''I just want to score goals. I wanted to score around 20 goals this season. Ive always gone to places for the football places where Im going to play. By playing, you learn. I think I can develop a lot more, but I realise to achieve that Ive to play as much as possible. Victor Moses, 2013.
One cant blame Victor Moses for having aspirations of first-team football at Liverpool, when he signed on loan for the club a year ago. After all, this was a side who had just finished seventh in the league, while his parent club Chelsea had fought for the Premier League crown. Surely he could command a starting berth in a front three with the potent Sturridge and Suarez? What Moses was not expecting, was for Liverpool to usurp the side he had just left, finishing above Chelsea in second place, with Raheem Sterling proving a revelation alongside the S&S partnership. The whole purpose of the loan seemed rather moot. He registered even less games last season than he did the previous season at Chelsea 22 vs 43. There was never any danger of him troubling the goal target he had set for himself, finding the back of the net twice in all competitions. Cutting a lost and forlorn figure on the rare forays that he was granted on the Anfield turf, he spent most of the campaign huddled in a jacket on the bench, with a furrowed brow and an expression of sheer disgruntlement. Having returned to Chelsea to Stamford Bridge this summer a year older, but with a year spent warming someone elses bench, the entire loan deal seemed rather pointless, for all parties.
Recent Journalism & New Media graduate. Insatiable thirst for all things football, and hopes to break into the field of sports journalism in the near future.
Have made a significantly insignificant playing career out of receiving several slaps around the head for not passing the ball.
