January 2018 Transfer Thread

[Boss]

I reckon we'll sign him. The Jurgen factor is strong.

[Jose Jones]

Didn’t Matip come from Schalke? Hopefully they’re buds.

[Gym Beglin]

Regardless we should still get Can to sign a new contract. Losing him on a free would be catastrophic.

I think the time to beg him to sign was last year, now it’s just a foregone conclusion he’s leaving on a free.

[aRdja]

Does Jordan Henderson:-

 

Score -X

Create -X

Win tackles - X

Win headers when attacking or defending our corners / free kicks - X

Win headers anywhere - X

Protect his back 4 -X

Drive the team on from losing positions - X

 

Jordan Henderson is a nothing player and persisting with him as our captain and a centre mid is one of the major reasons we have won nothing in years.

 

To give him some credit, he does win the pre match toss up now and then.

His assist count for a deep lying player is quite good right? He doesn’t give the ball away either. He’s a good third midfielder in a midfield three.... the ‘legs’ next to a creator and a destroyer. Or you could have all three combined in players like Gerrard, Vidal, Pogba... but they’d cost you an arm and three legs..

[Colonel Bumcunt]

THE PROBLEM WITH OUR MIDFIELDERS IS THAT NONE OF THEM ARE GOOD ENOUGH AT ANY ONE THING.

 

SHOULD BE SENT BACK TO BARRACKS, FULL DEBRIEF AND PT ASSESSMENT.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Loud noises

[Jairzinho]

THE PROBLEM WITH OUR MIDFIELDERS IS THAT NONE OF THEM ARE GOOD ENOUGH AT ANY ONE THING.

 

SHOULD BE SENT BACK TO BARRACKS, FULL DEBRIEF AND PT ASSESSMENT.

 

I agree with Code.

[Gym Beglin]

Kieran Tierney = possible Phillip Lahm

[Jay86]

Goretzka will probably end up at Man City or Man Utd. I’d love us to sign him and keep Can.

 

Keita, Goretzka, Can, Wijnaldum and Lallana is a very good selection.

[Bjornebye]

Kieran Tierney = possible Phillip Lahm

 

 

Not far from the truth there mate. 20 years of age, captained Scotland last night. 

[aws]

Goretzka sounds quite good. I'm surprised nobody on here has mentioned him before.

[Guest]

Liverpool are reportedly closing in on a deal to sign highly-rated Bayer Leverkusen starlet Kai Havertz.

 

The 18-year-old, who has supposedly already visited the club’s Melwood training ground, only signed a new five-year deal with Leverkusen in July but the Reds are said to have stepped up their interest in the player.

 

Indeed, the report claims that Jurgen Klopp, Steven Gerrard and Philippe Coutinho all greeted the player on his trip to Merseyside in October.

 

Havertz has four goals and three assists in only five starts for the Bundesliga outfit this season but the Reds are expected to face competition to get their man.

 

Top clubs in Germany are also said to be keen on the player but Klopp is hoping to use his own links to his homeland to get the transfer over the line.

 

More on Liverpool Echo regarding this player...

 

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-transfer-target-kai-havertz-13880626

[sir roger]

Good to see Stevie getting out of bed to see this lad.

[Guest]

Good to see Stevie getting out of bed to see this lad.

Klopp probably dragged Stevie's bed out to Melwood and probably told Coutinho that Neymar was at Melwood on a surprise visit.

[TheHowieLama]

Klopp probably dragged Stevie's bed out to Melwood and probably told Coutinho that Neymar was at Melwood on a surprise visit.

 

Coutinho had time on his hands as he was on the mend with the bad back

 

I think sometimes they have to stick around until near half past two

[Carvalho Diablo]

Goeretzka, yeh, ok.

[Ne Moe Imya]

Rory Smith has rubbished the "Havertz visits Melwood" story, by the way.  Which is too bad, he's a cracking player and if he keeps getting better could develop into a super one. 

 

Would probably mean that the coaching staff really don't think Grujic is going to turn into a Liverpool-standard player, which would surprise me a bit, but he was always a bit of a punt I suppose.

 

Havertz is really good, though.  Wonder what he'd cost.  Probably something obscene, I'm guessing.  He's only just signed a contract with Leverkusen.  And if you're picky he's not great tracking back and is pretty one-footed.  But even with those problems he still puts up great numbers and if he can improve in those areas, like I said, potentially an absolute monster of a player.

[Guest]

Coutinho had time on his hands as he was on the mend with the bad back

 

I think sometimes they have to stick around until near half past two

So Coutinho was probably leaving as Stevie was getting up from his slumber? It's amazing anything gets done at Melwood and probably explains why we tend to struggle in the early kick-offs.

[The Acolyte]

 

Would probably mean that the coaching staff really don't think Grujic is going to turn into a Liverpool-standard player, which would surprise me a bit, but he was always a bit of a punt I suppose.

 

 

Yep that's right let's bin him off before giving him a chance. Worked well with Suso didn't it?

[TheHowieLama]

Its been a problem for years that we think we cannot have an abundance of talent. Imagine the competition for places that a player like Asensio faced.

 

Mariano comes through their youth system blocked by every top player in the world, goes on to be awesome in his first season away (that's after they flogged Morata too) - Kovacic cant get a game and the have Llorente as well.

 

Understand it is Madrid but the mindset should be you are always adding the best players you can regardless of who you have now.

[aRdja]

Its been a problem for years that we think we cannot have an abundance of talent. Imagine the competition for places that a player like Asensio faced.

 

Mariano comes through their youth system blocked by every top player in the world, goes on to be awesome in his first season away (that's after they flogged Morata too) - Kovacic cant get a game and the have Llorente as well.

 

Understand it is Madrid but the mindset should be you are always adding the best players you can regardless of who you have now.

Word.

[Boss]

We haven't had a side since the 80's where you could say we had an abundance of talent. Even the Rafa sides had some pure shite playing for us, and often times worse players still - on the bench. So it's an expectancy born out of reality. 

[TheHowieLama]

Well it is twofold - we will never be as deep as a team like Real but adding a good young player in the midfield says nothing about Grujic's potential. Isco, Asensio, Llorente, Mariano - they were all in the system for years - since early teens in those cases bar Isco.

 

If you become a team that has to promise a young player games to get them to consider coming in then you have to accept you are a stepping stone club and all that comes with.

And not bitch about it - we used to be the mighty Liverpool, if he doesnt want to die for the shirt, blah blah etc.

[Boss]

Well it is twofold - we will never be as deep as a team like Real but adding a good young player in the midfield says nothing about Grujic's potential. Isco, Asensio, Llorente, Mariano - they were all in the system for years - since early teens in those cases bar Isco.

 

If you become a team that has to promise a young player games to get them to consider coming in then you have to accept you are a stepping stone club and all that comes with.

And not bitch about it - we used to be the mighty Liverpool, if he doesnt want to die for the shirt, blah blah etc.

 

That's absolutely right and i can't refute what you're saying here. The fans mentality, however, is not a problem. Whether the fans accept we can have an abundance of talent, or not, is irrelevant, because the club is not owned by the fans.

 

Unless you're saying that the club itself doesn't aspire to be competitive - in terms of having quality all over the pitch. In which case i agree. But then again, who is actually responsible for that?

[ben48]

It states on Newsnow that we have agreed a deal to sign Leon Goretzka in January.Anyone hear anything.