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Rodgers vows to keep on spending with transfer outlay set to exceed £100m
Reds boss has already splashed out around £57million on players


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Brendan Rodgers is all smiles
Brendan Rodgers has vowed to keep on spending with Liverpool FC's summer transfer outlay set to exceed £100million for the first time in the club's history.
The Reds boss has already splashed out around £57million on Rickie Lambert, Emre Can, Adam Lallana and Lazar Markovic but he is far from finished with his shopping spree.
Those deals were all lined up prior to Luis Suarez's club record £75million move to Barcelona and owners Fenway Sports Group will allow Rodgers to use that cash to further strengthen the club's Premier League title challenge.

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Adam Lallana at Melwood

Liverpool are in the market for another striker and are keen on Queens Park Rangers' Loic Remy, who has a £8million release clause in his contract.
The France international, who scored 14 goals on loan at Newcastle United last season, has emerged as a serious target after the Reds opted not to follow up their initial interest in Swansea City frontman Wilfried Bony.
“The signings we have made have no relation to Luis going, absolutely – these were players that were always earmarked to come in,” Rodgers confirmed.
“We felt last year we just never had the depth and we are in the Champions League this year so we have to ensure we have as strong a squad as possible.
“Obviously Luis going gives us the clout to go and spend more and we are getting the right type of player in.
“But we certainly won't spend just for the sake of spending. It has to be the sort of player who is going to improve us.”
As well as targeting Remy, Liverpool remain hopeful of wrapping up a £10million deal for Belgian striker Divock Origi, although he would be loaned back to Lille for the coming season.
Defensive reinforcements are also a priority with the Reds looking to snap up Southampton centre-back Dejan Lovren and Swansea City left-back Ben Davies.
The Reds' recent offer of around £20million for Lovren was rejected but the Croatia international remains desperate to make the move to Anfield.

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Dejan Lovren

Davies is also understood to favour joining Liverpool ahead of Tottenham, who are rivals for his signature. But the Reds have yet to agree a fee with Swansea after seeing their initial £8million bid turned down.
One transfer target who recently eluded Liverpool was Alexis Sanchez with the Chile international opting to sign for Arsenal instead.
The Reds matched Barcelona's £35million valuation of the attacker but they couldn't convince Sanchez to head for Merseyside.
Rodgers insists that was a one-off and dismissed suggestions that Liverpool have an issue when it comes to attracting top class talent.
“I don’t think so,” he added.
“That was one where geography dictated where he wanted to go - simple as that. It’s been the other way.
“Lots of players are really impressed by what we are doing as a club and really excited about coming to Liverpool.
“It wasn't due to a lack of ambition by the club. It was about where the player and his family wanted to choose to live.
“He’s a fantastic player and would have suited us. His profile would have been great but it was not to be and we move on.”
Rodgers will add to his striking options prior to the new campaign but there is no doubt that in the absence of Suarez more responsibility will rest on the shoulders of Daniel Sturridge.
The England international scored 21 Premier League goals last term and the manager doesn't believe Sturridge will be hindered by the loss of his strike partner.
“In the times Daniel has played up there without Luis he has shown his qualities,” Rodgers said.
“But the onus is not really on one player, the strength of us has been the team.
“When I came in people talked about how Luis didn't score regularly, how he didn't get enough opportunities or take them.
“In the last two years we've proved with the number of chances we create you can get goals.
“But it is not just about him. We scored 101 goals last season and he got 31 of them.
“We have goals all across the team and will bring in players we think can assist with making them.”
 
Origi 7 mill
Lovren 20 mill
Remy 8 mill
Davies 10 mill

Thats 45 mill. Room for a 20+ mill midfielder/attacking midfielder
 
We need a striker, left back, right back and CB.

Wouldn't mind Konolakkfgedrergertger from the Ukraine either.
 
Lovren £20m
Remy £20m
Reus £38m* (that's if the rumours are true that he has a buyout clause of about that amount).

Obviously leaves us without a new left back but hopefully Enrique will be fully fit and play well. If we sell Lucas, Borini etc we'll be able to get Moreno, Davies or whoever Brendan wants for LB.
 
Pesam said:
Lovren £20m
Remy £20m
Reus £38m* (that's if the rumours are true that he has a buyout clause of about that amount).

