Holding Midfield: Liverpool’s summer change of direction

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Although it’s a cliché that I have very rarely actually seen myself, much like Newcastle fans and their fabled sense of entitlement and countless other footballing clichés (seriously, someone should actually look into how many of these go beyond what Sky like to present to us), at the start of the summer I was part of that group of Liverpool fans who thought the club could finish the 2011/12 season atop the Premier League table. It’s not that Liverpool should be considered favourites. It’s just that the 6th place finish of last season suggested a gap larger than what may exist this season – a title challenge was a realistic possibility. Truthfully, the big two of Spain aside, I don’t think any club around is particularly special at the moment. Manchester United had obvious deficiencies is midfield only worsened over the summer by the retirement of Paul Scholes, their neighbours City were still a somewhat unknown quantity with Roberto Mancini focussing on considered but patient development rather than mindless splurging, as were Chelsea newly under Andre Villas-Boas, Arsenal had yet again collapsed at the end of last season and Cesc Fabregas and Samir Nasri looked (rightly) on their way out, [...]

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This article's excellent, good read for Liverpool fans, though it has a distinct air of slight disappointment about it. I've got agree with him about Aquilani and Meireles: whilst the former's departure could possibly have been inevitable, the latter was probably a bigger loss than it might seem at first.

Holding Midfield is one of my favourite sites. This has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Dots&Crosses is on its links page. Nope. None.