As the new season is about to begin, fans of the English Premier League will watch with interest the unfolding extreme roster depth of Manchester United’s Striker situation and Liverpool’s packed midfield. For both managers, Sir Alex Ferguson and Kenny Dalglish, it will be difficult making their choices from the players available to them.
Liverpool has don enough to strengthen their midfield spending some 47 million Pound on Sunderland’s Jordan Henderson, Charlie Adam from Blackpool and Arston Villa’s Stewart Downing. Liverpool now has a long list of great players in their midfield. Determining who is to play will be a great challenge to Dalglish considering the very good options he has.
Before the new comers, Liverpool already had the stong man in midfield, Steven Gerrard, Maxi Rodriguez, Raul Meireles, Joe Cole, Lucas Leiva, Alberto Aquilani, Jonjo Shelvey, Christian Poulson,Jay Spearing, Nabil El Zhar and Milan Jovanovic. Imaging choosing from 14 star midfielders those to feature in a match. A great task you may add.
In the quest of Liverpool to at least make it to the top 4 and ensure playing in the Champions League, the handlers really has a lot of work to do in determining who is to start each game and those to stay on the bench.
In the meantime, Manchester United at Old Trafford has its own challenge in determining who is to play up front. It is not going to be an easy one for Sir Alex Ferguson. With seven great options in that department, comprising Wayne Rooney, Dimitar Berbatov, Javier Hernandez, Michael Owen, Danny Welbeck, Mame Biram Diouf and Federico Macheda.
Needless to say that with Rooney’s sharp goal scoring efficiency, he will always make the starting list. Hernandez also will not miss out when you consider his debut season was really exciting. His age is also good for him, at 23 there is still more to expect from him.
Dimitar Berbatov is easily the third striker on the squad even though Owen always seems to deliver some very good goals too. When you also consider the 3 young strickers Man U has in Macheda, Welbeck and Diouf, you will agree the team has great talents up front. No one can forget in a hurry, the winner Macheda produced against Arston Villa at only 17.
Both Dalglish and Ferguson will have their hands full in terms of midfielders, strikers and choices.
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