1. A fit striker.
Last season we had Daniel Sturridge falling to bits, Lambert with no pace, Borini's ego preventing an exit and Mario Bolotelli - lord knows what was wrong with him. We resorted to three dinky midfielders upfront and it sometimes worked sometimes didn't. Thankfully this time we have a fit Christian Benteke, Danny Ings and Divock Origi to choose from with the treatment room brigade backing them up.
2. Scary and Angry Mignolet.
Last season due to poor form Simon Mignolet lost his place only to get it back through injury. But during his time out something happened - he lost his temper. When he came back he was commanding his defence blocking shots he'd normally let in and went on to have his best period with us to date. This Mignolet must stay, the old timid librarian can do one we need the Mignolet whose mad, bad and dangerous to know.
3. Plan B.
One thing I criticise about Brendan Rodgers tenure is lack of tactics, we seem to pick one tactic and throw ourselves into it even when it stops working. See Mario playing upfront last season when he blatantly wasn't fit, the three dinky midfielders up front which was inconsistent at best and rigid formations. To put it bluntly we need to be more fluid in our tactics.
4. Skrtel dropped.
Martin Skrtel has been an area of chaos and calamity in our defence for the best part of a decade. Manager after manager have failed to drop him, he causes cock up after cock up and is the last remaining undroppable. As far as I'm concerned he's cost us four champions league spots and a Premiership title. He constantly wonders out of position and exposes those around us, he can't trap a ball, can't read a game and the only positive thing I can say about him is he's a very good tackler. However he's not a premiership level defender, he should have been shipped out years ago so either get rid or bench him.
5. A midfield expressing itself.
Over the last few years our midfield has spent most of its time covering for an ageing Gerrard, covering for Skrtels mishaps and trying to pick up the slack from the strikers (or in some case playing up front as strikers). Lets do this 'death by football' we hear so much about. Let out midfield dominate a game and let our midfielders be midfielders.
6. Goals.
Give us loads of goals and give us sexy goals, last season with our strikers falling to bits, being out of form and playing dinky midfielders up front it was all a struggle. Lets put last season behind us and get back to heavy scoring games.
7. A dominant ball winning midfielder.
I think something we're missing is a dominant ball willing midfielder, god bless him I like Lucas (the world loves a trier) but he isn't it. I think Emre Can could be it but if Rodgers wants to play him in defence we need someone else for the position.
8. Less crap from Brendan during press conferences.
Seriously this can be said about a lot of football managers but Brendan is not a public speaker. Instead of putting him in front of journalists like a sheep into the lions den. Put whoever is in charge of PR or marketing in there, theres just no need for him to be there - especially when he comes out with so much crap. Either start issuing press releases instead of having press conferences or put someone who can talk in them.
9. A defence that can defend.
I think it speaks for itself, over the last few years (and you can guess who I blame) our defence has been ruddy awful. I cheered when Glen Johnson buggered off but drop Skrtel and sort the rest of our defenders out.
10. A better crowd at Anfield.
By and large last year the atmosphere at Anfield was poor and personally I don't think the crowd got behind the team enough. For most of last season we didn't have our 12th man, having a sing song in the build up to kick off is all well and good but during 90 minutes get behind your team!
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