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Jordan Henderson, MBE: World Club Cup, European Cup, European Super Cup, Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup & Charity Shield Winning Captain of Liverpool (and massive sellout)


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10 hours ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

I agree up to a point. If you take the top ten teams out of the equation and we only had to play the bottom ten teams at any point in the season, Henderson would be absolutely fine in this team. He played very well against Newcastle, who are really struggling to stop conceding goals while finding them hard to come by for themselves. Henderson will cope fine with these teams, so long as he has really good players alongside him in the middle.

 

If he's in the team against one of the top teams, he will always struggle to impose himself in these matches. He takes too long to do anything other than a sideways pass or a backwards pass, he normally points to where the ball should be going (surely a decent player in this team is going to know where the ball should be going?) and often in the first two thirds of the pitch refuses to do what he would point out to others.

 

I am beginning to wonder if Klopp is testing Henderson out in these matches. Bear in mind that up to the point of signing Alisson, Klopp was absolutely behind his boy Karius. All players make mistakes, he will learn etc. Boom. Alisson is signed, bye bye Karius. It's in Henderson's interest to MAN UP and start showing he can do against Man City what he can do against Newcastle, otherwise there could be another Boom.

 

 

Klopp knew enough about him to spend £100m on 2 players in his position last summer. He’ll be marginalised next season if he’s still here 

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He's as useless against the bottom sides as he is against the top, for different reasons.  What is consistent about him is he panics under pressure and won't make himself available for a pass when he thinks he might receive the ball under pressure.  It was one of those traits that when he joined I felt he might grow out of.  He hasn't; you could argue that it's got worse.    

 

 

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We're starting to reach a point where even top teams are letting us have more of the ball. For example, we had more possession than both PSG and Man City away which is pretty incredible. The more this happens, the more useless Henderson will look because when those types of sides let us have the ball, they do it to press us high and that's the killer for Henderson. He's a massive liability in those matches and he shouldn't play. 

 

It used to be we'd batter top sides by hitting them on the counter and winning all the second balls after pressing, which is what Henderson was good at, but it's less viable now. The best teams in the world will not less us do that and we need to adjust our personnel accordingly.

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Until Keita is on form and firing I’d prefer us to play 4-2-3-1. 

 

Fabinho and Gini as the two and have more creativity going forward. 

 

Hopefully when Keita is showing the form that made us buy him we can mix it up with both formations and he’ll add a more dynamic impact playing on the left of a midfield 3. 

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Every game now it's glaringly obvious how limited and cowardly he is. This team has passed him by and he's standing out like boil on the end of a nose. I was a big fan of his when he first joined but he has faded big time and needs to be shipped out if the midfield is to ever improve. In fairness to Klopp, Keita was meant to be his replacement but he just looks like he is playing with a cock rash. 

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2 hours ago, ZonkoVille77 said:

Every game now it's glaringly obvious how limited and cowardly he is. This team has passed him by and he's standing out like boil on the end of a nose. I was a big fan of his when he first joined but he has faded big time and needs to be shipped out if the midfield is to ever improve. In fairness to Klopp, Keita was meant to be his replacement but he just looks like he is playing with a cock rash. 

Keïta was never meant to be his replacement, they play different positions. 

 

Hendo will be here for a long time, sorry everybody. 

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