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Fuck commercial sense.
We should sign him for his name alone.
Think of all the songs / headlines/ thread titles he could generate.
Cool - A Nihon-Jin. I'm cho excited! @juniormember どう思いますか？
Racist ! Dwarfist ! Heightism !
Hmm I wonder how Dwarf and Fist got to come together.
Had there ever been any good Egyptian footballers in the Premier League before Mo?
Will be interesting to see them in the EL (minus Minamino of course). United/Arsenal joint favourites with Salzburg back in around 6th/7th if I remember correctly.
Stereotyping Asians, just because you don't understand the reasoning behind it. Now let you fellas ponder for a bit here...
Shinji Kagawa came from the same club in Japan as Takumi Minamino. Klopp made Kagawa from a top Japanese player to a world class player, and obviously Ferguson got him at the tail end of his own career and other managers like Moyes and Van Gaal ruined his career. He then went back to Klopp and made an impact. When he was under Klopp, he scored 21 in 49 games. Instrumental in their league title wins.
If anyone can make a hard working, pacy and bags of tricks player great it be our manager. It has nothing to do with what you've just said. Liverpool been top following club in Asia, behind only to United in real and ardent fan base (yeah no plastic supporters). Besides, shirt sales to make large chunk of money is a myth.... Here's an article you might want to have a read.
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...fee-net-worth-contract-how-long-a8456191.html
During the match thread I also mentioned a Son resemblence (playing style not visually) but suggested he was more like David Silva. I thought he displayed Silva-esque vision and passing but he was a bit more robust and direct when running with the ball...........a bit like Son. Vey happy with this signing........if it gets confirmed.
I like how in recent times we are buying direct from the manufacturer Redbull instead of from our old eBay seller Southampton who seem to have fallen on hard times. Makes sense especially since that eBay seller might be going out of business soon.
Also can we get BOGOF on Hwang? How good is he and if he is good enough do we need him as well?
Also can we get BOGOF on Hwang? How good is he and if he is good enough do we need him as well?
No way?!!!
Mido?
Didn't actually get to watch the w games vs Salzburg so know very little about him bar highlights. But surely 7.5million represents minimal risk. He'll come in have time to settle and not have to justify a big price tag. Seems like a good transfer for us.
I'm not sure Koulibaly is a necessity because we have 4 very good CB's already although in fairness he's better than 3 of them. One problem would be the both VVD and Koulibaly seem to have a preference for playing on the left of the CB pairing and I am not sure if either of them would fancy playing on the right.
We could play 3 CB's and give our full backs even more license to bomb forward.......
......................................Allison.................................
................Matip..............VVD................Koulibaly.................
AA...........................................................................Robbo
........................Fabinho............Henderson*.....................
.........Salah.....................Firmino.................Mané
But you have to ask yourself "would that be fair to other teams in the league?" because we would never concede.
*Obviously Hendo can be replaced by Keita, Wijnaldum, Shaq or maybe even Minamino in matches that we want more firepower.
I was getting Mido confused with Michu, thinking he had one purple patch season.
Nakata was decent. Maybe at the end of his career though.
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Klopp managed to get the best out of Kagawa after he made the jump from J League to Bundesliga. With Minamino's ~6 seasons at Salzburg, it's interesting to see what level Klopp can take him to.
(Both Kagawa and Minamino were from Cerezo Osaka too)
[article]In early 2014, RB Salzburg’s blueprint of unearthing young players with high ceilings that largely escape the attention of Europe’s elite directed them to a port city in the Japanese island of Honshu.
There was a teenager at Cerezo Osaka - technically gifted and tactically superior to his more experienced teammates - worth doing due diligence on. The Austrian champions were alerted to Takumi Minamino, who is due to join Liverpool in January, sixteen months before they eventually signed him in the winter of 2015.
Their extensive dossier on the Japan international took a year’s worth of work and went beyond his obvious football talent.
“He played at Osaka, he was 18 and already in the first team there which is a good sign,” Christoph Freund, Salzburg’s sporting director who was in the process of succeeding the esteemed Ralf Rangnick in the position back then, explained to The Independent.
