Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 11/12

flahavaj

Dr Galen wrote: »

fcukkkkk me

Porto just made a profit of 36 million on Falcao. Looks like we aren't the only ones going mad and overpaying. He's gone to Athletico btw.

Really not seen much of him at all. I know he was scoring for fun but that was in Portugal.

I don't know how they do it. Buy low sell high but keep winning.

corcaigh07

joe cole next hopefully

EDIT: And Degen, sneek peek on the official site, still no squad number for Degen

Crazy Horse 6

corcaigh07 wrote: »

joe cole next hopefully

Please please please make it be so mister.

mike65

They do it buy crating up dozens of young children in South America and keeping them in dungeons fed on nothing but chorizo and goats cheese.

Gerty

murpho999 wrote: »

Do you think Sterling will fill out as he gets older. He really looks like a child running around the pitch. I hope that doesn't hold him back!

I actually thought that at one point when he got that head injury, the medical staff came onto the pitch and were holding his head, He looked so small it was like one of those concern ads were the mama is cradling her child. Freaked me out a little.

spockety

Dr Galen wrote: »

fcukkkkk me

Porto just made a profit of 36 million on Falcao. Looks like we aren't the only ones going mad and overpaying. He's gone to Athletico btw.

Really not seen much of him at all. I know he was scoring for fun but that was in Portugal.

It's a similar situation to us with Newcastle. The fee for Carroll was directly related to the money we got from chelsea. Athletico had a large wedge from city to shift.

mike65

Sterling was even smaller last season, funny how that happens (they are children lets not forget and some develop later than others)

Gerty

mike65 wrote: »

Sterling was even smaller last season, funny how that happens (they are children lets not forget and some develop later than others)

Yeah, i did notice at the u-17's and the pre-season appearance he has grown a bit.

I still had quite a bit to grow at his age too.

Crazy Horse 6

Gerty wrote: »

I actually thought that at one point when he got that head injury, the medical staff came onto the pitch and were holding his head, He looked so small it was like one of those concern ads were the mama is cradling her child. Freaked me out a little.

Messi,Pele,Maradona etc.. Height should'nt be an issue tbh.

Dont be at yourself

Crazy Horse 6 wrote: »

Messi,Pele,Maradona etc.. Height should'nt be an issue tbh.

It's not just height, it's muscle. Messi may be 5ft7, but he's got a lot of muscle.

opr

Dr Galen wrote: »

fcukkkkk me

Porto just made a profit of 36 million on Falcao. Looks like we aren't the only ones going mad and overpaying. He's gone to Athletico btw.

Really not seen much of him at all. I know he was scoring for fun but that was in Portugal.

Sorry I know this isn't Liverpool related but I just find it very interesting. I did a little digging after they picked up Defour for what seems a steal.

Porto seem to be a money making machine in the transfer market. I found some of the figures listed on another website when I was doing a quick search.

Pepe - Real Madrid - €30m - (Signed for €2m from Maritimo)
Lisandro Lopez - Lyon - €24m - (Signed for €3.5m from Racing Club)
Ricardo Carvalho - Chelsea - €23m
Jose Bosingwa - Chelsea - €20.5m
Ricardo Quaresma - Inter - 18.5m - (Signed for €6m from Barcelona)
Deco - Barcelona - €18m
Anderson - Man Utd - €20m - (Signed for €8m from Gremio)
Lucho Gonzalez - Marseille - €17.5m - (Signed for €6m from River Plate)
Maniche - Dinamo Moscow - €16m
Aly Cissokho - Lyon - €15m - (Signed for €300k from Setubal)
Paulo Ferreira - Chelsea - €15m
Raul Merelies - Liverpool - €12m (Signed from Boavista)
Bruno Alves - Zenit - €22m

From Swissramble

http://swissramble.blogspot.com/2010/12/portos-buy-low-sell-high-strategy.html

The numbers are simply incredible for a club of Porto’s size. Since that Champions League win in 2004, the club has raked in almost €350 million revenue from player sales

When you look at the Falcao deal and the other rumoured players they could sell this window its incredible such as Hulk and Pereira.

Does anyone have a list of the players they have bought in this window ? If I was other clubs I would just watch what they are doing and try hi-jack the deals

Opr

Gerty

Crazy Horse 6 wrote: »

Messi,Pele,Maradona etc.. Height should'nt be an issue tbh.

Sorry, i was only making a joke. I'm not worried at all about that. Just was a picture where you could only see his head in the arms of the medical staff and it reminded me of that is all.

Never to mind.

Crazy Horse 6

Dont be at yourself wrote: »

It's not just height, it's muscle. Messi may be 5ft7, but he's got a lot of muscle.