Obviously leaves us without a new left back but hopefully Enrique will be fully fit and play well. If we sell Lucas, Borini etc we'll be able to get Moreno, Davies or whoever Brendan wants for LB.
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Remy is £8M
 
Looks like we have a completely new team! Tales another a year or two to synchronise the tactical team play. Ah well. Good year last year while it lasted.
 
From the horses mouth there about Sanchez preferring London because of his "family".
Hopefully that might stop idiots banging on about a lack of ambition and how we blew £25m on Lallana "instead".
 
Frogfish said:
Well change it to Remy and you can now have Davies too. How do you rate him ?
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I've liked him when I've seen him but have only seen him 3 or 4 times so I'll reserve judgement on whether or not he's worth £10m
 
i'll be honest , i still don't have full confidence in them spending it correctly or well . It's just an area of the club's management that hasn't convinced in the last two seasons . I mean of course people will debate it but apart from Sturridge and coutinho we then have either a group with massive questions over them still (mingolet , allen , sahko , borini etc) or a group that have been bombed out very quickly ( aspas , alberto , assaidi , sahin , moses, cissokho - yes i know the last 3 were loans but if they'd have worked out we probably would have tried to sign them full time ) .

So it's not exactly been great , where rodgers has excelled has been in improving some players already here and bring through some youth .

Also as a policy we go for players we believe have the potential to improve rather than already being closer to the finished article . Fair enough when it works it is brilliant but from the lists above you can see it fails a hell of alot also it seems .
 
RedZeppelin III said:
I mean of course people will debate it but apart from Sturridge and coutinho we then have either a group with massive questions over them still (mingolet , allen , sahko , borini etc) or a group that have been bombed out very quickly ( aspas , alberto , assaidi , Şahin , moses, cissokho - yes i know the last 3 were loans but if they'd have worked out we probably would have tried to sign them full time ).
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I'm really not at all sure you (or anyone else - though I see enough people claiming it they are usually opposition supporters) can find too much fault with the transfers. At a time when we didn't have much spending power we came up with two, young, absolute top class players in Sturridge and Coutinho. There were numerous decent signings and with the younger ones bought for the future (e.g. Sakho) it's too early to write them off (Sakho had a superb World Cup for France).

However in your other 'loser group' : Assaidi was clearly a gamble bought at very low cost and we are doubling our money on him, Alberto still has prospects, a classy player but probably not good enough for us now. I find it a little strange that you say .. "we would have tried to sign them if they worked out", because that is probably why we brought them in on loan in the first place ! So it was a clever move not a poor one. Aspas has been the only real failure .. but if you look at his form in Spain, and in pre-season, you could forgive Rodgers for thinking he'd bought a solid player.
 
Frogfish said:
I'm really not at all sure you (or anyone else - though I see enough people claiming it they are usually opposition supporters) can find too much fault with the transfers. At a time when we didn't have much spending power we came up with two, young, absolute top class players in Sturridge and Coutinho. There were numerous decent signings and with the younger ones bought for the future (e.g. Sakho) it's too early to write them off (Sakho had a superb World Cup for France).

However in your other 'loser group' : Assaidi was clearly a gamble bought at very low cost and we are doubling our money on him, Alberto still has prospects, a classy player but probably not good enough for us now. I find it a little strange that you say .. "we would have tried to sign them if they worked out", because that is probably why we brought them in on loan in the first place ! So it was a clever move not a poor one. Aspas has been the only real failure .. but if you look at his form in Spain, and in pre-season, you could forgive Rodgers for thinking he'd bought a solid player.
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was sakho really that good in the world cup ? he played just like he does here and didn't even start every game . But that may be just about what we like in our centre backs so fair enough .

Yeah but even considering the position we were in why did we need to take so many gambles ? And a club the sizes of ours should be getting more of those gambles right . And yeah it was good we tried out the players on loan so as not to waste money but they were bang average so why didn't we see that before ? why did we even bother with them in the first place ?
 
Frogfish said:
Assaidi was clearly a gamble bought at very low cost and we are doubling our money on him...
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I've been saying this maybe since his arrival or shortly after that - I think he was a necessary low-cost (and low-risk) buy to add a bit of depth in an area which we were desperately weak at. When Rodgers came in, we had a squad with Downing and sometimes Cole playing in the wide positions, with Kuyt, Maxi and Bellamy all leaving or having left, and Henderson sometimes filling in ineffectively on the right during Kenny's spell. Add to that a very wary ownership who had just had their fingers burnt badly.

