How the Luis Diaz hokey cokey became a defining feature of this Dream Team season

IN his ain peculiar way, Luis Diaz (£3.7m) has been Dream Team's main quality this season.

The Liverpool winger has amassed 173 points astatine an mean of six per crippled truthful far, a full that puts him joint-eighth among midfielders.

With 12 goals and 4 assists to his sanction successful each competitions, Diaz has been a precise utile plus for the bulk of the campaign.

And yet Dream Team managers can't marque up their minds astir him.

Incredibly, the Colombia planetary has been among the apical 5 astir transferred-out players for 7 of the 21 Gameweeks.

Conversely, he's besides been among the 5 astir fashionable recruits NINE times.

THE LUIS DIAZ HOKEY COKEY

• GW2: n/a
• GW3: n/a
• GW4: 1st astir transferred IN
• GW5: 4th astir transferred IN
• GW6: 1st astir transferred IN
• GW7: n/a
• GW8: 4th astir transferred OUT
• GW9: 3rd astir transferred OUT
• GW10: 5th astir transferred IN
• GW11: 2nd astir transferred IN
• GW12: 3rd astir transferred IN
• GW13: 3rd astir transferred OUT
• GW14: 2nd astir transferred OUT
• GW15: n/a
• GW16: 5th astir transferred OUT
• GW17: 3rd astir transferred IN
• GW18: 1st astir transferred IN
• GW19: 3rd astir transferred OUT
• GW20: 3rd astir transferred OUT
• GW21: 4th astir transferred IN (currently)

Diaz's existent ownership of 40.5% makes him the 4th astir selected subordinate successful the game, 2nd among players successful his position.

But it's bonzer however his popularity has fluctuated passim the season.

One crushed for this is that Mohamed Salah (£8m) is the lone guaranteed starter among Liverpool's attacking assets.

Elsewhere successful the guardant line, Diaz faces contention from Cody Gakpo (£4.8m), Darwin Nunez (£4.3m), Diogo Jota (£4.4m) and Federico Chiesa (£4.2m).

As a result, the 28-year-old has completed 90 minutes conscionable 7 times retired of his 29 appearances.

Furthermore, he's sat retired 4 games wholly and played little than an hr connected 8 occasions.

There are plentifulness of different midfielders successful the aforesaid bracket who are much assured of playing time, hence wherefore Diaz has often featured among the astir transferred-out players.

On the positive side, he's mostly made the astir of his clip connected the pitch, averaging a extremity engagement each 115.4 minutes - a precise steadfast complaint for idiosyncratic successful his position.

At the clip of writing, Diaz is erstwhile again among the astir fashionable recruits up of the Reds' treble header against Ipswich and PSV successful Gameweek 21.

Arne Slot's broadside request conscionable 1 constituent against the Eredivisie outfit to guarantee they decorativeness apical of the Champions League (league phase) table.

In fact, it's mostly a bully clip to banal up connected Liverpool players arsenic they are the lone squad with SIX fixtures to fulfil crossed the adjacent 3 Gameweeks astatine present.

That being said, it could beryllium argued that Gakpo is present the champion accomplice for Salah for gaffers keen connected a treble up successful attack.

All unneurotic now: you enactment Diaz in, Diaz out, in, out, in, out, shingle it each about...