Liverpool's transfer business was shocking last summer and it seems to me like we haven't learnt from our mistakes. We are still paying too much money for young players with 'potential.' Its really starting to annoy me when i see arsenal signing a proven goalscorer in lukas podolski and we are signing fabio borini for the same price. Now we are trying to sign joe allen for around £15million. Arsenal are signing santi cazorla for just a few million more. The two players are worlds apart in terms of quality. Its just a joke and its going to cost us a top four place and therefore the quality players which we already posses. We don't have much money so we should be spending it wisely. Going abroad there are some bargains on offer. Newcastle got a few last year. This year the spanish market looks to be providing good value for money. NURI SAHIN. Rodgers said the other day we are going to try and get some good players on loan. We should be going all out for Sahin. He's exactly what we need. Forget joe allen for god's sake. Gaston ramirez is another player being linked to us. This is another guy we should be going all out for. he's available for around the same price as joe allen. I can't understand the logic of making allen the priority of ramirez. thats just pure stupidity!
I have nothing against joe allen. I think he's a good player and i'd have him over adam and henderson anyday. but at this time when we have limited resources, you have to spend your money wisely. £15million could be better spent elsewhere.
Continuing the rant I also can't understand why every bit of transfer business liverpool do whether its to sell or buy a player, it has to be preceded by months of speculation. why can't we just get a deal done like all the other clubs? It's just really frustrating when the club just appears to have no desire to challenge for that top four place. Man city, united, chelsea and now arsenal are streaks ahead of us. Surely we should be showing some sort of urgency.
buy ramirez for £15m and get sahin on loan and i'll be a very happy man.
Transfer Business
posted on 7/8/12
Anfield of Dreams - the man who doesn't let facts stand in theway of his rubbish arguments.
posted on 7/8/12
We are still paying too much money for young players with 'potential.'
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Eh?
posted on 7/8/12
honestlivpool whats confusing about that. we keep buying overpriced young players with 'potential.' henderson, carroll last year. borini, allen this year
posted on 7/8/12
So what if podiolski signed for Arsenal for a simialr price as Borini? How do we know that Borini won;t end up being better? Where is the faith in the player? Are we writing him off already. Borini is 6 years younger so the price isn't bad. Should we have spent that moeny on a proven premier league goal scorer such as Dempsey instead? Or would he have been too old?
And I find it admirable that folks seem to have enough time on their hands to not only watch Liverpool week in week out, but also to watch Swansea, assess Allen and then see enough of Bologna to determine that Ramirez would be a better player though his career.
also.....
"Continuing the rant I also can't understand why every bit of transfer business liverpool do whether its to sell or buy a player, it has to be preceded by months of speculation."
It because newspapers need to seel untis and Liverpool do their business for the most part, in private. Its because people on the internet have an insatiable appetite for instant gratification and forums such as this and many others just lap up the gossip. I thought most people knew that.
posted on 7/8/12
rubbish. signing a player can take a matter of hours. for liverpool however each signing/sale takes a matter of months. I also support nottingham forest. we signed four players in four days after our takeover went through. it really isn't that difficult. yet liverpool seem to find it so.
also i would normally applaud the signing of borini. however given what happened last summer. this summer we really should be signing proven talents rather than potential. buying youth used to be the cheap way of getting a quality. now its the other way round. we need to realise that. i don't want borini to be good in 3 years time. we need borini to be quality now. we should be showing more urgency in trying to get into the top four.
posted on 7/8/12
"I also support nottingham forest. "
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Eh what?? There can be no 'also support' in football. Done with you.
posted on 7/8/12
honestlivpool whats confusing about that. we keep buying overpriced young players with 'potential.' henderson, carroll last year. borini, allen this year
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Where does the "still" come from? We haven't overspent on anyone this year have we?
When did we sign Allen?
posted on 7/8/12
Don't complain about Liverpool or the JA606 legend TOOR will come on to your post and accuse you of crying like a baby and calling you an idiot!!! Simply because he does not have the brain power to construct an arguement without trading child like insults you would expect to hear on the school playing field... Be warmed!!!
no ..toor's thing is to accuse you of not being a liverpool fan ....and asking the admins to ban you from the board as he did me when i joined in feburary
ps op..i agree with what you said.....the fact that we are trying to sign joe allen from swansea instead of proven internationals like spurs and arsenal and united is driving me crazy.....
when it comes to liverpool ..the price goes up for some reason ......i saw a rag commenting that joe allens price could go up to TWENTY MILLION
posted on 7/8/12
I hear your points, but as fred says Ramirez and Sahin are gambles, Sahin should be ok after his experience in the German league.
But the Italian league really hasnt given us many successful players over the years.
Allen - although inflated - is a signing i think we NEED.
Not had anything like that since Alonso ... no i am not comparing him to Alonso btw
posted on 7/8/12
allen has the potential to become a 'liverpool quality player.' i would argue that ramirez already is and has the potential to become a world class player. allen's only had one season in the prem its not like he's proven yet and certainly isn't proven at top level football. ramirez has shown enough ability to manage in the prem.