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If ya look closely your'll see I said i'd stick with the Alonso-Gerrard combo. I also agree Masch-Gerrard are a bit flat together HOWEVER, if they regularly played in a side with genuine dangermen on the flanks this wouldn't be such an issue.
Correct, but even without those flanks, we wouldn't be talking about a bad pairing compared to others.
In this forum we go from white to black too easily. If someone thinks Mascherano is the best defensive midfielder, fair enough, but that doesn't make Alonso a bad defensive midfielder whatsoever.
If someone thinks Alonso and Gerrard are less flat, fair enough, but that doesn't make the Gerrard-Mascherano pairing bad at all.
My point is simple: go to any top league, Spain, Germany, Italy and England, and tell every manager whether they'd play with Mascherano and Gerrard and tell them your fears about them being flat: they'll laugh and they'd say bring those two. Except Ferguson perhaps because he hates us so much.