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After the World Cup, there was an outcry for Fabio Capello to make wholesale changes and ditch the entire England team, which would mean players like Steven Gerrard, Wayne Rooney, Ashley Cole and Frank Lampard never wearing the Three Lions again.
I am sure the cry will go up again for the manager to flood his team with youngsters for Wednesday's friendly against Denmark. I disagree.
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From my experience, if you want to experiment and give talented young players like Jack Wilshere a chance - and I've been campaigning for his inclusion all season - it is of more benefit to them to surround them with a few older heads than to throw in a collection of 11 untried players and expect them to get on with it.
People talk enthusiastically about the new Germany team that entertained us at the World Cup and reached the semi-finals but they tend to forget the young lads like Mesut Ozil, Sami Khedira and Thomas Moller had seasoned professionals around them - Miroslav Klose, Lukas Podolski, Per Mertesacker and Philipp Lahm. It is the combination of youth and experience that makes a team powerful.
Despite the hand-wringing that accompanied the disappointing English performance at the World Cup, I don't think they are far away from competing for the big prizes.
It's my opinion that the players are a lot better than their results would suggest in South Africa and other countries have a greater respect for them than some of the English football fraternity.
We've got top players now and Wilshere, Andy Carroll, Jordan Henderson, Chris Smalling and Joe Hart all have the potential to do extremely well.
If you're going to try out new blood, friendly games like this one in Copenhagen are the right stage. All I am cautioning against is throwing them in en masse. You run the risk of losing the kids forever if things don't go well.
The term I'd use is to drip-feed them in. For every Wilshere and Smalling, it is better to have the likes of Rio Ferdinand, Gerrard and others around them - everybody needs a bit of help, no matter how talented. Part of the reason is the incredible scrutiny England teams comes under.
Capello should be allowed licence to look at new players and ideas but he is hampered by everyone else concentrating too much on the result. There was a backlash when England lost against France in the last friendly with an under-strength team. The benefit for Capello was seeing Carroll in his first England game and assessing how he did. But that was lost amid all the noise of England losing.
The whole issue of international friendlies in a crowded football calendar keeps coming up. I don't have a solution, it seems as there will always be conflict and compromise.
Although it is a fantastic honour to represent your country, it is the clubs who supply the players so their views are important. But if an international week is in the calendar, I can see why Capello and other managers want to use it.
Action man: Capello was able to have a good luck at Andy Carroll in the France friendly
It gives them a chance to meet the group, try out some different players and maybe a new system, to basically prepare for the competitive fixtures ahead. You are never going to keep everybody happy.
Maybe down the line there is a case for playing a B international only and letting the senior players train together rather than travel abroad for a match.
The embarrassment about this particular Denmark fixture is that it comes in a scheduled FA Cup replay week, which will have a knock-on effect for the later rounds. The important thing is to protect the players as well.
I wouldn't hesitate in calling an international manager and suggesting it might be beneficial to give a certain player a rest or restrict them to 45 minutes if they had a niggling injury or were fatigued. But I wouldn't interfere just to be awkward or to gain a competitive advantage over other clubs. There is also a compromise to be had over substitutions.
To make too many changes makes the entire occasion a farce, as we saw when England had four captains in one game when Sven Goran Eriksson was manager. It short-changes spectators, they don't like it and neither do the players, if we're honest.
At the same time, it's right to have more substitutions than in a competitive game to restrict the number of players who have to be out there for 90 minutes.
I think you can make six changes at the moment. Maybe we could introduce a rule where seven changes can be made - but at least four have to be at half-time. That way the flow of the game wouldn't be disrupted so much.
There is no easy solution with so much football. But it isn't an issue that will bother Capello this week. He will simply be trying to prepare as well as he can for the Euro 2012 qualifier against Wales.
For that reason, the old guard should still have a part to play in Copenhagen.
Why I bought into the transfer deadline
Join the club: Kenny Dalglish landed Andy Carroll in a deal worth more than £35m
The transfer window wasn't as much of a bleary-eyed experience for me as you'd imagine.
Damien Comolli and the medical staff were the ones who burned the candle to get Andy Carroll to the club just before the 11pm deadline.
My contribution was to stay at Melwood until the deal was completed so I could meet Andy, it was only polite.
One thing I didn't understand from the window was the emergency loan system. One of our players, Paul Konchesky, has gone on loan to Nottingham Forest but is allowed to be there for only 93 days.
