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Debating with you in polite manner, can't you see that Lucas is a far better player than our current defensively minded midfielders, Stephens aside? Sidwell has done a great job and he use to run midfields, but he's at an age where he won't start most PL games if we have a strong squad. Lucas...

Agree, Sidwell was a star in batches of games, belying his age and Kayal never hit his heights of 2015/16. Did Norwood flop overall? Everytime he started or came on as a sub, there was a collective sigh in the parts of the Amex I sat in.

That's inevitable. This season's much loved squad will be rejigged with quite a few new players, and people falling down the pecking order. It's either that or be outclassed and relegated.

Good post. Title winning (almost) Chelsea play Matic and Kante in front of the back 5 or 3, making it almost impossible to score against them. Mourinho's gone down that route as well before. Allowing the attacking rest of the team to do their thing, with solidity behind for any eventuality.

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The 20% figure you mention tells it all, thank you. A couple of clueless posters on this thread have quoted some LFC whingers who don't rate Lucas, as if that's the footballing gospel. Not so easy to manipulate the intelligent NSC public.

You've selected the view of one anti Lucas Leiva writer. Many other fans and writers rate him as someone who shields his CB's, has a great tackle success rate and lays it off to players with a greater offensive skill set. When he first joined Liverpool, he was heavily criticised as not good...