Liverpool Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 mod warning linked in OP 26/07

8-10 · 14-07-2014 10:34AM

5live wrote: »

Its a big assumption that Suarez ban won't be reduced before the season starts, tbh.

Would love to meet Barca in the group stage

greendom · 14-07-2014 10:36AM

5live wrote: »

Its a big assumption that Suarez ban won't be reduced before the season starts, tbh.

Yes, that did cross my mind. Does the arbitration panel the appeal is being made to have a habit of over-turning/reducing punishments ?

cj maxx · 14-07-2014 10:55AM

8-10 wrote: »

Would love to meet Barca in the group stage

So would i , would be electric viewing

jem · 14-07-2014 10:56AM

Looking at the players we have been linked with/ have signed to be honest I am under whelmed.
BR seems to have forgotten the mistakes made by his predecessors in paying an "english premium" (include players currently playing in England.)
I do know we needed to increase our squad this year.

With the money we now have from the sale of our only true world class player we need to spend on some world class players. We need to make a statement to the world that we are back where we belong and use the money to push on.
This is one of the times that less is more. less numbers of players bought but of a higher class. Look at Spurs last year who bought loads and loads of players with the bale money and in fact went backwards.

We should be going after the likes of hummels as opposed to lovern,
Benzema as opposed to bony
James Rodriguez as opposed to Jay Rodriguez

An outside chance would be modric with all the talk of Toni Kroos going to madrid and more talk of James Rodriguez going there as well.

tritium · 14-07-2014 11:11AM

jem wrote: »

Looking at the players we have been linked with/ have signed to be honest I am under whelmed.
BR seems to have forgotten the mistakes made by his predecessors in paying an "english premium" (include players currently playing in England.)
I do know we needed to increase our squad this year.

With the money we now have from the sale of our only true world class player we need to spend on some world class players. We need to make a statement to the world that we are back where we belong and use the money to push on.
This is one of the times that less is more. less numbers of players bought but of a higher class. Look at Spurs last year who bought loads and loads of players with the bale money and in fact went backwards.

We should be going after the likes of hummels as opposed to lovern,
Benzema as opposed to bony
James Rodriguez as opposed to Jay Rodriguez

An outside chance would be modric with all the talk of Toni Kroos going to madrid and more talk of James Rodriguez going there as well.

Given the size of our squad last year and the extra games well play in CL this season less is most definitely not more. Factor in the physically demanding high energy style we play and it pretty obvious we need a lot more depth.

Would love us to get a marquee signing but we absolutely need a few of the underwhelming ones too.

Spring Onion · 14-07-2014 11:15AM

x43r0 wrote: »

Be careful, World Cup players can be hit or miss

Who is she? She's lovely.

Knex* · 14-07-2014 11:16AM

Spring Onion wrote: »

Who is she? She's lovely.

Jennifer Lawrence, my good Sir.

And she is indeed.

Cjs21 · 14-07-2014 11:17AM

Swansea say they have not received any offers for Bony.

punk_one82 · 14-07-2014 11:21AM

Cjs21 wrote: »

Swansea say they have not received any offers for Bony.

Thank ****

Seamu$ · 14-07-2014 11:24AM

jem wrote: »

Looking at the players we have been linked with/ have signed to be honest I am under whelmed.
BR seems to have forgotten the mistakes made by his predecessors in paying an "english premium" (include players currently playing in England.)
I do know we needed to increase our squad this year.

With the money we now have from the sale of our only true world class player we need to spend on some world class players. We need to make a statement to the world that we are back where we belong and use the money to push on.
This is one of the times that less is more. less numbers of players bought but of a higher class. Look at Spurs last year who bought loads and loads of players with the bale money and in fact went backwards.

We should be going after the likes of hummels as opposed to lovern,
Benzema as opposed to bony
James Rodriguez as opposed to Jay Rodriguez

An outside chance would be modric with all the talk of Toni Kroos going to madrid and more talk of James Rodriguez going there as well.

Definitely agree with this. Don't mind the Lambert & Can deals. Relatively low fees & low risk, adds to squad depth. Lallana seems to be what BR wanted so I hope it works out, but the fee is in the territory that you start to think, if we added another £10m to that we'd get an established world class player. Same now with Markovic. Of course, he could turn out to be great, but it's a risk and alot of money to be spending on potential. Same with Origi.

