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Reds Dig French left back?

Reports in France today claim Liverpool are in talks with PSG over their talented young left back Lucas Digne.

 

French newspaper La Parisien report that the Reds have made an enquiry about the 21 year old who is unsettled due to a lack of playing time behind first choice left back Maxwell. Digne has been linked with LFC regularly over the past couple of years and is very highly rated in his homeland.

 

The Reds need urgent help at both full back spots as young Spanish pair Javier Manquillo and Alberto Moreno both failed to impress in their debut season in England, Jose Enrique spends more time posting selfies on twitter than he does on the field while Glen Johnson will leave when his contract expires at the end of this month.

 

Digne would appear to fit the bill nicely. He joined PSG from Lille two years ago for £10m and has eight caps for France, but with the European Championships at the end of the season he cannot afford to be sat on the bench. His situation is not too dissimilar to that which resulted in Mamadou Sakho making the switch from the French capital to Merseyside two summers ago.

 

Meanwhile, it's claimed that Dani Alves’ decision to remain at Barca may lead to Manchester United reigniting their interest in Reds’ target Nathaniel Clyne. Liverpool recently had a £10m bid rejected for the England full back and it looked like they were the only horse in the race after United dropped their interest in him.

 

Southampton are holding out for nearer £15m and if United’s reported change of heart is accurate then that will help drive the price up. Will the Reds take United on or will they walk away and blame a lack of Champions League football?

 

Burnley’s Kieran Trippier could be a fall back option. He’s been heavily linked with Spurs this summer and has a reported buy out clause of just £3.5m.

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We could have had an at-peak Paulo Maldini or Roberto Carlos at left back last season and we'd still have finished 6th. 

 

It's an area we can improve on but it's nowhere near our top priority. 

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He's a good left back Digne, Clyne would be an excellent signing as well. If it means we'd finally see an end to makeshift right backs as left backs then it's worth it.

If we can't get anything out of Moreno or Manquilo then we won't get anything out of Clyne or Digne. We might do with better coaches coming in, in which case stick with what we've got.

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He was more than useless last Season.  A total liability more like.

He lost confidence for sure but he's 22 in his PL debut season playing in a crap defense

Full backs often seem to hit their peak in their late twenties so its ridiculous to give up on the lad yet.  

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Trippier is bog average according to my city mate, he's a former trainee there, he said he'd be 'very suprised' if we were going after him, I said I wouldn't. 

Possibly an unfair judgment as he never played a game for City.

 

I only saw him a few times for Burnley last season and he seemed solid. Not exactly someone to get excited about, but a few of our better full-backs over the past 10 or so years haven't exactly filled us with excitement when they signed.

 

I think Moreno will come good though so don't think spending good money on another young full-back would be so wise. Get Clyne in and Bob back and Flanno fit, both of them can cover both full-back positions with Manquillo and Smith for emergencies. We'll be lucky to get shot of Enrique. No one would pay his wages.

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Moreno is up there with some of the worst full backs we've ever had. His positional sense in defending is atrocious.

If he hadnt scored that goal at tottenham, peoples opinions would be vastly different.

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Moreno is up there with some of the worst full backs we've ever had.

 

Bullshit. Just in recent times, we've had to do with the likes of Dossena, Konchesky and Cissoko. Moreno is miles better than these. He was very good under Emery and was in the initial spanish squad for the world cup. He just needs a good tactical coach to help him improve that side of his game, unfortunately he has Rodgers.

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Some of the shite on here about Moreno is unbelievable.  He wasn't great last year but he's very young, his first season abroad and he was very, very far from being our biggest defensive problem.

 

For me, left back would be very low on my list of priorities.  I'm happy to have Digne, he looked a player 2 years ago when PSG signed him and then I promptly forgot he existed.  However, I can't understand how you'd look at our side and think "Hm, left back, yep, that's where I want to spend 10m to improve."  You just know that later on in the window we're going to be hearing about how we don't have the money to go for Kovacic and Benzema so we're going to settle for Delph and Benteke instead.

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Some of the shite on here about Moreno is unbelievable. He wasn't great last year but he's very young, his first season abroad and he was very, very far from being our biggest defensive problem.

 

For me, left back would be very low on my list of priorities. I'm happy to have Digne, he looked a player 2 years ago when PSG signed him and then I promptly forgot he existed. However, I can't understand how you'd look at our side and think "Hm, left back, yep, that's where I want to spend 10m to improve." You just know that later on in the window we're going to be hearing about how we don't have the money to go for Kovacic and Benzema so we're going to settle for Delph and Benteke instead.

moreno isn't good defensively or attacking though, think brendan has decided the fullbacks/wingbacks are key areas to whatever system he's looking to play

 

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Bullshit. Just in recent times, we've had to do with the likes of Dossena, Konchesky and Cissoko. Moreno is miles better than these. He was very good under Emery and was in the initial spanish squad for the world cup. He just needs a good tactical coach to help him improve that side of his game, unfortunately he has Rodgers.

Might be a controversial preference but I'd take Cissokho over Moreno. Both are terrible going forward but at least Aly was ok defensively.

 

Agree on the other two though.

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You guys don't like Moreno attacing wise? I thought he is decent in that area, has pace, knows where the goal is, crossing could be better. What is up with Enrique? And doubt we will buy another LB after spending 12mil on Moreno last summer. If we are looking to improve our defence we need a RB and Lovren as a 3rd CB does not fill me with confidence. Neither does Kolo..

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Couldnt nail down a place despite how shit we were and also gave some shocker displays which were hidden by teammates just as bad. I thought he might have been good when we got him but I now see I was wrong he really is shit.

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