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hursday July 25 2013​









Liverpool want Luis Muriel - report
By Football Italia staff

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With Luis Suarez seemingly on his way out of Liverpool, Brendan Rodgers’ side are hoping Udinese’s Luis Muriel can be his replacement.
The Uruguay international has been heavily linked with a move away from Anfieldthis summer, with Real Madrid and Arsenal apparently registering their interest.
And according to the Daily Star, the Premier League side have already pin-pointed the Zebrette goalscorer has Suarez’s potential successor.
The 22-year-old scored 11 goals in 22 appearances last term and could be available for a fee of around €15m.
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red_maradona said:
hursday July 25 2013


Liverpool want Luis Muriel - report
By Football Italia staff

luis-muriel490ai_5.jpg

With Luis Suarez seemingly on his way out of Liverpool, Brendan Rodgers’ side are hoping Udinese’s Luis Muriel can be his replacement.
The Uruguay international has been heavily linked with a move away from Anfieldthis summer, with Real Madrid and Arsenal apparently registering their interest.
And according to the Daily Star, the Premier League side have already pin-pointed the Zebrette goalscorer has Suarez’s potential successor.
The 22-year-old scored 11 goals in 22 appearances last term and could be available for a fee of around €15m.
Play the world's most challenging fantasy football game by selecting players from Europe's top five leagues and competing for prizes.
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No way will they let him go for 15m euros especially if LFC are involved
 
It depends if its before or after we sell Suarez. If they find out that we got £50 million for Suarez they'll probably ask for £35 millon for Muriel. De ja vu....
 
Modo said:
It depends if its before or after we sell Suarez. If they find out that we got £50 million for Suarez they'd probably ask for £35 millon for Muriel. De ja vu....
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Chances are that they would probably sell for close to £25m, isnt that same bracket as Martinez?
 
I don't wanna drag up John Henry's darkest hour, but Muriel plus £20m for Suarez I'd be happy with. Spend that £20m on one of 2 or 3 weak positions and I think we'd be better off.
 
red_maradona said:
hursday July 25 2013​

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Liverpool want Luis Muriel - report
By Football Italia staff

luis-muriel490ai_5.jpg

With Luis Suarez seemingly on his way out of Liverpool, Brendan Rodgers’ side are hoping Udinese’s Luis Muriel can be his replacement.
The Uruguay international has been heavily linked with a move away from Anfieldthis summer, with Real Madrid and Arsenal apparently registering their interest.
And according to the Daily Star, the Premier League side have already pin-pointed the Zebrette goalscorer has Suarez’s potential successor.
The 22-year-old scored 11 goals in 22 appearances last term and could be available for a fee of around €15m.
Play the world's most challenging fantasy football game by selecting players from Europe's top five leagues and competing for prizes.
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Obviously ripped off from SCM. They even stole the pic from Cerberus...
Obviou
 
James Horncastle (for Eurospot blog) dated 16 Jun 2013
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs...-forward-aiming-emulate-brazil-142745779.html
As a kid growing up in Colombia trying to turn pro as a footballer, Luis Muriel promised his father, a taxi driver in Barranquilla, that were he ever to make it big the first thing he’d do would be to buy his old man a brand new cab. “I kept my promise,” he told La Gazzetta dello Sport. “I invested the first real money I earned like that in a Chevrolet for him.”

Turns out Muriel senior doesn’t have to work anymore. He has moved the family to Italy to be closer to his son, who is playing for Udinese. The 22-year-old will soon become a father himself. His partner Maria Paula is due to give birth. She was the one who first recognised something in him that many have done since. Muriel looks a lot like the original Ronaldo. The resemblance is uncanny.

“One day I was sat in front of the television,” Muriel explained to Sportweek. “I was watching a programme about World Cups. Maria Paula looked up and jumped from the sofa: ‘That player is identical to you!’ she said. Then she took a photo of the screen and showed it to me. She was right: we look like brothers.”

