Lucas Leiva

Just read that Lucas turned down Inter to sign for us.

With that one statement he has grown in my estimation, although I am not to happy about him saying it would be more of a challenge at Liverpool. At the moment though I can't picture him as a long term first team fixture, he is missing something, but I don't know exactly what it is. It maybe that recent Liverpool midfields have been associated with tackling rather than with pure creative play

Give him time maybe should go out on loan next season get regular games then come back to anfield the season after.

Nah i don't think he needs to go out on loan, he's good enough to get games in our senior squad. And with Alonso out of favour he is needed all the more.

He had an excellent game against Chelsea in the Carling Cup; then he had a shocker against Sunderland... although played out of position. But i still regard him as one of our most exciting of players alongside Babel. Both have huge potential.

he's young and still leaning, but he has the makings of a very good player, but he's not good enough yet to take Alonso's place

seen him in the youth world cup with anderson and both along with another kid called renato agusto were outstanding.....

but le tallec and pongolle were also brillant in the same competiton....

compared to anderson he's not great basically he's average not good enogh for Liverpool