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The Gary Hooper rumors are getting stronger, seems most of the papers picking up on it now

From what i have seen he is deadly in the box

Think he is a very realistic target and one that will improve our goalscoring threat.

Benny The Noon » Fri Oct 26, 2012 11:45 am wrote:Think he is a very realistic target and one that will improve our goalscoring threat.

Agreed

Wouldn't mind getting Hooper (no more than 7 million) as long as we got Huntelaar or David Villa as well

i doubt we will see anything like huntelaar arriving here in january and it will be more like hooper.
rodgers would jump at the chance of sturridge and likes wallcott but neither is prolific enough to solve our problem.hooper is a good finisher and would be the cheaper option in the long run.
if in the summer we are serious about making a push for top 4 we should be targeting the likes of dzeko. Even though he's at city id say he'd jump at the chance of regular football elsewhere and would even take a paycut. If falcao is going to be on the move then city will be interested and that would push dzeko further down the order making that deal possible.

Drogba available on loan for November/December only, strong links with us, all over sunday papers

cardiff-red » Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:41 am wrote:Drogba available on loan for November/December only, strong links with us, all over sunday papers

I hate drogba, really hate him.

But god we need him!!!!!!!! please let there be truth in it

red till i die ...

dzeko scoring goals for fun in a liverpool shirt is one of my recurring day dreams.

I'm sorry but who the F is hooper?

maguskwt » Sun Oct 28, 2012 1:07 pm wrote:I'm sorry but who the F is hooper?

he plays for celtic, scored a few goals for them.
started out in the lower leagues with the likes of grays athletic, southend and leyton orient.

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sun Oct 28, 2012 8:32 pm wrote:

maguskwt » Sun Oct 28, 2012 1:07 pm wrote:I'm sorry but who the F is hooper?

he plays for celtic, scored a few goals for them.
started out in the lower leagues with the likes of grays athletic, southend and leyton orient.

Checked him out... scored 20 odd goals in each of his last 2 seasons with celtic? But is that good enough for BPL? Who knows... if the price is right why not?

If we could get Hooper for sub £10m then I'd give him a shot but would feel more comfortable with him being one of two strikers being brought in.

Im not sure bringing in a gamble is the best idea. Regardless of how well hes done at Celtic and the lower leagues, hes still unproven at the top level and I find it hard to believe that he'd get the nod ahead of Suarez for the central role.

Unless we can go out and buy a proven goalscorer -and they often dont come cheap- then I'd prefer if we focused on bringing in a short term backup option in January (30+ experienced forward) with whatever money we have being spent on a top class wide player if one is available.

It will be very hard for us to get anything out of this season and I'm not sure we can bring in enough quality in January to bridge the gap with the likes of Arsenal and even Tottenham. If we are to rebuild, we might as well do it right.

aCe' » Mon Oct 29, 2012 6:41 pm wrote:Im not sure bringing in a gamble is the best idea. Regardless of how well hes done at Celtic and the lower leagues, hes still unproven at the top level and I find it hard to believe that he'd get the nod ahead of Suarez for the central role.

Unless we can go out and buy a proven goalscorer -and they often dont come cheap- then I'd prefer if we focused on bringing in a short term backup option in January (30+ experienced forward) with whatever money we have being spent on a top class wide player if one is available.

It will be very hard for us to get anything out of this season and I'm not sure we can bring in enough quality in January to bridge the gap with the likes of Arsenal and even Tottenham. If we are to rebuild, we might as well do it right.

Agreed, whoever the manager decides to bring in, must be someone that he's confident will do a job for us. It also means he would need to form a good partnership with Suarez and must score more regularly than Suarez does...

rather than bring a plodder like hooper in i`d rather we brought carroll back from loan and give the likes of morgan, ngoo and especially yesil a chance.
i dont see the logic of reducing the squad size and then filling it up again with mid table standard players.
i dont think hooper has enough weapons in his game to trouble premiership defences and i`m not convinced he`d be able to handle the pressure of leading the line at a huge club either, the liverpool shirt is one of the heaviest shirts in football.
personally i`d like to see sterling and suarez play either side of carroll, i dont think carroll would break any scoring records but i think suarez and sterling might do playing off him.
sterling looks to have more to his game than just being the type of winger who hugs the sidelines, despite being a winger he has got a strikers instinct and he likes to play on the last shoulder of defenders. with his acceleration i think he`d cause defences real problems latching on to carrolls knock downs and flick ons.
the great thing about carroll is that centre halves end up getting bogged down in arm wrestling contests with him, that not only means that he`s the one taking the kicks and bruises it also means that other players have got to track back or come across from fullback to pick up suarez and sterling, if they switch off for a second suarez or sterling are through on goal.
we briefly saw a front 3 of carroll, suarez and sterling in the last home game of last season when we destroyed chelsea at anfield and it looked really impressive, infact sterling nearly scored off a carroll flick on, and because all 3 players are so different it asks a lot of questions of defences.
i think having carroll in the centre would make it easier to rotate our strikers too, i think borini needs a carroll type beside him to make the most of his goal poaching instincts and i`m sure the likes of yesil would be happy to see the big geordie next to him as well.
hopefully rodgers realised in sundays derby that it makes sense to be a bit more pragmatic at times.