Summer Transfer Thread 2012

[Tyler Durden]

£15 million on a player who couldn't make the England squad, sound

[fowler9]

Sturridge wouldn't have made Hodson's England squad. Lacks discipline, too selfish. Welbeck on the other hand, looks a much better prospect. But I'd take a look at Sturridge for £15m.

 

Sturridge is miles better than Welbeck who is nothing but average in all areas, he is actually a decent squad player for Scum to have cos he'll probably never moan about game time, won't demand big wages and will score a reasonable amount in a decent team but if he was playing for anyone else, a club with less hype and bullshit around it he wouldn't be near the squad

[WaltonRed]

i think wellbecks better than he's given credit for

[DooooodekNo5]

Sturridge wouldn't have made Hodson's England squad. Lacks discipline, too selfish. Welbeck on the other hand, looks a much better prospect. But I'd take a look at Sturridge for £15m.

 

Wasn't there something going on between him and Torres last season ? he wouldn't ever pass to him because he was pissed that he wasnt in the team ahead of him ? something like that.

 

I'ld take Sturridge over Welbeck every day of the week , its not even close , he could be top draw if he sorts his shit out , Welbeck i cant see ever being anything better than decent.

[withnail71]

Just what we need, another overpriced very average English youngster. We just cant get enough of them !

I would rather Sterling or Morgan get given a chance than spunk 15m on the likes of Sturridge.

We can get far,far better value for money abroad.

[mgw100]

BBC Sport Gossip reporting links to Sturridge today from the Star. £15m being quoted. I'd be happy with it actually, he looks very decent to me does Sturridge.

 

Let's not forget he's only a young lad. He is still getting better. He was Chelsea's best striker by some distance in the first half of their season, though did tail off after christmas admittedly. Poor spells are to be expected though when a striker is emerging.

[mgw100]

He can play either upfront or on the right of a forward 3, versatility which would be useful given the uncertainty over which Andy Carroll we will get next year.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

I like Sturridge, but there's far better ways to spend 15m.

[cmuller]

I'd lose a lot of faith in Rodger's ability and judgement if we did value/buy Sturridge at anything like £15m.

 

He's not a bad player but is of a standard where taking a £5m gamble on him like Chelsea did is understandable. But if that opportunity was missed, just look elsewhere for similar value.

[Gym Beglin]

I like Sturridge, but there's far better ways to spend 15m.

 

I do agree with that in a way, although I think Sturridge is quality and can play all across a front three, which makes the price look a lot fairer.

 

But it's £15m, and there's a wealth of talent out there. I suppose you've got to give Rodgers time to get his scouting network in place though.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

I do agree with that in a way, although I think Sturridge is quality and can play all across a front three, which makes the price look a lot fairer.

 

But it's £15m, and there's a wealth of talent out there. I suppose you've got to give Rodgers time to get his scouting network in place though.

 

Whilst I think we can be better spend, we've seen we can spend 15m in a lot worse way, too.

[Vivaldo]

Just what we need, another overpriced very average English youngster. We just cant get enough of them !

I would rather Sterling or Morgan get given a chance than spunk 15m on the likes of Sturridge.

We can get far,far better value for money abroad.

 

 

This! 15m is way too much, silly season has truly began.

[Tyler Durden]

I do agree with that in a way, although I think Sturridge is quality and can play all across a front three, which makes the price look a lot fairer.

 

But it's £15m, and there's a wealth of talent out there. I suppose you've got to give Rodgers time to get his scouting network in place though.

 

His scouting network should be established long before he arrived at Liverpool

[Vivaldo]

His scouting network should be established long before he arrived at Liverpool

 

Agreed and just watching videos of us last season would highlight the gaps in our play and squad. I think BR will have most of his targets already worked out. Most of the time needed may be on working out who is available to us?

[Redder Lurtz]

BBC Sport Gossip reporting links to Sturridge today from the Star. £15m being quoted. I'd be happy with it actually, he looks very decent to me does Sturridge.

 

Let's not forget he's only a young lad. He is still getting better. He was Chelsea's best striker by some distance in the first half of their season, though did tail off after christmas admittedly. Poor spells are to be expected though when a striker is emerging.

 

In fairness the only place linking us with him so far is that laughable fucking comic the daily star.

 

IF there's any truth in it I'd be happy that we're looking at someone who scored 11 goals in 28 league appearances last season. Better than any stats our load of misfiring numbarses can provide. Plus if he is a bit of a billy big bollocks Liverpool could be just the place to sort himself out. He's surrounded by prissy primadonna arsewipes at Chelsea which won't help anyone sort therir attitude out.

[fowler9]

Schalke manager claiming we are competing with them for Kalou but says he wants to move abroad

 

 

can't make my mind up on Kalou, changes everytime I see him play whether I think he is really underrated or absolute crap!

[WaltonRed]

I'm loving the fact everything is going on behind closed doors

 

winds me up cos i want to know everything but its boss, Kenny should be proud he brought that back

[silverlining]

I'm loving the fact everything is going on behind closed doors

 

winds me up cos i want to know everything but its boss, Kenny should be proud he brought that back

 

But everyone knew we were signing Adam, Henderson and Downing.

[WaltonRed]

who we signing this summer then SL if you knew?

[The Woolster]

An interesting stat from the 09/10-season: Diame won 173 tackles, more than anyone else in the PL and two more than Mascherano.

 

According to the OPTA stats I've got, he attempted 176 tackles, and he won 125. Mascherano attempted 178 and won 144. Always possible that the different firms that record these things define a tackle differently though.

 

Here's an interesting stat from last season. 6'1" tall Diame attempted an arial duel every 72.5 minutes, of which he won 45.5%. 5'6" Spearing attempted an arial duel more often at 1 every 68.5 minutes, of which he won a higher % at 47.4%.

[Tyler Durden]

But everyone knew we were signing Adam, Henderson and Downing.

 

Henderson press was only shortly before he signed though wasn't it

[The Woolster]

His scouting network should be established long before he arrived at Liverpool

 

Whilst his scouting network should be established, I'd have thought they would have been scouting at a different end of the market to us.

[Tommy Lawrence]

Whilst his scouting network should be established, I'd have thought they would have been scouting at a different end of the market to us.

 

I wouldn't be so sure.

[The Dude Abides]

I wouldn't be so sure.

 

Don't be stupid.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

Sigurdsson was going to be their record signing, for us he'd be a pretty low priced punt, of course his targets would have changed.

 

He's likely running the rule over our previously established targets and coming up with a few of his own. The Euros, and lack of movement, may actually be helping us while we get organised.