You're right in part that's why I said 'replacement', Shelvey was planned as his replacement as was Emre Can.    

5th highest revenue in world.   We must have one of the worst cost bases in the game then the way we act about money....

The goal against Chelsea at the end of last season was pretty special.   If he was built of the same raw materials as Wijnaldum I think he would have made it here for sure, but I think he's done now. Can't think of many players who get this injured for this long and come back as good as they were.

Henderson was never the Gerrard replacement.   He’s been praised now, and rightfully so, because of the part he’s played in the teams development and achievements over the last seasons.   But I think you’d struggle to find a single person who, when Gerrard left, would say ‘yeah, Henderson is the Gerrard replacement’ 
  He definately wasn’t back then, and he isn’t now imo.   In fact I find the whole ‘replacement’ logic a bit odd. Great players and poor players leave, and new ones come in. The manager and the coaching staff builds new teams based on the players available. And thankfully with our current setup they do so based on a long term plan. 
  We’ll need a new captain when Henderson leaves, or when he looses his place in the starting eleven maybe. That’ll be sorted. But we dont need to worry about replacements imo, and I dont think we do either.   Having the right characters in the squad to build a long term winning culture is a different discussion. I think we need that, and I think we have it now in Henderson, Milner, Van Dijk and maybe a few others. In that respect maybe Milner was far more important than Henderson a few years back, in him we brought in a proven winner, something that was lacking in the squad at the time.

Keita 'ruled out'