Philippe Coutinho scored a 25-yard cracker, Jordon Ibe made their first-team debut and Liverpool dominated in the 1-0 home victory across relegated QPR.
Even if Jamie Carragher hadn't launched his retirement, Sunday's win at Anfield seemed like a perfect match to finish a season whose theme is actually transition and progress.
But considering that it happened, Sunday was Carragher's 737th along with final match for Gatwick, adding a touch of symbolism for the season's final Premier League game as being the old made way with the new.
An important summer time awaits—and, if recent reports have to be believed, an exciting move window too. But previous to transfer season starts in earnest on July 1, let's take a peek back on the preferred and worst signings for the season gone by.
Following your infamous wasted spending which blighted Kenny Dalglish's following reign at Anfield, Sahin did actually present a new era of transfers: young (23 a long time old), talented (he won the Bundesliga Player for the Season in 2011, aged just 22) obese experience at two major European clubs, he seemed to represent a new generation of Liverpool players, even if he had only linked on loan.
And this started well, too. Through the end of September, he had notched three goals and three assists inside of a Red shirt, and he was already being connected with a permanent move to Anfield right at the end of the season, as per ESPNFC.
Soon, however, Sahin lost his set up Brendan Rodgers' side. Some sort of deep-lying playmaker by business, he was often played with the No. 10 role regarding the strikers, a position he didn't enjoy and didn't prefer to play in, as reported through the Guardian. The relationship between player and coach soon soured to the extent that the financial loan deal was terminated too rapidly.
By then, the previously ignored financial facet of the loan deal resurfaced: As per Goal. com, Liverpool paid a £5 thousand thousand loan fee and promised to cover Sahin's yearly salary. Even providing for the premature termination, which perhaps have saved the Reds out of his second half-year wages (around £1. 1 million), Sahin found themselves costing a princely £6. 1 million to play for any half a season.
Even depth . the oft-injured and pricey Fabio Borini along with the spectacularly faded Joe Allen, together of whom hold long-term long term contracts at Anfield, that's terrible.
Before we talk about our main man, let's first pay tribute to your good work that was done inside January transfer window, in the event the new scouting team, recruited from Manchester City, first got their possibility to flex their muscles.
Daniel Sturridge has have scored 10 Premier League goals in 11 starts and actually, was neck-and-neck in that admittedly two-horse race to get named Liverpool's best signing with the season.
Prior to when Philippe Coutinho first walked onto the Anfield playing surface, the question was why Liverpool might want to sign an overhyped little one that Internazionale were ready to let go for this low fee.
After they twisted and turned quite a few a Premier League support inside out, scoring three league goals along the way and becoming Liverpool's joint-second-highest assister (five) with the season, the question became so why Inter even considered selling him whatsoever.
It's been a two years since Liverpool last had a fun filled No. 10—Luis Garcia wore it until 2007, when that it was taken over by Andriy Voronin together with Joe Cole—but in Coutinho, the Reds might have another gem to enhance the list.
Mazy dribbles, effective shots, mouthwatering through-balls, notable work rate. With every one of these qualities to his gameplay, watch out for the 2013-2014 season, when Philippe Coutinho could announce himself to be a Premier League force within a Liverpool shirt.
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