I'm sure everyone has their own ideas as to which player deserves to be named player of the season, and the official site has started a poll to see who the fans prefer. Despite some excellent performances from many of our players, it looks like being down to either Alonso or Gerrard.
Gerrard is probably the best player in the world at the moment, simply because there's just so much to his game. He did finish our top scorer this season, but like Torres was missing quite a fair bit due to injuries, yet this doesn't appear to have limited his chances in the poll.
Alonso is my personal favourite, simply because he responded so well to all that crap last summer, and produced his most brilliant and consistent season ever for us. The pass master is the one who pulled all the strings in midfield for us this season. Anyways, check out the poll and vote for your own favourite.
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Its a tough call between the two. Gerrard is definitely the more dynamic and rightly gets the headlines but I'd still go for Alonso personally. You notice the lack of fluency in our play almost immediately when Xabi is missing and theres no point having two dynamos like Gerrard and Torres up front unless theres someone further back to keep feeding them with really good passes.
For me it would be
1. Stevie G
2. Xabi Alonso
3. Fernando Torres
4. Yossi Benayoun
5. Dirk Kuyt
Gerrard was inspirational all season and won many games off his own boot. Each year he seems to get better and better and he was ten times better than Giggs (what a joke). Alonso was solid all season and his passing is a delight to watch. I really hope all the rumours about him requesting a transfer are wrong, because he is so important to our team. I cant see why he would want to leave at the moment, considering how much the team has improved.
Torres was injured for half the year but still played some awesome football in patches. If he can stay on the park for most of next season I cannot see why he would not be able to bang in 30 goals in the league.
Yossi is definitely the most improved player this season. I was bagging him on this site earlier in the year, but his form since Christmas has been sensational. A special mention to Dirk Diggler, who I have really been harsh on a lot of times this year. He has finally won me over with his never say die attitude. He is not blessed with an abundance of skill, but he gets the job done on a consistent basis.
For me those 5 players stand out from the rest of the team this season.
I forgot to add that Ryan Babel was the most disappointing player for the season. I was expecting massive things from him this year. Unfortunately he has been terrible, although with limited opportunities I guess.
Over the years I've always thought Gerrard our most influential player and even if he wasn't injured much this season - I still would have preferred Alonso because he has been in such amazing form he has had more impact than Gerrard this season.
@Scott D - my 3rd choice would have to be Kuyt, I thought he had an excellent season for us.
I had high hopes for Babel but like yourself was disappointed by him, reckon he'll be on his way this summer.
@Simon - yeah I'd probably have to agree with that.
I wls say Alonso, he marshalled the midfield in Gerrard's absence due to injury....i have a bad feeling that Rafa would sell him to Real for $$ to buy Barry, wth?
@Val - no matter how times I hear LFC claim they don't want to sell him, a part of me fears they might. But I'm still hoping for the best.
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