After seeing Barry this season, and assuming we get him, it will be nice to have player who wants to get forward and attack, and make some balls to Gerrard, who in turn makes them to Torres. As much as I love Alonso, he always seemed to be a bit more of a long ball player. Yes, he was phenomenal at this and we played some great football with him, but it is obvious that Rafa thinks that things may be a bit more direct with Barry, It could well turn out that that the relationship betwen Barry and Gerrard turns it to the kind of relationship that some of us werent expecting between Gerrard and Torres. It could be the start of a beautiful threesome! But then again it could be crap and Alonso goes on to be World Player of the year