Liverpool Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread Summer 2014 - Mod Warning post #6893

Agent Coulson · 16-05-2014 04:59PM

Emre Can is the latest and newest name linked on the BBC.

mike65 · 16-05-2014 05:01PM

Are we going to can the Can? (I never knew what the hell that meant)

Fescue · 16-05-2014 05:10PM

T-K-O wrote: »

We have one viable sub. Regardless of selling the guys mentioned above we need to add players.

Who was that?

T-K-O · 16-05-2014 05:25PM

Fescue wrote: »

Who was that?

Well that depends on the starting 11

Fescue · 16-05-2014 05:33PM

T-K-O wrote: »

Well that depends on the starting 11

Well if everyone is fit and the same team starts as against Newcastle, then you might for instance have Coutinho, Lucas, Enrique and Sakho on the bench. Plus if you add some of the returning loan players you might have Borini, Wisdom, Ibe and Suso. Add 2 to 3 real quality signings and that is a good squad in my opinion.

T-K-O · 16-05-2014 05:39PM

Fescue wrote: »

Well if everyone is fit and the same team starts as against Newcastle, then you might for instance have Coutinho, Lucas, Enrique and Sakho on the bench. Plus if you add some of the returning loan players you might have Borini, Wisdom, Ibe and Suso. Add 2 to 3 real quality signings and that is a good squad in my opinion.

Ill stand by it. We have one viable sub.

Lets take the Newcastle game / team. It's 1-1 we need a goal to win the league, what have we got on the bench?

1. Coutinho

01 Jones
04 Kolo Touré
09 Iago Aspas
10 Coutinho
17 Sakho
20 Cissokho
21 Lucas

Lets just take these guys. Arguably none will improve the first 11 (some will say Sakho fine)

How many times did BR use all 3 subs? That bench needs a major over hall. CL's next season - compare our subs with our competitors.. It doesn't add up.

MD1990 · 16-05-2014 05:44PM

T-K-O wrote: »

Ill stand by it. We have one viable sub.

Lets take the Newcastle game / team. It's 1-1 we need a goal to win the league, what have we got on the bench?

1. Coutinho

01 Jones

04 Kolo Touré

09 Iago Aspas

10 Coutinho

17 Sakho

20 Cissokho

21 Lucas

Lets just take these guys. Arguably none will improve the first 11 (some will say Sakho fine)

How many times did BR use all 3 subs? That bench needs a major over hall. CL's next season - compare our subs with our competitors.. It doesn't add up.

I seen a stat we made the least amount of substitions in the league (89)

NukaCola · 16-05-2014 05:54PM

MD1990 wrote: »

I seen a stat we made the least amount of substitions in the league (89)

Still 2.3 subs on average per game so not a crazy stat

NukaCola · 16-05-2014 06:04PM

T-K-O wrote: »

How many times did BR use all 3 subs? That bench needs a major over hall. CL's next season - compare our subs with our competitors.. It doesn't add up.

Add our loanee's coming back. Add 3 quality first team signings. I dont think we can expect any more than that. Enrique is coming back at LB also. We'll have options but we'll need players that can play in different positions. It will still be a small enough squad next season i would think.

billy2012 · 16-05-2014 06:21PM

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/luis-suarez-qa-liverpool-striker-3551798

YouTookMyName · 16-05-2014 06:33PM

Withdrawals kick in yet?

rob316 · 16-05-2014 08:00PM

We don't seem to be linked with m'vila anymore, replacing lucas with him would be a smart bit of business.
M'vila is hugely talented it's just his head isn't in it lately I imagine rodgers would get him motivated

16-05-2014 08:00PM

Unless we are getting a superior upgrade on Lucas we should not let him go.

I'd like him to stay. Hadn't a great season but we are gonna need a good few extra midfielders next season as I'd be surprised if Gerrard played as many games next season for example as he has the world cup and he's not a young man anymore.

Henderson is quality.
Allen good but not great would be my feelings.

Very short for backup. There's none for Gerrard really atm.

googled eyes · 16-05-2014 08:01PM

Blame Suárez ‏@Blame_Suarez 36m
FFP is about as threatening as Iago Aspas' corners

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Devilman40k · 16-05-2014 08:02PM

YouTookMyName wrote: »

Withdrawals kick in yet?

Nope we're planning next seasons assault

Super-Rush · 16-05-2014 08:50PM

Goal, Suarez.

klose · 16-05-2014 09:49PM

A few papers linking the same players tonight, shaqiri and lovren the new ones.

