Well I've been thinking, and although most would say that's ridiculous, what do you think of dropping Gerrard and Allen from our midfield trio for a few games in the league?
Yes I know it may sounds dumb, I know Gerrard is our inspirational captain and one of our best players, and that Allen is a new signing that has done magnificently well over the past months, but, let's admit it, they aren't setting the world on fire right now.
In fact, Gerrard seems unbothered most of the time, his passion is nowhere near what it's been in the past, and if we are honest with ourselves he's not playing like a world class midfielder at the moment.
Allen is an enigma, he's class, there's no denying that, but I think he's not what we need at the moment, we're not Barcelona, we're a team that's in transition at the moment, and sometimes he's just not what we need at the middle of the park. Yes he is a new signing and dropping a new signing always comes with this internal feeling that the signing was unsuccessful, but that is not the case here at all, he is very important to us, he has massive talent, but that does not mean he's undroppable.
If, for instance, for the Swansea game, we'll line up with a midfield of
-------Lucas\Hendo---Şahin--------
-------------Shelvey\Suso--------------
With Lucas or Hendo playing DM which we obviously need, freeing up Şahin to have freedom to play, and it has been shown that when Şahin plays with a DM next to him he plays well and scores, as all of his 3 goals were scored when Henderson was on the pitch, and I think the difference beetwen Şahin and Allen is negligible, and when you have 2 good players you play the goal scoring one, especially in our position.
And regarding Shelvey\Suso, I think playing them a couple of games as attacking playmakers ahead of Gerrard just might finally wake him up and encourage him to up his game in order to return to the team, whilst I have full belief in Shelvey and Suso to do a good job in that position while Gerrard do some thinking.
On the whole I think this solution is better for us only in the next couple of games and not long term since I obviously rate both Gerrard and Allen, I just believe that the way this team is progressing in the league, we will play in a much more balanced way the next few games with that midfield trio.
Thoughts?
Yes I know it may sounds dumb, I know Gerrard is our inspirational captain and one of our best players, and that Allen is a new signing that has done magnificently well over the past months, but, let's admit it, they aren't setting the world on fire right now.
In fact, Gerrard seems unbothered most of the time, his passion is nowhere near what it's been in the past, and if we are honest with ourselves he's not playing like a world class midfielder at the moment.
Allen is an enigma, he's class, there's no denying that, but I think he's not what we need at the moment, we're not Barcelona, we're a team that's in transition at the moment, and sometimes he's just not what we need at the middle of the park. Yes he is a new signing and dropping a new signing always comes with this internal feeling that the signing was unsuccessful, but that is not the case here at all, he is very important to us, he has massive talent, but that does not mean he's undroppable.
If, for instance, for the Swansea game, we'll line up with a midfield of
-------Lucas\Hendo---Şahin--------
-------------Shelvey\Suso--------------
With Lucas or Hendo playing DM which we obviously need, freeing up Şahin to have freedom to play, and it has been shown that when Şahin plays with a DM next to him he plays well and scores, as all of his 3 goals were scored when Henderson was on the pitch, and I think the difference beetwen Şahin and Allen is negligible, and when you have 2 good players you play the goal scoring one, especially in our position.
And regarding Shelvey\Suso, I think playing them a couple of games as attacking playmakers ahead of Gerrard just might finally wake him up and encourage him to up his game in order to return to the team, whilst I have full belief in Shelvey and Suso to do a good job in that position while Gerrard do some thinking.
On the whole I think this solution is better for us only in the next couple of games and not long term since I obviously rate both Gerrard and Allen, I just believe that the way this team is progressing in the league, we will play in a much more balanced way the next few games with that midfield trio.
Thoughts?
