Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2016/2017

Agent Coulson

Therefore on one player, Zahavi’s group has cashed in the following (approximately):



- 12.5 million Euro transfer income payable through a TPO to a British Virgins Island offshore

- 1.37 million Euro as an agent for both sides to a Maltese offshore

- 3.6 million Euro through an image rights deal with Liverpool to a Maltese offshore

So €17.5m for him (approximately) which is cheaper that the £20m which was quoted at the time we bought him.

5starpool

Agent Coulson wrote: »

So €17.5m for him (approximately) which is cheaper that the £20m which was quoted at the time we bought him.

The club fee isn't included there.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Coutinho back in training:)

https://twitter.com/AnfieldHQ/status/811968493058981888

One_Of_Shanks

Fair play to him. That's my kind of training. Got home from work (first evening of Xmas holidays) this evening and did a very similar kind of training to that.

Crucial to blow on the thumb coz it cools it down after pressing all those buttons on the TV remote.

I feel his pain.

NukaCola

Looks like Draxler is gone to PSG according to the reddits and the twitters and the likes.......shame.......

garra

NukaCola wrote: »

Looks like Draxler is gone to PSG according to the reddits and the twitters and the likes.......shame.......

Ah sure he wouldn't be better than anyone in the front line already. Be grand.

Agent Coulson

Looks like we are being linked to another young Brazilian forward who hasn't settled at Inter.

The last one worked out ok.

mosstin

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Looks like we are being linked to another young Brazilian forward who hasn't settled at Inter.

The last one worked out ok.

Klopp's a hairy man. He needs a Brazilian.

Turtyturd

We didn't want him anyway. tm

Agent Coulson

Coutinho isn't back training I wouldn't expect to see till the FA cup game now.

https://twitter.com/JamesPearceEcho/status/812282702044991488

Klopp on Coutinho: "He's not in training. He can't rush. It was a serious injury. We need to wait."

Harry Palmr

Colour me shocked.

marklazarcovic

well happy Christmas pandasaps, or whatever the term is now.. have a cracker everyone.

One_Of_Shanks

Gutted about Draxler. That's the most gutted I have felt since the last time we failed to sign someone we never tried to sign in the first place.

Agent Coulson

Suso had a cracker of a game in the Italian Supercup final as Milan beat Juventus (On pens)by all account this last year in Italy he really has been living up the hype he had as an underage player.

eyerer

Yep I was a bit disappointed he was sold, but he was also loaned out the last two years iirc, so it's taken him a while. Time he didn't have at Liverpool. Wonder if there's a sell on clause for some money to go to liverpool lol.
Could he be the next Draxler? :O

Pyjamarama

eyerer wrote: »

Yep I was a bit disappointed he was sold, but he was also loaned out the last two years iirc, so it's taken him a while. Time he didn't have at Liverpool. Wonder if there's a sell on clause for some money to go to liverpool lol.
Could he be the next Draxler? :O

He wouldn't be dynamic enough for us I don't think. Our forwards need to have some physicallity about them and its one thing he doesn't really have. Clever player but not exactly the ideal model for a pressing game.

NukaCola

I generally dont mind when good players move from us and take their opportunities elsewhere. Ideally it should work out for players here but in the case of Suso, he was seen by a lot of coaches/managers and was passed over each time. Sometimes things just dont work out which is fair enough. He just didn't suit any managers that we had maybe. Good to see him kicking on.

Ulysses Gaze

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Suso had a cracker of a game in the Italian Supercup final as Milan beat Juventus (On pens)by all account this last year in Italy he really has been living up the hype he had as an underage player.

Montella is a great coach for getting the best out of young players. Did good work at Fiorentina with younger players.

Suso was floundering a bit at Milan before Montella arrived.

Nice to see him start to realise that potential. Hope he can turn in those performances consistently for a few seasons.

Bowlardo

Will sakho ne sold in january and will we buy to replace him?
Will anyone else be leaving?

Bowlardo

Bowlardo wrote: »

Will sakho ne sold in january and will we buy to replace him?
Will anyone else be leaving?

Can't see him playing for us again so if an acceptable offer comes in. Afaik he has little contact with the squad.

