I want to post a customised book cover of a bearded man with his special lady friend. But no. This is about football.I don't think he'll command a regular starting role in the side this season, because the manager has a realistic tilt at the top four places, we have a returning Suarez into our fold, and he's not in the strongest 11, not by a distance. But this boy has a football brain. That's how they used to say it, before they talked about "football intelligence". He has a football brain. Dalglish had one of them. Alonso and Molby, players who had a football brain. We hated him, but Scholes had one of them. They mightn't always operate at 100 miles an hour in a game, but they'll inject a little pace when they need to, and they'll try and move the ball to the places that hurt the other side the most, as quickly as possible, and they'll always be available to their team mates as an option, and their team mates will learn to trust them as that option, no matter how tightly marked they are.A football brain.I posted a few tweets on Sunday to try and illustrate that, and a little of his cerebral approach to the game.We've not seen much of the kid during real competitive games yet, but we have seen 10 minutes at a time when Man United were chasing the game, and we were sitting deep inviting them on to us. For me, Alberto coming on was like Rodgers taking a cotton wool ball, soaking it in vinegar, and applying it to the open wound in David Moyes's game plan.Alberto closes down Ferdinand. He stands. He doesn't jump in.The old thing when people jump in and the commentator says "Ah he didn't need to make a challenge there - it took the pressure off."Ferdinand has no option but to play it to De Gea. Alberto gestures to Sturridge to stay wide and closes De Gea.De Gea has no option but to try and return it to RF, but gets flustered and it goes out of play.Alberto still coaching - stay wide. I've got this bit on my own.