Who is the most important of our front three?

[Bjornebye]

Salah draws a blank away at Southampton and we turn on him. Great stuff 

[Pureblood]

1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

Salah draws a blank away at Southampton and we turn on him. Great stuff 

No.

[Funkasy]

14 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Salah draws a blank away at Southampton and we turn on him. Great stuff 

drama king.

[Bjornebye]

I wasn't being serious you pair of quilts.

 

Fucking Beverly Brothers. 

[Jairzinho]

41 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Salah draws a blank away at Southampton and we turn on him. Great stuff 

So you want Mane and Firmino sold?

[Bjornebye]

Just now, Jairzinho said:

So you want Mane and Firmino sold?

Given away to be precise. Fucking free-loaders. 

[Numero Veinticinco]

21 hours ago, moof said:

Salah and Mane are both absolutely outstanding players, obviously. But I think firmino is most important in terms of making us tick, getting us playing at our absolute top level 

He’s brilliant. When he’s on it, he’s really on it.

[3 Stacks]

16 hours ago, Alex_K said:

Its a bit (very) weird that a forward with 55 league goals & 19 assists in 76 league games is polling so massively behind a centre forward with 49 league goals & 28 assists in 139 games.

 

This idea that Firmino makes us tick .. sure, he's central to it, but exactly which games were they where his absence undid us? Because I certainly can't ever remember a remotely similar feeling of pure doom to when Salah hobbled off against Madrid in Kiev.

 

Bobby's a cult favourite but he's just not in the same class as Salah. Every single statistic and area of their play says as much.

The question isn't "who's the best", it's "who's the most important". I'm not saying goals are easy to come by, but there are way more players in world football that could replicate what Salah and Mané do to a degree than players who can do what Firmino does in Klopp's system.

 

Hence, by definition, it's easy to argue that Firmino is the most important even if he's objectively less productive than Salah and Mané.

[Trumo]

I'd be questioning why I'm having to pick just one.

[Pureblood]

2 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

I wasn't being serious you pair of quilts.

 

Fucking Beverly Brothers. 

No need for the homophobic outburst.

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, TK421 said:

No need for the homophobic outburst.

Me, you, Splash. Midnight. 

[Jose Jones]

5 hours ago, 3 Stacks said:

The question isn't "who's the best", it's "who's the most important". I'm not saying goals are easy to come by, but there are way more players in world football that could replicate what Salah and Mané do to a degree than players who can do what Firmino does in Klopp's system.

 

Hence, by definition, it's easy to argue that Firmino is the most important even if he's objectively less productive than Salah and Mané.

I think it’s the other way around.

I reckon you could find someone to do the false 9 stuff Firmino does - probably not with the same amount of unselfishness - a bit more easily than you could replace wide forwards of the quality of Mane and Salah.

[Butch]

8 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Salah draws a blank away at Southampton and we turn on him. Great stuff 

Bloody ell 

[Shitty Arse]

It’s too difficult to call but I voted Mane purely on the basis we beat Barcelona 4-0 without the other two in one of the greatest comebacks of all time.

[moof]

11 minutes ago, Soft Joe said:

It’s too difficult to call but I voted Mane purely on the basis we beat Barcelona 4-0 without the other two in one of the greatest comebacks of all time.

He was utterly magnificent that night. Covered every blade of grass at least 20 times

[suzy]

11 hours ago, El Rojo said:

Plenty of football left in all of them too:

 

Firmino 27, turning 28 in October
Sadio 27 last April
Mo 27 last June

 

 

Scarily all younger than my son! Just. If only he had a fraction of their money!

[3 Stacks]

4 hours ago, Jose Jones said:

I think it’s the other way around.

I reckon you could find someone to do the false 9 stuff Firmino does - probably not with the same amount of unselfishness - a bit more easily than you could replace wide forwards of the quality of Mane and Salah.

Mane and Salah are both tremendous players and I'm not taking anything away from their natural abilities and their personal development but to me Klopp is the ultimate responsible for their emergence as world class players. They were good players when we signed them but what they have both become since they came here has been staggering. I'm not saying Klopp could turn Danny Welbeck into Sadio Mane, but I think if you give him a quick winger with goalscoring potential, and there are many of those around, you'd see similar improvement. 

 

To me, Firmino's skillset is more unique. I can think of Joao Felix or Griezmann who can do similar things to what he does, that's it. If he was sold, there's no real replacement. Our style would have to change entirely. 

[JustTosh]

It's a toss up between Mane and Bobby.

 

Mane beeing our best player and Bobby the smartest one.

 

 

 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

22 hours ago, aws said:

This is like arguing whether Mike, Bernie or Schnorbitz was the most important. Each magnificent in their own way. 

Obviously Schnorbitz. His doggedness was unequalled.

[Kevin D]

On 20/08/2019 at 12:49, Duff Man said:

Three genuinely world class forwards in, or approaching, their prime. There have been worse times to be a red.

 

It's the most attacking talent Anfield has ever seen, with the exception of when Kenny Dalglish trains alone.

[Josef Svejk]

This is essentially a theological mystery...

 

[Bjornebye]

1 hour ago, Josef Svejk said:

This is essentially a theological mystery...

 

I knew Robbie was still with us. 

[Lario]

 

 

 

[El Rojo]

Anyway, we're blessed to have the three of them. We suffered along the way...

 

[Bjornebye]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7390085/Virgil-van-Dijk-says-Liverpool-team-mate-Roberto-Firmino-GREATEST-player-hes-played-with.html