Liverpool Banter Archive May 26 2013

26 May 2013 21:36:30
Hi was what teams are interested in Marin? I think he would be perfect for us instead of downing. Being wasted at Chelsea and before people say if he can't get in that team he can't get in ours Chelsea have easily the most promising group of attacking midfielders in the prem probably the world. And sturridge was in a similar position. Can't see him being expensive although I heard he wants to go back to Germany? {Ed002's Note - I am not aware of interest.}

Agreed would love to see him at Anfield.

Jnesred

26 May 2013 21:00:49
Looks like there is going to be a lot of activity for Liverpool in this coming transfer window, both with people coming in and on the way out. I think Rodgers can this Summer prove himself to be a very shrewd operator in the transfer markets following on from January's excellent dealings and I believe in time we will look upon the signings of Allen and Borini from last Summer in a positive frame.

In my opinion there are a few players in particular Liverpool can sell this Summer that would raise transfer funds while also getting high earners of our wage bill. Pepe Reina and Martin Skrtel are two that spring to mind. While I am a huge fan of Reina, I think we can get in excess of 10 million for him and at 30 years of age that is too good to refuse. Vorm or Mignolet would be two potentially good replacements for relatively cheap fees and wages.

Skrtel has really struggled with Rodgers insistence on our centre halfs keeping the ball down and passing it around. I think the club could get a good fee from maybe Zenit or Anzhi or perhaps Rafa may want him at Napoli? He is definitely a player I would sell. Coates surely must be going and his high reputation in Italy may see the club get a half decent fee for him. Obviously there has been a lot of talk in the papers this week of the centre backs Liverpool want and of the 3 in particular mentioned I am happy enough. Papadopoulous really excites me but with the other clubs looking at him we will do well to get him. Regardless of his injury problems I would spend 15 mill on him no problem, he is that good and could be our Vidic. From what I hear though Dortmund are in pole position to get him. Toure on a free adds much needed experience but I hope we are not paying him silly wages. I have seen virtually nothing of Ilori but to break into Sporting Lisbon's side at that age you must be doing something right. Great pace apparently which is a key attribute.

The 15 mill deal agreed with West Ham for Carroll is satisfactory in my eyes. Andy is leaving and I wish him the best for the future. Everyone can move on now. Another player possibly on the way to the Hammers could be Shelvey? I would really listen to any offers for Jonjo this Summer. He isn't going to be what we wanted him to be as a possible replacement for Stevie and I think at this stage he should have shown more ability and stepped up like Henderson did this season. He has undoubted talent but a bid of anything like 6 mill and I'd bite their hands off. James McCarthy of Wigan is a player I'd look to as a possible replacement. He would really suit Rodgers tactics in the middle.

Downing and Assaidi in the wide areas will surely looked to be moved on. I know Downing's performances did improve but I would still take nearly any sort of bid for him. In my eyes he should still command a fee in the 7-10 mill mark. Fulham apparently are interested. Assaidi obviously didn't adapt to English life and football and a return to Holland beckons. Anytime I saw him in the Europa League he impressed me but of course the Premier league is a different kettle of fish entirely. The club should at least get back what they bought him for which was 2.4 mill. Christian Atsu and Iago Aspas are apparently serious targets and I like Aspas. I don't know much about Atsu but he has frightening pace and that is clearly what Rodgers is trying to bring to the team with his signings. pace. It was always something I thought we lacked in Rafa's and Kenny's sides.

Tom Ince looks like he is Spurs bound while Rodgers may try and get a loan signing in like a Tello or Cuenca. Lucas Digne from Lille is a potential target for left back according to the Echo and Telegraph but I guess that signing would depend on remaining funds. Liverpool should have considerable monies if they get anything in the region of fees for the players I mentioned above.

Exciting Summer ahead as Brendan Rodgers really puts his stamp on the side.
The Gooch

26 May 2013 22:11:32
What are your thoughts on recently promoted, moneybags MONACO; 60m -Falcao
60m -Moutinho and Rodrigez

Plus city is giving 100m for their next coach and targetting 5 cups in five years ( trying to make ground on us, cough cough 63 cups-Liverpool)

Real Madrid are going to offer 60 million for Bale ( good news for us)

Moyes is going to raid his old team-Fellaini and Baines ( more good news for us) plus Everton are not getting Laudrup ( even more good news)

Its not all doom and gloom fellow kopites : Aparently the directors are happy with Rodgers ( 71 goals compared with 49 last season) and are willing to offer substantially more for transfers: 15-20 million on top of the already allocated 25million. SO BE HAPPY, next season is going to be a hell of a show.

