Alexis Mac Allister

[TheHowieLama]

4 minutes ago, Megadrive Man said:

 

Id like to see Trent, Mac Alister and a proper six in midfield next season. 

 

Endo is no longer top class and the buy of the season?

[Megadrive Man]

1 minute ago, TheHowieLama said:

 

Endo is no longer top class and the buy of the season?

 

I think he's done better than expected and I'd keep him next season as a back up, but we need to bring in a higher quality player in the summer. 

[3 Stacks]

We dont need Endo whatsoever. Bajcetic is a promising player, we have seen Alexis is a serviceable option at 6, though you dont want him to play there often, and if you buy a top 6, that player will play almost all the time. 

[VladimirIlyich]

13 hours ago, Section_31 said:

Problem with our process is that we tend to fuck with a brother's style and position. We'll buy people and sometimes we make them better, and other times we make them shitter.

When your transfer budget is well short of your rivals there tends to be a lot of cut and paste to your buys.

[Kevin D]

That was as bad as anything we saw last season.

[coachpotato]

There are times when Mac Allister looks world class, but there are times where he also looks brain dead and tonight his control and general play fell into the latter too often.

The mis-control for their second goal was amateur level, even though you might question our policy of playing the ball into players who are pretty much marked up.

[Section_31]

1 minute ago, coachpotato said:

There are times when Mac Allister looks world class, but there are times where he also looks brain dead and tonight his control and general play fell into the latter too often.

The mis-control for their second goal was amateur level, even though you might question our policy of playing the ball into players who are pretty much marked up.

 

One of the problems is we always fuck with players. Sometimes it works (Fabinho) sometimes it doesn't.

[Jhinge Machha]

Lets hope edwards and co. sign a proper DM and move alexis further up the pitch.

 

feel for him having to play as a 6

[coachpotato]

1 minute ago, Section_31 said:

 

One of the problems is we always fuck with players. Sometimes it works (Fabinho) sometimes it doesn't.

I agree he shouldn’t be used as a defensive midfielder when his strengths are further forward, however, he lost the ball about three times in a couple of minutes when he just didn’t control it properly, and no matter where you are on the pitch, that’s just poor play.

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

Not a good game tonight, but an absolutely top quality footballer. World class. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

He's the worst player I've ever seen and needs to be binned in the summer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Am I doing this right?)

[stringvest]

He’s not the worst player, far from it, but he’s equally far from being the world class player some on here think he is.  When on form, he’s a good tidy player with a spark of creativity and good technique. He’ll have the odd blinding game, but there’s little evidence he can do it consistently. Let’s hope next year he can bring some of that. 

[Kevin D]

14 minutes ago, Joey8FrogsLegs said:

Not a good game tonight, but an absolutely top quality footballer. World class. 

I don’t agree.

 

He is slow, weak, has poor positional sense, has very little goal threat and can’t track midfield runners. 
 

Those are not attributes of a world class player.

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

Just now, Kevin D said:

I don’t agree.

 

He is slow, weak, has poor positional sense, has very little goal threat and can’t track midfield runners. 
 

Those are not attributes of a world class player.

Well, agree to disagree.

 

He’s great in the pressing, good control in tight spaces, extremely difficult to knock off the ball, is an excellent tackler, makes a lot of interceptions and blocks, has good vision, can play the long pass as well as the short one, very good at threading it through the lines of the oppositins and has a good shot.

Weaknesses is pace, which means he’ll struggle whem the team looses shape and are too open. Also he’s made a bit too many mistakes on the ball for it to be an excellent season, I’ll say it’s been a very good one.

[stringvest]

He’s not world class, he’s premiership class, like most of the team.  World class players play really well consistently.  They dominate (or at least make a significant mark on) games, from wherever they play on the pitch.  MacAllister has rarely done that this season.  We’ll be calling Elliot world class next because he played a blinder last week. 

[VladimirIlyich]

Hes too small and weak to be an effective DM in this league,Endo too. They have cost us more than anybody but its hard to blame Klopp when they are the best he had. MacAllister is a fair stand in as a DM now and again but not as a permanent fixture.

[Planet Origi]

1 hour ago, Kevin D said:

I don’t agree.

 

He is slow, weak, has poor positional sense, has very little goal threat and can’t track midfield runners. 
 

Those are not attributes of a world class player.

Exactly this

[razor]

4 hours ago, coachpotato said:

I agree he shouldn’t be used as a defensive midfielder when his strengths are further forward, however, he lost the ball about three times in a couple of minutes when he just didn’t control it properly, and no matter where you are on the pitch, that’s just poor play.

 

That was the thing.  I am not sure why Endo was pulled when he was playing well.  Just leave him on.

[Kevin D]

10 hours ago, Joey8FrogsLegs said:

Well, agree to disagree.

 

He’s great in the pressing, good control in tight spaces, extremely difficult to knock off the ball, is an excellent tackler, makes a lot of interceptions and blocks, has good vision, can play the long pass as well as the short one, very good at threading it through the lines of the oppositins and has a good shot.

Weaknesses is pace, which means he’ll struggle whem the team looses shape and are too open. Also he’s made a bit too many mistakes on the ball for it to be an excellent season, I’ll say it’s been a very good one.

While I’m unsure how you’ve concluded that he is “an excellent tackler”, I agree with the rest of your praise. 
 

We saw him excel between December and March doing most of that.
 

The problem is either side of that where his physical limitations and lack of DM nous has seen him be at the centre of the ridiculous number of chances we concede.

[Mathewbet1]

I would give him 7/10 for the season. Sobo on the other hand a hard 5/10.

[Binomial]

He was shocking last night, worst than Wolves away when he looked lifeless. At fault or at least partly at fault for all 3 goals, but it's not all on him.

 

Klopp not learning his lesson in taking off Endo every chance he gets no matter how he plays. It was obvious what changes needed to be made.

 

& what was the point leaving Salah on at 3-1 when he'd done fuck all the previous 75mins?

[aws]

I think Endo and him hit the wall a few weeks back. Neither are blessed with real speed but get by when they are sharp and really on their game.  

[Binomial]

He's not the #6 you want him to be Klopp.

 

 

[Mathewbet1]

You don't need to dribble to get past him, simply jog past him.

[3 Stacks]

2 hours ago, Binomial said:

He was shocking last night, worst than Wolves away when he looked lifeless. At fault or at least partly at fault for all 3 goals, but it's not all on him.

 

Klopp not learning his lesson in taking off Endo every chance he gets no matter how he plays. It was obvious what changes needed to be made.

 

& what was the point leaving Salah on at 3-1 when he'd done fuck all the previous 75mins?

Endo is an average journeyman. Of course he doesn't play 90 minutes every game. If you want to play that kind of player every minute of every game, you want to finish 6th.