Liverpool Rumours Archive July 14 2021

14 Jul 2021 23:10:51
Ed's have we shown any interest in Berardi please?

{Ed002's Note - I would not hold your breath.}

15 Jul 2021 04:09:29
Italians and liverpool have not worked out for some reason whether its us or them
Balotelli aquilani borini on the top of my head.

15 Jul 2021 06:01:18
Liverpool are reportedly preparing a £60m bid for Inter Milan and Italy's Euro 2020 winning-midfielder Nicolo Barella, 24. (La Repubblica)

15 Jul 2021 06:30:57
Doubt it spaceman.

15 Jul 2021 09:43:10
Inter consider him to be untouchable so apparently so I’d forget about that.

Personally I just don’t think we’ve bought well in the Italian market, I’m sure if we bought the right player they will settle as there’s plenty of Italians who’ve succeeded in England.

15 Jul 2021 10:35:24
Let's not forget Andrea Dossena.

15 Jul 2021 10:59:28
Scored against the small teams. Bellisimo.

15 Jul 2021 14:12:44
Seriously do people not read posts and relys. We won't be signing any one player for 60-70m plus, we may spend that on a few players depending on sales, but definitely not one. So if ya see reports that we're interested in players for that money just chalk it down to utter rubbish.

15 Jul 2021 14:21:08
How do you prepare a bid? Lol.

15 Jul 2021 15:45:22
Surprised this wasn't shot down by Ed2 as a random name post.

15 Jul 2021 15:54:52
Salah and Allison are from the Italian market no?

15 Jul 2021 17:28:12
So what does that make the posts if we end up signing someone for £60-70m plus Port? 😆.

15 Jul 2021 23:19:06
So, I gather that Ed002 thinks we have little chance of signing Berardi - fair enough - but HAVE we you shown any interest?

{Ed002's Note - His club has told the sides who have approached them that he is not available. I am not aware of such an approach by Liverpool.}

16 Jul 2021 01:58:16
Thanks Ed! Great player - not surprised that they want to keep hold of him!

16 Jul 2021 10:00:06
As always sound advise from the Ed!

Remember to breath everyone.

14 Jul 2021 21:59:48
Hi Ed002,

Fantastic insight on Saul’s position. It does look like he is off to Barcelona - one of the options you’d put out.

What we fans hear from James Pearce and the likes is that in this window we will be in for two more incomings. Looks like the finances to do that will be bolstered by and not solely dependent on our outgoings.

Two questions on this:

I remember you mentioning we might be in for a surprise and Romano has said this too. Do you think out of the two targets one might be a relatively high profile player this window (ala van dijk, Thiago or an Alison) and it comes on later in the window after we have dealt with the outgoings? I am okay whoever comes as long as it fits the team. However, when it is a high profile player cannot lie the excitement hits different.

Second, do you think for journalists outside Liverpool’s inner circle (Pearce, Joyce, Reddy) it is very hard to get a sniff of the club’s transfer dealings. Is it something that’s been tightened up actively?

As usual thanks for the inputs and keeping us all grounded! Cheers.

{Ed002's Note - It won’t be van Dijk, Thiago or Alison). High profile is subjective. Information comes from others away from the club - including agents.}

14 Jul 2021 22:56:18
That probably rules out Insigne then as for me he is high profile like the above mentioned 🤦🏻.

15 Jul 2021 02:18:03
I have no issue w signing lesser known players. Teams such as Leicester do it and then they become world beaters such as Tielemans, Soyunchu, Madison and Vardy to name a few. We always pay the inflated prices after a successful season or two. We could have got all three for the price of Keita.

{Ed0666's Note - whats to say Soyonchu, Tielmans, Madison et al would have flourished at Liverpool? This post typifies the entitled family base we have.

15 Jul 2021 13:13:00
Mane, Salah, Wijnaldum, Firmino, Fabinho were all in the 25-45M GBP range. Konate and Jota, more recent signings, are as well. We had misses with Keita, and perhaps Ox (injuries), but we have done incredibly well with our transfers in this price range. You can argue these guys have been as effective and may even a better fit for the way we play than a lot of guys with higher price tags would have been.

15 Jul 2021 15:38:55
I think Ed002 meant It won’t be van Dijk, Thiago or Alison, because they're already at the club. Toying with you a little. ;)

Potentially the sales of Grabara, Millar, Ojo, Grujic, Wilson, Shaqiri, Origi, Phillips and Awoniyi could add up to 70-80 million

I could imagine Insigne myself as he's got 1 year of his contract remaining and could offer good value similar to the Thiago deal. He would also be 'high profile' lol.

