Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 11/12 (End of March 2012 onwards)

mike65 wrote: »

Did you know Danny Guthrie is out of contract? Be a good player to bring back, better than Spearing....

Thats the kind of attitude that will guarantee us 7th spot next season. Seriously what would be the point

mike65 wrote: »

Did you know Danny Guthrie is out of contract? Be a good player to bring back, better than Spearing....

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

Yeah lets get Jon Otsomobor back while we're at it.

Zak Whitbread is out of contract too, Carra's long term replacement re-discovered

mike65 wrote: »

Did you know Danny Guthrie is out of contract? Be a good player to bring back, better than Spearing....

Very debatable. Since Newcastle came back to the EPL he has been very much a fourth or fifth choice midfielder for them. He pretty much has the same role in the Newcastle squad as Spearing does in the Liverpool one.

He is as far behind Tiote in the Newcastle squad in terms of ability as Spearing is behind Lucas. Nowt more than an EPL squad player or a decent Championship player at best.

No better than Spearing in terms of ability. Doubt we would get very much at all if we sold Spearing in the morning, so the move would make no sense for me.

mike65 wrote: »

Okay.....the point is getting rid of a very limited player for money and replacing him with a better squad player for nothing.

I cant believe im about to debate a Spearing vs Guthire topic so i just wont.

Paul Scharner is a free agent again this summer.
Remember we were linked with him 2 years ago.
Thank fcuk we've surely moved on since then.

Kess73 wrote: »

Would hope that he was looking at Belhanda as well. We simply don't have as good a midfielder of his ilk in the squad.

Newcastle got Cabaye after he had an excellent season for the team, Lille, that had just won the French league and I reckon Belhanda would be gettable. With two years left on his contract Montpellier might well want to cash in on him. The club president has already stated to the press last month that he would consider selling the player this summer and he stated that £15m would be the price clubs would have to come in at for the player.


Getting a player like Belhanda for anything between £15m and £20m would be a great bit of business imho. He only turned 22 this year and is already looking like a player with years more experience. Plus his technical ability and reading of the game is already excellent.

I'd hope Liverpool are in for Giroud and Belhanda but I just get the feeling they will both go to Champions league football.
Giroud in particular looks like the type of player Bayern Munich could snap up IMO

amiable wrote: »

I'd hope Liverpool are in for Giroud and Belhanda but I just get the feeling they will both go to Champions league football.
Giroud in particular looks like the type of player Bayern Munich could snap up IMO

Like you I don't think we are looking at Giroud, and I defo think that there will be CL clubs in for him, with one of them getting him this summer. I think if we go looking for a striker this summer, and we had better be, that a different style of player will be the target. Have a feeling that a fast striker with good technical ability, good positioning sense and a track record of scoring will be what we go after.


Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa might be a shout as well if there is something going on behind the scenes reagrding our current centre backs. Pretty sure that come the summer he will be entering the final 12 months of his contract as well. Like Belhanda he is only 22 (but good enough to be club captain), but already years ahead of his age in terms of ability. He is a fine centre back in either of the CB slots and a pretty good full back when needed as well. Seem to remember him covering in DM in a few games as well.

Hoki wrote: »

Bolands Jaffa Cakes are firmly my first choice after Jacobs & McVities. Basically they're my third choice

Automatically thought of Willie John Boland there

Hoki wrote: »

I have no idea who he is & upon googling him im glad i didn't!

Sounds like your mother in law has you in great form

G.K. wrote: »

Guthrie, over the season, has firmly been 1st choice for Newcastle if either Cabaye or Tiote aren't available. He's put in a number of excellent shifts for them this year. Spearing might be a tad better defensively but Guthrie is far superior in all other areas of the game.

So what you are saying is that he is first choice if the players ahead of him are injured.

Last season he was behind Tiote, Nolan, and Barton.

This season he has been behind Tiote, Cabaye and has been scrapping with the likes of Gosling for the back up slot.

If Tiote had not had time out injured this season then I reckon that Guthrie would have got nowhere near the 19 games in all comps that he got. Even last season without Cabaye being at the club Guthrie only managed 14 games in all comps.

He is a back up player for Newcastle and saying that he is a first choice player if the real first chicers are out just confirms that really.

Liverpool have enough by way of average midfielders who are squad level rather than first team level right now to want another squad level player to further drag the midfield options down.

Marko Marin who's been linked to Liverpool before is rumoured to be going to Chelsea next season with Lukaku going on loan to Werder Bremen as part of the deal.

amiable wrote: »

Automatically thought of Willie John Boland there

Carew Parks finest.:D

Turtyturd wrote: »

On a serious note if the 8 million pound fee being reported for Marin is genuine, it makes you want to bang your head against the wall.

That supposedly includes the year long loan of Lukaku to Werder Bremen.

Can't help but feel Marin is another enigma.