Sister of fu wrote:This season though no of our players have been really outstanding consistently maybe apart from Silva. I feel his lack of goals impacts on votes for him.
Other seasons we have been massively hard done too but IMO not this season. Sterling has played well and Sane since the turn of the year but not consistent as other players in the list.
To me that's really what it is. Players probably watch MOTD and maybe CL games, matches with two big clubs, and the bottom line is Silva has not scored for us at a rate that an average football fan will see unless they watch him game to game.
I also don't think we can have a huge grip with some of the picks.
Mane has been extremely important to Liverpool. Lukaku vs. Aguero in terms of talent is not a debate, but Lukaku has scored more goals and I think had more games with multiple goals than Sergio seemed to this season. We also have not been as good of a team as expected so despite some of our players' performances, we have under performed compared to others.
Did KDB make the team last season? He should have, but he also had a long injury, although so did Mane. Yet, we also under performed last season whilst Liverpool was in first going into the New Year, dropped off when he became injured.
You can make the strongest case for Sterling to be in the Young Players' short list, at least. To me that's the most egregious omission, yet his finishing and rep for diving may also have affected this.