Peace out, hombres

26 May 2013 23:44:53
Why is the situation with Everton good news? What good is rivalry if you're not competing against each other? I hope Everyon stay up and in the top half of the table if not for competition then to bring pride back to where it belongs, Merseyside.

I'm a little gutted at the state of affairs at both clubs, and truly hope we will both be up there fighting with each other for supremacy. Everton have a long way to go and will be at the beginning of transformation just like we were.

Who cares about rivalry with Walton f. c.? I would party for a month if they were relegated and stayed relegated.

Waro

The OP means that maybe we can get 6th instead of 7th next season!

Hopefully!

26 May 2013 22:00:01
Could Santana's move to Shalke indicate Papa is definately leaving?

That's a positive way to look at it. another way is that Papa's knee is so bad that they brought in a quality CB to replace him in the starting side

26 May 2013 20:36:58
Heard anything on a Mattia Perin? meant to be really good, have we had him looked or that? could we be interested?

26 May 2013 20:32:16
Hi eds,

Are Liverpool interested in jose callejon?

Regards

Marc

26 May 2013 19:43:52
Hi Eds, have seen Defender Santana is leaving Dortmund on Sky. Any intrest from Liverpool {Ed023's Note - Pretty sure he has agreed to join Schalke}

For 1M. bargain transfer

26 May 2013 15:30:50
Hey Eds.
Any chance we can buy Miroslav Stoch from Fenerbahce he is very unhappy there.
Fenerbahce wants to sell him for 6-8m. {Ed023's Note - We don't have an interest as of now, that might change though}

26 May 2013 19:11:01
falcao signing for monaco for 60 million.

Considering Barca gave Inter 70M for Zlatan, I'd say that's a great price for Falcao

27 May 2013 08:19:47
barca never paid 70 m for 1 player ever

Actually they did

26 May 2013 18:38:18
It makes me laugh how players always say they are happy and are staying at their club then the next day they've signed for someone new. You've got to respect players like Gerrard and Carra they could have easily tried different teams/leagues or gone for the big money but they've stuck with the club and fans, the respect I have for Stevie and Carra will always be there

Is this Stevie who batted his eyelashes at Chelsea? Just asking.

AJH

No they done it to him and his head was turned so think we can all agree heads can be turned what matters is he stayed

Stevie who stayed at Liverpool. U a Blue nose troll? Not like Rooney who dropped his club at the blink of an eye and Moyes who dumped his club and will rip it apart taking all the players. Phill Neville Everton Legend for the next manager

Yes, the Stevie that was being terrorised by some helmet, requiring bodyguards at his house, and calling upon Mr fix-it to sort out some unfair, unnecessary problems caused by a two-bob gangsters jealousy.

Everyone knew, and who would have blamed him?

Get it right next time.

DaveyBootle

So what?
he was interested in a move to chelsea, which he turned down.

26 May 2013 17:44:25
I don't see what Atsu offers over Ibe, does anyone disagree?

He's more experienced than young Jordan.
I'm not too keen on Atsu either, however, if we were to 'add him to the group', I would support both Player and Manager.

I rate Ibe. Much more than Sterling but maybe Downing might find himself surplus to requirements?

The Irish Rover

AT 21 maybe a bit more experience but talent-wise ibe long term will be a lot better

Lil Red

Maybe he's a younger, cheaper squad alternative to Downing?
The Juicer

100% agree! Much prefer to play Suso, Sterling, Ibe over Atsu/Apas

Dano

Ibe is 17, He should not be thrown into the deep end like Sterling was forced to be. Let him develop and ease him in.

Building a squad?

Of course I will support anyone who signs too, and I understand that Ibe is to young to start all the time but if we are signing someone with more experience how about getting someone older but better than downing maybe dudzak? (spelling) I would rather keep downing than buy Atsu from what I've seen.

