It's what he DOESN'T do from what I base my opinion of him. He doesn't dominate games regularly enough and he doesn't make things happen in an attacking sense, two things I like to think should be a prerequisite for a Liverpool central midfielder. We'll never get back to winning the very biggest trophies with players like Lucas in the first eleven on a regular basis. A great squad player, yes without question. But we need better quality if we ever want to challenge for the league title again, which is after all, surely our ultimate ambition? By no means do I think Lucas is the only problem in this team, the vast majority have needed a kick up the arse all season and Roy Hodgson is not the man to deliver it.
See now you suffer from the English disease of needing every fucking player to dominate in games.
I'll give you 2 midfielders who dominate games, Gerrard and Lampard. Throw them together in central midfield and they should dominate the world right?
How about I give you 4 attackers who should absolute dominate games as they do all the time - Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Adriano and Kaka. Oh yeah they dominated the whole planet at the World Cup in 2006.
Why can't you understand that its A TEAM, not of fucking superstars who want to do everything themselves, but a TEAM, who can take equal responsiblity. It's something the United midfield have done ever since the gradual demise of Scholes and Giggs. None of those fuckers in that midfield dominate games, heck none of them are even world beaters, but they play like a fucking team - Carrick, Giggs, Scholes, Anderson, Fletcher, can you honestly tell me any of those have been world class and done Gerrard-esque things in the last 4 years?
And as usual you have this fucking notion of a First XI, bollocks to a First XI, it's a squad game now, ask Slur Fungus and his 100 games in a row of rotation whilst United were winning titles seasons in a row.