Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 - Mod Warning in OP, 10/12

smileyj1987 wrote: »

The best way of going about anything is to stick a shed load of incentives into the contracts so players actually put effort in .

top quality players dont sign these contracts, they sign for the likes of Chelsea or Real Madrid where they are guaranteed to get paid top dollar and also guaranteed to be playing top level football every year.

Incentives sound like a common sense approach but the kicker is players need to be really keen to come here in order for such a deal to appeal to them. And we are not really a big fish in the scheme of things these days.

Take this Sterling nonsense during the week. A top club would have him signed to a deal paying the lad top wages for the next 5 years and it would be minor news, but no Liverpool flute about and low ball him (compared to what he would get elsewhere), this being a player who could potentially play for us for the next 15 years. Provided of course we remain competitive enough for someone of his talent.

Thats where we are at.

Top clubs would not be banking on goals next from an 18-19 year old from Lille, they would be introducing him gradually giving him the best possible climate in order to exell.

We will flog him until he has nothing left from gameweek 1 next season, and we'd use him in January if we had the chance to.

Its poor preparation.

Mr Alan, my previous post was not a defence of Rodgers, but it was also a show of criticism to the owners also who have in place a wage structure that will never see us be competitive in terms of signing top class players. Our only hope will be that nobody else is interested.

Spending 100million whilst shopping in a budget store is asking for mediocre recruitment.

pmy.murphy wrote: »

Agreed if were going to take a punt on a player we should be taking it before their price gets ridiculously overinflated. Eg: If we signed Lovren from Lyon or Markovic from Belgrade then if all else failed we would have no problem recouping the money.

A league which is perfect for this type of deal which has proven time and time again to produce talented players is the Eredivisie. All the talk of Bony being signed for a price he is not worth annoys me when we were linked with him when he played for Vitesse Arnhem and scoring for fun. Why we dont target this sort of deal instead of paying stupid unnecessary money annoys me so much. Holland produces great players and its where we got the likes of Suarez and Kuyt on the rare occasion we did look to that market. Why cant we do that more often and try and take the odd player off Ajax or someone like that? Arek Milik is scoring goals for fun for them at the moment and impressing on the International stage, the lads a real talent and Ajax have proven time and time again that they are one of the very best in the business at developing young players ready to make the next step. Thats the sort of deal we should be target ing instead of our ridiculous current approach towards signing players with "potential" when we sign them for a ridiculous price after that window of opportunity has passed. ie: Southamptons two best players at the moment are Dusan Tadic and Pelle both eredivisie imports. If were targeting that sort of player we should be signing them before they get to Southampton

Milk only on loan with option to buy. Room for a bit of gazumping hopefully

I don't care how bad Mignolet has been. If Jones (barring injury) starts in goals tomorrow he has lost the plot completely and that will be me completely done with Brendan.