Lallana fancies Anfield switch?

I love watching him. Great addition. Let's hope we can get beyond the posturing and positioning and do the business. If Suarez goes we are going to need as many game changers as possible.

Comes down to money for me, we've got finite resources and I can't imagine this lad is gonna be worth more than 20 mil at the absolute maximum.

Boyhood blue, eh? If he signs, I can't wait for him to do the old Leighton Baines 'change-a-roo' trick:

"Yeah, I remember paying my 50p bus fare from St Albans to get to Anfield on a match day. None of us had tickets, so we used to wait around until they opened the gates on 75 minutes for the early leavers and then we'd sneak in."

 

Southampton star Adam Lallana is ready to turn down Manchester United and Chelsea and has set his heart on a summer move to Anfield according to various reports today.

 

Lallana, a boyhood Evertonian, is one of the hottest properties in the Premier League and made the six man shortlist for the PFA Player of the Year award that was won by Luis Suarez last weekend, and he’s high on the wanted list of several big clubs including the Reds.

 

United had been hotly tipped to secure a double swoop for Lallana and Saints team-mate Luke Shaw, but whilst the teenage left back is said to be up for a move to Old Trafford, Lallana reportedly favours a switch to Anfield and is excited by the prospect of playing in Brendan Rodgers' exciting attacking side.

 

An opening bid of £15m has been mooted, but the Reds would surely have to up that if they are to secure the services of the exciting midfielder, who will almost certainly be on the plane to Brazil along with several Liverpool players for this summer’s World Cup.

 

 

Would you like to see Lallana at Anfield, and how much would you be prepared to pay to get him?

 

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This is like music to my ears, Dave. Him and Delph, please.

Have some rep.

It would be a good move for him, and us.

As for the price, with Chelsea, City, man U and arsenal likley to be buying this summer we will have to compete.

Boyhood blue eh? We've had a few of them...didn't turn out to be bad for us either.

He'd cost too much. Not worth £20m at all and we would be entering Stewart Downing territory if we paid that. 

He'd cost too much. Not worth £20m at all and we would be entering Stewart Downing territory if we paid that.

 

Llanna is a much better player than Downing in every way. He's got bottle for a start.

Him and Shaw seem to get on well. I suspect they touch each other. 

Lets hope they both come. 

Him and Shaw seem to get on well. I suspect they touch each other. 

 

Lets hope they both come.

Hehehe...come

Lallana and Delph?!?!

Lallana and Delph?!?!

Leave it out.

Leave it out.

Wasn't my suggestion.

Lallana would be a good buy. Just hope we don't get fleeced.

Lallana would be a good buy. Just hope we don't get fleeced.

Yeah, dont think there is a chance of that, seems like we have proved we'll go to other targets if they ask more than we value the player at.

Laaa la Lallana

Laaa la Lallana

Oh Adam La La La Lallana

Oh Adam La La La Lallana

Sturridge and Sterling

Coutinho

And Suarez

Is he significantly better than Coutinho, Henderson and Allen?

It's a Comolli signing really. Wait for a player with a bang average career to have an exceptionally good season, then sign him for 4 or 5 times more than he's ever been worth before and pray he's not another Zaki, Jones, Downing, Carroll, Adam, Mido, Santa Cruz, Zarate, Nugent, Papiss Cisse, Jeffers, Drenthe, Michu, Babel, Alfonso Alves (I could go on forever) etc.

Think he's a cracking player, but I'm a bit unsure of what it would mean for Coutinho, because he seems to play centrally.

Part of me thinks he's worth it, and part of me thinks it's £20m that could be better spent. 

Without passing judgement, he'll be 26 by season end, and he'll have only played in the PL about 70 times, and scored 13 or 14 goals.

Now, I'm a cunt, so you have to bear that in mind, but I'd rather we spent £15m on Ravel Morrison or Will Hughes, than spent £20m on Lallana.

I hate football these days, £20m on a 26 year old English lad with very little top flight experience?  He's getting close to his peak, is that a £20m player? 

Will Hughes just made the Championship team of the season, and he just turned 19 a fortnight ago.  Ravel Morrison is a cunt, but his ceiling is potentially very high. 

It's a Comolli signing really. Wait for a player with a bang average career to have an exceptionally good season, then sign him for 4 or 5 times more than he's ever been worth before and pray he's not another Zaki, Jones, Downing, Carroll, Adam, Mido, Santa Cruz, Zarate, Nugent, Papiss Cisse, Jeffers, Drenthe, Michu, Babel, Alfonso Alves (I could go on forever) etc.

Henderson had one good half season before we signed him, Allen had one season, Coutinho had one decent loan season in la liga, Sturridge had half a season playing regularly under Boas. What's your point? i can come up with an equally long list of players that have been signed off the back of one season and been excellent.

Him and Shaw seem to get on well. I suspect they touch each other. 

 

Lets hope they both come.

 

Fnarr fnarr!

Henderson had one good half season before we signed him, Allen had one season, Coutinho had one decent loan season in la liga, Sturridge had half a season playing regularly under Boas. What's your point? i can come up with an equally long list of players that have been signed off the back of one season and been excellent.

And if Lallana is so much better than any of those three midfielder you mentioned then brilliant sign him up and he's an automatic first choice. But if he's not, if he isn't far and away better than those three then really what's the point.

25 million is a lot to spend on depth.

Spend £40m on Vidal instead.

Henderson had one good half season before we signed him, Allen had one season, Coutinho had one decent loan season in la liga, Sturridge had half a season playing regularly under Boas. What's your point? i can come up with an equally long list of players that have been signed off the back of one season and been excellent.

Sturridge and Coutinho had massive reputations in the game as youngsters and their careers always looked to be heading towards the top, we signed them after they had stalled a bit for cut-price fees. That's the complete opposite of waiting for a player with no reputation in the game to perform far above his career average and then signing him for ridiculous money.

Henderson and Allen were signed at the ages of 20 and 22 respectively, having already established themselves as very good Premier League midfielders. Lallana was playing in the Championship as a 24 year old, while every half decent player his club produced was poached by a big team before they'd left their teens.

You give me a list of players who have been completely average for the first 24 years of their lives and then gone on to be absolutely superb footballers (which is what you'd hope to get when you spend over £20m). And I mean in recent years, when every club in the land is run over with a fine tooth comb by dozens of scouting systems, all looking for anyone who can play at a higher level than they're currently at.