Summer 2011

[Wor Horse]

latest reliable info says mvila is staying at rennes for another year so comolli is signing blaise matudi instead, haven't seen enough of the lad to know if the 40 million price tag is justified

 

40 million on a french footballer from the french league that no one's heard of?

 

Are you high?

[MLB]

Ashley Young would have a lot more space to operate here with Gerrard, Suarez, and Carroll in the attack as well. Against a club like Chelsea or United, Young's pace and skill would help launch counterattacks in a manner that we cannot currently do...

 

Downing is the kind of player that'll help us when teams park the bus. He routinely gets around fullbacks and delivers great crosses.

 

They have their uses. So stop bitching about the players... There is fucking SENSE behind their targeting.

 

We MIGHT get better or we might get them or worse... none. Let's wait and see who we buy and then the 'I trust Kenny' line will have to suffice because they'll be here.

 

 

Very well said mate. Some people on here would very good owners of Chelsea or City, where the m.o. seems to be to throw as much money as possible at "big name" players and consider how to use them later. Meanwhile, Kenny and Comolli will be looking to build a functioning team that gets the best out of the attacking talent we have already brought in and will be effective in this league. Maybe we'll sign Mata, but if we get Downing instead then I won't be disappointed because I think there is a strong rationale behind our transfer strategy. No doubt there will be some on here crying themselves to sleep over the fact that Chelsea will sign Neymar and Lukaku, and City will sign Sanchez, and Arsenal will sign Hazard or whatever else, but money can't buy you things like stability, hunger and team spirit. Nor can it buy you Kenny Dalglish.

[Aldonose]

Very well said mate. Some people on here would very good owners of Chelsea or City, where the m.o. seems to be to throw as much money as possible at "big name" players and consider how to use them later. Meanwhile, Kenny and Comolli will be looking to build a functioning team that gets the best out of the attacking talent we have already brought in and will be effective in this league. Maybe we'll sign Mata, but if we get Downing instead then I won't be disappointed because I think there is a strong rationale behind our transfer strategy. No doubt there will be some on here crying themselves to sleep over the fact that Chelsea will sign Neymar and Lukaku, and City will sign Sanchez, and Arsenal will sign Hazard or whatever else, but money can't buy you things like stability, hunger and team spirit. Nor can it buy you Kenny Dalglish.

 

The single, most important person in any football club is the manager. The past 9 months epitomises this. Once your manager is right, and you have a board that are prepared to back him, you give yourself every chance of being successful.

[Nathanzx]

sorry lads i mistyped, we'd get matuidi for between 10-15

[Spy Bee]

I shagged Megan Fox last night.

 

Sorry, I mis-typed, I meant

 

I had a wank last night.

[RoyHodgeGone]

I shagged Megan Fox last night.

 

Sorry, I mis-typed, I meant

 

I had a wank last night.

 

I'm sure there is a tenuous link in that post to our summer transfer dealings but I can't quite see what it is.

[Phoenix]

£12m for Diarra would be a bargain. I thought he was excellent at Portsmouth.

 

Depends on the wages he is on though..better to buy someone in like Matuidi who will only improve.

[Spy Bee]

I'm sure there is a tenuous link in that post to our summer transfer dealings but I can't quite see what it is.

 

You didn't have to look very far

latest reliable info says mvila is staying at rennes for another year so comolli is signing blaise matudi instead, haven't seen enough of the lad to know if the 40 million price tag is justified

 

sorry lads i mistyped, we'd get matuidi for between 10-15

[Phoenix]

Two years left with Villa.

 

Rory 'I know virtually nothing' Smith has said that we're after Young and Downing. Why would we be going for both?

 

oops quoted wrong post

[Phoenix]

I very much want us to avoid wasting money on Downing. That said, I've been saying that for many, many years. He always seems to pop-up around this time.

 

If we're going for a 27 year old (by the time the season starts), solid, low-scoring, not particularly pacey, anything but brilliant wide-man, surely there's somebody better we can go for?

 

Maxi?

[Phoenix]

Liverpool edge ahead of Manchester United in £15m race for Ashley Young | Football | The Guardian

 

Young, Adam, Phil Jones and Gary Cahill

 

Liverpool edge ahead of Manchester United in £15m race for Ashley Young

 

• England forward set to leave Aston Villa this summer

• Charlie Adam, Gary Cahill and Phil Jones also on shopping list

 

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* Andy Hunter

* The Guardian, Wednesday 11 May 2011

* Article history

 

Ashley Young

Ashley Young is a target for Manchester United and Liverpool this summer. Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images

 

Liverpool's owner, Fenway Sports Group, is increasingly confident of following the imminent appointment of Kenny Dalglish as the club's permanent manager by beating Manchester United to the signature of the Aston Villa forward Ashley Young.

 

Dalglish's confirmation as the long-term successor to Roy Hodgson is a formality having taken the club from 12th in the Premier League to the brink of European qualification inside four months and is expected to be announced before the end of the season.

 

Several FSG officials, notably the principal owner, John W Henry, and Liverpool's chairman, Tom Werner, have voiced their support for the 60-year-old Scot and backed him on the combined £57.8m purchases of Andy Carroll and Luis Suárez in January. They are now pursuing Young, another target of Dalglish and the director of football, Damien Comolli, and have emerged as favourites to sign the £15m-rated England international despite competition from United, the Premier League champions-elect.

 

Young enters the final year of his Villa contract this summer having rejected the offer of an improved deal, which contained a get-out clause in the region of £15m, at the start of this season. The 25-year-old insisted on delaying talks with Villa over a contract extension until this campaign had ended but his employers are privately resigned to losing the player four years after his £9.65m arrival from Watford.