I agree. Atsugi is not a significant improvement on Sterling, Ibe or Downing.

The real AG

I've never heard of him. So he isn't going to make a blind bit of progress to this squad. Buying for the sake of it BR. We need better players than what we already have in order to improve results {Ed001's Note - and you can judge a player's quality purely on whether or not you have heard of them can you? Bizarre post that. I would prefer to watch them play in order to judge them, personally.}

26 May 2013 16:48:17
I expect Kolo Toure to sign in first week of June. His shirt number will be '28'

kam_rayat7

Genius.

Well since he can't officially sign until 1st July that's going to be difficult!

26 May 2013 21:50:56
I thought players from the same league can move in June its July for overseas transfers

You can sign UK based players from June 1st.

U can sign between english clubs in june!

26 May 2013 16:35:59
Hey great site

Do u know how much west ham is going to bid on shelvey? I only see rumours of their interest never how much money they going to pay, I say atleast 5 million£

26 May 2013 15:58:32
united fan here in peace (maybe), just want to know why you value saurez at 50+ million

His stats alone speak for themselves? Almost twice as many dribbles as any other player in the premiership. Better goals to game ratio than leagues top scorer RVP. Signed a long term contract back in September and only 26 so still 7 or 8 years left at the top level. Your own club shelled out 24m for Rvp who is soon to turn 30 and was in his last year of contract. doesn't take a genius to work out why Liverpool fans expect 50m.

Why don't you give us a reason why shouldn't we value him at 50+ million?

He is one of the most important player at the club and has a tremendous goal-scoring season. To top it off a players value is determined by the selling club, hos importance to the club & whether or not they want to let him go.

Because there is only maybe 4 or 5 world class strikers in the world entering their prime who are all valued around the 50m mark and Suarez is proven in the hardest league in the world therefore he is worth 50m like Falcao, Cavani etc. Remember a 29 yr old Van Persie cost about 25m with only 1 yr left in his contract and they're both pretty equal to be fair. Not to mention if Chelski are going to pay 50m for a hobbled Torres we sure as hell are getting that at least for Suarez with all them Sugar daddies out there
Irish redman

He's 26 years old and improving every season. He would've been top scorer in the Prem easily if he hadn't of been banned. His touch, passing, runs, effort, skill, goals and hunger match any player in the world. Apart from Messi and Ronaldo he's probably the best footballer in the world. If Falcao is worth £51m then Suarez is worth more

Because his worth 50+

26 May 2013 18:33:31
he is the best in the world.

Because, if a past it, torres, is worth 50 after the year and a half he had, before being sold, and still utter useless 2 years later. then suarez is worth it, way beyond it, in fact.

Because only ronaldo and messi have a better goals to game ratio than suarez (league only) since the start of their careers

He's the 3rd best player in the world ad done it playing with spearing hendo downing and carroll say no more

Because he packs the bite any team would want in there's lol

Ack17

Undoubtably the best player in the prem. if van peirse is worth 24 with a year left on his contract as the best player in the prem last year then for me Suarez is worth 50+.
For me he is on par with Torres of past seasons.

To be fair he's the best player in the league. we were inferior to the teams above this season and he was amazing. top scorer and so many man of the match awards. he's up there in the 60 mil mark. if torres was 50 he's at least 70mil
5 gold stars

Because if we had £50m we would buy him.

26 May 2013 19:29:41
You spent 22m on a player who is 29 and on the last year of his contact. Suarez is in that same quality bracket how ever has recently sighed a long term contact and is much younger and unlike Persie seems happy at the club in which is in.

Because of ability, age and importance to the team pal, that's why

Cause he's one of the top 5 attackers in the world. I think people quote 50m just cause that's what we got for Torres and Suarez is 10x better. I'd say realistically 35-40m is his value he's still young and a top top player.

The best stiker and player in the prem this year is always going to be worth £50m +, especially if bale is suppose to be worth £60m+.

