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January 2011 Transfer Window Speculation Thread

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daily wail talking absolute bollocks again! No way on earth will this happen.

 

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson targets Liverpool keeper Pepe Reina | Mail Online

 

Sir Alex Ferguson is expected to be given at least £50million to spend in the transfer market and is targeting Liverpool’s Pepe Reina as a replacement for goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar.

 

The Manchester United manager is prepared to hold fire until the summer, when the Glazer family will let him dip into the transfer fund they have accumulated.

 

The thing is, I have no doubt in my mind that Roy would be willing to sell to Whiskeynose...

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The media are linking us to everybody at the minute. Think the only one that id guess is possibly true is ashley young purely because hodgson has fielded question about him and basically admitted were lookin at him. I think theres a good chance we'll see 1 or 2 new faces in January. Not necessarily big money signings but i think Roy will beg enough for a bit of reinforcement.

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According to IM scouting on the Beeb gossip column we're after Inter's RB (Santon?) In exchange for Kuyt and Babel.

 

Hmmm.

 

*scratches chin while awaiting loads of defensive signings*

 

On the subject of transfers, how the fuck are the Mancs being linked with everyone when they're skint?

Hazard for £20m is the latest.

 

Lazy journos I guess.

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According to IM scouting on the Beeb gossip column we're after Inter's RB (Santon?) In exchange for Kuyt and Babel.

 

Hmmm.

 

*scratches chin while awaiting loads of defensive signings*

 

On the subject of transfers, how the fuck are the Mancs being linked with everyone when they're skint?

Hazard for £20m is the latest.

 

Lazy journos I guess.

 

It's called shite stories doing the rounds:

 

http://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/forum/2593403-post2092.html

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Liverpool's rebuilding plans are being threatened by the refusal of several out-of-favour stars to walk away from fat contracts.

 

Stars like Ryan Babel, Milan Jovanovic and Joe Cole will not go unless their Anfield salaries are matched elsewhere.

 

The situation is frustrating manager Roy Hodgson and director of football strategy Damien Comolli, who want to free up space in the club's 25-man Premier League squad.

Roy Hodgson

 

Frustrated: Roy Hodgson is losing patience with his big name stars

 

It may even explain Hodgson's extraordinary comment last week that Cole was not his original choice of signing.

 

The 29-year-old England international has struggled at Anfield and is wanted on loan for the rest of the season by his former club West Ham. Hamburg and Genoa are interested in Jovanovic, while Babel turned down moves last summer to Birmingham, Tottenham and West Ham because they could not match his £70,000-a-week wage.

 

Cole's friend, Glen Johnson, would also like to leave after falling out with Hodgson but he is struggling to find another club prepared to offer the £120,000 a week he is paid.

 

It leaves Liverpool in a difficult position to reshape the squad and owners NESV are furious that previous managing- director, Christian Purslow, awarded several long-term contracts in the dying embers of the Tom Hicks-George Gillett regime.

 

Cole was given a four-year contract worth £90,000 a week last summer while 29-year-old Jovanovic arrived on a three-year deal at £60,000 a week.

 

If neither goes, it adds up to a staggering financial commitment of £27million.

 

Hodgson will not name the players he wants to leave - although his comments about Cole were particularly revealing - but he did say he hoped out-of-favour players put ambition before money.

 

He said: 'It's the usual question - money versus playing. How much does playing mean to you and how much does money mean to you?

 

'Some players not in the team will find other clubs want them, but the same sum of money [in wages] is not there. So the player has to ask if they are so uninterested in playing, will they sit for three years despite the fact that the club has made it perfectly clear they don't want them and there's no game for them.

 

'If they want that for three years, they've virtually got to kiss [their career] goodbye. If you spend three years on your backside, not kicking a ball apart from the odd reserve game, you'll find you're not going to be a player at all.'

 

Hodgson has been under pressure from virtually the first day he succeeded Rafa Benitez, whose decision to spend Christmas on Merseyside in the house he bought when Liverpool manager is doing little to ease the situation.

 

There is certainly no chance that NESV will welcome back the Spaniard who has been sacked by Inter Milan, but Hodgson still has to improve on a record of just one away win all season if he is to keep his job.

 

Yet the Liverpool boss seems remarkably calm about his situation, saying even long-serving Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has been under pressure in recent times.

 

'If there is speculation about me, I'm in good company,' he said. 'It's easier to name the people who aren't in that position than those who are.

Ryan Babel

 

'I remember going to Arsenal with Fulham a couple of years ago and after we held them 0-0 the booing [from Arsenal fans] towards their team was quite incredible.

 

'Arsene was visibly upset and saddened by that reaction, and at that time people were suggesting he'd had a good run and it was time to bring in the man with the magic wand.

 

'That's what we have to live with, we have to live with the situation. People are quite happy to see changes on a very regular basis, and a fan will have no qualms about seeing three managers a year at his club, waiting for a man with a magic wand that can turn all of the ills that everyone has seen into something different.

 

'Those of us who work in the game and have been working in the game a long time know that magic wands don't exist. You work with the set of players you find at your club and before you can really say this is a team I put together, this is a club I have fashioned, you're going to need quite a long time before that day will come around.

 

'In the meantime, results give you that time or they might not and you might be in and out before you've had a chance to do that.'

 

With Jovanovic unlikely to accept a drop in wages to move on, Liverpool will have to decide whether to give him a 'Golden Goodbye' to get him out.

 

Hodgson at least is boosted by the return of captain Steve Gerrard at Blackpool today if the match survives the big freeze, and at home to Wolves next week.

Milan Jovanovic

 

But the manager's New Year resolution is to pick up more away points after that one Barclays Premier League victory at Bolton.

 

In all, he has just one win in his last 27 away games as a manager in the top flight 'We have to take more points away from home.

 

You can't finish in the top four if you have so few away points as we took in 2010. That's a no-brainer,' he added.

 

 

Read more: Roy Hodgson warns Liverpool's fat cats to choose if they want a career or big money | Mail Online

 

Those wage figures scare me. If those wages are true then we are better off with out those players. They don't improve the team much really. They are being paid to do absolutely fuck all. No wonder FSG were a bit shocked to see the ridiculous wage bill.

 

Looks like that twat Pruslow negotiated ridiculous wages for average players. Fuck off.

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Indeed. Demonstrates why we need a top CEO and why we shouldn't give a mananger full control.

 

But the last CEO put Joe Cole on 90k p/w.

 

We just need to stop making fucking shit decisions. Manager, CEO, Chairman, everyone.

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But the last CEO put Joe Cole on 90k p/w.

 

We just need to stop making fucking shit decisions. Manager, CEO, Chairman, everyone.

 

Arsenal were offering 80K for him that time I think. Arsenal have the highest revenue in the league and even they were a bit unwilling to match his wage demands.

 

I read somewhere that Tottenham don't go above 80-90k a week. Modric earns 70k a week. They are doing well and are able to maitain a competitive squad. It is ridiculous that we are paying these guys extortionate wages. What is more they are under performing big time. Enough with this shit.:telloff:

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There is no way Glen Johnson is on £120k a week. No fucking way. The mail are just guessing with those figures. Babel is still on his original contract isn't he? There's no chance we'd have signed a 19yr old and stuck him on £70k a week from the off. Ludicrous media bullshit

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