Enrique: Liverpool should be wary of making big money midfield signings like Moises Caicedo   

Jesus he talks Didi levels of shite

He is a snidey cunt. Wasnt it him with that horrific 'dying swan' act when Henderson got booked for barely touching him?

In fairness he has regularly called out FSG for being cunts

1 hour ago, VladimirIlyich said:

He is a snidey cunt. Wasnt it him with that horrific 'dying swan' act when Henderson got booked for barely touching him?

Yep.  Absolute shithouse breakdancing on the floor.  I wouldn’t even bother with the cunt after that let alone the £65m he’d supposedly cost.

It's a very valid point he makes though; one big money midfielder alone won't our midfield, we need 4 or 5 to do that.

Caicedo isn’t a major signing for a big club. We’re not going to get three midfielders to solve our problems for £8m, £10m and £12m. It’s not 1998.

How much did Brighton pay for Caicedo. We don't need world class to improve our situation. Bloody Lallana legged our midfield yesterday, ours have too many miles on the clock and Elliot is way way too slow and easily knocked off the ball, he has zero acceleration in the first few yards to compensate for it either. Same can be said with Jones he never looks like he can get about he just smiles into spaces and gets rid of it in the sane direction he recieved it mostly. If everyone was fit you'd still look at our squad and say this is imbalanced in terms of players for positions and age groups. 

33 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

How much did Brighton pay for Caicedo. We don't need world class to improve our situation. Bloody Lallana legged our midfield yesterday, ours have too many miles on the clock and Elliot is way way too slow and easily knocked off the ball, he has zero acceleration in the first few yards to compensate for it either. Same can be said with Jones he never looks like he can get about he just smiles into spaces and gets rid of it in the sane direction he recieved it mostly. If everyone was fit you'd still look at our squad and say this is imbalanced in terms of players for positions and age groups. 

About £7-8mill (inc loan fee) and around the same for Alexis Mac Allister but that was in 1998.

5 minutes ago, J-V said:

 

About £7-8mill (inc loan fee) and around the same for Alexis Mac Allister but that was in 1998.

Good luck getting that price when the name ‘Liverpool FC’ is mentioned, assuming we had a fit for purpose South American scouting network.

Might cost us a bit more but surely we can be smarter scouting. It feels like our scouting system is whoever plays well against us or it pops up onscreen someone might be cheap. Keep hearing we can't take risks on unknowns yet play Elliot or give games to known failures like Ox and Keita we gave Milner a contract taking him to 37. The biggest risk you can take is to stand still and watch while others catch up and over take. There's something wrong at the club.

8 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Might cost us a bit more but surely we can be smarter scouting. It feels like our scouting system is whoever plays well against us or it pops up onscreen someone might be cheap. Keep hearing we can't take risks on unknowns yet play Elliot or give games to known failures like Ox and Keita we gave Milner a contract taking him to 37. The biggest risk you can take is to stand still and watch while others catch up and over take. There's something wrong at the club.

I think ourselves and other ‘big’ clubs often prefer to see how a South American player does in Portugal or with a smaller English club.
 

Surely it would make economic sense to cut out the middle man every now and then. Some of Brighton’s scouts must now be pretty well sought after too. Brilliantly run little club, great football at times too. 

1 hour ago, El Rojo said:

Caicedo isn’t a major signing for a big club. We’re not going to get three midfielders to solve our problems for £8m, £10m and £12m. It’s not 1998.

Probably true. But he’s probably massively overpriced, due to playing in the PL and because of all the attention he’s been getting. Brighton is also a well functioning unit, which will make the players look even better. Bit like when our full backs were the best in the world a couple of years ago.

I reckon there are probably 50 midfielders around the different European leagues that are more or less the same level and can do the same job as Caicedo, and getting one of those for anywhere between 10 and 50 million is definately a better idea than getting Caicedo for 100. 
 

As an example look no further than Wijnaldum and the job he did here for 5 seasons, clearly never a world class player that would go for record transfer fees, but did a great job for us.

1 hour ago, El Rojo said:

Caicedo isn’t a major signing for a big club. We’re not going to get three midfielders to solve our problems for £8m, £10m and £12m. It’s not 1998.

Could get Caicedo, McAllister and Enzo Fernandez for those amounts in 2022 and they’d have improved ours immediately 

We don't have a pot to piss in and he is talking about £100m on one player. We all know a midfielder should have been bought in 2021, another one in 2022. We don't need an ex footballer to make a genius statement that we need more than one midfielder. 

But we don't have a pot to piss in so it doesn't matter.

4 hours ago, Daisy said:

In fairness he has regularly called out FSG for being cunts

Yeh, I thought he was having a go at Jose, then realised it was Caicedo !!!

Have to say I was disgusted at this lad's play acting, being injured after Hendo's tackle on him yesterday. Someone on the match thread said he was break dancing on the ground which was a very apt description, I thought.

Other Brighton players were at it. It was like 1970's play acting at it's best, double repeated roll overs, flayling arms and legs all over the place.

56 minutes ago, Joey8FrogsLegs said:

Probably true. But he’s probably massively overpriced, due to playing in the PL and because of all the attention he’s been getting. Brighton is also a well functioning unit, which will make the players look even better. Bit like when our full backs were the best in the world a couple of years ago.

 

I reckon there are probably 50 midfielders around the different European leagues that are more or less the same level and can do the same job as Caicedo, and getting one of those for anywhere between 10 and 50 million is definately a better idea than getting Caicedo for 100. 
 

As an example look no further than Wijnaldum and the job he did here for 5 seasons, clearly never a world class player that would go for record transfer fees, but did a great job for us.

You look back at Gini how he could hold onto a ball in tight spaces no matter the pressure he was under it was next level. I never really appreciated it because he would lay it off 5 yards and you'd think what was gained but its what wasn't lost. His ability to keep the ball was huge, I under appreciated what he offered.

2 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

You look back at Gini how he could hold onto a ball in tight spaces no matter the pressure he was under it was next level. I never really appreciated it because he would lay it off 5 yards and you'd think what was gained but its what wasn't lost. His ability to keep the ball was huge, I under appreciated what he offered.

Very good point. And one more thing that the current midfield is lacking. I rate Thiago highly, but this is a weakness in his play. Not to mention Keita, which should be first choice based on the last few games, he’s terrible at this, pushed off the ball way too easily. Fabinho’s feet are simply too slow, and Henderson doesnt have the technical ability nor the mentality to come out on top in tight situations.

“That’s what happens when you sign players from smaller teams, even if they play in the Premier League.

“It is not the same to play for a smaller team as it is to play for one of the biggest teams.”

Didn’t we sign that silly shit prick Enrique from Newcastle? Case in point then. 

I liked and like Jose