NukaCola

Sakho will need to be replaced but probably the summer.

Klopp has Klavan/Lovren/Matip with Lucas as cover for now and will also want to see how Gomez plays before making a decision on another CB and Jan is probably too soon I'd say.

sword1

NukaCola wrote: »

I generally dont mind when good players move from us and take their opportunities elsewhere. Ideally it should work out for players here but in the case of Suso, he was seen by a lot of coaches/managers and was passed over each time. Sometimes things just dont work out which is fair enough. He just didn't suit any managers that we had maybe. Good to see him kicking on.

We could always buy him back for 100 million

DrumSteve

Lucas off to Inter in the Summer apparently.

I for one will miss him when he's gone.

Kerrigooney

DrumSteve wrote: »

Lucas off to Inter in the Summer apparently.

I for one will miss him when he's gone.

Every single transfer window is like Groundhog day in here. This will be the 20th time we've sold him.

klose

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Suso had a cracker of a game in the Italian Supercup final as Milan beat Juventus (On pens)by all account this last year in Italy he really has been living up the hype he had as an underage player.

I watched the game on and off and he was very good out wide right, his crossing was abnormally brilliant almost every time. He will earn a senior call up of he keep saying up his form I reckon.

Buford T. Justice XIX

A bit from the Echo on Michael Beale talking about some of the guys he was managing before he goes to Brazil.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpools-academy-uncovered-beale-juanmas-12363040

J Mysterio

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Suso had a cracker of a game in the Italian Supercup final as Milan beat Juventus (On pens)by all account this last year in Italy he really has been living up the hype he had as an underage player.

I always said we should have kept him. You could see he had class.

Harry Palmr

If Suso had stayed he'd have been sent out on various loans and run his contract down.

J Mysterio

Harry Palmr wrote: »

If Suso had stayed he'd have been sent out on various loans and run his contract down.

That's fairly wild speculation to be fair.

J Mysterio

Return of Joey Gomez

After more than a year of rehabilitation from the anterior cruciate ligament injury he sustained in October 2015 and a subsequent Achilles issue, the 19-year-old had moved into touching distance of being back among the squad at Melwood.

Slowly, the prospect of re-joining his flourishing teammates seemed real.

And in the last stretch, weekly distance targets proved timely motivational tools for the determined Gomez, who gladly crossed off each achieved objective during a key stage in his recovery.

“Towards the end, the final two months, I bought a calendar and put it on my wardrobe and I wrote out every day and ticked off every box,” he told Liverpoolfc.com.

“With the nature of my Achilles injury, I could write out my distances and I was checking off each week – ‘This week I finished 5k, this week I finished 8k.’

“That was massive for me because I was counting down and looking at the week itself, instead of focusing on a long-term goal. That helped me massively.”

Since returning to training in mid-October, Gomez has been clocking up important minutes with Liverpool’s U23 side, most recently in their 2-1 victory over Chester FC on Tuesday afternoon.

The No.12 also travelled with the first-team squad to the Premier League clash with Middlesbrough earlier this month – an experience that meant so much after so long out.

At the moment, these ‘little things’ are of huge importance to a player who made the step up to top-flight football with apparent ease upon joining the Reds from Charlton Athletic last summer.

Understandably, too, given how far he has come since the difficult days immediately after he suffered the ACL injury on England U21 duty 14 months ago.

“You don’t want to exaggerate, but it’s like everything has come to an end,” Gomez reflected.

“When you’re young and you’ve never experienced something like that… it’s not even the rest of the day, for the next couple of weeks you are in limbo, all over the place mentally and overthinking constantly.

“That’s where you’ve got your family and your friends around you, and your teammates, who keep you going. And then once you get over that rough patch, it’s about pushing on and being positive and getting started.

“Obviously it was tough at first and for a few weeks you’re struggling. With this injury, the surgery was a week after so there’s no time to settle, you’re straight into it and there’s the trauma of the surgery.

“It’s not easy but it only makes you stronger coming through the other side.

“I made sure I did everything I could and I had to have faith in the physios that it would all straighten itself out – and it did. I’ve got to be thankful for that.”

