Thing is, I was thinking what did we miss against Villa that we had tonight and it’s a player like Milner, after Henderson he would be my vice captain in this club.
You need a guy like that, I think he was always going play tonight due to Hendo missing.
What a performance from Milner tonight, he was brilliant. We should’ve signed him earlier in his career in hindsight. I think he’s now reached cult status in the eyes of Liverpool fans and should qualify for a statue outside Anfield, when he eventually retires. His contribution to this team is immense, on and off the pitch.
Agree he was excellent at RB. I’m not sure if we could have signed him earlier - his stint at man city surely helped him realise why he wanted to win stuff at a proper club - doubt he’d have signed for us before that. Plus it gave him winning experience, improved him technically and also meant he didn’t come here expecting to play 38 league games a season in central midfield.
Cult status yes. Statue no way. This is Liverpool mate - only Paisley and Shanks have one at the moment and think the next is likely to be Kenny (hopefully either while he is alive or not for a very long time). I could imagine some parallel universe future where TAA plays at the top for another 15 years while we continue to dominate and he ends up with a medal haul as player and a medal haul as captain that is out of this world and gets a statue - well after he retires. Given that Jurgen has said he doesn’t want a statue while he’s alive, and he wants to live for another 40 years, cant see anyone else from the current group getting in before that.
Yep, a massive presence for the team - especially as a role model for the young guys who have come up. He demonstrates that competitive professionalism that is essential for a winning team plus he’s clearly a very diligent trainer who plays for the team without a massive ego - all qualities that we want any new players to emulate.
Have you seen Bobby play out wide for us? He is too slow. It’s all about acceleration, Salah/Mane have the ability to go from zero to 100 in a blink of an eye, thats so key for playing there.