Jose Enrique

[Unrighteous]

Hes a good player but if we have to pay anything close to 15m we should just go for coantrao who would be a few mil more.

 

Isn't he joining Munich for 25m?

[Unrighteous]

Does beg the queston where Kelly and Johnson will play next season

 

We know Johnson can play leftback.

 

That means we have cover at both positions and a starters in each position.

 

It doesn't really beg anything. Our team needs coverage as it's rarely injury free, it seems.

[murphy]

£15 million for him. Christ. Rodriguez and Jarvis on the wings next year it is then

[ChunkyBarcode]

Assuming there's some truth to it, the £15million may include his contract as well.

 

i.e. 4/3 yrs @ 50/60k puts the fee at around 5 to 6 million range.

 

Typically done to inflate the 'fee' in order help reduce the fan backlash, if it's an unpopular sale.

[18-5]

It is 50 million NOk.

 

50 NOK= 6 million pounds roughly.

[RafaLaBamba]

Top top top signing if true. The guy can defend and attack extremely well and I have been an admirer of his for many years.

 

3 things we need in our team:

 

Dangerous crosses

Pace down the flanks

A winning mentality

 

Enrique has all of these in abundance. Anyone who saw the lad against Villa will know how hard he strove to get his team forward and the first player Newcastle looked for when starting up an attack was Jose Enrique. Him and Carroll were a perfect match for the toon and I'm sure they will be at Anfield. It's also worth mentioning that Enrique only recently turned 25 so he still has age on his side. Lets just hope he does pull on a Liverpool shirt next season ;)

[Lee909]

Does beg the queston where Kelly and Johnson will play next season

 

Maybe he will play as both a rightback and centreback.

I wouldnt mind seeing a shawcross/Cahill Kelly combination getting bedded in from next season

[Reacher]

Don't think it begs any questions, competition for your place is a good thing. If you don't like it then you have the wrong attitude.

[Bourbon]

£5-£6m tops. Anything more and walk away.

[MLB]

Don't think it begs any questions, competition for your place is a good thing. If you don't like it then you have the wrong attitude.

 

 

Spot on.

[Redder Lurtz]

Reckon Johnson might go, myself. Maybe I'm wrong but I reckon he values his ingurlund place too much not to be automatic first choice.

[WaltonRed]

Spurs would give us 15m for Johnson, they're soft like that

[Wor Horse]

Johnson wants to play for Liverpool and has said many times he'll do so by playing anywhere.

 

We need a strong squad, why strengthen Spurs by weakening ours? Why sell your best players?

[18-5]

Spurs would give us 15m for Johnson, they're soft like that

 

No they won't. They have a young RB like Kelly on their books too.

 

Kyle Walker will likely be the first choice RB for them soon.

[WaltonRed]

arry couldnt resist it

[Heinze]

'arry will bid 4mil for johnson a minute before the window closes.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

You need at least three players for those two positions, ideally four. Selling Magic is a ridiculous thing to even contemplate. He's a quality player when he's working within a system that can accommodate attacking fullbacks. He's one of the best in his position.

 

If we're serious about getting back into the top four and having a crack at the title, we need to avoid mistakes of the past, in my opinion. It's ace having a world beater in a position, but if they spend time out due to injury or just out of form, you lose a massive part of what makes you a good team. That's why we've not challenged in the past, despite having some of the very best players in the world.

 

Alonso, Mascherano, Gerrard, Torres, Reina, Johnson, Carra, Agger was one of the most amazing spines to a team that I've ever seen. The problem is that when Torres was out or Gerrard wasn't firing, we didn't have an Anelka or Berbatov to come in like Chelsea or United do when they lose Drogba or Rooney.

 

We need to build a squad, not a team.

[WaltonRed]

You need at least three players for those two positions, ideally four. Selling Magic is a ridiculous thing to even contemplate. He's a quality player when he's working within a system that can accommodate attacking fullbacks. He's one of the best in his position.

 

If we're serious about getting back into the top four and having a crack at the title, we need to avoid mistakes of the past, in my opinion. It's ace having a world beater in a position, but if they spend time out due to injury or just out of form, you lose a massive part of what makes you a good team. That's why we've not challenged in the past, despite having some of the very best players in the world.

 

Alonso, Mascherano, Gerrard, Torres, Reina, Johnson, Carra, Agger was one of the most amazing spines to a team that I've ever seen. The problem is that when Torres was out or Gerrard wasn't firing, we didn't have an Anelka or Berbatov to come in like Chelsea or United do when they lose Drogba or Rooney.

 

We need to build a squad, not a team.

 

3 or 4? We dont need 3 or 4 for every postion.

[SlugTrail]

You need at least three players for those two positions, ideally four. Selling Magic is a ridiculous thing to even contemplate. He's a quality player when he's working within a system that can accommodate attacking fullbacks. He's one of the best in his position.

 

If we're serious about getting back into the top four and having a crack at the title, we need to avoid mistakes of the past, in my opinion. It's ace having a world beater in a position, but if they spend time out due to injury or just out of form, you lose a massive part of what makes you a good team. That's why we've not challenged in the past, despite having some of the very best players in the world.

 

Alonso, Mascherano, Gerrard, Torres, Reina, Johnson, Carra, Agger was one of the most amazing spines to a team that I've ever seen. The problem is that when Torres was out or Gerrard wasn't firing, we didn't have an Anelka or Berbatov to come in like Chelsea or United do when they lose Drogba or Rooney.

 

We need to build a squad, not a team.

 

Spot on there!!

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

3 or 4? We dont need 3 or 4 for every postion.

 

Read the first line again, mate! I said that we need at least three players for those two positions, ideally four.

[WaltonRed]

My bad.

 

I think we'll have 3 or 4 for those postions even if we did sell Johnson.

[Jack the Sipper]

I wouldn't be against Enrique coming here, but given our limited budget and having Johnson, Kelly (and hopefully Flanagan) able to do a job at RB, I'd rather see our money (esp a rumoured £15m) spent elsewhere.

 

LB, both wings and a play-making midfielder are all bigger priorities for me this summer.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

My bad.

 

I think we'll have 3 or 4 for those postions even if we did sell Johnson.

 

Not of that experience and quality, though.

 

Kelly

Enrique

Johnson

 

Outside of that, we've got Aurelio, who is great but made out of the shards of broken records, we've got Flanno, who is 12 and has played once... am I forgetting somebody?

[usernameunknown]

It'd be utter stupidity to get rid of Johnson, arent we trying to build a squad, not dismantle one? Look at the full back problems we've had this season. Sign Enrique or similar and we're looking good, sell someone and we're just back where we started.

[El Rojo]

Johnson was excellent on the left between Kenny taking over and his injury. I'd be quite happy with him and Kelly as our starting full-backs in August.

 

Flanagan and the addition of Enrique would set give us far greater depth, particularly at left-back which has been as big a problem position for us as the left wing.

 

I would assume Enrique will cost somewhere around £5m.