January 2018 Transfer Thread

[Rotpeter]

Ings deserves a chance, it is the right thing to do. Sturridge isn't good enough as a starter.

 

I've a feeling Sturridge has this season to work out how to be good again.  Klopp doesn't seem to be in a hurry to finalize the squad.

[Evil_Ways]

Not without a top class striker it wont

I think it will.

Utd and City are the only PL games we have failed to score in. Where as our defense and gk have cost us far more. But i agree someone like Aubameyang would be quite good to have.

[Boss]

We're always 4-5 players away from a title challenge. It's amazing how we sign about 5 players every season and stay exactly 4-5 players away from having a complete team. It's a gift really. Forever also-rans. 

[Jockey]

Exactly Boss. Just build a very good team. We were a slip away in 2014, with glaring weaknesses. How many top class signings have United bought these past few years? They are still not going to win it. Arsenal have been a defensive midfielder away for 10 years.

[Jockey]

I do wonder if the wrong striker - whilst scoring the cliched 25 goals a season - would reduce the impact of Mane and Salah.

[Lee909]

Not likely

Look how often the ball is in the box and inly one of them is and Firmino is nowhere to be seen. Or the amount of sitters missed

[Jockey]

Not likely

Look how often the ball is in the box and inly one of them is and Firmino is nowhere to be seen. Or the amount of sitters missed

I think his movement is excellent though, he creates space. Wagner yes, Giroud, Lukaku would not offer enough i.m.o.

[TheHowieLama]

Liverpool will have to compete with Barcelona if they want to sign Southampton's 26-year-old defender Virgil van Dijk in January.

[Jockey]

Liverpool will have to compete with Barcelona if they want to sign Southampton's 26-year-old defender Virgil van Dijk in January.

I'm calling nonsense!

 

Sounds a bit like 'give is Coutinho or we'll fuck up this signing'.

[sir roger]

We're always 4-5 players away from a title challenge. It's amazing how we sign about 5 players every season and stay exactly 4-5 players away from having a complete team. It's a gift really. Forever also-rans. 

 

Maybe if we tried to buy players in positions where we are weak it might help.

 

Bit revolutionary I know.

[magicrat]

I'm calling nonsense!

 

Sounds a bit like 'give is Coutinho or we'll fuck up this signing'.

 

Of course it is. Trump levels of pathetic behaviour, 

Spoilt fucking kids with a massive sense of entitlement

[Moo]

Him & Ings staying are the reason we’re not going for a top draw striker. FSG aren’t gonna be forking out extra wages while these 2 are taking home £200k pwk between them and hardly getting on the pitch for us.

 

 

Exactly. Would anyone be really surprised if it turned out FSG wouldn't sanction a top class striker (with top class wages) until Sturridge is off the books?

[Jay86]

The Sturridge thing is really odd it's like fsg insist on him being kept or something.. He has been dead for years.. Where we even linked to any replacements over the summer in a serious manner?

Or nobody is willing to pay actual money for him because everyone can see he’s finished. He’ll go somewhere when his contracts up or we loan him out and pay his wages. We’d realistically want about £30m for him because if he was fully fit and firing like he was he’d easily be worth £60m+ by now but not one club in the world would be willing to pay that much money for someone who could potentially be available for less than half of your games.

[INTORRESTING]

We then need a back up for the world class striker .

 

Sturridge and ings are a waste of space and solanke is 4th choice at best. Firmino isn't a striker.

 

 

 

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[Hades]

We sign a world-class striker, ie. a Suarez in 2011-2103 and suddenly the service dries up because we had to sell creative players to fund the purchase. Short blanket. Football isn't a perfect science. We can do better, but that's because of FSG's overly restrictive player parameters, not the choice of a striker vs winger. 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

More likely to get a compo pay put than a transfer fee for Ings.

[Barnesey]

I'd spend the £60m set aside for VVD on Aubameyang. Nicking a goal every now and again takes pressure of the defence, builds momentum and will make us a better side.

 

It means we would have to play 4-2-3-1 but Bobby and others would all get a chance behind PEA. And, on occasions, we play 4-3-3 and give our striker a rest.

 

If we had him at the start of the season I reckon we'd have 6 more points now.

[Numero Veinticinco]

There should be no reason why we can't afford both.

[Grinch]

Zero chance of our owners ever sanctioning the high wage and fee for a player his age.

 

This much is known by now.

[Numero Veinticinco]

Zero chance of our owners ever sanctioning the high wage and fee for a player his age.

 

This much is known by now.

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

I think his movement is excellent though, he creates space. Wagner yes, Giroud, Lukaku would not offer enough i.m.o.

 

Totally agree with your posts on this. It's obvious that Firmino adds a lot to the team as a whole, both in attack and defence.

 

Ideally you would of course replace him with someone who could do exactly what he does, but also scored 30 goals a season on top of that.

 

The problem is there is only a handful of players in the world that would offer top quality in both these departments, so unless we go out and get Suarez or something similar in quality and attributes (and price), then you need to make a trade off.

[3 Stacks]

Only Griezmann, Gab Jesus and Benzema are better than Firmino in that sort of profile and in the role they're asked to do. We absolutely need an alternative, though, preferably a poacher who is mobile.

[liverpoolsno9]

Only Griezmann, Gab Jesus and Benzema are better than Firmino in that sort of profile and in the role they're asked to do. We absolutely need an alternative, though, preferably a poacher who is mobile.

You missed Suarez out, he's would be the ideal.

Sanchez too.

[Marko121]

 

Zero chance of our owners ever sanctioning the high wage and fee for a player his age.

 

This much is known by now.

Who is she?

[Captain Turdseye]

Who is she?

It is known.