A new season just around the pretend corner & the Red men have spent a little money on questions that needed answering. E.g a new defender, a forward, a left sided player as good as Riise & a truly explosive attacking option in Gonzales, who if he can reproduce the form of last season in the priemership will be one of the players of the next nine months.
But will these players, or any other for that matter be able to take some pressure off the shoulders of Steven Gerrard? Captain fantastic cannot be the saviour of the team next season again. We need the players to start looking at them selves before looking at the captain every time the going gets tough if we are to progress to the next level.
Bellamy might be arrogant enough to start demanding the ball more & more if he gets off to a good start. This will let Gerrard become more creative in the midfield area which in turn might free Alonso to break forward more often & unleash those netbusters he can produce from time to time.
Sissoko needs to become more vocal in the holding roll & start letting the players around him know that he is there. Too many times last season Alonso landed on the floor after getting clobbered by Momo with his enthuseastic tackles.
All this in hand I'm still wondering if we might again over rely on Gerrard next season.