20 Mar 2012

Liverpool Star warns Kenny: Play me or I will *leave* Anfield...

Dirk Kuyt has been directly responsible for 23% of all Liverpool's goals since he arrived in 2006, and last season he was the club's top goalscorer. None of that cuts any ice with Kenny Dalglish though, who has kept the Dutchman on the bench repeatedly this season. With Euro 2012 looming, Kuyt has revealed his frustration over playing a bit-part ant Anfield, and he's warned that if he doesn't play more, he may to consider his future.

Speaking at the official opening of JJB Sports' new store at Broughton Retail Park, Chester, Kuyt - who has been benched or subbed an incredible 31 times this season - told The Mirror:

"I want to play every game. It is very disappointing when I don’t - like the Carling Cup Final for instance. I’m ready to play games, I am ready to play every game of the season, and gor me it is all about trying to convince the manager he needs to pick me more than he does at the moment.

"I can see myself staying at Anfield for the rest of my career, as long as I am satisfied and am entitled to play in each game to get to the level I want to be.

"As long as I play as much as I want to play then I will be happy, but if it gets to the point where I am not playing every game any more, then maybe I will have to make another decision"


I think it's clear that Kuyt is frustrated at the stop-start nature of his season, and how could he not be after barely being allowed to build up any rhythm.

Having said that, it's not as if he's set the world on fire for Liverpool this season. 2 goals in the last 21 games is nothing to write home about, though constantly being subbed/benched probably has something to so with that.

Kuyt recently expressed his frustration about being a 'champion of winning nothing', but now he's on the trophy trail for the first time in six years, and hopefully he'll add the FA Cup before the season finishes.

Jaimie Kanwar


30 comments:

  1. No player can ask to play every game! Manager should have authority to decide it. Look at any successful and big club. Only 2-3 players (mostly midfielder and defenders) might have a permanent team place. Most of other players are rotated according to what situation demands and tactics manager wants to deploy. 

    If Kuyt wants to play every game at age of 31, he has to leave for some small club.

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  2.  Works hard, but has lost 3 yards of pace.

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  3. A lot to lose when you only had 1 yard going for you in the first place

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  4. Kuyt would be one of the the players on the top of my list to Sell or move on at the end of the season. Overated and we can do a lot better in replacing him. Bye bye Dirk....

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  5. Kuyt is a good worker and he does seem to score a lot of important goals. He lacks natural skill, he has no pace but he is a strong player and always puts a good shift in. I'd keep him as he comes on and makes a difference.

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  6. i reckon we'd get a decent enough fee for him.
    try and get someone with pace ion as a replacement,hoillett perhaps.
    i reckon maxi will be off too.

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  7. thanks for the service but the time has come to buy a world class forward .

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  8. Squad game so get used to it!!!!

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  9. bet nobody thought he was overated when he stuck that winner in against Utd in the cup, or the goal at Wembley in the final, or his goal in the champions league final to put us back in with a chance. If he does go, I'll always remember him as a player who gave everything for us, won't go down as a legend but deserves better than some people on here are obviously going to remember him for.

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  10. Easy to understand his frustration when other forwards get played regularly but don't score and he doesn't even get that much of a chance.

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  11. I think Kuyt still has lot to offer and if it was up to me, i would prefer to play Kuyt over both Carroll and Henderson because his work rate is the best, he has great understanding with Suarez upfront, his movement upfront causes problems and he is really strong character in the field. 

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  12. Such is a sad situation of our problem on the right wing, Kuyt would be my first choice as neither Downing and Hendo have done even a consistently decent job out there.

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  13. Chelsea may come for Maxi. If you look at past, they have taken every Liverpool player who scored against them including Benayoun, Torres, Meireles. 

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  14. hello, were 7th in league and losing ground every season. now which world class player were you thinking of?  there a lot of dreamers on here. Kuyt has put everything he has on the line every time he plays. more than a lot of players, past and present ever have.  a lot of people need to look up the word " SUPPORTers"

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  15. I'd rather keep him and sell the rubbish KD bought. I think he's better than Caroll,Downing, Adam and Henderson put together.

