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by **Stan Laurel** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:21 am

Cheers Dr.Liverpool, you are spot on about Jon Stead, I was so surprised the first time about him to sign a Premier League club from Div.3. So why not to have Earnshaw to play for us.

I rate him very highly, he is fantastic player to watch and very tricky player too. Very fast and furious, very good technique, always cause the defenders problem most of time. Also he is small guy but he can head very well, cor blimey.It will be very cheap to buy him, he has been targetted by Charlton and Aston Villa for 4m, but Cardiff City would let him go if they don't reach Play Off of Div.1. But it would be fantastic to have him to play for Liverpool.

I believe Earnshaw is ready to play in Premier League, it is time for him to move on next step to try play in Premier League, remember he is only young wee lad. Plenty of time for him.
But of some Liverpool fans don't agree with me because he is a First Division player, nothing wrong with that, Dr.Liverpool.

by **DrLiverpool** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:26 am

First division so what.

Your right to think his class (because he is) and if we got him for 4m it would be great.
How old is he anyway ?

by **Stan Laurel** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:32 am

He is 23 year old, only just, mate.

by **DrLiverpool** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:35 am

Not too young not too old.
he'd be a good signing.

by **DrLiverpool** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:49 am

Here the signings I would like.

Ibrahimovic (AJAX) and Earnshaw (CARDIFF) -strikers
Parker (CHELSEA) centre mid.
sALIHAMIDZIC (BAYERN MUNICH) right mid.
Gallas (CHELSEA) or Mexes (AUXERRE) centre back.

These are both realistic and great players.

Sell Diao,Smicer,Biscan,Traore and Murphy and get a few pound to fund thre signings above.

by **DrLiverpool** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:52 am

Also if we got Ibrahimovic and Earnshaw then sell Heskey also.

note. this is the first time I have ever said to sell Heskey. I still think his class and will prove it but if we got the players above he can move to anither club. Although even then I would be sad to see him leave.

by **Gbo** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:59 am

I would love to see Van Der Vaart at Anfield, along with Gallas and another stiker to replace Heskey.

I would like to see Pongolle & Le Tallec get more first team chances next season.

Au revoir Traore, Cheyrou, Vignal and Mr Houllier.

by **DrLiverpool** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 1:03 am

but van der vaart is a left wing if we bought him we'd have to sell kewell.

p.s. I would take van der vaart over kewell at this moment in time.

by **Gbo** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 1:06 am

Kewell has no competition on the left at the moment so he is in the comfort zone.

A quality left midfield signing might give him the kick up the a#se he needs.

by **DrLiverpool** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 1:12 am

But having two graet left wings would be stupid we might be better of selling one of them.
We'd be chelsea having two or more class players in the same position forcing one of them to be on the bench. its a waste.

by **DrLiverpool** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 2:08 am

Anybody else have any opinions about Robbie Earnshaw.

by **Woollyback** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:25 am

I'd be inclined to bring in Earnshaw if the price was right, say up to £4m. So what if he's only 1st div everybody has to start somewhere. He's perhaps a little similar to Owen in terms of stature, pace etc but doesn't seem afraid of running at defenders and making a nuisance of himself. I say bring him in and give the lad a chance. He'd score more goals than Heskey THATS FOR SURE.

by **Big Niall** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:34 am

How many people have actually seen Cissy play on a regular basis?

I know very little about the guy other than GH has wanted him for a couple of years and it seems to be a done deal. For £14m I'd expect a player who has done some damage in the CL or at international level.

He'll probably be a poor man's Henry like the rest of GH's french boys are players Wenger passed over.

by **JBG** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:28 pm

I agree: I wager that very few people here have seen Cisse play regularly.

My two cents:

Sell: Dudek, Riise, Traore, Biscan, Henchoz, Murphy, Cheyrou, Diao, Diouff, Heskey, Vignal, Mellor and Didi Hamman. Unfortunately only two or three of these players are marketable and we'll probably have to stick with the rest.

Buy: an experienced reserve keeper as back up for Kirkland, a decent centre half (maybe Gallas as he'll probably be available for £7 to £8million in the summer if Chelsea buy a few new centre halves), Malbranque (proven in the Premiership), a creative midfielder to replace Hamman (I like Rosicky a lot), another backup creative midfielder (I like Juninho of Lyon), a decent centre forward (maybe Cisse, maybe Kezman) and if I had much money left I would buy two new full backs as I simply think Steve Finnan always has been and still is vastly over rated.

I have lost a lot of faith in 90% of Liverpool's players and I think some of those players whose praises are sung by Liverpool fans are over rated.

I mean, some people describe Milan Baros as "sheer class" whereas the reality is, in my opinion, that while he has potential he still has only managed a dozen or so goals for the club, and as things stand he would be a decent forward for Birmingham but he's not quite in the top bracket yet.

Also, I hear a lot of nonsense from Pool fans about Harry Kewell being a world class player "who would walk onto anyside in the world". Thats absolute nonsense. Kewell approached world class three years ago, since then he has been in relative decline and while he can be good on his day, he's no where near the level of the likes of Pires and I would say his form this year is probably below that of Zenden's of Boro.

People also sing the praises of Le Tallec and Pongolle. Both look like good prospects, but neither have made the impact Fowler, McMannaman, Gerrard and Owen made at their ages.

The logic in selling Hamman is that while he is a superb player we are simply too negative with him and Gerrard in the team and I think we won't move forward until we have a creative midfielder alongside Gerrard, ala Petit and Vieria in 1998, Scholes and Keane or Edu and Vieria now.

by **JBG** » Wed Apr 14, 2004 12:34 pm

By the way, Robbie Earnshaw?

You can't be serious.

He scored a hat trick against Scotland: big deal. The jump up from division one to the Premiership is one thing, but Earnshaw would not add to Liverpool. Earnshaw is no better than Pongolle, probably much worse. David Connolly of West Ham and Rep. Ireland also scored loads of goals at Division 1 level and got a hat trick for Ireland but you wouldn't want him here, would you?

The John Stead arguement is not really valid as he still has only scored 3 goals (big deal) and thats for Blackburn, not Man UTD or Arsenal. Fair play to him, but Stead scoring three for Blacburn does not mean Earnshaw will score 20 for Liverpool, and thats the standard we require.

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