YNWA

He is way better than van persie and shrek I mean rooney. if psg want shrek its going to cost them over 30 million plus 280 gs a week. suarez was never valued that high until that time when he skipped around your whole defence with ease oh and from that time when ferdie and evra tried to squash him and both ended up on the ground like two donkeys

2nd top goal scorer in the premier league, could be first if it weren't for the biting incident.
Likely to have another 5-6 seasons in him whilst van persie (for example is only likely to have 2-3 at best)
Has a good injury record.
Has plenty of interest.
Is our most valuable player by a fair distance and it will take about 50 million to replace him.
End of the day it means nothing how we value him, just out of curiosity how would you value rvp.
derryred

26 May 2013 20:06:33
Maybe? U better decide.

Look at his goal scoring record since joining Liverpool as well as at Ajax and for Uruguay, he also has a far more superior goal/game ratio for Uruguay than Cavani and on top of this he also has immense skill which very few players in the world possess.

Welcome, Utd fan.

I'll try to answer you.

I value him at £50m+ because Luis is a genius. He is the only genius playing in Britain atm.

RVP and Bale are very good players - but they are not genius.

This season will always be remembered for Bale winning all the players awards whilst not being the best player.

Suarez has been consistently brilliant throughout the season. The awards were not given out based on footballing ability, as we know.

I do concede that Luis only has himself to blame for this.

We paid over £20m for Suarez, it would make no sense to sell him for £30m, or even £40m - we'd be back to square one essentially - minus our best player.

He signed a long-term contract not long ago either, so we are under no real pressure in that regard.

A big season from Luis next year could possibly help us back to the CL. Failure to do so and I wouldn't blame Suarez for packing his bags.

We stand to gain more from keeping Suarez than we do from selling him imo.

If we have a great year, perhaps he may stay longer.

The day he signed, I declared his genius and said in a few years he'll be off to Barca or Real. So I can't say I'm too surprised of the interest from elite clubs.

He is amongst the top attacking players in the world imo - Only the likes of Messi, Ronaldo, Cavani and Aguero are on his level.

If he went to Spain, the two lads (CR and LM) would finally have some competition. He'd be a joke there.

He's the best in the league with us - Imagine him in a real quality side.

It would take an essay to do his technical brilliance justice. His workrate, his ability to wriggle out of any situation, his goalscoring, his passing range, his free-kicks, his game intelligence, his ability to play across the front-line.

He can score any type of goal. Even without service he is a one-man wrecking crew.

Yet he manages to do this without being very quick over distances - like a Ronaldo, Bale or Messi.

But his short bursts of acceleration over the first few yards, and from a standing stop - and his ability to turn his marker inside-out and create a yard of space is exceptional.

As is his movement. He never stops. Utd missed a trick there you know. You guys would have LOVED him. One of the great entertainers.

BJH YNWA

ps - In England - I only consider Aguero to be comparable, but he didn't have a great season. He was restrained by the overly defensive Mancini imo. He should be back next year.

£60-£70m and I'll consider it btw - but only if I get to choose the replacement.

And Mister essay who would you choose?

Valued at a minimum 70M now. Neymar has gone to Barca and Falcao to Monaco which means there's only Suarez left as a young elite superstar striker. Real will be in a panic now and will try to buy. if our owners are willing to sell then they should ask for a king's ransom. Suarez is only 26 which means he has a good 5 years being one of the best players in the world

26 May 2013 14:59:00
Hi eds I'm hearing that we would only sell Suarez if a stupid fee was offerd I. e 60/70m I could see man city paying that if they really wanted him, if that did happend who do u think our replacements would be? 70m could buy at least 2 top top attacking players

I would say Henrikh Mikhritiyan (Spelling) and Jackson Martinez (Porto ST).

I agree that £70 million would buy at least 2 top players but Suarez will not attract a fee of £70 million and if the top top players will not want to ply their trade at Liverpool at this moment in time with no European football at all.

The Irish Rover

We wouldn't get 60/70m for him.
Other teams would only bid about 35m and if Suarez fancies a move he will force it through.

MIKEY

Seriously if that we're the case I'd spend 40/50m of it on javi Martinez of bayern he's the be Alonso prolly the worlds best DM

26 May 2013 16:40:23
and both will need 2 years to settle. as others.

Did someone really mention javi Martinez? Dude just won the treble with bayern why would be come to pool.