I think we just kind of felt we needed to get a serviceable player at a low cost in there to play some games, as we weren't sure yet if the youngsters would be able to step up. In that context, I wouldn't even say it was a gamble; I think it was a move we made out of necessity given the conditions.
 
I don't think there'll be a big blockbuster signing of the likes of Reus, Isco, Benzema, Higuain etc etc.

It's more likely to be...

Remy (8m) / or Bony (20m)
Lovren (20m)
Origi (10m)
Davies (10m) / or Moreno (16m)
Few squad stigs that would be around 10m-ish each.

Don't get your hopes up.
 
Mirror claiming that Spurs will get Davies, must surley mean we're getting Moreno.
Cant say I'm to confident we're getting the better deal...
 
RedZeppelin III said:
was sakho really that good in the world cup ? he played just like he does here and didn't even start every game . But that may be just about what we like in our centre backs so fair enough .
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No he didn't. He got excellent reviews across the board and started all of their games he was fit for (missed Nigeria with a hamstring injury)! He was also rated in the Top 10 of all players at the World Cup by FIFA so it seems your sources are incorrect.

Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho has been ranked in the top 10 players at the World Cup by a statistical index after the group stage fixtures in Brazil.
The 24-year-old centre-back started each of France's three Group E matches as Didier Deschamps' charges sealed top spot with two victories and a draw.
Next up for Sakho and Les Bleus, who last won the tournament on home soil in 1998, is a last-16 encounter against Nigeria, to be played in Brasilia on Monday evening.
Ahead of that match, the Reds' No.17 was positioned 10th of all the players at the tournament by a dedicated analysis system in use by FIFA at the competition.
The index measures the positive or negative impact of every pass, tackle and move during a game to produce an overall score for each individual out of 10.
Sakho's result after three run-outs to date is an impressive 9.47, the fourth-highest of any defender competing in South America, and immediately above one Lionel Messi.
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Mamadou Sakho is a key player for France, having started each of their three group games. The 24-year-old though has been struggling with a thigh injury and was forced off in their games against Switzerland and Ecuador.
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HT & FT ratings vs Germany (Bleacher) the highest rating was 6.7.
Mamadou Sakho 6.5 6.5
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Mamadou Sakho is fast becoming a firm favourite with the French fans. It was his timely brace that helped to rescue France in the return match of their FIFA World Cup™ play-off with Ukraine in November 2013. And during Brazil 2014, his strong performances have added a layer of security to a defence that Didier Deschamps has tinkered with constantly since his appointment as national coach.
In Les Bleus’ second group game against Switzerland, however, the commanding defender was forced to come off with a hamstring problem ......In addition, the only two goals that France have let in during the tournament came after Sakho was replaced by the Arsenal man two thirds of the way through their 5-2 victory over La Nati.
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France 0-1 Germany
Sakho missed France's second round match against Nigeria through injury but returned to the starting line-up for the quarter-final against Germany in Rio on Friday night.
Despite the myth that Sakho is clumsy in possession, he was assured for France alongside Raphael Varane before leaving the pitch with cramp with 20 minutes remaining.
A last ditch tackle denied Miroslav Klose expertly in the first-half.

Sakho's World Cup in numbers. Minutes played, 288. Goals conceded, 1. Fouls conceded, 0. Passes, 180 completed from 197 attempted, (91.4%).

Stats vs. Germany
Minutes Played: 71
Pass Accuracy: 87%
Aerial Duels Won: 71%
Fouls: 0
Tackles: 0
Shots: 1
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My sources ? i am not sure what you are on about . It's only my opinion . All i said was i don't rate him as highly as others but that's maybe down to him not being my type of centre back ( i think he's a little too gung-ho ) . you like him , fine . And obviously i want him to mature into a top class centre back and be brilliant for us , i mean why the fuck would i not but at the moment i am not 100% convinced by him .
 
