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Many thanks to you all for your kind comments - we are back from two days of brilliance in a superb North Yorkshire Hotel (yes we do actually have one!) The food was so good I didn't even get chance to get back to the room in time to see Tuesday's game, but I gather I did not miss much. Now I have only two weeks before I fly to Duss for the game against Eintracht. It will be a hectic visit but there might be a small chance to meet up with anyone who has the time - those who remember Lucas from the meet-up will remember the guy who now is a wiz-kid in the hospitality and IT business and he will be taking me to the game where we will meet up with Thea (liverbird) and husband Danny. Joan and I intend to come over during the summer to meet up with other friends and if anyone wants to set dates for a get together we will make sure out visit fits. I know there are new guys who were not with us when we first met, but those who were will, I'm sure, confirm what a special few hours we had and to repeat that would be very special. I still have the picture on my room wall with the flags of the countries underneath which sometimes seems incredible to the locals here who see it that we were able to do that - all because of footy! Again thanks for the messages and to all my usual farewell! Be nice!

His movement is just very poor for a striker at the top level. He is lazy and he doesn't make runs, or doesn't make too many useful runs that either get him open in the box or have a defender tracking him and opening up space for someone else. And to make matters worse, he's definitely a confidence player - where when he's in form he'll look pretty great, but when he's out of form you can expect things like missing simple tap ins routinely or just silly unforced errors. He's just not well rounded enough to be asked to play as a more mobile target man, he's just not got the right work ethic and/or football intelligence. He needs to be leading the line as a simple, old-school target man who's not asked or expected to move around too much. And when he's in form, he's above average at that. But he's not a top striker because of his obvious limitations and the fact that he needs to be in a more limited system to succeed. It is hindsight... but yeah, he should have stayed at Villa. They needed his goals to stay up and their attack was focused around him and making him successful - without him they looked like total dogshit. And he never fit in with us at all... it was actually a very strange signing for a Rodgers side, as the good season we had under Rodgers involved our strikers providing constant dangerous movement. Benteke offered a much more static attack from us. And looking at how Klopp has us play and how he likes hard working strikers that move around a shitload and aren't shy to drop deep or wide to let our wingers run play off the last defender... it's no surprise he didn't have much time for Benteke. And I think you're right about his struggles this season, compared to his form last season, where if you ask him to do too much... you'll see these kind of performances from him. But if you change the system too much to fit the more old school approach that he's proven he can succeed in... you run the risk of just getting left behind with your old tactics as modern football progresses.

Heritage mate. Heritage

makes me like it more knowing that he doesn't like it.

Nothing more than a pay raise. Massive step down. United should look for realistic targets. Like Johnny Evans.

Worrying that I had to pause for a second to decide whether those are real quotes .

"The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a bomb, is a good guy with a bomb." - The US Department of Defence

I'd argue he joined the perfect side at the time to play to his strengths. That was reflected in his 16 league goals last season. Unfortunately football has evolved where Strikers are expected to play up top by themselves and cover a lot of ground. He was lazy beyond belief and now (due to the criticism) he's trying to a point where he's never in the correct position to utilise his aerial ability efficiently in the opposing penalty area. Thankfully with price increases we should be able to flog him to China for the price we got him for.