He said: “I’ve read and seen things about his game, but in the short period of time he’s been in, I’ve been even more impressed”. Of course, his strength allows you to keep the ball, but he’ll really help the unpredictability of our game this season.
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Jones has now left the club, with Bolton’s Bogdan coming in to replace the Australian as Mignolet’s understudy.
His experience with the first team is likely to be just the first of many if he can continue his impressive progression for the club’s academy sides. Then comes a disbelieving laugh and another shake before he adds: “It’s mad, I can’t believe it. I’m so happy”. However, that did not stop him from continuing on the pitch before being substituted in the second half. Perhaps not just the man to get his head on the end of the crosses.
Overall Lambert made 36 appearances for Liverpool last season, with only 12 of those starts.
“Christian is another very strong player, he works very hard”.
Despite signing a pair of full-backs, Nathaniel Clyne and Joe Gomez, Brendan Rodgers is yet to sign a new centre-back for Liverpool this summer.
Liverpool have enjoyed a successful tour in Australia and the Far East and would round it off in Finland on Saturday when they take on HJK Helsinki but there’s a problem with all that preseason matches and players involved.
“I’ve been trying to let it sink in for a week…it hasn’t”, he says with a childlike shake of the head.
Midfielder James Milner may have been one of the cheapest acquisitions in Liverpool’s summer recruitment programme, but he could yet prove to be the shrewdest.
However, the Premier League is set to be incredibly competitive this year so I can not see them dethroning Manchester United, Chelsea, or Arsenal this year, especially with Brendan Rodgers still running the show. And Liverpool flop Mario Balotelli has been offered an escape route by Italian Serie A side Bologna, according to the Daily Mirror.
All top 4 clubs and mid table teams played quality opposition and know what to expect come next season.
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“For those players it was just getting them into that game situation, which is never easy as they have only been back a week or so”.
