Plenty of people have mourned the departure of Xabi Alonso.
He was a great player but hopefully Alberto Aquilani having made his home debut now will start to fill that gap.
But the two players I think we should have kept are Sami Hyypia and Alvaro Arbeloa.
Ok, it’s possibly with hindsight but we’re missing a dominant centre half – as evidenced by Birmingham’s equaliser – and Sami is I’m told playing his socks off for Bayer Leverkusen, who are top of the Bundesliga.
Arbeloa may be having a few problems at Real Madrid but if he’d still been at Anfield I’d be quite happy. Not because I don’t rate Glen Johnson, who is terrific. But because with him pushed further and Arbeloa behind him we’d be stronger on the right.
Glen is such a natural raiding right midifield player – even possibly an out and out winger – that I can’t help but wish we’d kept Arbeloa and big Sami.
Certainly now the club have to find real funds for Rafa Benitez to strengthen this squad in January. And Rafa has got to get his transfer calls spot on.
If we get the right players in there’s a lot that can be put right and improved quickly.
But perhaps if those two were still around, we’d have no need to go looking just yet.
He was a great player but hopefully Alberto Aquilani having made his home debut now will start to fill that gap.
But the two players I think we should have kept are Sami Hyypia and Alvaro Arbeloa.
Ok, it’s possibly with hindsight but we’re missing a dominant centre half – as evidenced by Birmingham’s equaliser – and Sami is I’m told playing his socks off for Bayer Leverkusen, who are top of the Bundesliga.
Arbeloa may be having a few problems at Real Madrid but if he’d still been at Anfield I’d be quite happy. Not because I don’t rate Glen Johnson, who is terrific. But because with him pushed further and Arbeloa behind him we’d be stronger on the right.
Glen is such a natural raiding right midifield player – even possibly an out and out winger – that I can’t help but wish we’d kept Arbeloa and big Sami.
Certainly now the club have to find real funds for Rafa Benitez to strengthen this squad in January. And Rafa has got to get his transfer calls spot on.
If we get the right players in there’s a lot that can be put right and improved quickly.
But perhaps if those two were still around, we’d have no need to go looking just yet.
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