By Kop Talk
The decision not to buy Connor Wickham is understandable given the new mindset of buying young players for the future implemented by Liverpool owner John W Henry. Already having bought over £50 million worth of relatively unproven talent for the first team in terms of Carroll and Henderson, if Liverpool were to have acquired Wickham for the price Sunderland acquired him for, the cost would had have to have been considered relative which is difficult given the current transfer market bolstered by the implementation next season of UEFA's rules on expenditure and home grown players.
Even with this in mind, Liverpool fans may still find this a tad embarrassing after chasing Connor Wickham for months, and being beaten to the transfer with the money which we spent on Jordan Henderson and coming on the back of Young and Jones going to Man U.
Are we all happy with the LFC transfer strategy and is a case of don't worry be happy... 'In Kenny We Trust?'
am not sure about being happy so far. The entire world appears to know about who we are interested in and before we say it's in the onion bag, the player is already having medical with another club. Man U have signed 3 players just like that, yes agree they are in champion league and have just won the league and therefore we cannot compete. At least we should keep it quite until the whole deal is done before making noise about it.
ReplyDeleteJordan Henderson signing does not sit well with me. Secondly this Charlie Adam saga is dragging on for too long for my liking.
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I think the embarrassing part of this is that we were left with Ngog who was meant to be part of the Henderson deal.
ReplyDeleteIf we believe what we read – Stephen Darby, Shelvey and A N other could be going out on loan to Blackpool as part of the Charlie Adam deal. If they are going out on loan shouldn’t it be to a premiership club? If we don’t want them should we sell? Its probably too early to say whether I am happy with it or not, I need to see the movement of players in both directions and the amount we receive/pay for players. It was interesting to read a report recently which basically said that everyone knows that Liverpool are willing to pay the asking price for players – in other words we’re desperate.
Yeah, just like we did a panic buy of Andy Carroll. I know this may not go down well with many of us, I still believe £35m for Andy Carroll was on the high side. I am sure Newcastle if compete with us for player may even have better leverage financially than us.
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The whole 'King' thing is becoming embarrassing now.....I'm certainly not excited one bit by anything that's happened so far or who we're linked with (I wish I never watched the u17's euro's then I wouldn't have seen how below par Henderson was), only time will tell if Kenny really is the King!
ReplyDeleteAlso, not confident the deadwood wont be still there come next season. However, glad to see Lee has gone!
I thing it is becoming embarrassing just to sign two British players.
ReplyDeleteI understand if they were world class players and wanted more option time to thing about which team to play in Europe, but Adam’s saga as just been one big Media Joke. Downing and Adam’s should have been snapped up within months; however, it is about wages, personal terms etc, and its dragging on.
Manchester United has brought three key players to strengthen the squad within months at no big cost, kept the media quite and got what they want.
I am sure the owner John W Henry., wants to move on as well, but we need to step up and our negating team need to get their finger out and get the deals done.
I feel positive about Jordan Henderson, hopefully he will provide, speed, exposure, willingness and depth on the filed, he a player that likes going forward and moving the ball quick, so lets see.
I still think £35 Million we paid for Andy Carroll, was too high, has he proved is worth as a top quality striker in the Premiership when he was with NC, and now with LFC, we don’t want chance after chance, we want goals, after goals, prove me wrong
I agree with this post and Edet's comments. I really believe we overpaid ofr Carroll and am hoping he will prove me wrong. Talk of Aquilani coming back and maybe Meireles leaving are very worrying. We seem to be in the market for every midfielder which is not where we are lacking and nothing is being said about a left back or winger. Is Insua coming back or maybe the question is why is he not coming back. What about Poulsen, Jovanovic, Konchesky and Ngog. We mus be seen to be decisive.
ReplyDeleteLets hope Kenny knows what he is doing.
King Kenny with the support of Comolli has to get this right.
ReplyDeleteWe have lost out on our younger targets so far through not negotiating on the quiet.