It is just over a decade since Rafael Benítez was appointed Liverpool manager on the back of what has become one of the most famous quotes in modern football. “I asked for a table and they brought me a lampshade,” the Spaniard said in criticism of the transfer restrictions imposed by the board at Valencia, the club he led to two La Liga titles and the Uefa Cup prior to swapping the Mestalla for Merseyside in June 2004.
As he embarks on his third campaign at Liverpool, Brendan Rodgers could be forgiven for mulling over those words, and wondering if in light of the departure of his best player to Barcelona they now apply, and could well shape, his own spell in the Anfield hotseat. Rodgers is not one to panic or moan but it cannot have escaped his attention that his plan to take Liverpool one place better than last season and become Premier League champions suddenly has a rather large Luis Suárez-shaped hole in it, and that the club’s record of signing players since he arrived in 2012 hardly suggests the void will be filled successfully.
To put it in Benítez’s terms, there have been more lampshades than tables arriving at Anfield in the past two years, making the success Rodgers has instigated in that time particularly remarkable. Indeed, the team that started the final-day victory over Newcastle two months ago, one that sealed second spot for Liverpool and not only restored their place in the Champions League but also the hope among supporters of better times to come, contained just three players brought during the Rodgers era – Simon Mignolet, Joe Allen and Daniel Sturridge – with another two, Philippe Coutinho and Aly Cissokho, coming on as second-half substitutes. And of that quintet, only Sturridge and Coutinho have proven they truly have what it takes to make it long term at a club where low times have not dimmed high expectations.
Mignolet and Allen showed enough last season to suggest they too can reach that level, as did Mamadou Sakho, the France defender signed from Paris Saint-Germain a little over a year ago, but the same cannot be said of the rest, most of whom also arrived in the buildup to the 2013-14 season: Luis Alberto, a £7m capture from Sevilla who didn’t make a single league start for Liverpool and has now joined Málaga on a season-long loan deal; Victor Moses and Cissokho, who both came on loan and did nowhere near enough to make their moves permanent; Kolo Touré, who went from cult hero to comical defender during the campaign; and Iago Aspas, the Spanish forward who arrived from Celta Vigo amid much anticipation but ultimately became more renowned for his appalling corner taking than his goals, of which he scored just one in 15 appearances. Aspas, like Alberto, has returned to Spain on a loan deal, joining the midfielder’s former club, Sevilla.
Fabio Borini, who was signed for £11m in July 2012, showed during his own loan spell at Sunderland last season that he could yet prove a shrewd acquisition for Liverpool, as did the young Portuguese defender Tiago Illori during his time at Granada for the final four months of the campaign. But overall there is no doubting that during Rodgers’ time at the club, the incomings have been far more miss than hit. Little wonder there is concern among Kopites that the £75m their club has acquired for Suárez will not necessarily be spent making up for the loss of the hugely influential Uruguayan.
As manager, Rodgers must take a significant amount of responsibility for the failings in Liverpool’s purchasing decisions, and it can be argued that the 41-year-old’s biggest mistake was agreeing to the formation of a transfer committee, which has made him part of a recruitment team that includes the chief executive, Ian Ayre, the head of analysis, Michael Edwards, and the head of recruitment, Dave Fallows.
Upon taking over at Liverpool in June 2012, Rodgers made it clear that he would not work alongside a proposed director of football – with the newly installed Manchester United manager, Louis van Gaal, widely tipped to take the role – insisting instead that he wanted to be in charge of “one vision and one mentality” at Anfield. Yet he did agree to the wish of the club’s owner, Fenway Sports Group, for the transfer committee to be established, which effectively has created the director of football model between them.
“What we believe is that you need many people involved in the [transfer] process,” Ayre said last year. “That doesn’t mean somebody else is picking the team for Brendan, but Brendan needs to set out with the team which positions we want to fill and what the key targets would be for that.”
In fairness, many of the targets identified by Rodgers and “the team” have proven to be high-level talents – the only problem is that they’ve done so at other clubs. Liverpool wanted Henrikh Mkhitaryan, but he joined Borussia Dortmund, they also wanted Willian and Mohamed Salah, but they joined Chelsea, while a move last summer for Diego Costa, who has just joined the Stamford Bridge club from Atlético Madridon the back of finishing as top scorer for the La Liga champions, also came to nothing.
Liverpool are generally, then, targeting the right players but signing the wrong ones, and there exists a view that the policy of buying-by-committee has played a role in that. Rodgers insists he maintains the “first and last call” on all purchases, but a consensus still has to be sought on targets and on how much the club is willing to spend on transfer fees and wages, something that can only slow down the process. Certainly the moves for Mkhitaryan, Willian and Salah dragged on for ages before Dortmund and Chelsea respectively stepped in and paid the going rate.
