Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2013/14

klose wrote: »

The only time i took note of him was the valencia porto game in the cl last season and thought he looked good, but it was only one game.
Few people i follow on twitter say if he can recapture his old form we are looking at a good lb, if not well be banging our heads off the wall. Could work well or not, atleast its a loan if it goes tits up. In any case its good to have back up lb, i know we had robinson but id still rather him go on loan then have him as back up. Should be interesting

Seen this said a lot over the last couple of seasons, thats the issue really. One thing in our favour is that he will be playing for a permanent move.

Brut billboard, saying "Man up" there. Don't like the idea of our lads being exposed to that kind of language.

Joe Maguire has been making far too many Mistakes.

daithijjj wrote: »

Seen this said a lot over the last couple of seasons, thats the issue really. One thing in our favour is that he will be playing for a permanent move.

And another is that we can hand him back if he does not perform.

Is a good squad addition imho, one that carries little by way of risk.

But like any of our other good squad additions, it will needs a few first team additions around it to properly improve the team.

Re: Cissokho.

Meh. Another squad player. Enrique is not particularly high up on our list of problems IMO.

Great stuff from Borini there.

Who's the Scottish commentator, does anyone know?

Edit: Pat Crerand, as I thought.

I'd be reasonably happy with our dealings if we brought in Willian and Ilori before the window closes.

Still have issues that need addressing, but certainly enough in the squad to challenge for 4th.

messinkiapina wrote: »

Haven't seen much of him so I can't judge, but if that statement is accurate then I wouldn't have to much hope for him.

If he recreates his Valencia form, then we get a player who will only be a match at best for what Enrique brings, but if he can get motivated to bring his Lyon form, well safe to say that Enrique will be made to look plodding in terms of pace and power.

He works well with clever players around him, and used to be very good at getting the ball quickly to such players and also providing them with a pacy direct outlet.


Plus there is the chance that Enrique ups his own game now he has some competition for LB slot.

Quite happy with the signing tbh, and is a player that I wanted us to sign a number of seasons ago when he was still in France.

Mr Alan wrote: »

I did. And it's a fine signing on those grounds. However, we still need a couple of quality signings to go straight into our first team IMO.

So if that's fine and you know they are busy trying to complete other signings then I don't see what you're complaining about.

Knex. wrote: »

I'd be reasonably happy with our dealings if we brought in Willian and Ilori before the window closes.

Still have issues that need addressing, but certainly enough in the squad to challenge for 4th.

We have a more pressing need for a new CB that would be a starter than a back up (as he would be at this earlier stage of his career) CB like Ilori. Ilori is quick, mobile and looks to have a bright future, but he is very raw at present.

Now Willian and a quality CB would be nice before the window shuts.


Really do think that we need two first team quality signings to make this window a good one rather than a passable/decent one. I think the signings we have made so far this season (with the exception of Mignolet as I rate him a quality signing) would all be good ones if the first team was already in fairly good nick.

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Lou i suppose, must be painfull!

He's stayed on his feet in the box, foreign players are usually the first on the ground

Good man.