Please, Robbie Keane, Don't Be Another Dirk Kuyt!

It's early days in his Liverpool career, but Robbie Keane is yet to score in a competitive fixture for Liverpool. Furthermore, he hasn't really looked like scoring.

Now, I firmly believe that when Fernando Torres and Robbie Keane finally click, they will be nigh-on unstoppable. However, in the back of my mind, there is a worry. A worry is Robbie Keane will become another Dirk Kuyt.

Kuyt has been good for Liverpool, constantly working 110 percent for his team's cause. But we really don't need another striker coming to Anfield, giving everything he's got, but not scoring many goals. One is enough.

Keane needs to weigh in with 20 goals a season if we want to challenge for the title. However, in the unimpressive, if successful, start to this season for Liverpool, Robbie Keane just doesn't seem to fit.

I have no doubt that will come in time. He could be another Peter Crouch, going a while without a goal, but then becoming prolific. But, at the moment, he seems to be getting in the way a bit.

The space which Fernando Torres was so effective in last season has been crowded out by Keane, and the resulting defenders marking Keane. He chases everything, which is good to see, but sometimes I think he needs to take Torres' example.

If you actually watch Fernando Torres throughout a whole game, he doesn't really do that much. He rarely crosses into Liverpool's half, and the majority of the time he gets the ball, he actually loses it.

However, he has the quality to capitalise on at least one possession every game, and as a result, he is one of the top strikers in the world.

If Keane can stay up front, he also has the quality to do that, and, if they are both up there, they can build a more effective partnership.

It seems at the moment that Robbie Keane is just a bit too eager to impress. I seem to remember Wayne Rooney having the same problem for England and Manchester United. He kept chasing back, and was eventually told to save his energy so he can take his chances at the other end of the pitch.

For me, this is what Keane has to do, and he could soon go some way to filling the number seven shirt left by the likes of Kenny Dalglish and Kevin Keegan.