Thierry Henry to return to Prem?

Lesson noted. The claws come out when tickety boo is said about the 'Pool.

An Citeog wrote: »

Henry hasn't been bad this season for Barça but he definitely hasn't set the world alight. One of the main concerns though (apart from his age), is that he has a recurring back problem and Barcelona medical staff believe that this condition will continue to deteriorate over time.

I was at the Barça-Villarreal game on Sunday and Henry looked a shadow of his former self. He was hanging out on the left wing a la his Arsenal days but didn't seem to have that same explosive pace to get in behind the defence and cause problems. His main asset was always his blistering pace and with that lessened, it'd be a big gamble for any of the top Premiership teams to sign him.

I watched the game as well and have watched most of the Barca games this season... I think his problem at Barcelona is that he is on the left as part of a front 3, rather than a front 2.

He doesn't get the same opportunities to get into the box like he did at Arsenal. Also with the 3 in midfield he has to do a lot more 'midfield work', chasing back right-sided opposition players as well..

I think he is just having a moan to be honest. I don't think he'd leave and probably not back to the premier league. If he was going to switch leagues, I could see him going to Italy quicker...

I couldn't see Thierry coming back to the premiership and certainly not to Liverpool, I can see him moving back to London when he does retire, by all accounts he really loves the city. I do believe that his decision to leave Arsenal was pretty much a joint one, his marriage obviously broke down around the time of the move and I think he just wanted a clean break. I would love to see him back at Arsenal, I don't buy the one about him holding back the younger players, that said Wenger would never bring back a player he has sold imo. In conclusion I feel Thierry will not return to the premiership.

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

Well whether you buy it or not, the younger players have come of age since he left... .

Who is to say that the young players would not have developed anyway. As I have said before, Cesc was also brilliant last season, he was very unlucky not to score plenty of goals, we were blessed to have Thierry and as I said I would love to see Thierry back.

charlie mchugh wrote: »

Would the presently already unstable board give rafa another big wad of money to sign one player. Hasn't he had enough to spend already?

so thats liverpools lot, they shouldn't spend any more money from here on in until football finishes

man utd and chelsea sign £20m subs like nani, hargreaves, carrick, wright-philips, shevchenko, mikel etc but somehow its rafa that has over spent, the same rafa who was outspent (net spend) by roy keane and david moyes this summer :rolleyes:

liverpool had to sell cisse, bellamy and garcia to raise the cash to sign torres. The sold gonzales for £6.5m and brought in Babel

rossie1977 wrote: »

so thats liverpools lot, they shouldn't spend any more money from here on in until football finishes

man utd and chelsea sign £20m subs like nani, hargreaves, carrick, wright-philips, shevchenko, mikel etc but somehow its rafa that has over spent, the same rafa who was outspent (net spend) by roy keane and david moyes this summer :rolleyes:

liverpool had to sell cisse, bellamy and garcia to raise the cash to sign torres. The sold gonzales for £6.5m and brought in Babel

Difference there is with the exception of Sheva they are all good buys. Torres is the only clever signing Liverpool have made under the Rafa reign.

its true that Rafas net spend in the summer was less than Moyes, yes.

actually i posted up a list there, but i think it may be before the Fernandes deal collapsed. how much you pay for him in the end?

in that case the net spend figures that people are quoting are inaccurate, as afaik they were incl Fernandes at 9 million which was on the brink before it collapsed. we spent about a couple of million or so more than ye in that case. still interesting if ya ask me considering we werent meant to have gone on sucha spree that a title challenge was a sure thing

harsh truth.

although the point i was getting at was that most media outlets were severly misinformed about just how substantial our spending was this year.

you dont post enough anymore.

i miss you

Mr Alan wrote: »

harsh truth.

although the point i was getting at was that most media outlets were severly misinformed about just how substantial our spending was this year.

you dont post enough anymore.

i miss you

I know - started in a new area in work.... less time to arse around doing nothing, for the same pay.

Plus nothing interesting has been happening recently, apart from the Liverpool/DIC talks, and I don't have much to say that would be deemed constructive on that matter, so i'm keeping stum!

And to get back on topic.... I really can't see Henry coming back to England. Arsenal won't take him back, United or Chelsea wouldn't go for him, so of the usual 'big 4' that only leaves Liverpool, and I just don't see it happening, mainly cause Babbel is looking a very good propect, and he won't flourish playing second fiddle to Henry for two years. As for aiding Torres' maturing process... REALLY don't think so. Torres is already the leading man at 'pool, he doesn't need tutoring from Henry. If liverpool were to sign any player to help Torres, they'd need to be looking at a player in the Bergkamp mould, Bergkamp is the player that 'made' Henry imo. If he is to leave barcelona, someone like Villareal, or At. Madrid would be good moves for him I reckon, or possibly a move back to France with Lyon.