Would prefer if we went for the Hummels, Vidal, Reus & Benzema standard of player and, if we can't do those deals, start working our way down. But some of the potential fees/release clauses being mentioned for those players are similar or only slightly more than players we are currently targeting (e.g. Hummels & Lovren, Benzema & Bony - as pointed out above). If Reus' release clause is €35m and we can agree personal terms we should be definitely looking to do a deal there - that's only about £8m more than Markovic.

joe123 · 14-07-2014 11:28AM

Khedira to Arsenal being touted again by some of the journos. If we aren't in for him then I dont know what I will do but I won't be best pleased.

Would be an ideal signing for us.

8-10 · 14-07-2014 11:34AM

joe123 wrote: »

Khedira to Arsenal being touted again by some of the journos. If we aren't in for him then I dont know what I will do but I won't be best pleased.

Would be an ideal signing for us.

I think he'll sign for them.

DrumSteve · 14-07-2014 11:35AM

8-10 wrote: »

I think he'll sign for them.

Apparently Chelsea are trying to hijack it.

Knex* · 14-07-2014 11:37AM

About 6 years too late, but that's a great signing for Arsenal if they manage to get a player of Khedira's ilk.

The Mig · 14-07-2014 11:38AM

joe123 wrote: »

Khedira to Arsenal being touted again by some of the journos. If we aren't in for him then I dont know what I will do but I won't be best pleased.

Would be an ideal signing for us.

He wants Albert square, not Concert square!

Vicxas · 14-07-2014 11:42AM

Rumour is we're to bid 45 million for Reus.

Fantastic signing if true

Knex* · 14-07-2014 11:47AM

Vicxas wrote: »

Rumour is we're to bid 45 million for Reus.

And to be swiftly told to, "Fuck off".

Cjs21 · 14-07-2014 11:47AM

I like this article. :P

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jul/14/the-rumour-mill-lukaku-reus-liverpool

Kimbot · 14-07-2014 11:48AM

Knex. wrote: »

And to be swiftly told to, "Fuck off".

Some papers ran with a story over the weekend that Reus wouldnt go to united because he wanted champions league football, if true we do have a chance of landing him even if its a slim chance.

Knex* · 14-07-2014 11:49AM

Cjs21 wrote: »

I like this article. :P

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jul/14/the-rumour-mill-lukaku-reus-liverpool

They even managed to fit Arda Turan into that one.

Fair play.

NukaCola · 14-07-2014 11:49AM

Knex. wrote: »

And to be swiftly told to, "Fuck off".

Perhaps, but at least we are showing a bit of ambition if true

gafferino · 14-07-2014 11:51AM

That article also says Vidal to UTD is close.

F*ck everything.

Knex* · 14-07-2014 11:51AM

NukaCola wrote: »

Perhaps, but at least we are showing a bit of ambition if true

I'll be as delighted as anyone if we do sign him. I'm fairly sure I mentioned him on here when he was with Mönchengladbach, even.

But I can't see it happening.

punk_one82 · 14-07-2014 11:51AM

NukaCola wrote: »

Perhaps, but at least we are showing a bit of ambition if true

This. We've a wad of cash to spend. Wave it in front of some club for a truly great player and see what happens. If we're told to **** off then so be it, at least we tried.

greendom · 14-07-2014 11:51AM

Knex. wrote: »

About 6 years too late, but that's a great signing for Arsenal if they manage to get a player of Khedira's ilk.

Shame we built that pesky Emirates stadium. We could have bought all the players

8-10 · 14-07-2014 11:55AM

Ah jesus I can't wait for the season to start. World Cup withdrawals already!

I HATE pre-season games but I can see myself streaming as many as I can this summer. Cannot wait.

NukaCola · 14-07-2014 11:56AM

greendom wrote: »

Shame we built that pesky Emirates stadium. We could have bought all the players

Literally nothing to do with what was posted.

McSasquatch II · 14-07-2014 11:57AM

Jaysus, I can still post here!

We wouldn't have a hope of landing Reus I'd say, but I wouldn't object to us at least enquiring about him. Griezmann would be a superb (and more realistic) alternative. He's going to be a super player.

Knex* · 14-07-2014 11:57AM

greendom wrote: »

Shame we built that pesky Emirates stadium. We could have bought all the players

Jaysus. You'd swear I slated the Club.

Nuri Sahin · 14-07-2014 12:05PM

Tony Barrett @TonyBarretTimes · 11m
Liverpool baffled by reports linking them with Marco Reus and insist they've shown no interest in him despite suggestions to the contrary.

Shock and ****ing awe, truly. Now sign Griezmann, Manolas, Moreno and Moses at least, and be done with it.

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