Vicxas wrote: » What I'd like to know is when our marquee signing will be. Chelsea have Costa AND fabregas. I'm worried about our champions league season. We need to club to stay in the champions league again.
Vicxas wrote: » We need to club to stay in the champions league again.
jesus_thats_gre wrote: » This needs to be our number one focus this season and beyond, i.e. making one of those slots ours.
Liverpool’s preparations for life without Luis Suárez have led to them closing in on deals for Lazar Markovic and Divock Origi and intensifying their efforts to convince Alexis Sánchez to be a makeweight in the move that will take the Uruguay international to Barcelona. A fee of about £25 million is close to being agreed with Benfica for Markovic, the Serbia winger, and Liverpool are hopeful that the deal will be completed this week. Markovic has attracted strong interest from Chelsea, who were believed to have first option to sign him, in the past 18 months but is understood to have set his heart on a move to Anfield. Belgium’s elimination from the World Cup has cleared the way for Liverpool to open talks with Origi, having agreed a fee for the teenager before the tournament began. Origi’s eyecatching form in Brazil prompted interest from several clubs but Liverpool had already stolen a march on their rival suitors by striking a deal with Lille which would see the 19-year-old spend next season on loan at the French club. The fee for Origi could eventually rise to £9.8 million but Liverpool regard believe that is a price worth paying for a player who is viewed as having more potential than Christian Benteke and Romelu Lukaku within the Belgian camp. Despite speculation that Suárez’s move from Liverpool to Barcelona is close to being finalised, negotiations are yet to be concluded as the two clubs endeavour to reach an agreement on payment structure and await a definitive response from Sánchez about his future. As reported in The Times on Thursday, Barcelona have told Liverpool that they are willing to trigger Suárez’s exit clause, a figure that Anfield sources claim is about of £80 million, but those at the Nou Camp maintain that it is closer to £63 million. That aspect of the deal is likely to prove a formality given Barcelona’s determination to sign the Uruguay forward with a greater complicating factor being Sánchez’s desire, or lack of it, to act as a makeweight in the transfer. Liverpool want the Chile international to replace Suárez and have not given up hope of signing him despite growing speculation that he would prefer to join either Arsenal or Juventus. Anfield officials are currently in discussions with Sánchez’s representatives but they will accept a straight cash deal for Suárez from Barcelona in the event of the winger resisting their overtures. In contrast to Sánchez, Dejan Lovren could not have made his intentions more clear in an interview with Sportske Novosti, the Croatian newspaper, in which he criticised Southampton for not accepting the Merseyside club’s £20 million offer to sign him and admitted “my head is already at Liverpool”. “Liverpool sent the offer and the club haven’t informed me,” the defender said. “Not even about the subsequent Liverpool bids. That wasn’t right. I found out about the bid from other people which disappointed me and I realised I’ve got no business staying at Southampton. “Liverpool sent a £20 million offer and they [Southampton] paid £9 million for me, so they would’ve earned twice the amount. At this point, I don’t know what I’ll do and I don’t like it. It was unbelievable that a few days ago I had an offer of £20 million pounds. It was in the morning and by the afternoon the club had said I was not for sale. Frankly, my head is already at Liverpool.”
daingeanrob wrote: » this! we need to own a champions league spot, ala arsenal, but unlike them get some ambition. am i the only one excited by our non-marquee young team with some old heads around to steer them, could be something massive and the only way we can compete with city/chelsea. next season a test for rogers, but for his success so far should be given time..
LuckyLloyd wrote: » Seems to me the powers that be looked at Spurs dealings last summer and thought 'not bad'.
jesus_thats_gre wrote: » What figure is being bandied about for Sanchez by the way? Noticed that I haven't seen anything on that front.
LuckyLloyd wrote: » Beware the summer of 2009, that's all I'm saying.
Knex. wrote: » I don't recall seeing any bids for Soldado, Paulinho, and the rest. We're a week in to the transfer window, and we've no idea how much we're going to spend, or even how many players we will end up signing. Before the Suarez talk we were told we had 70m or so to spend, so we're only just getting toward the 'replace Suarez' part of the financing, for one thing. If we don't sign someone of a higher caliber to Markovic and Origi, fair enough, but I'd be quite surprised if that was the case.
MD1990 wrote: » We won't be buying many more attacking players 1 at most. I was hoping we would keep Suarez & buy Sanchez but looks like we won't have either. TBH i surprised that we are rolling over & letting Suarez go so easily. We should say to Barca Suarez isnt going anywhere unless Sanchez joins us even if there is a release clause.
klose wrote: » On paper at the time spurs spent the bale money really well i thought, obviously didnt turn out well for em but i would have had any of the players they signed at the time. All the fees were realisitic aswell.
Knex. wrote: » I don't think the issue with Sanchez is Barca not letting him come to us. The issue is that he seemingly wants to go to other clubs. You can't force someone to leave, just like you can't continually force someone to stay. Baffled at how you can be so certain about how many attacking players we'll bring in as well. Truth is, we know relatively fuck all, and we are making assumptions based on Twitter, which is proven wrong far more than it is ever proven right. This is all fairly pointless conjecture until come end of August, which is why I'm surprised at people already starting with the doom and gloom. I see nothing majorly wrong with anything that the club are seemingly doing at the moment. We have about 4-5 weeks before we ever need to begin to really assess our options and delve into panic, if its even needed then.
viper006 wrote: » To lose Suarez and to end up with arsenal getting Sanchez is so bad its actually embarrassing.we hold all the cards here so why we would leave Suarez go leave and one of Barcelona's most productive player go to our main rivals is just crazy.I can't believe we are spending 65m on lallana, louvren and markovic it's pretty much the Suarez almost spend and no where near the quality replaced. We have to get Sanchez in this deal
Utopia Parkway wrote: » We can't make the player come to Liverpool if he doesn't want to. I agree though that we should be making it clear that the Suarez deal is dependent on them not selling Sanchez to Arsenal at the very least.