15 Jul 2021 17:23:53
0666, just making the point that we don't need to be competing at the high end of the market and talking silly money. I'm also not saying they would have worked out for us but using them as examples.

{Ed0666's Note - oh ok mate I hear ya. I like the way we do business now the way we mix up our purchases. For every Thiago there’s a Robbo. I’d hate to do business like United, massive transfer after massive transfer really is counter productive and nurtures inflated egos.

15 Jul 2021 18:56:30
Spot on, Ed. I don’t like the way we do business. I LOVE the way we do business. We spend on the RIGHT players that work for us and our objectives. If that means we spend 75m or 62m on VVD and Big Al or we spend 8m on an obscure Robbo from a relegated team then do be it provided they are the right players for us.

Now look at Utd. They signed Ahmad Diallo (37m) and Sancho for 77m (plus reportedly 50m agent fees, per Ed01) on the right wing position alone and we still don’t know if either will have the right type of impact yet and if they don’t, that’s 160m down the tubes potentially. I wouldn’t trade our model for anyone else’s cos well, it works and we have the receipts (trophies) to prove it.

16 Jul 2021 10:36:34
I mean we can only judge united after we see them, but realistically i think it could be tough to compete if any of their players do take off running. Sadly you can buy flops if you can keep buying big players in bulk like they seem to do. Feel like we could be left behind this year with our limited purchases and our pretty awful bench (which we saw this year with all the injuries) . But better then spending money you don't have!

14 Jul 2021 16:37:41
Interestingly James Pearce has said that there is money to spend for Liverpool this window.

He also says however that they would like to bolster this with sales, perhaps we do have some form of transfer budget after all?

For once he's also said that Liverpool are looking to still do significant business with an attacker and a midfielder expected to arrive at some point during the window.

All relatively good news as far as I'm concerned.

14 Jul 2021 17:53:50
Bring in a mid for sure. Attacker would be nice too. Like to see Elliot, Jones, Tsimikas kick on this year and take some pressure off starters. Hoping Matip stays and is fit. Interesting to see what happens w Phillips and Davies.

14 Jul 2021 18:12:37
Matip and staying fit are words that don’t really go in the same sentence.

14 Jul 2021 18:13:07
Ed02 has been saying the exact same things regarding us having money to spend but needing to balance the books by selling as well. Pearce did not say anything newsworthy here, IMO.

14 Jul 2021 18:35:34
I'm with OliRed here, James Pearce has just said what Ed002 has told us numerous times already.

14 Jul 2021 18:48:12
A balancing act is needed between moving on those that will clearly not get the chances they need to progress and giving opportunity’s to those outside the first 11 can progress if we intend to keep them. I would personally love to see Elliot and Taki get some opportunities, as well as Jones and Tsimikas. Origi, Shaqiri, Phillips, Davies, Karius, Wilson, Ojo, Grujic, Lewis and Williams should probably all move on for their own sakes and hopefully add some funds to the pot at the same time.

14 Jul 2021 18:56:35
4Vs, true. But, he's a nice third/ fourth choice and maybe he can stay fit as a backup playing less minutes.

14 Jul 2021 19:02:59
Red flyer, IF he can stay fit. History is not in his side here.

14 Jul 2021 19:03:04
Yep agreed. Ed002 has said the exact same for over a month. Any of us could have wrote what Pearce said. Looks like Barcelona has made a move for Saul, I am sure I read that somewhere a few weeks ago as well 🤣.

14 Jul 2021 19:13:33
Don't shoot the messenger. Just passing on what I've read :)

14 Jul 2021 19:14:49
Yeah big IF but I live in hope. Neco.10m was being thrown around for him last month. Wouldn't mind either way. But, we'd need to replace him.

14 Jul 2021 19:29:52
We are not Monkey, I am merely brown nosing ed002.

14 Jul 2021 20:15:05
@Redflyer, 10M for Neco would be too good to turn down and it would give him a much better chance of playing regularly so a win win.

If it happened though then I don't think we would sign a replacement. There's no way we can get a quality right back to sign with Trent so good and he hasn't had many injuries (touch wood! ) . If Neco goes then it's a makeshift backup if Trent did get injured or needed resting, Konate, Milner, Gomez, Fabinho, maybe Conor Bradley from the youth team.

14 Jul 2021 07:45:56
Eds may I ask if Tielemans to Liverpool is likely?

{Ed002's Note - Yuri Tielemans (CM) Could be made available to bring in funds. Liverpool have a lengthy list of CM players they have been looking at and YT would cost a similar amount to Saul, or perhaps a little more, but wages would be much lower. There has been no approach or offer to Leicester at this time.}