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Daniel Agger, the Most Important Player on Liverpool FC
Maybe as preliminary decision or simply because they haven’t been successful in acquiring their desired targets in the transfer market, Liverpool are quite short at centre back going into the 2013-2014 season, making Daniel Agger the most important player on the team in this campaign.
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Liverpool FC – Kolo Toure is the Centre Back They Need
While Liverpool have been quite busy (and unsuccessful) in the transfer market this summer looking for a centre back, one of their lower-profile signings, bringing in Kolo Toure on a free transfer, might have been the answer to their defensive problems.
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Liverpool FC – Daniel Sturridge Doesn’t Care Who Is Next to Him
Two heroes emerge for Liverpool after the opening match of the new Premier League season: Daniel Sturridge, scoring the only goal and showing that with all the talk about Luis Suarez, someone forgot about him, and Simon Mignolet, single-handedly keeping the three points at Anfield with a penalty kick save.
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Liverpool FC – Joe Allen & Jordan Henderson Fighting For the Final Midfield Spot
There’s no guarantee Liverpool will be playing with three in the midfield next season every match, but it’s one of the more popular formations for Brendan Rodgers, which has Steven Gerrard and Lucas Leiva chalked up as irreplaceable players in his lineup. The third spot? Either Jordan Henderson or Joe Allen.
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Liverpool FC – Luis Suarez is the Difference Between Champions League & More Failure
In hindsight, maybe selling Luis Suarez might be the best thing for Liverpool to move on from yet another player their too overly dependent on. And yet, as the line drawn in the sand fades away before anther approach, it seems that the club’s chances of doing something big this season reside in the possibility of keeping their Uruguayan striker.
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Liverpool FC – Luis Suarez & The Mystery of the Release Clause
It’s incredible that in this day of age contracts continue to be such a disputed piece of legal material, with Liverpool, Luis Suarez and his agents debating as to the meaning of the alleged £40 million release clause in the Uruguayan striker’s contract.
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Liverpool FC – Luis Suarez is What Everything Hinges On
To be sure, Brendan Rodgers and Liverpool have some sort of contingency plans in case their efforts in keeping Luis Suarez at the club fail, which mean they’re down one world-class striker but at least they’ll have quite a lot of money to make up for it.
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Liverpool FC – Philippe Coutinho Needs to be Just as Good Next Season
The final day of the season was mostly about Jamie Carragher, getting a proper sending off from the Liverpool fans at Anfield, but it was also about a little taste of the future, which might be brighter than the slightly disappointing present. Philippe Coutinho might be in the center of that tomorrow due to his ability since arriving in January, hoping he’ll pick off in a few months right where he left off.
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Liverpool FC – Brendan Rodgers Doesn’t Need to Make Too Many Changes
From pessimism early on, to fierce optimism later, and a more realistic approach as Liverpool end the 2012-2013 season without a European spot clinched for next season. And still, Brendan Rodgers has plenty of attacking talent on the team: Luis Suarez, Daniel Sturridge, Philippe Coutinho and others, which leaves him in need of a less than drastic change to push Liverpool a little bit higher next season.
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Liverpool FC – Steven Gerrard Isn’t Coming Back This Season
Don’t call it a comeback, but it probably sort of was. Steven Gerrard missed only 18 minutes of football this season for Liverpool, but will have to miss out on the remaining couple of matches, which mean nothing anyway after missing all chance of making a European competition or finishing above Everton in the table, in what was his best season in five years.