Comments on: Transfer news: Mascherano passes Anfield medical

By: wanstead

wanstead — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:46:45 +0000

The guy is class. He is a central defensive midfielder who has a good first touch and great distribution.

How he does not get into our (West Ham’s)first 11, and has not even been on the bench for weeks, defeats me.

His performances, when picked to start (which have been rare),have been good.

If he signs for Liverpool I wish him well.

From a West Ham season ticket holder

By: Femi Adebiyi

Femi Adebiyi — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:06:01 +0000

Mascherano’s indeed a good holdin player. Only God knows what went wrong at West Ham. He’s indeed a good buy! Imagine him breakin up opposition’s play and feeding Stevie every time..!! He’ll make a good signing!

By: !!!whufc!!!

!!!whufc!!! — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:27:09 +0000

You can have that under-acheving argi, he has a bad attitude every game when he knows he isn’t in the sqaud he leaves the game…Hope he gives you more respect !! CHERRROOOOO!

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:00:16 +0000

Philo, Sorry mate there is no way you can leave Finnan out of the team. One of the best right backs in the pemiership.

By: Spidey!

Spidey! — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:36:47 +0000

First of all hi everybody! My name is Sergio and im from Argentina, LFC fan since i was a child, i never posted anything here but i feel this is the right time to do it…so. My other footy team is River Plate, the club where Masche growth as a player, i have seen this guy playing for us since he was 17 when he was on the reserves…and let me tell to all of you that this is a great tranfer. The mean reason (from my point of view) is that this is a player with the quality, the passion and the balls to play in a club like Liverpool, and we are talking about a very young lad, if he understand what LFC is, what the KOP means and if he have a real chance for showing what he can do, be sure that Javi is gonna be one of the greates players of the Premiership. And just one more thing, this lad had played on the national first team when he was on the reserves, before he made his debut on the first River Plate team, well good luck Masche!!!

And Rafa.. play ROBBIE please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Deano

Deano — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:48:12 +0000

great signing it will be for us and will be a great success for him and the club. Once he is through the door i will like to see atleast 5 more world class players at anfield next season. Hopefully one of them is David Villa

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:28:51 +0000

Guys.. With all the questionable decision making recently i make no apologies that im now starting to lose faith in Rafa..!! And because of this i am starting to question all the players he is showing interest in.For example, the young lad in Scotland and Mascherano ect..these dont fill me with any confidence.I want to hear the names like Barton, Bent, Nolan,Defoe ect..These are players that can make a difference and no doubt would come to Anfield if interest was shown.Worries me that Liverpool are again attempting another cheap rebuild.

By: philo

philo — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:59:53 +0000

Mascherano would be great to our midfield as he can play in the defensive midfield role and give more options to the wingers and shield the defensive players. I’d like to see Aurelio in left back as he is an excellent crosser and a much better full back than Riise. What do you expect from Riise?? He is a left MIDFIELD not left back. Its to easy to go past him why even Rommedahl did in the away game at the Valley. I would play this: 4-1-4-1. Neill right back,carra and agger in central defence,Aurelio left back, Mascherano defensive midfield, Riise left wing, Gerrard and Xabi Alonso in central midfield, Pennant or Ashley Young down the right wing, and Kuyt as the lone striker. Bench: Dudek,Hypia,Luis Garcia,Mark Gonzalez,Bellamy

By: phil

phil — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 03:25:30 +0000

One problem with Bellamy in right midfield. Bellamy likes these little runs from inside the box even though he is good at crossing. He has scored some goals in the past few weeks. Someone has to provide crosses and give through balls to Bellamy so that he can be dangerous. Only peson i can think of young watford winger Ashley Young. Mascha will be a great addition. Give away Zenden, he’s not an anchorman and plus to slow. Sell Zenden.

By: Gary Keenan

Gary Keenan — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:03:37 +0000

I think he is a brill player. he is the best young midfield player in the world!!!! Buy him!!!plz

By: wacka

wacka — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:28:11 +0000

i’dd like to see Ashley young in our team. he has pace and he can link up well with Bellamy down the right side. Mascherano is a great player and he can play defensive midfield to let Liverpool play a 4-1-2-1-2. the only problem is where will Xabi Alonso play and what will happen to Zenden and Sissoko after he comes back from injury? 5 central midfielders does make a problem as 2 or maybe even 3 will be left out. To make it even worse all of them are great versatile midfielders who can play in very complicated areas in midfield. I suggest to Rafa that put Zenden on a loan spell to a team which needs a central midfielder. that will give Zenden matches and after his loan spell is finished we can bring him back and give him a few games. And if by that time someone is not doing well then we can put that midfielder on a loan spell. Another question is why is fowler not playing?????