True but anyone can put on muscle with the right training.
Not that i think he's gonna be anyway near as good as those three. lol

Dont be at yourself

opr wrote: »

Does anyone have a list of the players they have bought in this window ? If I was other clubs I would just watch what they are doing and try hi-jack the deals

Opr

Or try to poach their scouting network!

Crazy Horse 6

Gerty wrote: »

Sorry, i was only making a joke. I'm not worried at all about that. Just was a picture where you could only see his head in the arms of the medical staff and it reminded me of that is all.

Never to mind.

Nah it's cool i got the joke, only pointing out i don't think height is an issue. My bad.

5starpool

Gerty wrote: »

Yeah, i did notice at the u-17's and the pre-season appearance he has grown a bit.

I still had quite a bit to grow at his age too.

He's still only 2 foot nothing though. He is a god botherer as well I see from his twitter tagline "Lord please guıde an protect me".

Luckycharms_74

Some updates on Cahill

@bensmith_TimesBen Smith
Still getting questions on Gary Cahill. #LFC are not pursuing this one.


Not sure how reliable he is ????

amiable

Luckycharms_74 wrote: »

Some updates on Cahill

@bensmith_TimesBen Smith
Still getting questions on Gary Cahill. #LFC are not pursuing this one.


Not sure how reliable he is ????

Very Reliable IMO

mike65

He is not reliable if he is giving the "wrong" answer

amiable

It's on

YouTookMyName

Luckycharms_74 wrote: »

Some updates on Cahill

@bensmith_TimesBen Smith
Still getting questions on Gary Cahill. #LFC are not pursuing this one.


Not sure how reliable he is ????

Supposely Prefers Arsenal.

mike65

But they is signing Scott Dann!

ShamoBuc

YouTookMyName wrote: »

Supposely Prefers Arsenal.

Really;)

stee.mc79

Was Dann not suppose to be going to Arsenal? Everyday it's different! El Zhar is gone

K-9

stee.mc79 wrote: »

Was Dann not suppose to be going to Arsenal? Everyday it's different! El Zhar is gone

Cahill could end up going nowhere at this rate. Supposedly Arsenal haven't bid either.

I'd say it's big PL clubs waiting until near the end of the transfer deadline and the price dropping.

paddy kerins

Cahill close to joining. I highly doubt it

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2027340/Liverpool-close-agreeing-deal-Gary-Cahill.html

amiable

paddy kerins wrote: »

Cahill close to joining. I highly doubt it

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2027340/Liverpool-close-agreeing-deal-Gary-Cahill.html

Sterling already rubbished this story this morning

paddy kerins

amiable wrote: »

Sterling already rubbished this story this morning

Thought I might give someone false hope :pac:

MarkY91

preety shure we will sign either dann or cahill within days but ill be EXTREMELY dissapointed if we dont sign another quality striker, we just cannot challenge the top teams with 2 strikers who will eventually get injured!..why the fcuk didnt we try sign adebayor ?

Hoki

MarkY91 wrote: »

preety shure we will sign either dann or cahill within days but ill be EXTREMELY dissapointed if we dont sign another quality striker, we just cannot challenge the top teams with 2 strikers who will eventually get injured!..why the fcuk didnt we try sign adebayor ?

Hopefully because he is a money hungry mercenary.

Seamu$

Dr Galen wrote: »

fcukkkkk me

Porto just made a profit of 36 million on Falcao. Looks like we aren't the only ones going mad and overpaying. He's gone to Athletico btw.

Really not seen much of him at all. I know he was scoring for fun but that was in Portugal.

Could have been ours for pittance if Rafa had any bit of a transfer kitty

http://www.mmail.com.my/content/6964-reds-try-hijack-falcao

jesus_thats_gre

Seamu$ wrote: »

Could have been ours for pittance if Rafa had any bit of a transfer kitty

http://www.mmail.com.my/content/6964-reds-try-hijack-falcao

Have lost count of the players that we missed out on like this. Depressing!

5ForKeeps

https://submissions.epetitions.direc...petitions/2199

100,000 signatures needed so that the UK government disclose the files of Hillsborough. Use LFC's address if outside the UK. This is important regardless of what club you support. Spread the word.

Also take a look:

http://m.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/apr/13/hillsborough-disaster-police-south-yorkshire-liverpool?cat=football&type=article

Daemonic

5ForKeeps wrote: »

https://submissions.epetitions.direc...petitions/2199

100,000 signatures needed so that the UK government disclose the files of Hillsborough. Use LFC's address if outside the UK. This is important regardless of what club you support. Spread the word.

Also take a look:

http://m.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/apr/13/hillsborough-disaster-police-south-yorkshire-liverpool?cat=football&type=article

It's been discussed a page or 2 back as well and not a dig at you or anyone who has signed it but much as we all want to support this I think it may be best if people outside the UK don't sign it, at least not unless they have a valid UK address/postcode.
From the momentum built so quickly and the many high profile support being received it will sail past the required 100k signatures so best if the validity of the petition isn't comprimised in any way due to 'invalid' signatures.
Not sure what checks they perform on the signatures, presumably random sampling, just think this is too important to have it's integrity called into question in any way.

amiable

Joey Barton is really getting stuck in to it.
Credit where credit is due so fair play to him.