 

United and Liverpool are vying for Young's services but the prospect of a significant increase on his £65,000-a-week Villa salary at Anfield, plus more regular first-team football than he may receive at Old Trafford, is understood to have tilted the contest in Dalglish's favour.

 

United are only one point away from overtaking Liverpool on 19 league titles and can guarantee Champions League football next term but, unlike their Anfield rivals, they are well-stocked on the left and right of midfield and in Young's preferred position behind the lead striker. The chance to establish himself in a team with renewed momentum under Dalglish is believed to have tempted Young towards Liverpool.

 

Dalglish and Comolli are also keen on Young's team-mate Stewart Downing, whose performances have eclipsed the Stevenage-born forward at Villa Park this season. Although Villa are loth to lose either player and have proved to be tough negotiators under Randy Lerner, as Liverpool and Manchester City can testify over their moves for Gareth Barry and James Milner respectively, Young's contractual situation has left them little room for manoeuvre once a tempting bid arrives.

 

Young forms part of an ambitious spending programme planned by FSG for this summer, an added appeal for a player who has established himself in the England set-up, with Blackpool's Charlie Adam still on Liverpool's agenda following a thwarted move in January and a new central defender among the targets. Bolton's Gary Cahill and Phil Jones of Blackburn are under consideration.

 

Enticing Young to Anfield, and away from Old Trafford, would be a further indication of Liverpool's determination to offer a sterner challenge to Sir Alex Ferguson's domination of the Premier League than they have managed for much of the past two decades.

 

Jamie Carragher has paid tribute to United as they close in on an English record 19th league title and concedes there must be improvement within Anfield to prevent their fierce rivals moving further ahead. "You have to give Manchester United great credit. They will be worthy champions and we will congratulate them," the Liverpool vice-captain said. "But losing the record is not something we are going dwell on. Of course it is disappointing and frustrating but the only way we can change it for the better is by looking after ourselves.

 

"We are not a club that wants to rely on others for help. Liverpool has never been that way and never will be. We don't want to be looking to Chelsea or Arsenal or anyone else to stop United winning the title. If we want to be seen as the most successful club in the country again, we've got to do it on our own.

 

"We've won a couple more European Cups than Manchester United but if we want to preserve that record, we've got to win our own European Cups. That's the way it is. We can't go blaming anyone else for the fact United look like they are going to win a 19th title."

[StevieH]

Liverpool in fresh link to Shane Long – SportsNews Ireland

 

As reported by Sportsnewsireland.com in February Liverpool look set to make a shock move for Reading striker Shane Long. UK radio station Talksport claims that Kenny Dalglish will land the inform striker for 5 million if Reading fail to get promoted to the premier league.

 

Despite having Andy Carroll and Luis Saurez at their disposal Liverpool are intersted in the Tipperary man as question mark’s surround the future of David Ngog.

 

Newcastle and Liverpool’s neighbours Everton have all been linked with Long, who has scored 52 goals in just 114 appearances since arriving from Cork City in 2005, 21 of which have come this season

[Trumo]

This is all I get from that article:

 

 

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[WaltonRed]

Long would be a good back up.

 

I think he's a red too.

[the walsh]

this season shane long has been great added goals to he,s game has great pace and would be excellent cover for carroll and saurez. he should be even starting ahead of keane for ireland.5 million isnt a bad price.

[JohnnyH]

Don't think Shane Long is top level at all. I'd give him a swerve. If we have to sign a Paddy then I'd go for McCarthy, or Doyle if it had to be a striker.

[Pidge]

Ach, Doyle is poor at this level. Lightweight. A massive Utd fan too.

[The Dude Abides]

erm.. it was a genuine question. And no-one on the list you have made would be available.

 

It's all very well saying "we can do better than Young", but then there has to be realistic alternatives. And I personally can't think of any for a similar price. Hence my question.

 

I agree re Downing, mind.

 

erm....I never said anything about going after the players I listed. They are merely examples of what you can get for that sort of money.

[shaunstrudwick]

anyone heard that we are in for Scott Parker?

 

£12m apparently

[truered23]

Very well said mate. Some people on here would very good owners of Chelsea or City, where the m.o. seems to be to throw as much money as possible at "big name" players and consider how to use them later. Meanwhile, Kenny and Comolli will be looking to build a functioning team that gets the best out of the attacking talent we have already brought in and will be effective in this league. Maybe we'll sign Mata, but if we get Downing instead then I won't be disappointed because I think there is a strong rationale behind our transfer strategy. No doubt there will be some on here crying themselves to sleep over the fact that Chelsea will sign Neymar and Lukaku, and City will sign Sanchez, and Arsenal will sign Hazard or whatever else, but money can't buy you things like stability, hunger and team spirit. Nor can it buy you Kenny Dalglish.

 

Great post. How many times have we criticized the mancs for having "shit" players. But Ferguson brings the best out of them time and time again.

[Phoenix]

anyone heard that we are in for Scott Parker?

 

£12m apparently

 

Why? two good seasons in how long? and aged 30

[camdenred]

I'd definitely snap up Stephen Fletcher if Wolves go down.

[JimmyConway]

I could get slaughtered for this on here but I'm mates with Noel Hunt,I'll try find out if it's true,the last time I asked it wasn't on the cards.

I'll find out what I can but I ain't no bamba

[Kopite Pete]

anyone heard that we are in for Scott Parker?

 

£12m apparently

 

Not with FSG we won't be. Too old.

[the walsh]

xcott psrker get the fuck and he.s 30 and that would make him a no no under the current owners plus he,s not better than what we have at the moment. as for kevin doyle hasnt justified himself simply does not score enough goals.works alot just no end prodouct.