26 May 2013 14:31:02
I KNOW swap deals are extremely rare, but just wondering what other members and the Eds think abt a story in the Dail Star claiming that Real believe Suarez could be available for as little as £35million if he decides to quit Anfield and have a raft of players to use as bargaining chips - including Gonzalo Higuain, Karim Benzema, Angel di Maria and Diego Lopez.
Would people take Higuain/Benzema and Di Maria for Luis?
Personally I think we should keep Luis but he may want to leave AND his temperament means he is a massive risk.

5uarezTimes

I'm not sure the club would be willing to pay the wages of the players you mentioned, but I wouldn't be too disappointed to see any of them at Liverpool provided we got a fair price from Madrid.

MIKEY

26 May 2013 16:51:18
Higuain to juventus and di maria to UTD

Chuck in benzema and di maria and 10 million and that would be a good deal

26 May 2013 13:43:44
BR is targeting Marko Marin!

JME

Don't think so. A nothing player really

26 May 2013 17:47:17
So players who are injured all season and haven't got a chance are nothing? Great logic that!NOT

26 May 2013 13:34:23
This is a hope and what I think could happen this summer. With the owners giving us 20m to spend plus player sales this is what I think and hope could happen

Outs:
Carroll 15m
Downing 10m
Reina 10m
Assaidi 5-7m
Spearing 2m

Ins:
Begovic 15m
M. Richards 10-15m
Zouma 5-7m
Thiago 15m
Remy 7m
Gonalons 10m

I know this is very unlikely to all happen but these are players I would love to be linked with Liverpool

Not too keen on young Micah. If he was available for less that 10 Million squid then I'd probably take him.

Assaidi £5-7M? Spearing £2M? Not a chance

I'd rather

Outs.
Downing 10-12 million.
Carroll 12-15 million.
Spearing 2-3 million.
Pacheco 2-3 million.
Assiadi 3-5 million.
Coates 5-7 million.

Ins.
T. Ilori. 3-4 million.
L. Digne. 6-8 million.
T. Alderweireld. 8-12 million.
S. De Vrij or K. Papadopulos. 10-15 million.
C. Eriksen. 15 million.
A. Sanchez 10-16 million.

Jonesred

26 May 2013 12:39:16
Liverpool are looking to transfer Andy Carroll, Stewart Downing, Jonjo Shelvey, Martin Skrtel, Sebastian Coates, Oussama Assaildi, Danny Wilson, Jay Spearing and Dani Pacheco. Rodgers will be allowed to spend big this summer and with Carragher, Skrtel and Coates all leaving the club centre halves will be his top priority. Christian Atsu and Kolo Toure look like they will be Liverpool's first new recruits while Christian Eriksen and Kyriakos Papadopoulos are Rodgers top targets. Tom Ince, Victor Wanyama, Iago Aspas and Alex Pearce are all in the frame.

26 May 2013 11:55:11
This is not a rumour, its just an observation. Eds, please post this.
In the Europa League final, the team under pressure Chelsea scored against the run of play on the 60th minute. In the Champions League final, the team under pressure Bayern Munich scored in the 60th minute. Both Benfica and Dortmund then equalized via a penalty in the 68th minute. Both finals were decided by last minute goals. The team at the away team position in the scoreboard won, the two players who had missed chances and regarded as bad luck scored in Torres and Robben. It just cannot be coincidence. I have a feeling football results are being fixed, for what purpose I don't know. Another example would be, Chelsea Vs Barcelona at Camp Nou last season, Drogba caused the penalty at the right hand side of the box, Messi took the penalty, if he had scored, they would have won, but he missed. In the finals, Bayern Munich Vs Chelsea, Drogba caused another penalty at the same spot, If Robben had scored, they would have won, but he missed. Now, d Europa League and Champions League were decided in similar fashion this year, like they were playing out a ready made storyline

Interesting

Imaginations do run wild.

So its fixed!

So you believe football is fixed? What about broken legs, injuries? You think Suarez rehearses with Evra?

Thats good logic, let's fix the football results and play out exactly the same scenarios. It can be coincidence and is! That is of course if its not the best kept Secret by hundreds of thousands of footballers throughout the world

#ParanoidLAD

And how do you suppose they convinced Messi (or Robben) to miss on purpose? It couldn't have been money since he turned down the biggest contract in history from Anzhi? Come on, have some sense.

