Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Hodgson Set For Mascherano Talks
The Liverpool manager has told how he was unable to contact the 26-year-old whilst on holiday. This has lead to speculation surrounding the players future.
“I don’t know what to do at this stage,” he said.
“I will have to liaise with them and (head of sports science) Peter Brukner and make a decision by Tuesday on what sort of team I can put out.
“I can promise the Liverpool fans we will put out the best possible team, without compromising the future.
“It is going to be a difficult discussion between myself and Peter because his feeling is we shouldn’t use any of them and I am going to be tempted to say I want to use quite a few of them.
“The only players I will take will be the ones that I definitely think will play a valuable part in the game.
“If we are talking about senior players, it would be players prepared to start the game.
“I would not take Steven Gerrard there to play for the last 10 minutes as a substitute.”