Scottbot wrote:Not that i'm gonna get too excited about it but i've always rated Scharner as a decent pro who is well suited to Premiership football. The funny thing is with us Liverpool fans is that we're far happier signing a player unknown to us than a steady player who's been doing a decent job in the league for a number of years. Unfashionable players like a Jimmy Bullard, Scott Parker or a Figoerua get slated but we've got players like Lucas and Insua who have proved to be no more (or not nearly as) effective. We were getting linked with James Milner 12-18 months ago and everyone absolutely slated it, he wasn't a fashionable signing, and we all knew too much about him, not a top 4 player etc but he's had an excellent season at Villa and suddenly they're rejecting £20 million + bids from City to keep him.
There's some decent players players out there and hopefully we've got a manager with the nous to pick up a couple of bargains. Coz we're buggered if he can't!
There is a lot of sense in this post.
I suggest fans put away their "I know everything about football and can spot a decent player a mile off" mentality and at least appreciate that Roy Hodgson has probably forgotten more about football than some of us will ever know !
Scharner IS a decent player and has valuable experience in the premiership.
Scott Parker has the ability and guile to ply his trade in this league.
Alternatively we go and buy some unknown (usually Spanish) player and cross our fingers and make judgments on them based on some spurious You tube clip !
Football full of opinion but that doesn't make those opinions right !