Ronaldo was Muriel’s childhood idol. “I can’t deny it,” he confessed. Around the age of 10 or 11, he was a ballboy when Colombia played Brazil in a World Cup qualifier in Barranquilla. “At the end of the game I ran towards him to at least say hello but the policemen stopped me.”

While “almost all” his friends supported Juventus or Milan, “to distinguish myself” he rooted for Ronaldo’s Inter. “I still follow them.”

“I always repeat that if I were to do 50% of what [Ronaldo] did, I’d be a happy footballer,” Muriel insisted. To put things into perspective, by his age O Fenômeno had already twice been named FIFA World Player of the Year and had received his first Ballon d’Or too. But Muriel shouldn’t be judged by that standard.

Proclaiming a player ‘The next so and so’ is a reductive exercise. No two players are ever exactly the same. Muriel is his own man and should be appreciated as such rather than through a Ronaldo template or prism. “They tell me that I have his explosiveness but I don’t see similarities,” Muriel argued. “I swear that I don’t think about him on the pitch”

Many in the stands do, though, when they watch him. While not a carbon copy of Ronaldo by any means, there are certain parts of Muriel’s game that call to mind his own. Often he gives the impression that he is unbridled, that no one can hold him. Ronaldo used to push the ball beyond defenders as they converged upon him and burst through the gap like someone jumping on the tube right before the doors close. There’s an element of that in Muriel’s play.

When he’s on the ball the pitch might as well be on a downward slant. Opponents become like poles for a skier to slalom. Writing of Ronaldo, the former Argentina international, Real Madrid technical director and great football aesthete Jorge Valdano remarked upon “his ability to create the illusion of danger even when he starts 50m from goal.” Muriel possesses this too.

Witness, for instance, the run he made against Siena while on loan at Lecce last season. Muriel came short to pick up the ball just inside the opponent’s half. He turned one marker, who gave chase, beat him and then another down the touchline before stepping inside another and then another as he entered the penalty area. Once there he went outside one of the poor souls who he’d already done and drew a foul. The referee pointed to the spot.

It was a case of ‘Now you see me. Now you don’t.’ That’s Muriel. Another trick he pulled against Napoli while still at Lecce was also exemplary of this. Shown away from goal and towards the byline, he dragged the ball back, flicked it around the defender with his heel, went the other side of him to collect it and then pulled a pass back to the edge of the box only for his teammate to see his shot saved. It left many a jaw on the floor.

Destabilising opponents. Wreaking havoc. Spreading panic. This is what Muriel shares with Ronaldo. Incidentally, another thing they have in common is their yo-yoing weight. Brought back to Udinese after the apprenticeships served at satelite club Granada and Lecce, Muriel turned up for summer training camp looking, maybe not like El Gordo, but certainly like he’d overindulged in the off-season.

“If I stop [training] even for just a week,” Muriel explained, “I immediately put on weight. I can only eat salad...” Resisting the temptation of a plate of Sancocho, his favourite dish from Colombia, had obviously been a challenge.

Coach Francesco Guidolin was furious. Not even scoring four goals in a pre-season friendly against Arta Cedarchis was enough for Muriel to escape his wrath. “If he wants to talk to me, he has to lose at least five kilos,” the Udinese boss said. “As long as he doesn’t have an athlete’s physique he won’t be talking with me. He has to work a lot.” And Muriel did just that.

A raw talent, Guidolin has slowly refined him, smoothing the edges to make a more rounded footballer. “I have learned to defend,” Muriel revealed. “Before I only played when I had the ball between my feet. Now I help the team. I cover the spaces.” Above all, though, he scores goals: 11 in 22 matches for Udinese last season.

Yet another player of vast potential discovered by the club’s renowned scouting network, Muriel is also the latest in a long line of Colombian players to emerge after Radamel Falcao, James Rodriguez and Jackson Martinez. Talk about a golden generation to rival that which made it to the 1994 World Cup.

And where does Muriel rate among Udinese’s other great finds of recent years? Well who better to ask than striker and captain Antonio Di Natale. He still considers Alexis Sanchez to be the best. “That said, make a note of the name Luis Muriel. He’s got all the qualities needed to become a phenomenon,” the veteran told FIFA.com.

