Liverpool FC Forum

stmichael » Wed Dec 19, 2012 1:40 pm wrote:Where has this idea that Sturridge only has 6 months left on his contract come from? I read that his contract was ending in 2013 initially but Chelsea had the option to sign a 1 year extension which they did.

He has 6 months left on his contract, signed a four year contract back in 2009, you can source this information from any credible football site.

The one year extension is a rumour which began last year, you will have trouble confirming a source because.......it NEVER took place.

Once again the question begs to be asked, why oh why are we spending so much money on a this type of player?

If we have signed him and paid 12 million on a 80,000 a week wage, this is an un-mitigated f**king disaster. 

The f**k would you pay that amount of money when you can get HIM FOR FREE SIX MONTHS LATER!!!!!!

I don't care what you numb-skulls are saying about "writing him off", we were right about Owl face, we were right about Downing, Adam, Carroll and Henderson. Another massive f**k up by this club 

Firstly to stress the point Henderson hasnt been given a Chance
Secondly they were all bought by another manager and thats why there not favoured anymore
Thirdly Sturridge is younger than Downing and Adam
and Fourthly if a player becomes free then you tend to pay higher wages for them I.E Joe Cole

According to the BBC Sturridge signed a four year deal when he signed for Chelsea in 2009 so it would be a bit on the steep side if the reports are we're paying £12m, especially as he's a player who's been out of favour for some time. Nevertheless, I do think he'll improve us. If you cast your mind back a year or two he had an excellent spell on loan to Bolton when I'm sure many on here would have taken him at that price. Then when he returned he became a fixture in Boa's Chelsea where again he was one of their outstanding players, their top scorer with nine league goals at the half way point. He's talented, he's versatile, he's a good age and if he can get together he should improve us.

I don't know enough about Ince but it does seem very odd/stupid of us to let a player go for .25m a year ago before re-signng them for a vast multiple of that. What was there that we didn't see in him then hat we do now?    On top of that I would be concerned if another slight/technical player is really what we need. For me one of our biggest weaknesses is how lightweight we are, and how we lack an alternative type of threat, which a striker capable of holding the ball up or a winger capable of beating a man with pace and strength would address better than either of these players. Perhaps, though, we're just doing our best at a pretty desperate time for the club in a market that isn't ideal.

Whomever we buy in January we are going to pay over the odds

LFC1990 » Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:02 am wrote:and Fourthly if a player becomes free then you tend to pay higher wages for them I.E Joe Cole

thats fine if we were getting sturridge on a free (or a nominal fee) but we are reportedly spending £12m on him!
i`m not keen on this idea of rodgers signing someone else that he`s worked with in the past either, is he trying to surround himself with yes men or something? apart from the kalou`s and signurdsson`s that we were initially linked with in the summer, when it looked like agger may be going we were linked with ashley williams (wtf?) and when there was talk of reina going rodgers started waffling on in a press conference about how good the swansea keeper vorm is with his feet!
look at the chances his mate joe cole is getting to resurrect his liverpool career when other players like carroll and aquilani were quickly handed their coats and shoved out the door.
the world is a f##king big place and there are thousands of footballers who rodgers hasnt worked with and quite a few of them are very good and would strengthen us. why is he narrowing his options like that?
the last few south amercans we signed have served the club well (aurelio, coates, maxi...and suarez, mascherano and lucas were/have been brilliant), they have a great work ethic and tremendous technique, cant we sign a few more of them?

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:06 pm wrote:

LFC1990 » Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:02 am wrote:and Fourthly if a player becomes free then you tend to pay higher wages for them I.E Joe Cole

thats fine if we were getting sturridge on a free (or a nominal fee) but we are reportedly spending £12m on him!
i`m not keen on this idea of rodgers signing someone else that he`s worked with in the past either, is he trying to surround himself with yes men or something? apart from the kalou`s and signurdsson`s that we were initially linked with in the summer, when it looked like agger may be going we were linked with ashley williams (wtf?) and when there was talk of reina going rodgers started waffling on in a press conference about how good the swansea keeper vorm is with his feet!
look at the chances his mate joe cole is getting to resurrect his liverpool career when other players like carroll and aquilani were quickly handed their coats and shoved out the door.
the world is a f##king big place and there are thousands of footballers who rodgers hasnt worked with and quite a few of them are very good and would strengthen us. why is he narrowing his options like that?
the last few south amercans we signed have served the club well (aurelio, coates, maxi...and suarez, mascherano and lucas were/have been brilliant), they have a great work ethic and tremendous technique, cant we sign a few more of them?

