EPL: Liverpool loan watch

Assaidi

Krisztian Adorjan

Adorjan is a player who has never played a senior game for LFC, and if rumours of his loan spell having an agreed transfer price at the end of it, he probably never will. He looks set to be another highly rated Hungarian youth player who just couldn’t make the step up, following in the footsteps of Hungary international Krisztian Nemeth (remember that guy).

So far this season, he has made two appearances for FC Groningen, who are currently 6th in the Dutch Eredivisie. In those two appearances, he hasn’t played more than 70 minutes in total, has scored one goal and has had one sending off. Whether or not he’s good enough for Liverpool, the kid seems to be a natural headline maker. We’d all love to see him do brilliantly over in Holland before coming back and doing brilliantly for us, but if that’s just not possible, best of luck to him.

Michael Ngoo

For those of you who don’t know about Ngoo, he is a big, strong, powerful target man who did well on loan at Hearts in the SPL last season and has found himself being sent on loan to Yeovil early on in the transfer window. He will, unfortunately, never make it under Brendan Rodgers.

It breaks my heart to write off a young player like I just have there, but in all honesty if Rodgers wasn’t interested in giving Andy Carroll a chance, he’s not going to look much more favourably on young Michael Ngoo.

Since making his move to Yeovil, Michael has made 6 appearances, although only two of them were starts and only one of those starts was in the league. He is yet to notch his first goal of this campaign and Yeovil are wallowing in the relegation zone with a win in their first game, but with four consecutive defeats following that.

Conor Coady

Unlike the last two, there is something that tells me Coady might still make it as a LFC player, although I do fear that is sentimentality overriding my more logical understanding of the footballing world. As a defensive midfield player who can also play as a centre back, it is not out of the ordinary that he is yet to make more than one senior competitive start for the club at the age of 20.

However, it’s becoming time to accept that we all put an unfair amount of pressure on the kid when we began saying 3 or 4 years ago that he could be the long term replacement for Gerrard. The kid, now a man, will never grow into being a star player for us at LFC but, being a Scouser, we could do a lot worse than having him as a good solid squad player.

Rodgers doesn’t seem to have given up all hope on the England U20 captain however, and apparently was very keen on Coady to get game time at Sheffield United in particular, as he rates Manager David Weir (that’s ex-Everton player David Weir to you and I) very highly.

His faith seems justified as Coady seems to be doing very well down in League one and has been operating in front of the back four for the Blades this season. Coady made a substitute appearance in Sheffield United’s first game of the season but has started all of the other four.

Oussama Assaidi

Similarly to Fabio Borini, there isn’t a lot for me to write about Oussama Assaidi in the article, although I’ll be able to tell you much more next month. I would, however, like to warn everyone that I am not a big fan of Assaidi. I think he was a bad signing and a waste of even the small fee paid for him. I believe him to be a poor player who’s impressive pace is negated by the fact he has absolutely no end product, and he is currently a problem for the club as we struggled to sell him on this summer, even for as little as £2 million.

I will admit one thing however; he may suit Mark Hughes’ style of football and he may even have a decent season. However, I doubt he’ll ever have the technical ability to fit into a Brendan Rodgers team. He only played the second half for Stoke against Walsall, so I’m going to wait until he plays his first Premier League game for the club to really start talking about how he’s doing at the Britannia Stadium.