sense. 

 

He does some great stuff. He does some rubbish stuff. He doesn't do enough of the former to be an elite player, but neither does he do so much of the latter that I can dismiss him as rubbish.

 

Whatever wage that equates to at Liverpool is fine by me, but he's borderline in terms of getting a spot in our current best eleven, with everyone is fit and on form, and when we add Keita it gets even trickier.

 

It's fair though, he's definitely better than average, but I wouldn't be upsetting the apple cart to accommodate him as he's not that good. 

[sir roger]

I assume we would have been offering about £100k anyway if that's what Lovren got & financially it seems ridiculous to lose a potential £30m+ fee arguing over paying an extra £3m a year in wages.

 

As to the ' Salah & Mane looking for more money ' argument , then we should be happy to increase wages for elite players who are doing the business as long as it comes with an extended contract. With the figures floating around the demands of the likes of Ozil & Sanchez, along with the increased tv money it seems that £150k pa will be the new £75k pa. Let's be fair , Sturridge has been strolling / rolling around for 3 years on this amount.

 

In a playing sense I think Can will be a great player in the next couple of years if we find his best position and keep him fit.

[Rotpeter]

Agreed. At a big club, he's a #6. Doesn't have the consistent technique or the guile to play further up the pitch in a side that needs to dominate the ball.

 

Doesn't have the mindset, concentration or positional awareness to be a 6 at a big club

[Jairzinho]

He doesn't have a position.

[aws]

He doesn't have a position.

He transcends positions.

[Guest]

He doesn't have a position.

Emre Can is the position.

[SlugTrail]

So the two remaining options are pay him twice what he's worth or let him go on a free.

 

Magnificent.

let him go, it will send out a message to the other players, don't bother trying to get a pay rise because we now have to pay 25 people the living wage and were brasic.

[cloggypop]

Still not as good as his hair.

[SammyAftershave]

Still not as good as his hair.

 

Conversely, a guy who was a far better footy player than his shit hair:

 

 

[SammyAftershave]

The history of the game is littered with shit-haired ace footballer's. They didn't come much more shit-haired than Noel Brotherston but he could play a bit: RIP.

 

[SammyAftershave]

And our very own Jimmy Melia:

 

I think he was only 14 when this pic was taken

[G Richards]

Conversely, a guy who was a far better footy player than his shit hair:

 

 

Great forearm hair though.

[TheHowieLama]

Agreed - imagine the back on that little fella

[suzy]

I'm surprised this hasn't been bumped up today - just seen a few reports about that say Can could be going to City! Ok we have to  except if it he runs his contract down but surely we couldn't let him go to a rival?