An obvious stumbling block Liverpool have faced in regards to nailing their primary transfer targets during the Rodgers era has been an inability to offer Champions League football, but questions can be asked about how hard the club, and Ayre in particular, have “sold the dream” to those with the talents to restore the team to the Europe’s elite competition. And if the hard sell was tried and ultimately failed, why have so many of the alternatives failed to make the grade? (The list also includes Samil Yesil and Oussama Assaidi.) Indeed, Liverpool’s own recent history shows that a combination of savvy scouting and shrewd negotiating can lead to stellar signings even when Champions League football is not on the table, most notably in the summer of 1999 when the club acquired Sami Hyypia, Stéphane Henchoz and Dietmar Hamann for less than £15m. All three were instrumental in the club’s cup treble success of 2001, with Hyypia and Hamann also playing key roles in the “miracle of Istanbul” four years later.
Liverpool are now back in the Champions League and yet targets are still being missed, with Alexis Sánchez, who excelled for Chile during the recent World Cup, preferring to join Arsenal from Barcelona rather than being part of the deal that took Suárez to the Camp Nou. In fairness to the transfer committee, that had more to do with Sánchez’s desire to live in London rather than any failings on their part and it is hardly as if they have been idle this summer, with four players having already been added to the squad; Adam Lallana and Rickie Lambert, who have arrived from Southampton, Emre Can, who came from Bayer Leverkusen and, most recently, the Serbia winger Lazar Markovic, who cost €25m to take from Benfica.
None of those signings are likely to excite Kopites greatly, certainly not in the way Sánchez would have done, and, given Liverpool’s recent record in the transfer market, fans would be forgiven for being sceptical of the impact the new arrivals will make. But at least the additions show a desire by the Anfield hierarchy to get deals done quickly, with the arrival of Lallana and Markovic particularly interesting given Rodgers’ comments’ after Liverpool’s 2-1 loss to Brondby on Wednesday, in their first pre-season game of the year, that instead of trying to directly replace Suárez, the club will target players “who can add things to our game”.
For the defeat in Denmark, Rodgers deployed a 4-3-3 formation, one that brought him great success at Swansea and that he regularly used at Liverpool before a need to fit Suárez and Sturridge into the same team led, among other factors, to adjustments in the team’s shape and approach. With the former now gone and Sturridge having shown last season that he is more than capable of playing as a lone forward – most notably in February’s 5-1 destruction of Arsenal when the England forward, positioned as the principal striker in a three-man attack, delivered a superb, scoring performance in what is widely regarded to have been the team’s best display of the season – now appears the moment that Rodgers has decided, or at least could decide, to return permanently to his favoured shape.
Certainly, Sturridge deserves his chance to be Liverpool’s principal striker. Signed from Chelsea for £12m in January 2013, the 24-year-old has been the best piece of business done by the club under Rodgers, with his haul of 21 goals last season making him the best English goalscorer in the Premier League and second overall behind his just departed team-mate. Rodgers, it appears, is preparing to build his team around Sturridge, with Lallana, Markovic, Raheem Sterling and the 18-year-old Jordon Ibe, who excelled against Brondby, competing for the two advanced wide attacking roles.
But with the transfer window still open for another five weeks and £75m having been deposited into the bank, there is naturally a desire among Liverpool fans for the club to at least attempt to attract a player who can get their pulses racing in the way Suárez did almost every week during his three-and-a-half-year stay on Merseyside.
Liverpool’s recent purchasing record suggests they will struggle to get even close but, with Champions League football back at the club and the transfer committee showing a new-found decisiveness in getting deals done, there can at least be hope among the Anfield faithful that a standout signing will be made before the new season truly gets underway.
History should also provide them with optimism. In 1977, Liverpool also lost a No7 who was crucial to the team and adored by the fans. Kevin Keegan’s departure to Hamburg appeared a big blow for a club that had just won its 10th league title and first European Cup and many felt there was no way Bob Paisley could replace him adequately. The manager, in turn, went out and spent £440,000 on a player to do just that. His name? Kenny Dalglish.
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I hate pieces like that. Speculative and summative bullshit, that never actually makes a point other than the obvious "It could go either way", with a seemingly pessimistic slant. It annoys me that people get paid for that shite.
 
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