Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 11/12 MOD POST #1130

barone wrote: »

more i hear about the whole aquilani affair the more it angers me.

Don't get me started! We have handled it very poorly, but largely because we shouldn't have bought him in the first place. One of Rafa's biggest mistakes, I almost wish they hadn't given him that money.

We sold Alonso and Mascherano, and with that near £50M we bought Aquilani, Meireles and Poulson. And kept the change. And dropped about 4 places in the league.

i think we should drag that liitle **** aquilani back and send him to the reserve team for the season

rarnes1 wrote: »

I think the people looking after the deal should get the majority of abuse, not the player.

True but somethings obv not right on the players side either.

rarnes1 wrote: »

I think the people looking after the deal should get the majority of abuse, not the player.

Nah fck that in his first season Rafa clicked that he didnt have the right mentality granted he shouldnt have bought him but if a player signs a contract he should honour it to the best of his ability. Its clear now that he has no interest in playing for us, a club who got him fit again and has paid him a fair wedge over the past few years and got nothing in return. True the club has handled it badly but i believe we've been put in the position by the player. Little jumped up muppets get away with murder these days.

redzerdrog wrote: »

there is rumours of Caulker to liverpool for 8 million

8 Fooking million?? Sweet baby Allah that's just dericulous.

redzerdrog wrote: »

there is rumours of Caulker to liverpool for 8 million

not a bad signing at all, but i don't see it happening. and that's a lot of money.

Spurs are very keen on keeping Caulker, and it smells of a story made up to support the rumours of Skrtel going to Man City, and helped by the fact Rodgers is with us.

and again, NO MORE ENGLISH!

there's plenty on the continent you can get for between £8m-12m and cheaper that would do the job very nicely.

When would he play? Coates is the one pushing for a starting place, and Kelly should also be looking at the occasional spot, and we still have Carra. So would he sign to fight Carra for 5th place??

Caulker would be worth every penny if we got him. Can't see Spurs selling though.

Captain Morgan Freeman wrote: »

Can't see him getting much game time at spurs, they have King, Dawson, Gallas, Kaboul and are about to get Verthrongen. That makes him 6th choice at spurs. I would agree though that backs tend to be cheap abroad, Skrtel at 6 mil is our record signing for a centre back!

king is finished, gallas is about 57, dawson was crap last year. caulker is only 20 and will improve imo

whatawaster wrote: »

Caulker would be worth every penny if we got him. Can't see Spurs selling though.

In terms of ability he appears to be years ahead of his age, but his injury record is pretty bad for such a young guy. I think for each of the past three seasons he has missed a two month or longer period for the same knee injury and has had surgery on that knee only for the same injury to reoccur again the following season (last season).

Take away the injury record and he would be a very good buy at around the 8m mark. Strong, quick, comfortable on the ball, good in the air , and has that invaluable ability to be where the ball is going to be played rather than having to react after the ball is sent there. Rare to see such a young player with such good reading of the game. Plus Rodgers has worked with him so knows what he is like in terms of personality, work rate etc.

But that knee problem puts a very big question mark over his ability to be available for most of a season.

PaulieC wrote: »

Whats the story with Danny Wilson?

Did he do okay on loan? Wasn't overly impressed with him when I saw him play tbh although admittedly he was young and out of position - didn't seem to slot in as well as Kelly/Robinson etc.

Never got the feeling he'd make it and signing Coates has pretty much put him 6th choice CB assuming Kelly would get a shot before him.

Have a feeling that Wilson will be sold this summer. He is now entering the final year of his contract. He did seem to have put on a bit of muscle towards the end of his loan spell with Blackpool though. Hard to tell how good or bad he is though as he has had so little first team football of note since leaving Rangers. My own gut feeling is that he will go on to be a decent defender, but that he will achieve it away from Liverpool as I think he is too far down the pecking order to want to sign a new contract or to be offered a new contract.

-Ade- wrote: »

He's a proven international, and a first choice CB for the Copa America Champions and World Cup semi finalists. I have full faith in him regularly starting for us. Needs a run of games asap, and in turn, I'm not saying I want rid or to drop either our first choice CB's (Skrtel or Agger) currently.

Not to mention that Uruguay are second in the Fifa international ratings.

If agger plays like he did against holland for the last 2 games for denmark there could be a fare bit of interest generated in him too, on top of the skrtel rumour. Agger and coates would be a very good partnership! Hopefully that rumour of his loan is gone now with new management.

The Caulker to LFC rumour is 'journo logic', nothing more imo.

I would not be surprised if Skrtel was used in order for the manager to get funds in. Thats if he decides that he needs more than is available.

Diame in second round of talks with West Ham according to sky sources.

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

Coates hasn't had any run of games for us yet, people saying that he's ready to make the step up are being incredibly naive imo.

I said Coates is a better player than Skrtel was when he first joined us. Skrtel is still a better option with his experience, but I wouldn't have any issue if Coates had to replace him.

NiallSparky wrote: »

Coates has looked fine playing for Uruguay, I wouldn't be worried about throwing him in at the deep end if it comes down to it.

Coates still has time to improve his game and iron out the mistakes. Skrtel is at the stage in his career where he is unlikely to improve much.