Would Lucas stay at Anfield?
Lucas has stated his desire to stay at http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809, despite suffering from fans' criticism after his season’s performances. Lucas plays for Liverpool currently in the middle of midfield. Liverpool fans were quite condemning of the Brazilian because of his
below par displays during this season.
Lucas, who is of Brazilian descent, started off his career as a professional footballer at Gremio in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Brazil-c2858. During the 2006 season at Gremio, Lucas exceeded all expectations with his performances as Gremio won the Rio Grande do Sul state championship for
the first time in over 5 years. They also finished third in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A. Lucas was awarded the Brazilian league’s Golden Ball Award. He became the youngest player ever to receive such a prestigious accolade.
Bola de Ouro also known as the Golden Ball Award was previously won by players such as Zico, Kaka, Tevez, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786, Real Madrid and Liverpool. However, Liverpool
were Lucas’ favoured destination. His transfer from Gremio to Liverpool in 2007 was worth six million pounds.
On signing Lucas from Gremio, Rafael Benitez who was Liverpool’s manager at that time stated that he was looking forward to watching Lucas score some goals for Liverpool. He also remarked that the Brazilian youngster had the ability to do well in the English
Premier League.
Lucas’ crucial breakthrough season at Liverpool was supposed to be the 2008-2009 season. Before the start of that season, Lucas impressed in the pre-season friendly matches but he missed the start of the English league season because he was away with his
national team Brazil on http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Olympic-c40122 Games duty. Lucas came back from the Olympic Games with a bronze medal and found himself in a struggle to maintain his place in the starting lineup for Liverpool.
After a particularly lacklustre display against Fulham in an English Premier League game, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lucas-c22528 was jeered off the field by Liverpool fans. This prompted Benitez to defend the Brazilian player. The Spanish manager said that people are still unaware of how
good Lucas really is. In the 2008-2009 season, Lucas played only 39 games in all competitions for Liverpool. However, his real chance to establish himself at the club came when http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Xabi-Alonso-c37045 was sold to Real Madrid by Liverpool for thirty million pounds. In
the 2009-2010 season, Lucas was expected to excel but he flattered to deceive. He was quite inconsistent with his performances and was rightly criticized by a large contingent of Liverpool fans as well as football pundits.
Recently, Roy Hodgson has been appointed as the new manager of Liverpool after Rafael Benitez parted ways with the club due to a bad series of results in the last year’s league campaign. Lucas has come out and stated that he is happy at Liverpool at the
present moment in time and is looking forward to play for the Reds in the future as well. He also said that he was out to prove himself to the new manager and to his fellow team mates at Liverpool.
Lucas expressed his wish to stay at Liverpool for the coming season and said that he will try to show the new Liverpool manager his true quality. With http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Javier-Mascherano-c18071 gone, Lucas is the only one left in the holding midfield position.
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