Gomez can now carry that positivity into 2017.

Still a teenager – “but I don’t feel like I am mentally” – he will also enter the New Year a much-changed character with a refreshed outlook to complement his obvious talent.

LFC.com

Harry Palmr

Yes Suso was a decent player of course but it was clear enough no one who mattered could see a role for him so he was sold. It's no big deal.

If he had stayed which player would he have kept out or meant Liverpool didn't sign? Lallana? Firmino? Mane?

garra

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Yes Suso was a decent player of course but it was clear enough no one who mattered could see a role for him so he was sold. It's no big deal.

If he had stayed which player would he have kept out or meant Liverpool didn't sign? Lallana? Firmino? Mane?

KLopp has already transformed some of our skillfull but foppish players into strong robust skillfull players, I'm thinking of Lallana and Coutinho. Who is to say Klopp could not have done a similar job on Suso? Anyway he is gone and plenty of LFC managers could not fit him in to the team so it's not as if we let him slip out of the net unnoticed. Hope he thrives elsewhere.

corwill

J Mysterio wrote: »

That's fairly wild speculation to be fair.

On the basis of what do you think it would have went otherwise, had he stayed at LFC? Sure even his first year at Milan followed the pattern you take issue with, they packed him off to Genoa.

DrumSteve

Kerrigooney wrote: »

Every single transfer window is like Groundhog day in here. This will be the 20th time we've sold him.

Missed him every single time.

Agent Coulson

Kerrigooney wrote: »

Every single transfer window is like Groundhog day in here. This will be the 20th time we've sold him.

Just need us linked to Arda to complete a transfer window Bingo now.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Just need us linked to Arda to complete a transfer window Bingo now.

Still waiting for the Will Hughes jackpot call:P

Charlie19

Not sure what Aldo is smoking but it must be fairly strong.

"The squad is quite good to be honest because we're not in Europe," "Coutinho is coming back soon and Matip and Gomez too. Plus, the young lads have plenty of potential. The manager will know if he needs to buy one but if the right man isn't available he'll play the kids. Money is available but he won't go out and buy for the sake of it. Personally I'd go and get Suarez."

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/luis-suarez-would-be-ideal-january-signing-liverpool-says-john-aldridge-1598003

NukaCola

J Mysterio wrote: »

That's fairly wild speculation to be fair.

Pretty much sums up his whole career at Liverpool.....hardly wild speculation.

Harry Palmr

Charlie19 wrote: »

Not sure what Aldo is smoking but it must be fairly strong.



http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/luis-suarez-would-be-ideal-january-signing-liverpool-says-john-aldridge-1598003

Mario Suarez he must mean

mosstin

Charlie19 wrote: »

Not sure what Aldo is smoking but it must be fairly strong.



http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/luis-suarez-would-be-ideal-january-signing-liverpool-says-john-aldridge-1598003

Loved Aldo as a player but as a pundit/analyst he veers towards Paddy Crerand style responses.

ShamoBuc

Nollaig Shona dhíobh go léir........ye filthy animals !!!

livinginkorea

Happy Christmas to all the redmen (and women)!

Riesen_Meal

Crispy Hissmas fellow Redmen, have a good one...

OwaynOTT

Here's wishing ye an old fashioned merry Christmas and bobby does too

https://media1.giphy.com/media/gXaM79q2Pk5na/giphy.gif

martyos121

I'd like to take the time this Christmas Eve to announce my resignation as a thankswhore. It's been fun, but there'll be no more memeing, joking, reacting, mentions of breakfast, lean-analysis, list references, taking the piss out of Sturridge or other general mischief from me. See ye!

Or......



My days wouldn't be half as enjoyable (or headwrecking) without this thread, so genuinely, have a great one and try to fit in a bit of breakfast before the boring old turkey dinner.

Charlie19

Cant be forgetting the Panda.

Agent Coulson

corwill

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Happy Danielmas, Coulson!

Glico Man

The man older than father christmas (and harry) himself, Alex Manninger making a rare appearance in the back of the photo.

Nice to see Danny D'ings in there too.

martyos121

Love how nearly every single one of them is leaning in that picture. Probably the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.