Gaston Ramirez

[gene hughes]

Judging from that youtube clip I'm really impressed by his kewellesque spatial awareness.

 

[Mystic]

At the rumored £14m i'd be very happy with this move!

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Ha.... somebody on here said I look like Gary Kelly (I don't!)

Liar

 

[LeTallecWiz]

Liar

Correct

 

[Sunny]

Judging from that clip I really can't make any kind of judgement

 

[SummerOnions]

Gaston Blumenthal.

 

[Buddha]

Adam Digby, Twitter's resident Italianexpert,with his opiniononGaston:

He's certainly strong enough to survive in the Premier League as he's deceptively well built & just over 6ft tall. He has excellent technical ability & is capable of playing on either wing or as a withdrawn striker/trequartista. Scored 8 goals & 4 assists last season.

He's very quick & also good in the air but can often switch off in games which maychange as he getsolder (turns 22 inDecember) & makes a lotofeffort defensively averaging 1.4 tackles & 1.1 interceptions. Occassionally over does it with his passing but if he does join Liverpool Rodgers would seem more than capable ofgettinghimtokeepitsimple.

Famously spent the winter break of his 1st season walking around Bologna city centre talking to locals & improving his language skills!

 

[hmmmmm1]

He looks to have good technical skills, ie can control and pass a ball and pace. The types of players fergie/wenger go for.

Whether he has has the balls to be success is always the difficult think to gauge.

At least he has age on his side and hopefully BR tactics can bring out the best in him.

 

[Piedro]

Ha.... somebody on here said I look like Gary Kelly (I don't!)

I've met you and can confirm you do! Well after about 12 pints anyway.

 

[Jack D Rips]

I hope he behaves better after 12 pints than Gary

 

[Y1]

Is this going to be another Sigurdson thread?

 

[Sunny]

Is this going to be another Sigurdson thread?

No its about Gaston Ramirez mate. Clue's in the title. 😀

 

[Y1]

No its about Gaston Ramirez mate. Clue's in the title. 😀

well will it be as long as Siggy mate? Just asking like.

 

[Sunny]

well will it be as long as Siggy mate? Just asking like.

I really dunno. If we carry on doing this it might....

 

[Hansern]

The journo from Uruguay that was spot on about Coates, tweeted this:

Anyone translate his last tweets? https://twitter.com/#!/EdwardPinon

Edward Pinion 25m @ EdwardPinon
Discussed in Italy already had official contacts for the pass from Ramirez. 48 hours are crucial.

Edward Pinion 26m @ EdwardPinon
@ AlvaroLevrero from England tells me that the pass of Gaston Ramirez is fully Liverpool management. 16 million pounds.

Looks like this mat happen then

 

[Mystic]

£16m is a bit steep, but i'd be happy with the deal at that price, I hope we get it done!

 

[hmmmmm1]

In January 2012, there were threads about this Guy at 6/7 milloon

 

[Modo]

When Liverpool comes calling they always raise the price. If they don't we end up in court like with Kewell and Ziege. 😉

 

[FoxForceFive]

In January 2012, there were threads about this Guy at 6/7 milloon

We've paid 17m for Stewart fucking Downing since then.

 

[Hansern]

Since january 2012? Have you been smoking crack again Jon? 🙂

 

[dmishra]

If this happens for 16 million pounds, I'm going to be seriously upset. There are at least 15 young players in Europe who I'd rather have at that price than Ramirez.

On his potential, Ramirez isn't worth a penny more than 6 million. Please let us not be wasteful ONCE in a transfer window.

 

[Hansern]

He's nowhere near as bad as you describe, but 16 mill is waaay to much.

10-12 mill is a decent fee for a talented player.

 

[Sunny]

His market value is about £12m

 

[Modo]

I wonder what Downing's market value was

 

[dmishra]

He's nowhere near as bad as you describe, but 16 mill is waaay to much.

10-12 mill is a decent fee for a talented player.

I haven't said he's a bad player. He's just average, with average potential. I wouldn't pay anything more than 6 million for him. Given that, I wouldn't want to buy him in the first place. We need to buy very good/world-class or potentially very good/world-class.

Ramirez is average and potentially above-average.

 

[Modo]

Every world class player we've tried to buy has shafted us it seems.
If we can get Jovetic, I'll be over the moon.

 

[Hansern]

Adam Digby, Twitter's resident Italian expert, with his opinion on Gaston:

He's certainly strong enough to survive in the Premier League as he's deceptively well built & just over 6ft tall. He has excellent technical ability & is capable of playing on either wing or as a withdrawn striker/trequartista. Scored 8 goals & 4 assists last season.

He's very quick & also good in the air but can often switch off in games which may change as he gets older (turns 22 in December) & makes a lot of effort defensively averaging 1.4 tackles & 1.1 interceptions. Occassionally over does it with his passing but if he does join Liverpool Rodgers would seem more than capable of getting him to keep it simple.

Famously spent the winter break of his 1st season walking around Bologna city centre talking to locals & improving his language skills!

 

[dmishra]

Ok, I'm labouring over this point, but just to highlight what I was saying, here are some more detailed clips of his performances in specific games. Might give you a better idea of what I've been saying:

 

[Mystic]

Dmishra, I do agree with you on one thing from the clips i've seen and that is that he does seem a little slow when he first receives the ball, almost cumbersome.

 

[Hansern]

Tbh for me those clips only highlights a talented player that I think will do well in the Premier League.

Bologna also play counter attacking football. They're pretty much 2-3 people in attack in every clip. He doesnt have a lot of options to release the ball earlier.

I think he could flourish in a team like Rodgers.

Not worth 20 mill, but I dont agree about the average part.