re: Liverpool FC 2012/13 Season Long Thread

I can't say I'm either surprised or upset over those comments. It's no secret, even among Liverpool fans, that Rodgers played Sahin out of position. It wasn't always that way, though. He started the season playing holding mid, which he did a serviceable job of doing.

But there was a stretch of matches at the beginning of the season where we flat out weren't scoring goals, and Rodgers literally played everyone he could at AM to see if they worked out. Allen, Gerrard, Henderson, Sahin, Shelvey, hell even Enrique tried playing the position. Eventually he settled on a formation that worked, and Sahin was just surplus at that point. Plus he broke his nose and was out for at least a month.