Is that not that lost city in south America?
Benteke - BOOOOOO the puns
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The only reason I called Peter a prick was because I knew it was an opportunity for some shameless like farming. I'm feeling a little sheepish about the whole thing now.
Christian Benteke: Liverpool set to meet £32.5m release clause
By Alistair MagowanBBC Sport
Liverpool are set to meet the £32.5m release clause of Aston Villa's Belgium striker Christian Benteke, triggering a potential transfer.
The 24-year-old scored 12 goals in 12 games at the end of 2014-15 season to help keep Villa in the Premier League.
Now that the Reds have received funds from the £49m sale of Raheem Sterling to Manchester City, they are prepared to meet the asking price.
Benteke still has two years left on his contract at Villa.
England striker Daniel Sturridge made only 18 appearances for Liverpool last season because of a succession of injuries and is out until September with a hip problem.
Reds manager Brendan Rodgers is believed to want cover as he seeks to re-establish his team in the Champions League, having finished sixth in the Premier League last season.
Chief executive Ian Ayre is with Rodgers and his squad for the second leg of their pre-season tour in Brisbane, Australia, but will still handle negotiations with Villa.
Earlier, Rodgers said that despite the departure of England forward Sterling, 20, Liverpool could still attract top players.
"Players are always going to want to come to Liverpool, it's such an iconic club, it's a great club," he said.
"The challenge for us is to get back in amongst the top teams, hopefully that continues to attract players."
Benteke joined Aston Villa from Genk in August 2012 for £7m and has scored 49 goals in 101 appearances.
By Alistair MagowanBBC Sport
Liverpool are set to meet the £32.5m release clause of Aston Villa's Belgium striker Christian Benteke, triggering a potential transfer.
The 24-year-old scored 12 goals in 12 games at the end of 2014-15 season to help keep Villa in the Premier League.
Now that the Reds have received funds from the £49m sale of Raheem Sterling to Manchester City, they are prepared to meet the asking price.
Benteke still has two years left on his contract at Villa.
England striker Daniel Sturridge made only 18 appearances for Liverpool last season because of a succession of injuries and is out until September with a hip problem.
Reds manager Brendan Rodgers is believed to want cover as he seeks to re-establish his team in the Champions League, having finished sixth in the Premier League last season.
Chief executive Ian Ayre is with Rodgers and his squad for the second leg of their pre-season tour in Brisbane, Australia, but will still handle negotiations with Villa.
Earlier, Rodgers said that despite the departure of England forward Sterling, 20, Liverpool could still attract top players.
"Players are always going to want to come to Liverpool, it's such an iconic club, it's a great club," he said.
"The challenge for us is to get back in amongst the top teams, hopefully that continues to attract players."
Benteke joined Aston Villa from Genk in August 2012 for £7m and has scored 49 goals in 101 appearances.
We sold Collymore to Villa not bought. We did get Stan Staunton from Villa.
In the past we've sold them Houghton, Staunton, Saunders and Collymore.
Whilst they've done us with Downing and potentially Benteke
Slag.
Christ yeah, don't know what I was thinking there.
Everton/Lukaku is probably why the release clause for Benteke was set at 32.5m a season later.
Cloggy, I'm still trying to recover from the Downing disaster, at least there hasn't been any video of Benteke smashing a few balls from distance into a wheelie bin. I still shudder at Werner going on about that video....
Maybe they can both build robots and have them fight if that's the case.
I just want a fight. Benteke is boss, but he's boring.
Never said he was but we're overpaying for him that's for sure
The pooftiest. They won't actually fight, they'll have a dance off or something.
Speaking of which...
Everything We Know About the Upcoming USA vs Japan Giant Robot Battle
http://makezine.com/2015/07/06/usa-vs-japan-giant-robot-battle/
PeterHatesDick
VERSUS
Doc_Mac
Everything. Some teams are good at selling players
They were shit at selling Fabian Delph.
They didn't sell him. He did a DeAndre
I haven't seen @doctor_mac behave like this since he threw that really sound bloke off Xpert Eleven