I don't see the rationale, it would have been better to give everyone the opportunity to let him see out the job he's going to do there.
But the rules state he has to come back before the play-offs, which might be the really important bit.
Overall, I can see sense in the January window.
To close it altogether will deny players who are unhappy at a club to get away, managers to make changes that injuries or loss of form might require and clubs to get some value from players who are out of contract in the summer, as Everton did with Steven Pienaar.
Yes, there is a scramble on the final day but that would happen whenever the cut-off point is.
I scored at Chelsea to win the title for Liverpool but Hansen was the real hero
MY goal at Stamford Bridge that won Liverpool the league title in 1986 won't come up in my team talk before today's game at Chelsea. For one thing, some of the players weren't even born then, let alone be able to remember it.
The thing I remember about that Double year in '86 was that it was a bit unfair on our captain, Alan Hansen. Because I was the playermanager and scored the goal at Chelsea, a lot of the focus was on me. But I wasn't actually the captain of the team. Alan led the team out at Stamford Bridge as usual and I was one of the other 10 players behind him.
All the other Doublewinning skippers are feted for their achievements. Danny Blanchflower, Frank McLintock, Roy Keane, Tony Adams and John Terry have all gone down as legendary captains as well as great players.
But Alan has never had the recognition outside the club for doing the same thing. Inside, we knew the enormous contribution he made to that season, when we won 11 and drew one of our final 12 games.
We were neck and neck with Everton and, if we hadn't beaten Chelsea 1-0 that day, it's likely Everton would have nicked the title.
It was a great moment when the ball nestled in the net, but I won't be thinking nostalgically about it this afternoon.
Tradition and heritage should always be cherished at the club, but it's new memories we want to create for the new generation of Liverpool fans
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Last updated at 12:07 AM on 6th February 2011
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After the World Cup, there was an outcry for Fabio Capello to make wholesale changes and ditch the entire England team, which would mean players like Steven Gerrard, Wayne Rooney, Ashley Cole and Frank Lampard never wearing the Three Lions again.
I am sure the cry will go up again for the manager to flood his team with youngsters for Wednesday's friendly against Denmark. I disagree.
National service: Fabio Capello needs the likes of Wayne Rooney to help develop young talent
More from Kenny Dalglish...
Kenny Dalglish: I'd go potty over a bad call - not because Sian's a woman 29/01/11
Kenny Dalglish: I've been knocked out by the changes at Liverpool22/01/11
Kenny Dalglish: Millionaire stars should be forever grateful to '61 heroes 15/01/11
Kenny Dalglish: Fernando Torres will relish his chance to give Nemanja Vidic another nightmare08/01/11
Kenny Dalglish: Villa's players should look in the mirror for someone to blame01/01/11
Kenny Dalglish: What a year for those Spanish magicians and a Welsh wizard25/12/10
Kenny Dalglish: Blackburn owners must match big talk with hard cash18/12/10
Kenny Dalglish: Mancini's Man City prove why defence should come first11/12/10
VIEW FULL ARCHIVE
From my experience, if you want to experiment and give talented young players like Jack Wilshere a chance - and I've been campaigning for his inclusion all season - it is of more benefit to them to surround them with a few older heads than to throw in a collection of 11 untried players and expect them to get on with it.
People talk enthusiastically about the new Germany team that entertained us at the World Cup and reached the semi-finals but they tend to forget the young lads like Mesut Ozil, Sami Khedira and Thomas Moller had seasoned professionals around them - Miroslav Klose, Lukas Podolski, Per Mertesacker and Philipp Lahm. It is the combination of youth and experience that makes a team powerful.
Despite the hand-wringing that accompanied the disappointing English performance at the World Cup, I don't think they are far away from competing for the big prizes.
It's my opinion that the players are a lot better than their results would suggest in South Africa and other countries have a greater respect for them than some of the English football fraternity.
We've got top players now and Wilshere, Andy Carroll, Jordan Henderson, Chris Smalling and Joe Hart all have the potential to do extremely well.
If you're going to try out new blood, friendly games like this one in Copenhagen are the right stage. All I am cautioning against is throwing them in en masse. You run the risk of losing the kids forever if things don't go well.
The term I'd use is to drip-feed them in. For every Wilshere and Smalling, it is better to have the likes of Rio Ferdinand, Gerrard and others around them - everybody needs a bit of help, no matter how talented. Part of the reason is the incredible scrutiny England teams comes under.
