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Liverpool’s Rickie Lambert becomes an early target for Alan Pardew
• Crystal Palace manager anxious to bolster strike force
• Lambert has made only 10 starts for Liverpool this season


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The Liverpool forward Rickie Lambert, left, may not be allowed to leave in the January transfer window. Photograph: Dougie Allward/JMP/Rex
Andy Hunter
Wednesday 7 January 2015 09.30 AEST
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Rickie Lambert has emerged as an early transfer target for the new Crystal Palacemanager, Alan Pardew.
Pardew is anxious to bolster his strike force in the January window and has inquired about the availability of the Liverpool forward, who he signed for Southampton from Bristol Rovers in 2009. Liverpool are keen to retain Lambert despite his difficult start at Anfield but whether Pardew will drop his interest in the 32-year-old remains to be seen.
The England international made only his 10th start of the season for his boyhood club in Monday’s FA Cup win at AFC Wimbledon. The striker has had to adjust from a regular starting role to a substitutes’ berth since his £4.5m summer move from Southampton and recently admitted that was the wrong mindset with which to start his Liverpool career.
Lambert has scored twice for Brendan Rodgers’ team this season, at Palace in the Premier League and against Ludogorets in the Champions League, but having made a breakthrough with six consecutive starts has returned to the bench since the manager adopted a 3-4-2-1 formation with Raheem Sterling leading the attack.
Liverpool want to increase their forward options in January, not diminish them by allowing Lambert to leave so quickly, but attempts to advance Divock Origi’s £9.8m transfer from Lille, scheduled for the summer, are being resisted by the French club despite the offer of a premium on the fee.
 
As long as we replace him with another 30-something striker who is a boyhood LFC fan so Rodgers can spin us another feel good bullshit love story about boyhood dreams coming true.
 
It's a shame it's just not worked out for Lambert. It was Fairytale stuff.

He's really a more than decent player, watched enough of him at Southampton to see that. He's strong, links play well and has a rocket of a right foot but we've seen very little of his attributes in a Liverpool shirt for one reason or another.
He looks like a broken man out on the pitch, overwhelmed by the whole thing.

A real pity because he seems like a good Pro and I can't imagine him throwing the toys out of the pram because of little game time.
 
Even when you take into account that he's not a natural fit for our style of play, you can still have to say he's been really fucking shit. Based on his season with Southampton last year he looked a more than capable third or fourth choice striker for us, especially seeing as we bought Lallana with him, but he hasn't delivered, and neither he, nor us, has the time for him to wait around for that to change. Even at his best he was never going to be any more than an option in the last 30 minutes and to feature in cup games, but he's not even proved himself worthy of that.

No tears will be shed if this deal were to go through, because this is one fairy tale I would like to see cut short.
 
If we can get 3 million for him then I would sell. Keep all the money and save it towards two proven players in the summer.

I appreciate 3 million will not go very far, I would rather see it added to the summer transfer fund, than being wasted on a loan deal.
 
Why would Lambo go ? This makes no sense at all - for him. He's living the dream even if it's currently a nightmare. He's not going anywhere.
 
I think he's trying to go somewhere - it's just he's so slow the movement is imperceptible to the human eye.
 
I blame him fully, he's not fit and admitted he wasn't mentally lead the line the soft willed waster.
 
If the fee we got off Palace is how much Lille want for Origi i'd probably do it.

I'd take £8M for the England international
 
It's a weird one. Lambert came here knowing he would be a 3rd choice option. He seemed happy to accept the role safe in the knowledge he was returning to his boyhood club. He's had a torrid time. We were horribly off form and the loss of Sturridge / failure of Balotelli placed an unexpected weight of expectation on his shoulders. However, the fans have given him a decent level of support so it only makes sense if we are the ones turfing him out. After all he still has his mate Lallana at the club and family close by.
 
He won't go anywhere.

I don't think he should either. He could still get 5-10 goals in all comps with a biggie or two in there which is good enough for a player in his position, I'd imagine everyone concerned would be happy with that.

why do the same at Palace on less money ?
 
It would be odd if he was pushing it. He was over the moon to get back here. Surprised he's looking to leave again after six months.
 
He's shit in our team, could be half decent at palace. Sell him mario and borini and buy someone dead good and get a backup in on loan.
 
I think people are being short sighted if they think there's no way he'd want to leave.

Lambert was in the lower leagues until Southampton got promoted so probably earned sweet fuck all in footballing terms. His first opportunity to get Premiership money was in March 2013, then with us during the summer - on a two year deal.

He knows if he stays with us when that contract ends he has no hope of Premiership money because he'll have played fuck all in a team that don't suit him.

His goal should be to get as many years of Premiership money that he can. And I'll bet it is his goal.
 
It might be but I doubt he'd want to leave until the season is finished anyway.
He's currently living his boyhood dream and we're involved in 3 cup competitions.

He's been involved in 22 games already which is probably more than he expected. He wont leave in January.
 
There have been errors and naivete on both sides, I think. Lambert, for example, by his own admission has said that he allowed himself to accept the idea far too freely that he was there to be a back-up player, with the consequence that he lost most of his drive and all of his sharpness. Rodgers, on the other hand, has never seemed to play to his strengths when he has actually got onto the pitch, which has made him look far worse than he actually is. At the very least, even though it's now deeply unfashionable, Lambert should have been given several games in the reserves to score goals again and work on adapting to the system(s). (That magical piece of wood called The Bench, in this brave new age of sports science, is now supposed to turn nerve-shattered keepers back into reliable ones and confidence-shredded strikers back into international standard forwards. Works well, doesn't it?) If he went to Palace I'm sure he'd score goals again pretty quickly, because Pardew is a decent pragmatic coach who'd make sure he got the service he needs. It's a shame, though, it should never have been as dire as this.
 
It amazes me how reserve games aren't actually reserve games anymore.

You'd think as squad sizes increased managers would be more likely to use reserve games to keep their best backup players match fit & improve their form, but they're all too scared of injuries so the actual players you want to come on & do a job are less likely to be able to, & the young players who need the most development get nothing outside of the training pitch.

Madness.
 
Yes. It wouldn't do the kids in the reserves any harm at all to have a senior pro play a few games alongside them - after all, plenty of fuss is made about kids training at Melwood alongside the seniors, they'd surely learn a bit from actually playing with the odd one or two, and the seniors would - wow - actually get some game time. Even the odd unofficial 'B' team game against a local club would help a bit to blow the cobwebs away. And look at our reserve keeper - you don't prepare him for a spell like he's had by offering him the odd league cup game, you prepare him by playing him in any reserve games you can.
 
Yeah the idea of the 'reserves' has been thrown on his head in the last few years. It's now basically the under 21's.
I remember when a first team player coming back from injury would get a run out to gain some match fitness with the reserves. Now we have 'behind closed doors' games instead.

Totally agree about our sub keeper never playing as a result either. It's ridiculous.
 
Rosco said:
That's why we still have Borini I'd imagine. Penny wise, pound foolish
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Mmmm from the outside it seems to me that FSG, having had their fingers burnt, are playing hardball with contract negotiations now. Hope they don't fuck off Stirling
 
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