Comolli has to get us the players to make us have a chance of competing for the top 4 next season or leave and let King Kenny have a far greater say in the players we are able to bring in.
It’s obviously disappointing we are not vying for the top echelon of transfers and to make it worse for fans it seems that Liverpool having been stung with having to pay 16 million for Jordan Henderson, have now placed a ceiling with the regards the level they to go up to regarding the transfer of young English players. In a way, you can see the boards’ point, with clubs wanting to hold Liverpool to ransom knowing we are striving to return to Champions League positions. The Charlie Adam situation is a point in kind - Blackpool are asking for more than they willing to sell him to Spurs for at the end of the last season, when he has only a year left on his contract. To my way of thinking Liverpool may have to go through a lot of pain to get back among the ‘big boys’. But having just got over the boom and bust culture of Hicks and Gillette, can we now complain if John W Henry wants to return the club to a modicum of sanity? We see the club trying to rid themselves of average players with huge contracts and yet the cry is that we should be spending big money to return us to the fast track.
ReplyDeleteYes, the club could be taking a risk with Connor Wickham, who in a few years time could easily develop into the next prodigious talent after Rooney and Wiltshire and if he does we could next see him a Man United shirt. But, the other side to that argument is that Dalglish and co. may feel that with the development of some of the club’s progeny, many of which are starring in the Under-17 World Cup, they may have enough talent coming through to make it a risk worth taking. Adam Morgan who has just secured himself a new contract is rated very highly rated by many good judges at the club and could well be the next cab of the rank which has produced strikers of the calibre of Robbie Fowler and Michael Owen. Morgan is among 6 players that Liverpool players have at the Under-17 World Cup and he did himself no harm coming off the bench and showing in his qualities, going on to score in the penalty shoot out against Argentina and with Raheem Sterling producing headlining performances alongside the other Liverpool starter Brad Smith.
The solution is getting in enough quality in to make sure that Liverpool can compete on an equal footing. We finished five places below Man United and they already bought Jones, Young and Dea Gea with Nasri looking more than a distinct possibility. With a fit Gerrard, Suarez, Meireles (hopefully, he stays) and three top quality players to ensure that any First XI Dalglish puts out has enough quality in all areas to vie with the big four. It’s great to look at the future in terms of our transfer policy which is already beginning to bear fruits with Kelly, Flanagan, Robinson and Coady coming through from the ranks, but it would be remiss of us to allow the club to get so far behind that it negates any future success of our youth policy transferring itself through to the first team.
The problem with hesitating in the transfer market is that Arsenal are hovering on the fine line between being in the top four and being where Liverpool and Spurs now are and as such all three clubs are vying for the same players. We have also to get ourselves out of the mindset that we are a great team – we are a great club, one of the greatest, in my mind the greatest, but we are not a great team. With right additions we could get back amongst it all, but we have to the correct mentally from board room level to the players on the pitch.
Everton fans currently laughing at our transfer fees is like a poor homeless person laughing at a fat person with a buffet to themselves !!! LOL
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Everton and every other fan is laughing at the amount we're spending......at the end of the day proof is in the pudding, if we get into the Champions League which will not be easy as we're still behind Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal and City in quality then the money was well spent, if we don't and perform the same as we did last season then we will be a laughing stock!
ReplyDeleteAt the moment that's just that way it is. Have to pay over the odds because we are not in a position to get the Neymar's of this world. Look at Spurs, one place ahead of us in the League and they're struggling to keep hold on to Modric and by all accounts Defoe maybe leaving because they have to sell before they can buy.
ReplyDeleteJust shows how bad contracts can destroy a club - turns out part of the Konchesky agreement from his sale to Leicester was that we would continue paying part of his salary as he obviously didn't want to take a drop in salary. And with Kyrigakos, he has an extension to his contract because he activated an agreement promised by Hicks and Gillet!
I am sure Football Solicitors must be very shrewd the way they draft contract agreement for these footballers...
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