Capello should be allowed licence to look at new players and ideas but he is hampered by everyone else concentrating too much on the result. There was a backlash when England lost against France in the last friendly with an under-strength team. The benefit for Capello was seeing Carroll in his first England game and assessing how he did. But that was lost amid all the noise of England losing.
The whole issue of international friendlies in a crowded football calendar keeps coming up. I don't have a solution, it seems as there will always be conflict and compromise.
Although it is a fantastic honour to represent your country, it is the clubs who supply the players so their views are important. But if an international week is in the calendar, I can see why Capello and other managers want to use it.
Action man: Capello was able to have a good luck at Andy Carroll in the France friendly
It gives them a chance to meet the group, try out some different players and maybe a new system, to basically prepare for the competitive fixtures ahead. You are never going to keep everybody happy.
Maybe down the line there is a case for playing a B international only and letting the senior players train together rather than travel abroad for a match.
The embarrassment about this particular Denmark fixture is that it comes in a scheduled FA Cup replay week, which will have a knock-on effect for the later rounds. The important thing is to protect the players as well.
I wouldn't hesitate in calling an international manager and suggesting it might be beneficial to give a certain player a rest or restrict them to 45 minutes if they had a niggling injury or were fatigued. But I wouldn't interfere just to be awkward or to gain a competitive advantage over other clubs. There is also a compromise to be had over substitutions.
To make too many changes makes the entire occasion a farce, as we saw when England had four captains in one game when Sven Goran Eriksson was manager. It short-changes spectators, they don't like it and neither do the players, if we're honest.
At the same time, it's right to have more substitutions than in a competitive game to restrict the number of players who have to be out there for 90 minutes.
I think you can make six changes at the moment. Maybe we could introduce a rule where seven changes can be made - but at least four have to be at half-time. That way the flow of the game wouldn't be disrupted so much.
There is no easy solution with so much football. But it isn't an issue that will bother Capello this week. He will simply be trying to prepare as well as he can for the Euro 2012 qualifier against Wales.
For that reason, the old guard should still have a part to play in Copenhagen.
Why I bought into the transfer deadline
Join the club: Kenny Dalglish landed Andy Carroll in a deal worth more than £35m
The transfer window wasn't as much of a bleary-eyed experience for me as you'd imagine.
Damien Comolli and the medical staff were the ones who burned the candle to get Andy Carroll to the club just before the 11pm deadline.
My contribution was to stay at Melwood until the deal was completed so I could meet Andy, it was only polite.
One thing I didn't understand from the window was the emergency loan system. One of our players, Paul Konchesky, has gone on loan to Nottingham Forest but is allowed to be there for only 93 days.
I don't see the rationale, it would have been better to give everyone the opportunity to let him see out the job he's going to do there.
But the rules state he has to come back before the play-offs, which might be the really important bit.
Overall, I can see sense in the January window.
To close it altogether will deny players who are unhappy at a club to get away, managers to make changes that injuries or loss of form might require and clubs to get some value from players who are out of contract in the summer, as Everton did with Steven Pienaar.
Yes, there is a scramble on the final day but that would happen whenever the cut-off point is.
I scored at Chelsea to win the title for Liverpool but Hansen was the real hero
MY goal at Stamford Bridge that won Liverpool the league title in 1986 won't come up in my team talk before today's game at Chelsea. For one thing, some of the players weren't even born then, let alone be able to remember it.
The thing I remember about that Double year in '86 was that it was a bit unfair on our captain, Alan Hansen. Because I was the playermanager and scored the goal at Chelsea, a lot of the focus was on me. But I wasn't actually the captain of the team. Alan led the team out at Stamford Bridge as usual and I was one of the other 10 players behind him.
All the other Doublewinning skippers are feted for their achievements. Danny Blanchflower, Frank McLintock, Roy Keane, Tony Adams and John Terry have all gone down as legendary captains as well as great players.
But Alan has never had the recognition outside the club for doing the same thing. Inside, we knew the enormous contribution he made to that season, when we won 11 and drew one of our final 12 games.
We were neck and neck with Everton and, if we hadn't beaten Chelsea 1-0 that day, it's likely Everton would have nicked the title.
It was a great moment when the ball nestled in the net, but I won't be thinking nostalgically about it this afternoon.
Tradition and heritage should always be cherished at the club, but it's new memories we want to create for the new generation of Liverpool fans
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...#ixzz1D9jxAjiN