“We followed his games closely, also with his national team’s Under-20s. We read a lot of reports about him and spent a lot of time learning everything we could. Our scout then spent three weeks there to focus on everything around him and I went over for a week to meet him personally.
“It was an interesting project for him and he’s been here five years in what has been a very special story. What is very important for us is the mentality and character of the player. In fact, for us, it is more important than the talent so before we sign any player we gather a lot of information about how he is as a person.
“How is he away from football? How is he in training? How is he in the group environment and when he has to do things on his own. How does he deal when things get difficult for him? Everything told us we had to sign him.”
Salzburg’s homework revealed Minamino to be a character who thrived in adversity and had an insatiable appetite for advancement.
The “outstanding player with an outstanding personality” encapsulates one of the club’s main mottos: ‘Talent bringt dich an den start. Einstellung ans ziel’ - Talent brings you to the start. Attitude takes you to the goal.
For all the understandable headlines and hype around Erling Haaland, Minamino is considered the standout star at Salzburg.
Described as modest, warm and engaging, he initially was homesick in Austria, but it never showed in his performances. He would often treat his translator, Yuki, to days out in Munich so they could sample the Japanese cuisine there.
Minamino is extremely popular with the dressing room and staff at Salzburg for his excellence on the pitch and his humility off it. In almost 200 appearances for the club, he has produced 64 goals and 44 assists, with 18 of those contributions coming in Europe.
Minamino is able to operate as a playmaker, as a progressive No 8, off either flank or as the focal point of the attack. To add to his versatility, he possesses an incredible engine and has hardly suffered injury in his career. His lengthiest sideline spell was an absence of 10 games in 2017 due to an intra-articular ligament issue.
So then, to summarise: he is a quick, skilful, robust player with a supreme workrate that can cover all attacking positions and is decisive in the final third, who stars in a high-pressing and aggressive side.
At 24, he is at the perfect age to further progress and has the mentality to ensure he does. If he sounds like he is built to be a Jürgen Klopp player at Liverpool that is because he soon will be.[/article]
[article]Japan star Takumi Minamino will join Liverpool in January after the club agreed a £7.25m deal, subject to medical.
And Mirror Football can reveal the Reds beat Manchester United to his signature because they were aware of a clause in his contract - allowing him to leave for such a paltry figure - which their bitter Old Trafford rivals were oblivious to.
His club Salzburg extended the player’s deal to 2021 last February, but crucially conceded a get-out option which allows him to leave for a big European club at a price well below his market value of £25-30m.
Liverpool in fact, have been in friendly talks with Minamino’s Austrian club for the past six weeks, after trailing the versatile player for the past two years.
And they moved swiftly this week following Sazlburg's exit from the Champions League, to head off interest from a host of German and Italian clubs, including Bundesliga leaders Borussia Mönchengladbach and AC Milan, who ironically watched him this week against Liverpool.
The Reds, though, had thrashed out the deal by then, after amiable talks with the Red Bull sponsored club, with whom they have built a close relationship.
That stole a march on United, who saw him as an alternative to James Maddison, and have been scouting the Japanese international for several months.
But it was the information on the contract release clause which gave Liverpool the edge, for a 24-year-old player who has scored 11 goals in 22 games for his country, and five in his last four World Cup qualifying games.
He will undergo a medical in the coming weeks, and will also discuss personal terms. But it is understood the highly-rated attacking player is honoured that the current European champions want him, and is ready to sign.
Manager Jurgen Klopp is a big fan, admitting as much after his side played the Austrians in the group stage of the Champions League this season, and he sees him as an exciting prospect who will get a lot of Premier League game time in the second half of the season.[/article]
(Both Kagawa and Minamino were from Cerezo Osaka too)
[article]In early 2014, RB Salzburg’s blueprint of unearthing young players with high ceilings that largely escape the attention of Europe’s elite directed them to a port city in the Japanese island of Honshu.
There was a teenager at Cerezo Osaka - technically gifted and tactically superior to his more experienced teammates - worth doing due diligence on. The Austrian champions were alerted to Takumi Minamino, who is due to join Liverpool in January, sixteen months before they eventually signed him in the winter of 2015.