Turtyturd

Chelsea have apparently bid 27million for Mata....these transfer windows last top long.

Luckycharms_74

Turtyturd wrote: »

Chelsea have apparently bid 27million for Mata....these transfer windows last top long.

Arsenal are really missing the boat with all their procrastination in the transfer window. They could have gotten mata couple of weeks ago for less than £20m before his release clause lapsed. But if Chelsea get him its all the better for LFC to finish in the top 4 .

In other LFC news.

* Rayo Vallecano are closing in on the loan signing of Liverpool forward Dani Pacheco. #LFC

* #LFC Martin Skrtel available for selection tommorow.

Turtyturd

Luckycharms_74 wrote: »

Aresnal are really missing the boat with all their procrastination in the transfer window. They could have gotten mata couple of weeks ago for less than £20m before his release clause lapsed. But its all the better for LFC now to finish top 4 .
In other LFC news.

* Rayo Vallecano are closing in on the loan signing of Liverpool forward Dani Pacheco. #LFC

* #LFC Martin Skrtel available for selection tommorow.

Yeah Arsenal fans must be rightly pissed off. Kinds makes our problem of over paying for certain players not seem so bad. :PAC:

Luckycharms_74

Now that Falcao has joined Atleti for €40m+ could this mean Forlan might be on his way out. I think a partnership of him and Suarez would be deadly

Sappy404

Luckycharms_74 wrote: »

Now that Falcao has joined Atleti for €40m+ could this mean Forlan might be on his way out. I think a partnership of him and Suarez would be deadly

Very unlikely due to his age. Same goes for Bellamy & Benayoun and any other rumours of us signing players in the last years of their careers.

VW 1

Sappy404 wrote: »

Very unlikely due to his age. Same goes for Bellamy & Benayoun and any other rumours of us signing players in the last years of their careers.

Would any of ye be happy taking Yossi back? Is he over his injury/injuries now that kept him out so much at the start of his spell at Chelsea?

Eire-Dearg

Sappy404 wrote: »

Very unlikely due to his age. Same goes for Bellamy & Benayoun and any other rumours of us signing players in the last years of their careers.

Which is unfortunate because experienced, wily old back up goalscorer >>>>> young, inexperienced back up goalscorer.

stee.mc79

I think a bit more dead wood needs to be cleared out. Any sign of cole or poulsen, maybe moving on?

stee.mc79

VW 1 wrote: »

Would any of ye be happy taking Yossi back? Is he over his injury/injuries now that kept him out so much at the start of his spell at Chelsea?

There's words of him being offered to spurs in the deal for Modric.

opr

@SkySportsPeteO Pete O'Rourke
Rayo Vallecano are closing in on the loan signing of Liverpool forward Dani Pacheco. #LFC

Glad that it seems we are looking to loan rather than a permanent deal but if he goes back to Spain I have doubts we will see him again anyway.

Opr

billymitchell

I havent seen much of Gary Cahill, but is he any use as a defender. Could do with a solid centre half(ala vidic,Terry,Sami) just wondering is he the guy to do the job if we were to sign him?

Sappy404

VW 1 wrote: »

Would any of ye be happy taking Yossi back? Is he over his injury/injuries now that kept him out so much at the start of his spell at Chelsea?

I'd take him on a free. However, an under-contract injury-prone 30-something on Chelsea wages is basically the antithesis of the type of player we should be looking at.

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

Which is unfortunate because experienced, wily old back up goalscorer >>>>> young, inexperienced back up goalscorer.

We have Kuyt. Bellamy and Benayoun have had serious injuries and are likely on wages exceeding a sensible level. They've also got years left on their respective contracts. I'm not sure what Forlan's situation is. If Atletico let him go on a free to save his wages - like they did for Maxi - I'd be glad to see him come in, but at his age he'd either be looking to play regularly or looking for a big payday. We shouldn't be offering him either.

If we're spending any money at all on signing a striker it should be on a younger player.

Jesus Wept

Luckycharms_74 wrote: »

Some updates on Cahill

@bensmith_TimesBen Smith
Still getting questions on Gary Cahill. #LFC are not pursuing this one.


Not sure how reliable he is ????

amiable wrote: »

Very Reliable IMO

He's obviously now just following my lead.

The-Rigger wrote: »

Don't think it will be Shawcross or Cahill.

amiable

The-Rigger #1 ITK as far as i'm concerned

billymitchell

amiable wrote: »

The-Rigger #1 ITK as far as i'm concerned

Where's Lahm?