By: Conor

Conor — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:01:59 +0000

“Stevo” is definetly right. Agger has proved he can cope in the first team and is giving sami a run for his money. You can’t judge Javier at a club like West Ham were he hasn’t had adequate team to prove himself. For Argentina he was one of the better players. “topredman” i think there has been a lot of success wit signings, better than houiller anyway. Xabi Alonso, Momo Sissoko, Daniel Agger, Luis Garcia, Pepe Reina etc have shown us how good they can be momo is the best young midfielder in england his workrate is second to none and sure luis can be dodgy but you can’t agrue with important goals he always pulls up with. I thinnk Jermaine will come good and Fabio Aurielo eeerrmmm i duno hes not bad.

By: hammeeers

hammeeers — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:38:44 +0000

West Ham fan here. Not sure if this deal will actually go through seeing Curbs and Egg came out to say both argies are staying untill summer. Anyway, everyone at WHU knows Masch is the best player we have except for Tevez, Ashton, but he is not being sidelined due to his ability, its something within the dodgy deal. Two decent managers dont leave a world class player out in the middle of a relegaton battle for fun, there is something very wrong going on and its upsetting most hammers fans, we are all dying to see him in the team. Well i feel sorry for him, if he cant get in the side here due to silly contract problems them he deserves to be playing week in week out with Liverpool or Juve.

By: allyt

allyt — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 16:28:38 +0000

im a man utd fan so im glad liverpool are buying him not because he is a bad player its because rafa will end up playing gerrard on the right if he comes.liverpool have great variety up front and if gerrard and alonso are in centre mid they will defend as much as u want them to and liverpool will play better. liverpool are strong throught but they do need a centre back (that patrick lad is an idiot) and if they got villa it would make there strike force even stronger.

By: Macca

Macca — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:42:09 +0000

Lets get this straight, we need four top quality central midfield players, and we have three. Xabi, Stevie and Momo are top class, Zenden is not. I’d go as far to say that if he wants to play CM, and do well there, he should drop down a division. He’s too slow, a poor tackler, cant head the ball and frequently loses posession by virtue of a poor selection of pass.

Mascherano is young, hungry and gifted. He might not play too much, but I’d be a lot happier with him as an option rather than Bolo.

When you factor in the unusual injuries Momo seems to be prone to, this is a good bit of business by Rafa.

By: Dave H

Dave H — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:15:37 +0000

I think he could develope into a great player for us, strong in the tackle but with more quality on the ball than Momo (who is improving). An excellent addition to the team for the future and quality in depth.

On a slightly different note, what do you think of playing Bellamy on the right, instead of Pennant. He is quicker, has more ball control and I believe more attacking potential there, it would also allow Kuyt and Crouch/Robbie to play. I for one can’t understand why its not been tried, especially at home and it allows Stevie to stay where he’s needed, in the middle. Thoughts
DH

By: shaca

shaca — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:51:09 +0000

dont see him as a bad signing but it all depence how much were gona pay for an argie who hasnt had the chance to show what hes all about . we certenly need someone 2 help stevie g in his attacking roles , who else do we have that we can put in as attacking mid when he gets injured

By: topredman

topredman — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 23:47:30 +0000

Has anyone seen this man play? Does anyone know anything about him? We need players that strike fear into the opposition. At the moment, Stevie and Carra are about the only players doing that. Kuyt,Crouch,Bellamy and Robbie aren’t doing the business up front. Pennant looks weak, the defence is shakey and we are about to buy another holding midfield player? Our success with signings isn’t great and we have a sqaud littered with average players that aren’t delivering. I fear this might be another.

By: irish scouser

irish scouser — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:58:18 +0000

Listen guys..i’ve read all the comments and come in at this late stage…mascherano plays holding midfielder for argentina…the team tipped to win the world cup after some sublime displays…if you study the matches you’ll find that he broke up play 9 times out of ten in every game…and gave the ball to riquelme….imagine this guy breaking up attacks from oppositon and feeding stevie g at anfield and beyond?he’s quality and we need him..cos we can get him…and he’ll make us stronger…welcome welcome welcome javier….

By: Jrwanderer

Jrwanderer — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:02:31 +0000

Mascherano was a class act during the world cup for Argentina. I think he could be a very good buy, and I do believe a bit of patience is needed to see how he pans out.