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

Fescue wrote: »

I wouldn't look at signing a Madrid player as part of the deal. I don't think its a good circumstance for a player to come to a club as a makeweight in a transfer.

When is the last time such a situation has occured?

I don't think a player of Modric would ever be a makeweight, he's probably worth £50m in his own right and pretty much any top European side would have him, not to mention City or Chelsea if the opportunity arose. Modric is Croatian and is not culturally linked to Spain.. He has already excelled in the PL with Spurs and has improved even further with Madrid. He would fit seamlessly into Brendan Rogers system and in fact enhance it, when teams like Chelsea park the bus Modric is the type of player that will crawl under it or through it. If Modric was open to the idea of a return to England then it's definitely something we should pursue. Suarez gives us the opportunity to make it happen, such is the nature of any horse trading in the market.

@PetterVeland
El Desmarque: The last issues between Liverpool and Sevilla has been settled, and they believe the fee for Alberto Moreno will be €20+2M.

If it's true, its great to see the club get these deals for their preferred players out of the way nice and quickly.

A CB and either Lallana or Shaqiri (why not both) and I think that's us done and dusted.

Moreno, Can and Lambert so that's half the £60m budget.

Get Lovern and Lallana and that's probably the rest of the budget.

I'd be very happy with that building the the strenght of the first 11 and squad.

I'd say we get £25m from player sales and that will be used to buy a wing/forward.

I said yesterday we really don't need a marquee signing as long as we keep hold of Suarez he is our marquee player.

Srijandeep Das ‏@LFC_360
Sevilla LB Alberto Moreno has reached an agreement with LFC to sign a five 5 contract after a fee was agreed by both the clubs.

boom!

well Moreno certainly improves the first 11.

Can and Lambert give some much needed depth.

now, get Lallana, then a first choice CB, and we'll have done the minimum needed from this window IMO.

djPSB wrote: »

We are 22/1 with PP.

11th favorites.

Last 16 with a shot at the quarter finals I'd take that for our first year back in the CL.

For those who like the stat bomb pictures.

Here is Henderson and Can's. Kind of looks like the would compliment each other to me.

glued wrote: »

Where is that graphic from?

It's a Twitter graphic.
I came across it when I put Liverpool and Can in search on Twitter.

I am not up to speed with Twitter only really started with yesterday because of everyone on here using Twitter as fact

rarnes1 wrote: »

A CB was the main priority for me bar a fullback.

It's our defense that cost us the league and it's what needs to be addressed.

A CB will definately be signed I'd imagine.

Sorry to bring this back up from this morning, I'm not picking you out or anything just catching up.

I tend to disagree that it's the defence that's costing us rather it's how open the midfield can be when teams break on us.
Allen seems to be injury prone and can't be relied on and Lucas and Gerrard are not the most mobile anymore. All that leaves only Henderson with the inclination to track back but he is not a great tackler.
And the way Ridgers set the midfield up at times , with it being very attack minded with Countiho and I think even Sterling being in the middle three also contributed to the defence being exposed on a regular basis.
Not to say that Sterling and Countihno never helped out, they did but not consistently enough and that's understandable as they need their energy for the other direction.
All that left the defence under pressure in almost every game and I recall a stat that Mignolet at one stage had the most saves, suggesting he was also exposed a lot. I'd be surprised if he wasn't up there for the most saves made out the top ten keepers. Add to the amount of goals conceded and it suggests a defence being put under pressure regularly and a midfield offering inconsistent cover due to their offensive bent.
The signing of Can and the regular linking with lallana suggest that Rodgers is looking for players that can carry the ball forward but also be very effective in tracking back and busting a gut in trying to relieve the defence.
I would be happy with the in,y defensive signings being full backs that are playing I. Their natural positions and offer more going forward.
Id rather replace Johnson and Enrique with better options, than replacing our 4-5 (7 if we include Wisdom and Illori) centre backs. I believe Sakho can be a huge player next for us and Agger and Skrtel are still very able players.

It's all quite possible that I'm talking shoite but how would I know, I'm a sap.