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Reds set to Fire the Lazar?

Lazar Markovic is being linked with a return to Benfica this summer. Portuguese daily newspaper A Bola claims the Lisbon giants have informed the Reds they’d be interested in taking him back but understand a deal may be difficult.

 

Other well placed sources have suggested that there are concerns within the club that Markovic may not be equipped to thrive in English football and therefore might be one of those offloaded this summer. Should that prove to be the case, it’s unlikely the Reds will get anything like the £19.8m they paid for him a year ago. Benfica certainly won’t pay that amount, although a loan deal has been suggested in some reports.

 

The 21 year old showed flashes of what he could do in a spell around the turn of the year but for much of the season he found himself on the periphery and Markovic suffered more than most from Brendan Rodgers not having a settled formation. Having failed to force his way into the 4-2-3-1 set up early in the season he did enjoy some early success in an unfamiliar wing back role when Rodgers changed tactics, but that didn’t last and he lost his place to Jordon Ibe when the teenager returned from a loan spell in January.

 

As with several of last summer’s signings, Markovic is currently regarded as a flop but he’s hardly been helped by the constant chopping and changing and formation switches, Rodgers rarely played the 4-3-3 system that Markovic had presumably been signed to fit into and unless that changes this year then it’s difficult to see where the Serb will fit in once again, especially as he appears to be behind the likes of Ibe, Adam Lallana, Philippe Coutinho and - for the moment at least - Raheem Sterling.

 

 

 

 

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One thing Berger had that a lot of our players like benayoun lacked is balls. He was a big game player.

Not always,I disagree. Like I said earlier,he was hot and cold.

My memories are also that most of his better games came in home games,but its been so long its difficult to remember with any certainty. He did jump out of tackles a fair bit though.

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SSN saying that Liverpool are talking to Fenerbahce about loaning Markovic to them for a year.

 

I hope not.  If this season is going to be any fun at all, then we're going to play a fuck of a lot of games, so we're going to need a deep squad.  I don't see the point in scraping Lazar off now (especially as there is no intention to replace him).  If he's good enough to play in the Europa League for Fener, why not for the Reds?

 

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11669/9968372/liverpools-lazar-markovic-in-talks-over-loan-move-to-fenerbahce

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We still have about 30 players. A much bigger squad than City or Chelsea.

 

Although I'd rather we trimmed it by binning half a dozen permanently, than loaning players out.

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Can't see the point in this. As AoT says, we will have plenty of games across 4 competitions which was why we were beefing up the squad in the first place wasn't it.

 

Not a great day when you are writing off £36m of transfer fees within 12 months.

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Lazer Surgery , he'll be running around turkey with a book, he'll be running around turkey with a book,,,,,,,,Lazers turkish deeeeeeelllll light.whateva u=you do fenna don't ask the laz to run around cones the mef only runs in a straight line thats why he's captain lazer.

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We still have about 30 players. A much bigger squad than City or Chelsea.

 

Although I'd rather we trimmed it by binning half a dozen permanently, than loaning players out.

Only if you're counting Brannigan, Fulton, Kent, McLoughlin, Yesil, Ilori, etc.  How many of them are likely to see the first team this season?  How many are likely to be good enough?

 

Markovic may not have set the world on fire last season, but he's got the excuse that it was his first season in a more physically demanding league and that he was in a team that was usually unsettled and a bit shit.  I'd like a chance to see what he'd be capable of once he's had a chance to settle in and when he's playing in a stronger set-up.

 

If we want to trim the squad, Markovic is not the one to start with.

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Only if you're counting Brannigan, Fulton, Kent, McLoughlin, Yesil, Ilori, etc.  How many of them are likely to see the first team this season?  How many are likely to be good enough?

 

 

I counted Ilori out of those.

 

 

 

If we want to trim the squad, Markovic is not the one to start with.

 

Agreed.

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Aspas 9M, Alberto 8M, Markovic 20M, Balotelli 16M, LLLiiLLori 8M, Borini 12M, Moreno 12M

 

That is not cool. 

 

That is a really shit hot player plus wages. Spunked. Thanks guyz. 

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What the absolute fuck is going on? 

 

This seems a bit like that time when Rafa signed a load of his own "youth" players because he had control over the first team squad and was playing politics because he didn't like the youth set up. 

Rodgers is deliberately fucking off any player signed by "the committee" in order to cement his position of power and decision making.  Apart from Coutinho who is so good that he is protected.

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Markovic needs to play, really it's a toss up between him and Ibe who will play for us. If we've chosen to invest the time in Ibe then that's fine but you would think loaning him somewhere of a higher standard than Turkey would be more beneficial

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I think he showed enough last season to suggest he can play in a settled side along the forward line. Not a wing back like the Toothed One had him playing. Joke setup.

 

I also hate him and hope his phone gets nicked.

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He isn't gonna play is he...

 

Both him and Lallana should never have been signed - just no room for both.

 

If and when Sturridge comes back surely we go to a 4-4-2 diamond - how does he get in, where do we accomodate him, Lallana, Firmino and Ibe in that set up?

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Markovic is absolute tosh and will never be a top player.

 

Dreadful.

 

It was awful waste of money buying him. What happens next - loaning, keeping, selling for peanuts - is directly related to him being shit and a waste if money.

 

We can do nothing positive now to rectify the mistake of buying him.

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I thought Rodgers's modus operandi was developing young players? We should have looked at Brendan's small print a bit closer before splashing £20m on a youngster. At least we've got Lallana to come back in so we aren't short in the position.

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He isn't gonna play is he...

 

Both him and Lallana should never have been signed - just no room for both.

 

If and when Sturridge comes back surely we go to a 4-4-2 diamond - how does he get in, where do we accomodate him, Lallana, Firmino and Ibe in that set up?

I'll bet my last dollar that we won't play 2 up top in any starting line-up this season. We will be left exposed at the back if that was to happen and that just doesn't fit in with Rodgers's plan to keep himself in employment.

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How much have we pissed away over the last five years? We must be close to being the most wasteful club in Europe? 

 

It's all very well pointing out 5th place is par given our financial position but we've really not helped ourselves. There are literally ten's of millions that could have been spent on better players and more competitive wages either out of the door or still in the club.

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