He's only travelled with the squad to make up the numbers. With Kuyt leaving, Bellamy and Suarez at the Olympics and Carroll & Borini only just returning from the Euros, he was the closest thing to a striker we had available.
Ah, I've only seen him play in these two preseason matches, but he strikes me as someone who would take well to Rodgers' system - very pacy, good dribbling and ball-control. Surely his end product can't be any worse than Scott Sinclair's?.
As I said, technically he's a very talented player and is certainly the type of player that would fit into how Rodgers wants to play however I'm not sure he's got a real cutting edge to his game.
He's not actually that quick and has a habit of over complicating things in the final third. He was really highly thought of a couple of years back but he's seemed to have stood still over the last couple of years.
I'd rather see him get a chance as a squad player than somebody like Cole but I'm not sure he'll ever hold down a first team spot.
