The not so Official January Transfer Rumour Thread
- Thread starter Red_Water
- Start date
- Latest activity Latest activity:
- Status
It is. He has a snood and one of those jackets that Balkan snipers wear in Behind Enemy Lines
I can't believe I'm saying this, but one of the first things I thought was that we've probably got enough teenagers in the first team right now.
Still... interesting link and if he's as good as his supposed reputation suggests then it'll be quite a coup for us.
Still... interesting link and if he's as good as his supposed reputation suggests then it'll be quite a coup for us.
Its been confirmed by an LFC Academy player that it was a Hungarian defender trialist and not Lazor Markovic
https://twitter.com/97AdamAnson
https://twitter.com/97AdamAnson
Yes and no.
We've got enough experience (or we should have anyway) with Gerrard, Lucas, Skrtel, Agger, Reina, etc - Similar to Ross, I don’t see the point in adding anymore 28 year olds to that, because what are they going to give us beyond a big wage bill? We’re not going to win anything for a while, so why not rebuild and get games into these younger players so that in hopefully 2-3 years time we’ve developed them to a point where we can properly challenge for things again?
Well for a start I had Suso in mind who is an attacking midfielder that plays centrally / on the wing much like Markovic. I think there is only so many teenagers you can give the appropriate level of faith and playing time to really mature. I'm not suggesting we shouldn't go out and buy the best talent we can find. Of course we should but it needs to be well thought through.
As for this idea of buying young so we can do well in a few time, I think it's a great theory, but how well it plays out in practice I'm not so sure. I think you have to be exceptionally lucky to a) have all your players hit their peak at the right time and b) keep a hold of your more talented players when you're shit. Spurs have done pretty well at moving themselves up over the last 5-6 years but they've had to buy and sell fairly frequently over the course of that time.
As for this idea of buying young so we can do well in a few time, I think it's a great theory, but how well it plays out in practice I'm not so sure. I think you have to be exceptionally lucky to a) have all your players hit their peak at the right time and b) keep a hold of your more talented players when you're shit. Spurs have done pretty well at moving themselves up over the last 5-6 years but they've had to buy and sell fairly frequently over the course of that time.
Spurs have reportedly been sniffing around, unsurprisingly , there are one or two twatters now saying United have made contact, but who knows.
regards
All that's just a fancy way of saying that you've got a massive hard-on for Suso and don't want anyone else to come in and steal his thunder isn't it?
Liverpool want Inter star Sneijder... as long as Dutchman will accept pay cut
And
Liverpool and Manchester United hope Wesley Sneijder will take a significant pay cut to realise his ambition of moving to the Premier League in this transfer window.
Must be something in it as the Echo are saying the same.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2013/01/17/100252-32626898/
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2013/01/17/100252-32626898/
I hear you.
Regarding your other point about not trusting the 'buy young' policy so much. Well I hear that too, but if the alternative is what we've been doing for the last 5+ years of buying players at their peak or a fucking premium and getting nowhere, then I'm all for giving the former a go.
I know it's being selective, but give me the likes of Sturridge for 12M ahead of Downing/Keane/Whomever for 20M every day of the week. Even if Sturridge is shite, we'll get most of our money back. We can't say that for the Downing's.
1%
Give it a rest Modo FFS.
hahaha
The club needs to reduce the wage bill to get new players in, right?
I really hope Downing takes Modo's hands off before the window closes.
R
RedZeppelin III
Guest
all well and good but what if these young guys aren't good enough ? What if we give them 2 or 3 yrs of playing time and then realise they're shite ..what do we do then ? And how many of them are really that good ? Sterling maybe and even then i don't reckon he'll be half as good as hoped .
He'd miss.
That's worst case scenario and that could happen, yes. Alternatively we could continue with the strategy we've had for the last half dozen years of spending over the top on 28 year old and then failing to off-load them cos they're on shithot wages, are old, shit and no one wants them. Which has us in 8th-10th position.
R
RedZeppelin III
Guest
The best policy and balance is most likely somewhere in the middle . The big mistake we made wasn't buying players over 26,27 ...it was buying shite players full stop .
And young players who don't make it here don't really keep any value . Rightly or wrongly they are seen by the football world as having failed so nobody wants to pay for them. Look at Henderson for example .
Buy young or old, as long as they're not Henderson, Carroll, Aquilani, Cheyrou (young), or Downing, Keane, Adam, Cole, Poulsen (old), etc.
IE not complete and utter shite.
IE not complete and utter shite.
Guillem Balague @GuillemBalague
I have been told 2day a great friend of mine will get his dream come true! U will all be talking about it later. What a clever replacement.
I have been told 2day a great friend of mine will get his dream come true! U will all be talking about it later. What a clever replacement.
Rafa to replace Mourinho.
- Status