5starpool · 16-05-2014 09:55PM

I don't mind reading transfer speculation about all the players we have been linked with at all, but until it's widely reported as close by reputable sources I won't be believing any of them.

Utopia Parkway · 16-05-2014 10:11PM

Also Liverpool not looking to sell Johnson but unlikely to offer him a new contract as well. Seems he will just run out the last year of his contract.

mike65 · 16-05-2014 10:18PM

Here's Andy Hunters Guardian write up (though he is their Merseyside man I don't think he has any inside track)

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/16/liverpool-xherdan-shaqiri-ryan-bertrand-dejan-lovren

So then

Lovren or Caulker
Lallana or Shaqiri (shurely)
Ryan Bertand (meh) or Alberto Moreno.
Vorm

Sappy404 · 16-05-2014 10:26PM

These are all last year's and January's rumours, aren't they?

Kono earlier. Lovren. Shaqiri. Bertrand. Next it will be M'vila, Williams and Mkhitaryan. Lallana is the only newish one and it's been running for a week.

My theory is that any British journalist identifying foreign targets that isn't quoting a foreign news source is perpetuating old rumours because they know nothing and our transfers will be big news this summer and therefore will sell papers.

x43r0 · 16-05-2014 11:17PM

Got my new jersey in the post today!

Big thanks to whoever it was posted up the elverys deal

Charlie19 · 17-05-2014 03:28AM

rarnes1 wrote: »

Unless we are getting a superior upgrade on Lucas we should not let him go.

I'd like him to stay. Hadn't a great season but we are gonna need a good few extra midfielders next season as I'd be surprised if Gerrard played as many games next season for example as he has the world cup and he's not a young man anymore.

Henderson is quality.
Allen good but not great would be my feelings.

Very short for backup. There's none for Gerrard really atm.

I like Lucas but I'd have no problem seeing him moved on, he just doesn't offer much now that Gerrard has the DM position nailed down.

Allen needs competition for the cm slot and two FB's, one either side.

Then a striker/Attacking MF maybe both.

T-K-O · 17-05-2014 05:56AM

NukaCola wrote: »

Add our loanee's coming back. Add 3 quality first team signings. I dont think we can expect any more than that. Enrique is coming back at LB also. We'll have options but we'll need players that can play in different positions. It will still be a small enough squad next season i would think.

I'm not saying we need more than 3 but we need that to happen and they need to be top quality.

Boom_Bap · 17-05-2014 07:33AM

I'd like to see Lucas hanging around. Last season was a chance to show that he was an adaptive player and could be flexible in different formations. We seen that from the rest of the squad. We didn't get much of a chance to see that from Lucas.
We do know that he is adaptive, given the he was not a DM when he arrived here. But after his injuries, and being a bit older, I'm not sure if he's fit enough or mobile enough for the way we play now.
He would definitely be a player not to cut loose if we are flushing out the squad.

joe123 · 17-05-2014 08:27AM

x43r0 wrote: »

Got my new jersey in the post today!

Big thanks to whoever it was posted up the elverys deal

Whats the elverys deal? Im assuming its over??

Soft Falling Rain · 17-05-2014 08:38AM

mike65 wrote: »

Here's Andy Hunters Guardian write up (though he is their Merseyside man I don't think he has any inside track)

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/16/liverpool-xherdan-shaqiri-ryan-bertrand-dejan-lovren

So then

Lovren or Caulker
Lallana or Shaqiri (shurely)
Ryan Bertand (meh) or Alberto Moreno.
Vorm

I'd expect at least £60m spending money without selling. There's no financial reason why we can't acquire both Lallana and Shaquiri. Or have I missed the joke?

mike65 · 17-05-2014 08:56AM

Borini is safe, unless he's not safe

From the offi

"With Fabio, it was just a case of we had Daniel Sturridge and Luis Suarez, who I felt were going to play a lot of games; we didn't have so many games with no European football. Luis is so robust, he plays every minute of every game and he's a world-class striker.

"So for Fabio's development - and nothing to do with not thinking he's a quality player, because I know him better than anyone - he needed to go out and get games to prove his worth. He's done that.

"He'll now come back a year later into our squad in the summer; you saw with his pace and his power and his ability to get a goal that he's going to add to the quality that we already have."

Vicxas · 17-05-2014 09:10AM

Bbc reporting that we're in for Lallana and louvren for 40 million.

Good bit of business

Soft Falling Rain · 17-05-2014 09:12AM

Vicxas wrote: »

Bbc reporting that we're in for Lallana and louvren for 40 million.

Good bit of business

Seems a little steep.

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