Haha brilliant. I can almost hear ed002 rolling his eyes and shaking his head.

MIKEY

If you were going to fix 2 European finals you wouldn't make them so similar

How can you hear someone rolling their eyes and shaking their head?

To the origional poster. You're on to something, meet me at the Argos car park at 12:38. Come alone.
Your's truly.
X

Man Utd's last 2 victories were fixed but ours wasn't.

26 May 2013 10:16:37
Not Liverpool rumours but just heard that neymar has agreed to sign for Barcelona, falcao has agreed a deal with Monaco for 55m euros and will be announced next week sometime, there were 2 English teams in for him and he has turned them both down, they were Manchester United and Chelsea! Finally lewandowski has an agreement to join bayern Munich either this summer for a fee or next summer for free! Add these to the fact that James Rodriguez and joa moutinho have also gone to Monaco and that To me this shows that the English league are falling behind other European leagues!

James

So what if the English league is falling behind other leagues

LFC play in the EPL

I'd still rather the premier league any day

26 May 2013 10:10:32
I am pretty sure. Man city will going to bid for suarez this summer so as real if they loose ronlado and since neymar have signed for barca.
with tevez situation hanging on and dzeko wanna move. city sees suarez as the predator with aguero up front.
Real on the other hand see suarez as the only player who can match the fan base and goals.

there is also a possibility with agger and lucas If rafa becomes napoli manger

we are literally screwed then, If we see our established players leave.

Harry

Don't be down in the dumps
Live for what is not what maybe!

ATM all is well don't fret until there's cause to do so!

26 May 2013 09:43:34
Thiago Alcantara is being put up for sale �18M surely BR must take him over Eriksen

26 May 2013 09:58:27
Chlesea and UTD have serious Interest

He won't start at Chelsea or Utd. Which is the reason he is leaving "arguably" the best team in the world.

he wants football and much of it.

26 May 2013 08:28:13
Correct me if i'm wrong, but usually you tubeee makes people look better than they really are. I did a quick reccy on Atsu and being diplomatic. he was poo, not even in Assaidi's class with regard to skill. No end product, just very fast with some strength. Now is that enough to get into our team? I thought Rogers was looking for football intelligence coupled with skill and a winning mentality. I see him as a downgrade to both Downing and Assaidi. I know budget is tight, but why waste what you have going for dross, just pool it and buy real talent. Whether that's for the GK or CB and LB positions that we really need to strengthen. If i'm wrong please correct me, I like a good debate.

Why spend money on lb position enrique is decent player and with johnson and robinson there for cover I don't see the need to go for a lb

26 May 2013 07:54:47
i think Liverpool should get diakite, diame, aly cissokho and another winger which should fit right in our budget. what do you guys think?

Not good enough

We can't play a high line as our central defenders are too slow. This will change as buck will seek out quick defenders. Then we'll see even more improvement in style of play. We have the real deal in Buck Rodgers boys. can't wait for next season!

26 May 2013 05:21:32
Lets put this in context. Barca just paid significantly less (25M Euro) for Neymar than we paid for Carroll. What the heck were Comolli/Daglish smoking back then? {Ed002's Note - I have explained repeatedly that you cannot compare transfer fees.}

First of all, Carroll is british so it was always going to be an expensive exercise. Secondly, Mike Ashley made sure he got way more than what Carroll was worth. Thirdly, FSG were clever by explaining to Abramovich that he would have to pay up what Carroll was going to cost us plus 15 million on top of that if he wanted Torres.

We had no control over Carroll's fee and Torres was nowhere worth 50 million. Nobody on here can tell me that another club besides Chelsea would have been happy to pay 50 million pounds for Torres. so at the end of the day we walked away with a new signing plus 15 million cash which was not that bad of a deal at the time.

So the 15 million that West ham will pay us plus the 15 million we made from the Torres deal plus the loan fee West Ham paid to us for Carroll last season plus the money saved on his wages is not that bad of a deal after all.

But if Carroll is stubborn and does not want to go to West Ham then that pretty much screws up our transfer budget.

