Liverpool FC Forum

Scottbot wrote:It's not something I would be in favour of, particularly as Barry is very similar to Alonso who is playing out of his skin this season. clearly it's not something many (any) of us would be happy with although Owzat has a point with the thread starter and I think that we don't really need Masch at home against the likes of Fulham. His greatest attributes are his tenacity, his tackling ability, his incredible workrate and his all around tidy play. When we are playing at home, have plenty of possession and don't really need (or have the opportunity) to play our pressing game he becomes a bit of a passenger. In his role for Argentina he is surrounded with attacking flair and this makes him necessary at all times. The situation is very different at LFC. Let me make it clear i'm not for one minute suggesting we sell him. We need our little rottweiller for a lot of big games coming our way.

metalhead wrote:

Scottbot wrote:It's not something I would be in favour of, particularly as Barry is very similar to Alonso who is playing out of his skin this season. clearly it's not something many (any) of us would be happy with although Owzat has a point with the thread starter and I think that we don't really need Masch at home against the likes of Fulham. His greatest attributes are his tenacity, his tackling ability, his incredible workrate and his all around tidy play. When we are playing at home, have plenty of possession and don't really need (or have the opportunity) to play our pressing game he becomes a bit of a passenger. In his role for Argentina he is surrounded with attacking flair and this makes him necessary at all times. The situation is very different at LFC. Let me make it clear i'm not for one minute suggesting we sell him. We need our little rottweiller for a lot of big games coming our way.

Excellent point.

Mascherano would excel in games away from home against bigger sides like Mancs or Chelsea or Arsenal. He does well intercepting player and marking players. I remember Fabregas once said (that was during our away game in the CL against Arsenal) that Mascherano was always breathing down his neck, he was absolutely vital closing down Fabregas. He will  definetly be very important to us in the latter stages of the CL (if we qualify that is).

At home, we need to keep more possession, hence Alonso comes into the frame.

Kharhaz wrote:Out of interest. Supposing Liverpool did sell mascherano, how much would the club get out of that transfer fee? Would they get the full lot or would a percentage go to the agency which represents masherano? Ive noticed playing footy manager 2009 that if you sell mascharano the club gets 20% of that fee. I mention this as those who do that game do there homework so it made me wonder.

metalhead wrote:We can play the classic 4-5-1 formation with two holding midfielders  RJ, which would  likely be the case when Gerrard is fit. I still would prefer the 4-4-2 though at home with alonso and gerrad pair together because they compliment each other in midfield, plus we would have better control of the play and alonso can stretch teams with his ''hollywood'' passing and passing out wide most of the time, it helps build momentum.

Yeh mate thats just how I see it.

Rush Job wrote:

Kharhaz wrote:Out of interest. Supposing Liverpool did sell mascherano, how much would the club get out of that transfer fee? Would they get the full lot or would a percentage go to the agency which represents masherano? Ive noticed playing footy manager 2009 that if you sell mascharano the club gets 20% of that fee. I mention this as those who do that game do there homework so it made me wonder.

I cant believe that mate, I would have to think a young player like him would be seen as an investment by Parry and the owners before they sanctioned our second biggest move.
Its not as if you can asume he`ll spend his whole career with us.
More like 80-20 in our favour.

(so did you sell him? lol)