He knows that if he isn't scoring or creating, then we have no shot of winning anything because our team isn't exactly
full of creative players and great offensive movement.
We will continue to struggle for goals with Ozil are most likely scorer at the moment but that was with the hlep
of creative players like Sanchez and Santi who are not available.
I would be fine having somebody else there over him (maybe Nagbe or Weah or Arriola), but we don't have a bunch
of creative players better than him right now.
As for Liverpool, Klopp will be content with the attacking options at his disposal, with the likes of Daniel Sturridge, Divock Origi and Danny Ings set for big roles next season, while there are a whole
host of creative players in place to feature behind them.
To pan one
of our creative players for not indulging in kamikaze tackling is akin to criticising Coquelin for not creating or scoring more.
A similar
style of creative player with an eye for goal from attacking midfield, if Liverpool don't move for Fekir this winter someone else surely will.
But they would face stiff competition from Chelsea who believe Payet is exactly the
kind of creative player they need, especially with them expecting to sell Eden Hazard to Real Madrid in the summer.
A Germany team aggressive in defence and packed full
of creative players versus a Spain side with five attackers but the best back line in the tournament.
Giroud is surrounded by a
lot of creative players and not held back by competition or overshadowed by a huge star at Arsenal and still hasn't hit 20 in the league in 3 seasons.
«Historically we always had a great
number of creative players - we had (Mesut) Ozil, (Santi) Cazorla, (Jack) Wilshere, (Aaron) Ramsey - they are all offensive players and I've certainly forgotten a few, so we had the numbers.»
Scoring seems to be our problem but hopefully we will have
some of our creative players back (Dimi and Manu?)
The Hammers without
all of their creative players fought out a fantastic goalless draw away at Man United whilst Stoke had that amazing 2 - 0 victory over Man City.