Logan

Thats not putting it in context, that's taking it out

26 May 2013 10:01:29
Barcelona is an opportunity for players to win things and be at the highest level.
Leave aside Neymar. we bought downing for 20 mill

I blame Graeme Souness! Crnt we just move on from all this. realy

Im pretty sure that that wasnt the agreed fee? just the initial bid from barca?

26 May 2013 12:42:25
Logan

Mate you don't have any clue on the transfer.
first Torres wanted to go and handed a transfer request which was rejected by the club. He was 27 and at his peak and the club was going down and he feared of not winning anything in his career.

Torres gave Liverpool 80 odd goals and 30 mill profit and yet people call him traitor.

Chelsea came in with 25 mill in the beginning and we were adamant of about 50 mill.
nor the owners or anyone had a principle deal with Chelsea over the carol deal.
we received 50 mill from Chelsea and stumped 35 mill on carol. carol was KK choice and everyone knew we were paying 36 mill for one season wonder striker.

Torres was worth 100 mil a season ago when Chelsea came in with Torres and Rafa to bridge which was turned down by the club.

he was the best striker on the planet. with his pace and finishing abilities. no one match him on the pitch.

Torres had a huge fan followers all over the world and was leading in the shirt sales and marketing.
he was the best striker any club could dream.

When comparing apples its good to get another Apple

When comparing Blondes its good to get another Blonde

Hello!

Harry Scousser

Do you honestly think Barcelona, Bayern, Madrid etc would have paid 50 million for Torres? FSG saw Abromovich coming. Torres put in his transfer request and they had the Russian by his balls. Abramovich wanted Torres and Mike Ashley kept on driving Carroll's price up. Abramovich was FSG's play thing and FSG came out on top.

Torres worth 100 million pounds. You are having a laugh right?

Logan

26 May 2013 03:48:24
Eds, now that Barcelona have signed Neymar, how will that affect the likes of Tello/Villa? I would also presume it takes Suarez off their radar?

Anfield Andy {Ed052's Note - Villa was going anyway. And hopefully it'll stop their interest}

24 May 2013 19:44:12
Hi ed. In the unlikely event of Suarez moving on who do you think will be targeted to replace. Bearing in mind you will probably get around 50m who would you try and sign out of curiosity.

Thanks. {Ed052's Note - im not sure we can answer that. Maybe other posters will have a bit of fantasy football}

Buy Reus :P

26 May 2013 10:02:40
Man City targeting Reus

24 May 2013 17:26:56
Hi eds, love the work yous do on the site
Heard we could be interested in calum mcmanaman of wigan? do you think there is any truth in this, and is he good enough? was quite impressive in the FA cup. And are we still looking at ben arfa or cabaye? we were intersted in both a while back, but havnt heard anything recently {Ed052's Note - I dont believe that we have interest in him. He is a good player, but needs to get games under his belt, be consistent and improve his final ball}

26 May 2013 00:35:16
@samsam9000 who accused me off making up rubbish in regards to Lovren. You clearly have never watched him play he's reckless, poor on the ball and quite frankly terrible. Lyon fans rigged a poll and voted him above the likes of Hummels as a perfect CB for Barca some of the comments on that poll were "lovren is better than Bieber" Croatians also consider him a failure so before you accuse me off "making things up and believing them" please learn the facts

26 May 2013 00:14:12
Reina is off lads. Has officially said his goodbyes to Melwood staff and teammates. 100% true. Expect begovic to be his replacement

25 May 2013 22:43:26
congrats to b munich, only fourth club to keep european cup.

B O H

I thought no on kept a cup anymore?

If you win 5 times you keep

They won't get to keep it! UEFA changed the rules after 2005. Liverpool will be the last team to keep the cup! :)

25 May 2013 22:32:53
HEY what R D CHANCES OF SIGNING JURGEN KLOPP AS OUR HEAD COACH WID BR AS HIS ASSISTANT.
JUST IMAGINE
GARYBOY4REDS

What are the chances of you getting back to reality? Slim at best I would guess!

Yea and maybe we should go for mourinho as head ball boy and then try and finish up the dream team by taking sir Alex as chief groundsman!

And then we could bring back DC to fook it all up!