Benteke

[Hansern]

According to the Sunday papers Juventus wants to buy him this summer.
They were interested in January but that offer was rejected.
The fee quoted is 25 mill £.

I'd happily sell abroad for that fee. Even 20-22 mill. Dont want to see him play for West Ham or some other top 6-8 club.

If true there is interest from West Ham, Newcastle, Juventus and Chinese clubs.
Seeing as he doesnt fit in I dont think there will be any problem to move him on.
Just sell to the right club...

 

[HC]

Are you Ayre in disguise ?

Juve offer £25m you'll accept £20m ! 😉

 

[Skullflower]

I'll say it again only because I still cant quite believe how ridiculous this is. This was so fucking obviously going to happen as soon as we were first linked with him.

 

[LeTallecWiz]

He's basically a more mobile, stronger, faster version of Manduciz (sp) ...

 

[dmishra]

25 million is a good fee. Sell.

Buy Lacazette.

 

[hmmmmm1]

Be amazed if it's actually 25 million sterling, the Italian teams will screw us

 

[Markeh]

Be amazed if it's actually 25 million sterling, the Italian teams will screw us

season loan with a 25 million euro option, Juventus will grumble about not being able to afford him a few months before the end of the season

Fortunately I think Benteke is too good a player for their standard dip a toe in the water and weasel out of it behaviour.

 

[doctor_mac]

Be amazed if it's actually 25 million sterling, the Italian teams will screw us

Yeah, selling to Italian clubs is an absolute nightmare.

 

[RedStar]

Yeah, selling to Italian clubs is an absolute nightmare.

Buying from them hasnt been a picnic either

 

[i_rushie]

I can't help but be reminded of Heskey in his last season with us when I see Benteke these days. Ambling around the pitch as if feeling sorry for himself, no aggression, no confidence.

 

[Skullflower]

He's a big fat cunt and he can get fucked.

 

[Glen C]

He's shit

 

[Tinto]

I wouldn't care when he's lazy if he put his chances away.

How many one v ones has he missed now. He's not a reliable finisher, is he?

 

[cloggypop]

Juve can fuck right off. He's going to China for a new world record fee.

 

[Aidan O' Neill]

He's shit.

 

[gene hughes]

He's better than he's looked recently for us, and he can score goals. But it's exactly as we said last summer, he's just not suited to the kind of play and we, and indeed most big successful teams, want to play.

The thing that has shocked me most is how bad his movement is. It's worse than Balotelli's.

 

[Red Bird]

Not sure about not suiting our style as the excuse. For somebody who is alleged to be a one-in-two striker, how does he miss so many one on ones?

 

[gene hughes]

Not sure about not suiting our style as the excuse. For somebody who is alleged to be a one-in-two striker, how does he miss so many one on ones?

I think it's the type of chances. He seems to almost always miss the type that Sturridge almost always scores. That's the type that we create most often.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

I can't wait for him to be volleyed out of the club. He's fucking shit.

 

[gene hughes]

Ironically, he's quite good at volleys.

 

[m.h.]

He's shit

 

[LeTallecWiz]

He's not shit.
We should have never signed him.
Rodgers (and Klopp) don't like playing to his strengths.
Teams that will, be it Villa in the past or West Ham/Juve etc, will get a goal every 2/2.5 games.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

No. He's shit.

 

[Glen C]

He's not shit.
We should have never signed him.
Rodgers (and Klopp) don't like playing to his strengths.
Teams that will, be it Villa in the past or West Ham/Juve etc, will get a goal every 2/2.5 games.

A player that misses that many one on one chances is shit. Has he even scored any of the one on one chances he's gotten while being at liverpool?

 

[keniget]

32.5 million pounds.

 

[LeTallecWiz]

A player that misses that many one on one chances is shit. Has he even scored any of the one on one chances he's gotten while being at liverpool?

So his goalscoring record at aston villa is 'shit' too? He's not a star striker, but to assume because he's had such a bad run with us that he's shit is stupid.

 

[Glen C]

So his goalscoring record at aston villa is 'shit' too? He's not a star striker, but to assume because he's had such a bad run with us that he's shit is stupid.

Don't care what he did in the past. All that is relevant is what he does in a Liverpool shirt. He's been shit. He has poor movement and work rate and whenever he's been through on goal for us he's missed. That to me is a shit player.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

It's like saying Liverpool are the best team in the world because we won trophies decades ago. He's shit. Can't stand him, lazy and useless.

 

[LeTallecWiz]

Don't care what he did in the past. All that is relevant is what he does in a Liverpool shirt. He's been shit. He has poor movement and work rate and whenever he's been through on goal for us he's missed. That to me is a shit player.

Ok!

 

[moron]

I think it right to say that he is NOT shit. Just not suited to us - and we don't play to suit his strengths. The one on one misses is a little worrying though. I usually expect most players who are termed as 'strikers' to put away the one-on-one in most games - I can accept a missed chance say 2 in 10 games, but having watched Benteke face a few of these - I have to agree that I don't actually remember him being able to score any of them for us.