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Ings- will he ever play?

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His had two seasons where he hasn't been available through injury. Should we take 3rd season risk on him, or just sell him?
 
Keep him as 3rd choice. Sell Origi and Sturridge. Buy someone good. Which leaves us with

First choice options:

Firmino
New signing

Second choice emergency options

Woodburn
Ings

Good enough for me
 
Keep him as 3rd choice. Sell Origi and Sturridge. Buy someone good. Which leaves us with

First choice options:

Firmino
New signing

Second choice emergency options

Woodburn
Ings

Good enough for me

I think that is a bit thin Squad for all the games we might end up with.
 
I think that is a bit thin Squad for all the games we might end up with.

Considering only one of them will play per game in our 4-3-3 system, I think its fine.

If Klopp however decides that a 4-3-1-2 as per the last 2 games is the way forward then it might be thin. Although we could just play Mane upfront - he might be even better in a front 2.
 
Rosco is going to give you a pair of ACLs for that topic title.

I'd change it to "Is Ings dry or will he still flow?"
 
Considering only one of them will play per game in our 4-3-3 system, I think its fine.

If Klopp however decides that a 4-3-1-2 as per the last 2 games is the way forward then it might be thin. Although we could just play Mane upfront - he might be even better in a front 2.

We had Sturridge- Firmino-Origi-Ings-Woodburn this year with fewer games and where not fine.
 
Yep, keep him. Will be watching him with this horrible fear every time he's on the pitch though, that he could break down again with a new knee injury.

Hope for his sake that he gets to stay injury free for a long time and gets some playing time. He deserves it.
 
Considering the club pays him between £2.5-3m a year, him it not playing will have cost the club nearly £13m over two years including the compensation. I don't trust he won't ever a serious injury next season which rules him out.
 
If you look at it purely from a financial aspect then it makes even more sense keeping him.

Selling him now we'd get almost nothing, whereas with a season or half a season (January window), under his belt we'd be much more likely to get a decent amount back.
 
Gimme dat Ings, gimme dat, gimme gimme dat...


He's been through a hellish time but there's not much left to snap, and once he's back to fitness, and then match fitness, he deserves a chance. He's got more determination, more fight and more desire than most in the first team, and you can rely on him to give his very best to prove his worth. And he's such a Klopp player, he'd be so useful to have as an option during a long and busy season.
 
Wasnt it reported that we turned down several bids last summer? The Echo and the Times reported that a few of the bids were over 20 mill as well.
After two serious knee injuries I doubt that there are many clubs lining up to buy him now. So it makes more sense to keep him.
He deserves a chance and I think he'd be good under Klopp.
 
There was an unforgettable moment on live TV in the fifties - and no I wasn't alive to see it, thank you very much! - when Huw Wheldon, a very tall and grand host, was interviewing a boy who'd made a full-sized harpsichord entirely out of used matches. In an effort to put the boy at his ease, Wheldon tried to bend down to be at the boy's level, but as he leaned on the harpsichord there was a horrible cracking noise, after which the harpsichord shattered and returned to a mere collection of used matches. After a terrible moment of silence, as they both gazed at the sad pile of matches, Wheldon remembered he was on live TV and, adopting a forced look of cheerfulness, said, 'Er...and what do you plan to make next?' The boy, fighting back the tears, croaked: 'Another harpsichord'.

That basically is where we are with Ings. He got broke, twice, and now we need to build another Ings.
 
I think we shouldn't / can't factor Ings into our first team plans for the first half of the season - at least not for the league and CL. I think our target should be to get him fit and ready for the second half of the season. He'll be fresh and raring to go then, and it'd feel like we got a new signing in the winter transfer window. Hopefully it goes that way anyway.
 
I think we shouldn't / can't factor Ings into our first team plans for the first half of the season - at least not for the league and CL. I think our target should be to get him fit and ready for the second half of the season. He'll be fresh and raring to go then, and it'd feel like we got a new signing in the winter transfer window. Hopefully it goes that way anyway.
I thought he was running now ? If that's the case, and I haven't mis-remembered, he'll have the same pre-season as everyone else and should be fit and raring to go from Day 1.
 
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