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I honestly find the lack of effort, of commitment, concentration or whatever to be pretty existential at this point. As others have rightly pointed out, he can do things with a football that nobody else in England can but it just doesn't sit right that a Liverpool player won't defend. There's a reason why we had players like McMahon and Johnstone in the 80s and not someone like Glen Hoddle.
Last season we fell apart when teams worked out they could get in behind Trent and profit. We literally changed our entire set up to accommodate him. He's like Gerrard in the sense that he's not a traditional fit anywhere and you have to work around him a little bit, but Gerrard never lacked for commitment.
As an aside, I feel we've been better as a team with him and Mo out - not really blaming either of them for this but it does seem that our game plan with those two around is to give them the ball and expect magic. That period round the turn of the year we we much more multifaceted in how we attacked.
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