EX-LIVERPOOL DEFENDER Daniel Agger has suggested his former side over-achieved last term and that as a result, expectations were higher heading into the current campaign.
The Merseyside outfit have struggled to cope with the loss of both Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge – the former sold to Barcelona in the summer while the latter’s injury problems have ensured he’s made just 3 appearances since the season started.
Currently languishing in 11th place in the Premier League table, Brendan Rodgers’ side did manage a win against Stoke City on Saturday – their first league victory since October.
Speaking to Philip O’Connor of Reuters, Agger says the club’s second-place finish last season may have been misleading.
Maybe we over-achieved last year with the squad we had, so when we start a new season the expectations would be really, really high. It’s always difficult after such a great season.”
“Also in the Premier League now there’s not just one, two, three, four good teams. There’s seven, eight, nine, 10,” he said. “The other major difference from when I started is that everybody can beat everybody.”
How Liverpool could do with Agger currently. The team’s defensive issues have been well-documented and Rodgers may well be regretting his decision to allow the 29 year-old quietly return to his native Denmark in the summer. It was a breakdown in the pair’s relationship that led to the move though Agger still refuses to be drawn on what exactly happened.
“Of course there were reasons. I haven’t really shared my reasons with anyone – I have them, and that’s why I did what I did, and I’m happy with that. If I could write everything myself, I would have stayed there (at Liverpool) for the whole of my contract period, but I felt it wasn’t right. It was a mix of football and the feeling of my body not being able to play the physical games, but the most important thing was that I wasn’t happy going to training every day.”
“I had a great home there, my family enjoyed it, my kids enjoyed it there, they felt a big part of Liverpool. To be honest, I miss it.”
Congrats to Cuala, great club,great hurlers.Well done all .
Delighted for cuala, big boost for Dublin hurling as well.
Well done Cuala who were the better side and to give a hammering to give the killkenny side.Definetely standards have dropped a bit in killkenny over the last few years.
You were so excited to see a kilkenny side getting beaten you couldn’t even write your comment properly, trot on ya fool
Well Done Cuala Mick Holden would be a proud man tonight
@Anthony The only smell of shite is from you and your killkenny arrogance LOL
You are gas john a really funny guy you’d be great craic on the cheap booze in lars
Who knows we might meet up some time Ant ??looking forward to it already LOL
Yeah that might be a bridge too far, but who knows who knows
@anthony “Tak a ruing jup ya arrogant killkenny prik”i made a fair comment like it or lump it ha ha ha.
Fair play to you John even reading your comment there’s some smell of sh*te off it go back to bed now it’s early