A few trains of thought.

1. Br is so worried about making a mistake he is buying players he knows
2. he is surrounding himself with yes men.
3. He knows the players and knows they will be the best fit for his system.

Who knows whats going on.

The Raven » Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:31 pm wrote:

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:06 pm wrote:

LFC1990 » Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:02 am wrote:and Fourthly if a player becomes free then you tend to pay higher wages for them I.E Joe Cole

thats fine if we were getting sturridge on a free (or a nominal fee) but we are reportedly spending £12m on him!
i`m not keen on this idea of rodgers signing someone else that he`s worked with in the past either, is he trying to surround himself with yes men or something? apart from the kalou`s and signurdsson`s that we were initially linked with in the summer, when it looked like agger may be going we were linked with ashley williams (wtf?) and when there was talk of reina going rodgers started waffling on in a press conference about how good the swansea keeper vorm is with his feet!
look at the chances his mate joe cole is getting to resurrect his liverpool career when other players like carroll and aquilani were quickly handed their coats and shoved out the door.
the world is a f##king big place and there are thousands of footballers who rodgers hasnt worked with and quite a few of them are very good and would strengthen us. why is he narrowing his options like that?
the last few south amercans we signed have served the club well (aurelio, coates, maxi...and suarez, mascherano and lucas were/have been brilliant), they have a great work ethic and tremendous technique, cant we sign a few more of them?

A few trains of thought.

1. Br is so worried about making a mistake he is buying players he knows
2. he is surrounding himself with yes men.
3. He knows the players and knows they will be the best fit for his system.

Who knows whats going on.

No if we believe mocking bird then Brendan is a complete fecking moron, end of story, lets bring back Kenny and Carroll then we'll win the league no probs.

I tend to think 1 and 3,

FSG where not impressed by Kenny spending all that money, infact it cost him his job. To be fair Ince isnt a huge outlay, if it dont work out then no big loss on the grand scale of things.

With Sturrage, He knows the player, he probably knows he will fit into the system he wants to play.

For Brods faults i dont think signing Danny is one of them. I think its airing a bit on the safe side but after what happened last time thats no bad thing.

Boocity » Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:42 am wrote:Whomever we buy in January we are going to pay over the odds

There is paying over the odds and then there is taking the absoulate p**s. 

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:06 pm wrote:

LFC1990 » Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:02 am wrote:and Fourthly if a player becomes free then you tend to pay higher wages for them I.E Joe Cole

the last few south amercans we signed have served the club well (aurelio, coates, maxi...and suarez, mascherano and lucas were/have been brilliant), they have a great work ethic and tremendous technique, cant we sign a few more of them?

For example who?

LFC1990 » Fri Dec 21, 2012 7:53 am wrote:

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:06 pm wrote:

LFC1990 » Thu Dec 20, 2012 8:02 am wrote:and Fourthly if a player becomes free then you tend to pay higher wages for them I.E Joe Cole

the last few south amercans we signed have served the club well (aurelio, coates, maxi...and suarez, mascherano and lucas were/have been brilliant), they have a great work ethic and tremendous technique, cant we sign a few more of them?

For example who?

Here a few worth sniffing around for, values would vary dramatically though:

Juan Quintero
Philippe Coutinho
Héctor Quiñones
Dede
Adryan
Felipe Gutiérrez
Lucas Ocampos
Mauro Caballero
Matías Gutiérrez
Juan Agudelo
Erik Lamela (should have bought him instead of Borini)
Leandro Paredes

Sturridge and Ince? is that it? all we could find?

I was gutted when we let Ince's lad go ,so I would be delighted if we could get him back for the price rumoured .

Agudelo is colombian-born, but I'd hardly consider him South American, and I don't rate him much.

However, I have been calling for Lamela for a couple years now.  Impresses the hell out of me every time I see him, seriously I think he's one of Roma's best players.  I'd be over the moon if we had brought him in.

the 2 players i`d love to see join us in january are huntelaar and diame