| Quote: | | | Originally Posted by Peuan Sanit | | | | |
| Kuyt is a decent striker. His lack of confidence and lack of goals is causing him problems.
He is one of the most hard working strikers I had seen. Like what you posted, I agreed with you that Liverpool's current style of playing is not suitable for him.
I won't be surprise if he is sold in the near future. | |
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Agree on his lack of confidence and that he is hard working, but disagree that Liverpool's style does not suit him. I think the style incompatibility is just what it looks like but the root cause is his self-belief.
If you look careful at how he plays - he seldom get into the box but plays around it. He seldom shoots but looks for players to pass to. He is aiming to assist and he has assisted in quite a number of goals - but that's not the point, is it? The poor guy is afraid to take the lead and go for goal! Compare or contrast him with Crouch - Crouch was told to be more selfish in the second half of his first season and he started to make very positive impact. Now he shoots or heads when he has an opportunity, and he even tries to make those opportunities. To his great credit, he also assist when others were in a better position to score - which is a sign of maturity.
I suspect Rafa doesn't like the idea of star players - he cannot deny Gerrard but he doesn't like it. He emphasizes team work, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
But he should play to the strength of his players and not stifle them by giving too much instruction to keep too closely to his tactics. Liverpool needs free flow, spontaneous footballing especially now when Liverpool has these type of players.