Their extensive dossier on the Japan international took a year’s worth of work and went beyond his obvious football talent.
“He played at Osaka, he was 18 and already in the first team there which is a good sign,” Christoph Freund, Salzburg’s sporting director who was in the process of succeeding the esteemed Ralf Rangnick in the position back then, explained to The Independent.
“We followed his games closely, also with his national team’s Under-20s. We read a lot of reports about him and spent a lot of time learning everything we could. Our scout then spent three weeks there to focus on everything around him and I went over for a week to meet him personally.
“It was an interesting project for him and he’s been here five years in what has been a very special story. What is very important for us is the mentality and character of the player. In fact, for us, it is more important than the talent so before we sign any player we gather a lot of information about how he is as a person.
“How is he away from football? How is he in training? How is he in the group environment and when he has to do things on his own. How does he deal when things get difficult for him? Everything told us we had to sign him.”
Salzburg’s homework revealed Minamino to be a character who thrived in adversity and had an insatiable appetite for advancement.
The “outstanding player with an outstanding personality” encapsulates one of the club’s main mottos: ‘Talent bringt dich an den start. Einstellung ans ziel’ - Talent brings you to the start. Attitude takes you to the goal.
For all the understandable headlines and hype around Erling Haaland, Minamino is considered the standout star at Salzburg.
Described as modest, warm and engaging, he initially was homesick in Austria, but it never showed in his performances. He would often treat his translator, Yuki, to days out in Munich so they could sample the Japanese cuisine there.
Minamino is extremely popular with the dressing room and staff at Salzburg for his excellence on the pitch and his humility off it. In almost 200 appearances for the club, he has produced 64 goals and 44 assists, with 18 of those contributions coming in Europe.
Minamino is able to operate as a playmaker, as a progressive No 8, off either flank or as the focal point of the attack. To add to his versatility, he possesses an incredible engine and has hardly suffered injury in his career. His lengthiest sideline spell was an absence of 10 games in 2017 due to an intra-articular ligament issue.
So then, to summarise: he is a quick, skilful, robust player with a supreme workrate that can cover all attacking positions and is decisive in the final third, who stars in a high-pressing and aggressive side.
At 24, he is at the perfect age to further progress and has the mentality to ensure he does. If he sounds like he is built to be a Jürgen Klopp player at Liverpool that is because he soon will be.[/article]
[article]Japan star Takumi Minamino will join Liverpool in January after the club agreed a £7.25m deal, subject to medical.
And Mirror Football can reveal the Reds beat Manchester United to his signature because they were aware of a clause in his contract - allowing him to leave for such a paltry figure - which their bitter Old Trafford rivals were oblivious to.
His club Salzburg extended the player’s deal to 2021 last February, but crucially conceded a get-out option which allows him to leave for a big European club at a price well below his market value of £25-30m.
Liverpool in fact, have been in friendly talks with Minamino’s Austrian club for the past six weeks, after trailing the versatile player for the past two years.
And they moved swiftly this week following Sazlburg's exit from the Champions League, to head off interest from a host of German and Italian clubs, including Bundesliga leaders Borussia Mönchengladbach and AC Milan, who ironically watched him this week against Liverpool.
The Reds, though, had thrashed out the deal by then, after amiable talks with the Red Bull sponsored club, with whom they have built a close relationship.
That stole a march on United, who saw him as an alternative to James Maddison, and have been scouting the Japanese international for several months.
But it was the information on the contract release clause which gave Liverpool the edge, for a 24-year-old player who has scored 11 goals in 22 games for his country, and five in his last four World Cup qualifying games.
He will undergo a medical in the coming weeks, and will also discuss personal terms. But it is understood the highly-rated attacking player is honoured that the current European champions want him, and is ready to sign.
Manager Jurgen Klopp is a big fan, admitting as much after his side played the Austrians in the group stage of the Champions League this season, and he sees him as an exciting prospect who will get a lot of Premier League game time in the second half of the season.[/article]
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