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  16. is right!
    Adam in particular - total waste of money for such a mediocre player, I hope he never wears the shirt again - effing liability!  Hendo and Carroll are young, but still woefully short of the standards we shoudl expect at Anfield - squad players at best.

    We should sell Downing along with Adam ASAP

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  17. How Henderson starts ahead of him week in, week out, I will never know. Why don't we just revert to that flexible front four that we had going at the end of the 2010-2011 season? Just replace Meireles with Bellamy and in Maxi, Suarez, Kuyt and Bellers you have a much more menacing and confusing problem to deal with as a defender rather than the predictability of Downing crosses, Adam long range shots and long balls to Carroll!

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  18. Septimus_severus2:05 pm, March 20, 2012

    But Downing Stays ?

    Kuyt is a SENIOR player at the club and unlike anyone else in our Squad has actually played in the WORLD CUP FINAL.

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  19. Septimus_severus2:07 pm, March 20, 2012

    Dirk Kuyt played in a WORLD CUP FINAL name any other player in our squad that has

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  20. Septimus_severus2:08 pm, March 20, 2012

    Andy your correct but Kenny has to justify his spend hence Kuyt Maxi don't get a sniff

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  21. He still seems to get the shirt for Holland, and he normally looks like a better player for them than us as well. He has a great habit of being in the right place in the right time. In a 433, he could do a job, if we have Lucas, Gerrard and one other in the middle. But if he really needs to play every game, i think we have to, reluctantly, let him go. He deserves to play more often if he wants, maybe not for us but he's given the club his all so doesn't deserve to spend his last decent years warming the bench.

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  22. Good players don't need over a year to show us they r good players. Suarez,BellamyEnrique. Carroll,Henderson,Adam,Downing(I thought he would really b a good buy) all played in PL and they haven't been good enough. So it would b good to admit that he made mistake and get rid of them. We all make mistakes in our life anyway. I don't actually care if Henderson is young or not. Just how long do we have to wait for him and the others to become good. Cos while we waiting for them to become good the ENEMY probably will win their 20 league title( hope NOT).

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  23. DDon't worry Dirk ..you've no need to go any where...just wait till the summer and it will be kk who will be kicked out...love you kenny but you are atrocious...way past your sell by date

    I just can't wait

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  24. I don't know any real Liverpool fan who would water down the contributions Kuyt has made to our team in the last 6 years overall. Honestly, I think it is an insult that Henderson is above him in the pecking order at Liverpool. What on earth does Henderson contribute to our game? How Henderson manages to bench Kuyt week in, week out remains a mystery to me. There must be some "romance" going on somewhere, because I don't have any other "decent" excuse for the great injustice that has been done towards Dirk, especially this season.

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  25. Theycallmemrburt7:59 pm, March 20, 2012

    When he failed as a striker he should have been pleased at the opportunity to be given the chance of playing right midfield.  He's a good squad player but will never in a month of sundays win us the league.  He has the worst shooting technique i've seen in a red shirt.

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  26. Let him take his League Cup and pi55 off elsewhere with his all important 'work rate'. The guy has been over-indulged for way too long and imho is a major cause for Liverpool's decline in recent years

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  27. nope, still thought he was over-rated all those times. ESPECIALLY in the Champions League Final where he effectively had us playing without a striker 

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  28. I still remember him scoring ONE goal from open play in an entire Premier League campaign up front for us. But those two pens against Everton were oh so *important* that they make up for everything I guess...

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  29. and there's the problem, "win the league"? You think we can go from 7th to winning the league against the spending power of Man City, dream on.

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  30. The team went from 2nd to 7th in one season, but it's impossible to do the reverse?

    And MrBurt is right to keep winning the league as the ultimate ambition. An ambition that Kuyt will never help the club to fulfil, whether that be in the short term or longer term future.

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