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Lazar Markovic Loan Deal - The Wrong Decision?

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With Lazar Markovic looking set to complete a season long loan to Turkish club Fenerbache many Liverpool fans will be left stretching their heads.

The 21 year old Serbian winger made 31 appearances for Liverpool last season but has yet to feature, or even make the bench, for the Reds in their opening 3 Premier League games this season.

Markovic, whose transfer from Benfica cost Liverpool £20 million last summer, seems to want more game time and believes that he will get more minutes on the pitch away from Anfield. Rodgers, meanwhile, must believe that his squad is deep enough that Markovic's temporary departure won't damage his teams chances of success this season.

However, with Liverpool competing across four fronts, the Premier League, FA cup, league cup and Europa League, Rodgers had hinted that he was considering using a 'second eleven' for Europa League and league cup matches.

Hence, the assumption was made that although Markovic was not in Rodgers' plans for the first team, he would feature regularly in the Europa League and league cup side alongside other fringe players such as Divock Origi, Danny Ings, Alberto Moreno, Mamadou Sakho as well as Emre Can and Lucas Leiva in a team that Rodgers hopes will reach the latter stages of both competitions.

This decision to allow Markovic to leave indicates that perhaps the winger was even further down Rodgers' pecking order as previously thought. Or maybe Rodgers simply doesn't rate the 21 year old, who only scored 3 goals last season and whose only real run in the team came in the first few months of 2015.

Maybe Rodgers simply wanted to get rid of Markovic and the only offer, like in the case of Balotelli, was a season long loan but that would seem overly presumptuous of a player, who was highly thought of when Liverpool signed him from Benfica, who has only had the single, and seemingly unsettled, season in English football.

The general consensus is that loaning out Markovic benefits no one. It doesn't help the player as he, still at a young age, now has to settle into another foreign country. Also, even for Fenerbache consistent game time isn't guaranteed.

Hopefully Markovic returns to Anfield next season a better, more experienced footballer that Liverpool can either utilise or sell on and try and get back some of the money we spent on him.

But I'm worried that Liverpool haven't given Markovic enough time. The boy clearly has something and he seemingly would have gotten a substantial amount of game time in the various cups this season. Maybe if he was in good form he could have even broken into the first team.

I truly hope that, eventually, it works out for Markovic at Liverpool but after this decision I can't see that happening. Regardless, I will always remember his flying karate style volley away at Sunderland last season as one of the coolest things that I have ever seen on a football pitch.

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That was boss.

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