Unsurprisingly, Muriel has already caught the attention of some of Europe’s biggest clubs. Towards the end of the season, he was linked with Atletico Madrid as a replacement for Falcao. Their signing of Léo Baptistão from Rayo Vallecano may have put an paid to that, though. Liverpool have been mentioned too as they face up to the possibility of losing Luis Suarez.

But Udinese aren’t about to cash in on Muriel. Not just yet anyway. “He’s still young,” owner Giampaolo Pozzo said. “I believe that he still has to get more experience in Udine. He has an important price. Let’s not talk money now but 20m euro for a striker of great worth is nothing. For [Edinson] Cavani the price is 60m euro and [Napoli president Aurelio] De Laurentiis is trying to keep him. I don’t put clauses in contracts but if it’s possible we keep them here as long as possible. If the circumstances don’t allow for it, we won’t keep anyone against their will. If someone doesn’t want to stay we need to reach an agreement and do a deal.”

Muriel does want to stay, however. When asked by La Gazzetta dello Sport what the future holds for him, he told the pink paper: "Another year in Udine. It's better for my development." No need then for his father to get behind the wheel of his taxi again and take him to the airport.
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juniormember said:
Sign him then loan him back for a year.
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I agree, sign him and let him stay and develop for a year. If we can hold onto Suarez to qualify for CL this season then Muriel can come to Anfield and take over when Suarez goes to ............? An ideal scenario, that's made me happy for today.
 
After reported interest from Premier League side Liverpool, Udinese starlet Luis Muriel has confirmed that he will remain with the Zebrette for at least one more season.

While revealing that he intends to leave the Bianconeri at some point in the future the 22-year-old was also asked about the clubs he admired and playing with Zebrette legend Antonio Di Natale.

"We have talked about many clubs after me, but I said I wanted to stay here another year," Muriel told Sky Sports Italia.

"What clubs do I like? I looked at the Barcelona with Ronaldinho, I've always wanted to play with great players like him, [Lionel] Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo.

"We would all like to, I would like to play alongside any top player.

"[Di Natale] is a great striker and is important for me to have him at my side, he will score many goals in this [coming] season.

"Nevertheless I hope to make the most of it, in order to help the team."
 
Binny said:
I doubt they will be able to afford Borini's wages. According to 2012 figures, their top earner, Di Natale earns €27k/wk

http://www.football-italia.net/24903/serie-wage-bills-revealed
- Udinese €21.2m (Di Natale €1.3m)
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Which might make things a little bit easier in luring him to us. We can have 2 good years out of him before he kicks up a fuss and leaves for double what we paid.
It's the only way we can survive right now!
 
Manchester United are lining up Udinese forward Luis Muriel as a possible replacement for Wayne Rooney.

United manager David Moyes is a long-term admirer of Muriel, and he is ready to try and push through a transfer for the player if he fails to hang on to wantaway England international Rooney.

Moyes has already turned down two offers from Chelsea for Rooney, but the player has made it clear he no longer wants to remain at Old Trafford.

It’s a situation that is testing Moyes’ managerial abilities but he is determined not to be caught short if Rooney eventually does depart.

Colombian international Muriel tops the Red Devils’ list of possible forward targets, with new chief scout Robbie Cooke pushing for the transfer to happen.

Muriel, 22, is a fast and creative forward who can play as an out-and-out striker or on the wings, and would be available for around £18million.

He scored 11 goals last season for Udinese and was watched by United, Liverpool and Barcelona scouts during the Europa League qualifying match against Siroki Brijeg last week, when he bagged two goals.

Muriel would fit in nicely with Robin van Persie, Javier Hernandez and Danny Welbeck, making him an ideal option.

Rooney is not likely to be the only striker that departs Old Trafford this month though, with Angelo Henriquez, Kiki Macheda and Bebe also expected to leave in the coming days.
 
If we don't move this summer we will never sign him.
He's going to tear up Seria A this season if he stays fit.
 
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