Liverpool Signings and General Rumours Thread

In recent times Liverpool has always been one of the highest paying clubs in England. Robbie Fowler, Jamie Redknapp, Patrick Berger, Markus Babbel, Vladimir Smicer, Bruno Cheyrou, Salif Diao, El Hadj Diouf and Harry Kewell have been amongst the highest paid players at the club in recent years, picking up pay cheques while not playing for one reason or another. Baros isn't earning £40k a week, it'll come as a surprise that Alonso and Garcia aren't even on that kind of money. Liverpool can afford to leave Baros in the reserves for a season the thing is can Baros afford it? There's a World Cup coming next summer.

i didnt just mean in regards to his wages. at the moment liverpool could be looking to command a fee of between 5 - 10 million for baros, or else use him as part of a major swap deal.

does anyone think if he's left sitting on the bench for the coming season that his value is going to go up? he's either got to go now or be used properly in the coming season.

Reina might be seen as a reasonably safe keeper, I havent seen enough of him to know. But I'm still of the opinion that the GK position is not the area with the highest need at the moment. We could easily get by next season without Reina, unless Kirkland's injury is a permanent/recurrent one. The money and salary spent there would be better spent elsewhere.

i'd agree with this for the most part. with a limited amout of transfer funds, i dont think its in our interests to have 4 keepers, even if kirkland is loaned out. carson and dudek would do fine for another year, i'm not a fan of dudek at all and i would like to see reina at liverpool, but i think 8 million would be best spent elsewhere.

There looks as if there is some movement for Kuyt, according to this:

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Reports eminating from Holland suggest that Feyenoord striker Dirk Kuijt is on his way to Liverpool. Feyenoord have apparently resigned themselves to losing 29 goal man Kuijt, who is top of Rafa Benitez's wanted list.

Liverpool Chief Executive Rick Parry is said to have started negotiations with Feyenoord. Earlier in the week the Liverpool Echo also reported that Parry had flown to Holland to thrash out a deal for the player.

The Dutch club value the 24-year old at 15 million euros, although Liverpool would prefer a player and cash (10 million) deal possibly involving Jerzy Dudek and Anthony Le Tallec.

Feyenoord finished 25 points behind champions PSV Eindhoven last season, and without the windfall of Champions League football, they will be forced to sell their prize asset this summer.

Liverpool also haven't given up hope of signing Southampton striker Peter Crouch. The player would jump at the chance of a move to Anfield but the stumbling block is believed to be the 7 million fee the Saints want for the England striker.
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15m eur is about 9m ukp. Kuyt was good in the Dutch league last year, and his style may do ok in England, but 15m eur is quite a bit all the same. If say Baros is sold for 10m eur, is Kuyt worth 5m more and would he do better on the pitch than Baros? Also consider that Kuyt will likely be on a higher salary than Baros is. Baros did some notable things during the season, scored the most goals in the league, was a key part of the CL goal against Chelsea, played good in the CL final and produced more or less an assist for the penalty goal with his back footed pass, although like many (all?) I agree that many times he ran into cul-de-sacs and when playing up front didnt use the ball/pass it effectively. But his Czech Republic form can be amazing and he has some brilliant finishes, so maybe the best is to come if he gets a good run?


If we presume that Le Tallec is valued say at 1m (if that!), then Dudek is being valued at 4m. The question then is whether Reina is worth 4m more than Dudek, and also we probably have to think about salaries as Dudek's is probably lower than what Reina would be seeking.

choices/decisions ....

It looks like Benitez is going to go for Kuyt, sell Baros to Lyon, buy Reina and sell Dudek if he can.

redspider

Chucky the tree wrote:

if liverpool start making decisions over which players to sign cos of the the salary they are on we will never win the league. Thats what a club near recievership should be worried about.

Baros has scored since leverkusan isnt it? thats shocking. His attitude problem doesnt help matters either.

Agreed. With regards to Baros - he really can piss me off sometimes with the aforementioned 'headless chicken routine', but I do believe that he has real potential and under the right guidance he could really flourish in the next couple of years. His attitude, however, is his biggest problem and he needs to sort it out a.s.a.p. :mad:

Well lets start getting realistic here. For the pool to sign the top players were going to have to pay a little over the top in wages which is acceptable.

Kuyt is a fine player who i believe would adapt quite easily to the prem. He's strong quick agile good vision and most importantly his touch is top notch. (unlike Baros :rolleyes: ).

I see we have another €3 to spend after the sale of Diarra yesterday so the Reina deal looks more likely now.

i make it a rough estimate of €32 to €35 million in the transfer kitty.

I think it might be in the pools best interest to of load Baros specially since his contract is up next season (redspider is this correct?).
6 to 8 million for him would be acceptable.

From Sky Sports

"Liverpool have made a swoop for Spanish teenager Antonio Barragan from Sevilla.

The 18-year-old has been in Sevilla's youth set-up and the Spanish side were desperate to sign him on a professional contract.

Rafa Benitez has been monitoring Barragan's displays at youth level and the youngster decided not to accept the deal on offer in Sevilla in order to join the European champions.

Sevilla are not happy at losing the Spain Under-18 international, and will be looking for a decent amount of compensation from The Reds.

"He has been negotiating with Liverpool for the past six months," said Sevilla sporting director Ramon Rodriguez.

"The Fifa rules regarding young players who do not have professional contracts have favoured us on many occasions and this time it is Liverpool who have taken advantage of them to take the player.

"We tried to keep him, but the player has freely chosen another route. We have looked after him, but he has decided to leave Sevilla."

Sevilla have a good record in producing young talent, with Jose Antonio Reyes the biggest name to flourish when swapping Spain for Arsenal.

Benitez has not been scared of using his knowledge of the Spanish game to add new faces to his Liverpool squad, and Barragan may be just the first of a busy summer of spending for the Merseysiders.

The Reds will need all the fresh legs they can get, and quickly, with a packed season ahead of them starting as early as mid-July with the first qualifying rounds in the defence of the UEFA Champions League crown.

Benitez has spotted the potential of the well-thought of Barragan and he will add more depth to Liverpool's squad when he moves to Anfield"

~Rebel~ wrote:

according to football 365 he's a full back, which could be very handy for us!

but not in the sense that it mite get rid of Djimi cos he is a right full back

yom 1 wrote:

but not in the sense that it mite get rid of Djimi cos he is a right full back

In all fairness the lad is just 18. Did not even start a match for Seville. I don't think he'll be knocking anyone out of the team for a while.

They'll be dancing in the streets of total network solution if they get a result against Liverpool

according to there web site www.tns.co.uk

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They couldnt get this much coverage even if they paid for it :rolleyes: .

the team site is http://www.saints-alive.co.uk/index.php

They seem more happy to have drawn the pool than we do.

It says that wrexham only holds 10,000 so a move to the mellennium stadium is still possible so i might get a trip to cardif after all

mike65 wrote:

Just seen something which I wont give details on but if its true then its a bit of a shock (it involves a new player signing for Pool).

Mike.

Aah go on. is it glen fitzpatrick? am i even remotely close? can we do a hotter/colder thing till i get it?

Sure just say it! Put a big disclaimer after it though, it is a rumours thread.

Why would Chelsea sell Duff? Mourinho's 'best player' in many matches according to Mourinho himself.
If they were to sell him, would they really sell him to another club in the premiership?
And if so, do ya not think that he'd
A. Have a problem going to a team that isn't in the top 3
B. Go to his childhood hated team

That said, now we're talking about speculation on a rumour that is very dodgy, which i think is kinda funny