After
losing Luis Suarez to FC Barcelona, Brendan Rodgers is looking to invest his
money in buying new players. It’ll be a difficult task for any manager to
replace the player of immense quality like Suarez with someone but Liverpool
Manager is working very hard to make it possible.
In a recent interview, Rodgers was quoted as,
In a recent interview, Rodgers was quoted as,
"He's a fantastic player but we will move forward and there's real
excitement going into this season.’’
Thus
Liverpool is really busy going into the new season. So far they’ve been linked
a number of players and already signed the likes of Lazar Markovic, Rickie Lambert, and Adam Lallana with Loic Remy and Dejan Lovren all ready to join them. It seems that the
position vacated by Luis Suarez should be taken by either Loic Remy or Rickie
Lambert. Both of these forwards had an impressive last season. Remy deal is
most likely to complete this week with a fee of £8.5million already agreed with QPR.
So now the question is who should be a regular starter for Liverpool and who
can make a successful strike partnership with Daniel Sturridge?
If
we look at the age factor, Loic Remy has a clear edge. In comparison to 32-year-old English Striker, Remy is currently 27 and still got a lot of
football in him. He can change himself according to Liverpool’s philosophy
while Lambert will find it difficult to adapt to such creative thinking at this
part of his career.
If
you look at the second striker role, this is where Rickie Lambert comes into
play. He assisted 10 goals last season, 7 better than his counterpart Loic
Remy. Keeping Daniel Sturridge in mind, Rodgers will surely let him play at his
favourite position instead of playing him out wide.
Rickie Lambert
|
Loic Remy
|
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Goals Scored
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13
|
14
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Shot to goal conversion
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16%
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21.5%
|
Assists
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10
|
3
|
If
we look at the goal each striker scored last season, Remy leads Lambert by only
1 goal. Even though this is not a big difference but Remy’s short to conversion
rate make him superior to Lambert.
But
one major thing that goes in Lambert’s favour is his consistency. After scoring
13 and 15 goals in his last two seasons, he just might be the man Brendan
Rodgers will look to play. On the other hand, Remy had a disappointing first
season with QPR, scoring just 6 goals. In his second season, he improved lot
but keeping in mind his injury factor, Lambert has the key factor here.
So
it’ll be a tug of war between both of them to grab a regular spot in starting
eleven. And Rodgers will be happy to see it that way as Liverpool has to fight on
four fronts this season.
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