Liverbird talking crap
Liverbird you talk so much $hit and clearly have such narrow knowledge of these teams and players that I'm not even gonna bother with you from now on as discussions are quite pointless with you. But just to shut you up good and because you've conducted yourself with very little integrity or logic, I will set you straight first.
No, you didn't say Dempsey is a good player. Don't change your words now. In fact you made the most ridiculous statement I've possibly ever read on these forums when you said and I quote:
I dont see how you can compare Aquilani to Dempsey or Maxi. The distance betweeen Aquilani and Dempsey is the same distance between amateur and proffesional football.
Now unless Amateur players (Which at best can be something like FC Crawley players from like 5th division and we know how they fared against United last week and how BIG THE GAP was between those players) play for a midtable EPL club like Fulham
, and Aquilani is officially God's manifestation as a football player, then your statement would be correct. But of course nothing could be further from the truth!
Furthermore, your description of Dempsey as well as comparison with Raul Meireles (And no it wouldn't be a disrespect at all by the way, only a narrow minded biased fan like you would say it would) shows you actually don't know him well nor the positions he plays.
Dempsey is an attacking midfielder first of all and much more of a make good run in the box, score goals type rather than
playmaker. Of course being as well round as he is, he also has decent vision and can definitely pick out a pass. But
playmaking is not his chief role but a secondary or tertiary one and never has been. Second of all, he can operate and often has on the side in a 4-4-2 system as a right or left wing but of course like Arteta and like Nasri, like many attacking midfielders these days, he's not really a 'winger' ala Aaron Lennon but one who will be positioned there cut inside throughout match and deliver great shots with both feet or join box for aerial attacks, etc.. So he can and does play on the sides as an attacking midfielder or centrally or as attacking midielder or even as a second forward behind main striker. He's proven effective in all these positions and so on top of being a very good player is very versatile! Managers love players like this! Having him on a bench or on the pitch means you suddenly cover 3-4 positions in case you need to make tactical adjustments or injuries, etc.
He's not a deep-lying playmaker by any stretch of the imagination and Raul Meireles is a box to box CM and can also operate as the DMF engine and because he's scored a lot of goals recently and made more forward movements and played little more advanced, you're mistaking him for an attacking midfielder which he's never been. So he shouldn't be compared to Clint period. That comparison doesn't make any sense. Two different players, different positions, both quality.
Instead the players that should be compared to him in the current Liverpool squad are the likes of Maxi, Gerrard, Kuyt and Jovanovic and Joe Cole. And he would get in the team ahead of all but Gerrard on a regular basis especially as he's so fit, rarely injured and so consistent (something the others lack like Joe Cole and Maxi) or at the very least put up a very good fight and give the team some real and much needed quality depth and competition for places which is what every top club needs anyway.
You don't often see me resort to making statements like that. But having replied to your initial outrageous and silly comment with well thought out logic and reasoning outlined clearly and carefully and seeing you respond with a silly one liner about
"I stopped reading.. blah blah.." then I concluded you're probably 5 years old or thereabouts. So I decided to speak to you in your own language.
That combined with the fact that, having silently read but never replied to your previous claims about Aquilani in your arguments with other Liverpool fans often over the past few months, it's clear to me that you have a very strong man crush on the talented Italian.
Finally, you go on to say something more absurd like he's soon to be 28 years old and is unproven at top teams. What does that mean anyway? He's never been at a top team so it's not like he had the opportunity but failed. What we DO know is he HAS proven himself WHEREVER he's played, against WHOEVER he's played (Including so called 'top-teams' and against so called 'top players/defenders') and in whatever position he's played. Because the man simply doesn't give a fuck. Whether he's playing against Chelsea and John Terry or lower league opposition in FA Cup or playing for US against England in World Cup, or Guatemala in qualifiers, he does the job.
Anyway, Dempsey doesn't need to go to Liverpool tho and Liverpool football club though could certainly use someone like him right about now also has better options and better players they can get who are younger and have more future 'sale-value' so I'm not actually advocating this move or in favour of it by any means. I don't think the likes of Henry will go for it and I think it's for the best for all parties involved anyway.
I just feel I had to step in and defend a random but good player who deserves credit and no disrespect (which is exactly what you were doing to him and has no fans of his own like Fulham fans here to support him) in a 'big club thread' because the initial comment you made was atrocious and then instead of holding your hand up and being a big man saying you know what, I messed up, I made a mistake, we all do it, we're all human beings, you chose to remain stubborn you only dug yourself deeper with sillier comments that followed.
) and one of the best young strikers of this season.
Has been one of the best players since Kenny arrived and will be a big loss both defensively and with him bombing forward and supplying crosses. Would've been ideal for Carroll.