Set your faces to confused ladies and gentlemen.
Throughout the season, the Liverpool Echo had been keeping track of Reds fans’ ratings of Brendan Rodgers’ players and the end-of-season results are out.
While we were anticipating Steven Gerrard to find himself in first place just based on the sentimentality surrounding his departure, we would have been completely cool with Philippe Coutinho sealing top spot or even Martin Skrtel.
But not one of those men made it to the top of the list.
Rather it was Daniel Sturridge (remember him?) who was awarded the best score.
Sturridge has seemingly been injured since about 1999 but, in reality, he has appeared 17 times for Liverpool this season which makes it quite surprising to see that he is rated higher than somebody like Jordan Henderson who was as reliable as he’s ever been in the red jersey.
For those of you looking for a loophole in the scoring criteria to justify Sturridge’s ranking, we tried the same and found that the points system was based on players who had played at least 10 times this season with the average rating out of 10 being applied to each player.
We think that a player must have played at least half the games for the team to even be given a chance to be named the club’s best player.
Sturridge’s highest score this season came in Liverpool’s game against West Ham in which he was awarded a score of 8 and his worst rating came in the Reds’ 4-1 defeat to Arsenal which saw him given a measly 4.4. His season average was a respectable, if questionable, 6.3.
