So we didn't need those new players at all?
Brendan Rodgers told to sign £30m striker after wasting £100m
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Thankfully, Rodgers' job description doesn't include the line: "Have to please Trevor Fucking Francis".
Put aside club colours, that's quite a scathing attack on any player, let alone poor Rickie.
This guy gets paid to write a few column inches to criticize someone who's trying to do his job well. Any idiot can do what Trevor does. Insult a player and get paid for it.
I just hope Rickie's confidence will not be further affected with Trevor's worthless words.
This guy gets paid to write a few column inches to criticize someone who's trying to do his job well. Any idiot can do what Trevor does. Insult a player and get paid for it.
I just hope Rickie's confidence will not be further affected with Trevor's worthless words.
Its not necessarily that we have wasted the money but the Origi deal will look insane if we dont sign somebody decent now, to spend £10m on a striker and give him away on loan is fine assuming our squad has too many strikers and he wouldnt get a game. But if we only have 2 strikers and one of them is a 32 year old journeyman then it looks ridiculous. I still think we will sign another striker, I just hope its not a last minute desperation signing
And, you know for a fact, the loan wasn't part of the sale?
Origi's signing has no impact on other deals. Our net spend is still low, everybody at the club knows we need someone else up top, and Fsg would not stop £20m being the difference (let alone £10m) if they think they have the right target, as is evidenced by past dealings.
People need to chill and go get out in The Lying Rag or something.
Well we have night signed the top class forward everyone was expecting so expect similar stories until we do
Nah they really don't.
I know I post quite a few of the odds but that's just a bit of fun. The bookies just go with the flow and United fans are wading in big now they have seen the coming of their new Messiah.
Chelsea and City will always attract the pro gamblers so got to keep those odds down and Arsenal got Sanchez and we didn't, hence they are above us. Us being 5th in the bookies lists has zero reflection on reality.
If we sign a very good striker next week the odds on us will change again.
Ye may be tight enough with FFP another £20m plus the associated wages may be cutting it tight
sepaking about Lambert, preseason means fuck nothing...so calma and give the lad a chance
And yet, yes, sometimes they do ! On single events of course, not over the course of a year or month or week even.
It's not worth drawing conclusions from though, is it? Who hit the heights last Summer? Who has this? It's a crap cliche, but it is just about getting fit. His worth to us this season will mainly be from the bench and in cup games, so observing him as the leading man in a side trying to get fit and short of a couple of first teamers, is ultimately pretty pointless. People seem to be looking for someone to draw blood from, as a vent for Suarez going and us not buying anyone, his position in all of this is a bit irrelevant. And when you consider the opposition he's been put up against, that's almost as new to him as it is to him being new to our team and set up. He needs a little bit of time, like anyone, and not some daft twat of a failed bitter manager taking pop shots at him with misguided points.
Is he better than what we had beyond Suarez and Sturridge last season? Of course he is. It's not his fault we haven't brought in another top striker yet.
It would have been somewhat reassuring to see Lambert perform well in pre season considering that he's our only back up behind two strikers made of glass.
But you're right I shouldn't be looking at Lambert, this is on Rodgers.
Signing a Suarez replacement should have been our first priority.
I hope we do, I don't think we've handled it brilliantly, but then I think we all had concerns whenever the idea came up, of Suarez leaving, that we would struggle to find even a half able replacement - we always do find it difficult attract that sort of player. We know this because there are so few exceptions to the rule.
we would only breach financial fair play if we dont finish top 4 again next season and if we dont then it doesnt matter anyway.
Win win.
Plus we made 120m in TV money and have raised about 80m in sales so far so we are still well in the black.
No, and I never implied otherwise youre picking a fictional argument here to make a point. I assume the loan deal was part of the sale, that was not my point though, my point was that we will look pretty stupid if we spend money on a striker for 12 months down the line if we are left short of striking options here and now
We still wouldn't look silly unless the reason we couldn't get a replacement striker now is because we were short of cash, the amount being what it cost us to buy Origi. In other words, if buying Origi was at the expense of a striker for the here and now, then yes, we might look silly. I don't think there's anything to suggest that's the case though at this point.
I ain't panicking about anything, just questioning what is going on when we have had plenty of time to sort this situation out, the season starts in a week and the club have done next to nothing to sort the problem out, if Sturridge gets injured today or next week we will be in a right old mess, we really shouldn't be in this position.
Lambert isn't an answer to anything regarding the hole Suarez has left in our attack, he's a squad filling League Cup/FA Cup player and an option from the bench for league games.
"next to nothing"? We've bid for Sanchez and lost out, we were on the verge of signing Remy but we weren't happy with his medical. That's not next to nothing, people seriously rewrite history as they see fit on here.
Fictional argument? It was my understanding that the sale wouldn't have gone through without the loan.
We interpret "next to nothing" differently then, i look at our forward options and we haven't done anything yet to even begin to fill the hole Suarez left, i don't think Sanchez means anything, it was a convenient opportunity for us, we took a shot at it and it didn't come off, if that contents you in any way then fair enough, im more interested in what we are going to do to sort out the issues we have up front than to piss around making excuses, the club is making a meal out of something they should have had a solid plan for.
It doesn't "content" me at all, you're missing the point. You said we've done "next to nothing" - a striker was on the verge of signing but it fell through, that's not inactivity by any stretch. We might have taken our time over it, rather than rushing into it, but it doesn't mean we haven't done anything to address it.
I'm not having a go at you, but the people knocking our approach are the same ones who moaned that we panicked and bought Andy Carroll, you can't have it both ways. We want to make sure we get the right player for the right conditions, and rightly so.
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