A move for Delph would make sense on a number of levels for Liverpool, with the former Leeds United man set to be available on the cheap in January as his contract expires at the end of the season, whilst he is also the sort of enterprising,
creative central midfield player who could excel in Brendan Rodgers» midfield.
Not exact matches
Every year we seem to need 4 or 5 top quality
players and at most end up with 2 - remember the summer we only signed Cech despite needing a CB, CDM and ST.. It is still glaringly obvious that we need a top quality CB (VVD / Manolas / De Vrij / Tah / Sakho / Koulibaly), a no nonsense CDM (N'zonzi / Danilo Pereira / Carvalho / Diawara / Krychowiak) and a
creative central midfielder (Seri / Kovacic / Banega / Pastore / Trigueros).
As well as the attacking and
creative play, the performances of the
central midfielders in snuffing out any danger and controlling the game was very good but because of the nature of the match I had to pick one of the forward
players for Man of the Match and Alexis Sanchez just got my nod ahead of the brilliant Alex Iwobi.
«What I'm told he wants is a
player who is better than what he's got at the moment and they don't see Ozil as being better than what he's got in terms of that
central,
creative, attacking
midfielder.
Occupying the second
central midfield position is the deep - lying playmaker, this role instructs the
player to come deep to receive the ball, before attempting
creative passes to the attacking
players.
Central midfield is probably the position Liverpool have the most cover in, from
players who can play in the 6 to box - to - box
midfielders and
creative midfielders the Reds have pretty much every area covered.