Add to this the fact that the vast majority of Liverpool fans are unlikely to have watched much of Hoffenheim last season. I have stated that I would like us to look elsewhere.
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Rodgers believes that the key to Liverpool’s success next season might be based on the idea of rotating players throughout the season in order to maintain fitness.
The forward arrived at Villa from Genk in a £7 million move in 2012 and has since scored 49 goals in 101 appearances for the Birmingham club.
Sky Bet suspended their market on Benteke’s next club on Thursday afternoon after Liverpool were backed in to 1/10 to sign him. That is an incorrect assumption, after all Iago Aspas has a similar physique to Lionel Messi. With wingers, without wingers, direct, or short and intricate, no matter the system if Benteke is the focal point of the team he will score.
It’s the moment Villa fans have been dreading.
Whether that will be the plan B option to Rodgers’s favoured 4-2-3-1 system that will have Firmino and Phillipe Coutinho either side of the central attacker, the inexperience of the 20-year-old Origi means he will probably have to play second fiddle to his senior countryman.
Christian Benteke is a good player, there’s no question, but all this “proven in the Premier League” chat which tends to accompany such signings is as nonsensical as it is basic. After seeing Pool play against Thailand on tour I’m excited that Rodgers has made some excellent needed editions to our team. Also, his aerial prowess will help them solve the set-piece defending problems that dogged them last term.
Rodgers has had his eye on the towering 24-year-old for awhile, and the deal might have been done last summer had Benteke not ruptured his Achilles tendon and missed the World Cup for Belgium.
Benteke is not a lump and a target man, but he does rely on more creative players around him to make things happen.
So Rodgers is running out of time after being given the backing of the club. We were looking at each other from the 50 minute on as if to say “what will we try now?”.
“A few years ago we needed to improve our goal tally and we did that and it gave the team a little bit of profit”.
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He will become the Reds’ seventh senior signing of the summer following the arrivals of James Milner, Danny Ings, Adam Bogdan, Joe Gomez, Roberto Firmino and Nathaniel Clyne. Granted, most of his Villa career been playing in one of the most defensive sides ever to grace the Premier League but 132 chances delivered for teammates is nearly twice as many as Gabriel Agbonlahor has managed in the same time-frame (68).
