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[parchpea]

If Swansea had signed Ings I wouldn't have expected him to start every game.

This is what we have bought, its no risk but everything to gain if, and its a big if, he turns into a star.

We are simply cutting out the middle man team, Burnley via Swansea or WBA, to bring the player in.

[7_Kewell]

If Swansea had signed Ings I wouldn't have expected him to start every game.

This is what we have bought, its no risk but everything to gain if, and its a big if, he turns into a star.

We are simply cutting out the middle man team, Burnley via Swansea or WBA, to bring the player in.

Mate, our team is FULL of hopeful youngsters....we need PROVEN lads to come in and lift them up. That means world class players....even if it's just ONE with proven pedigree.

I know the summer transfers have only just begun, and I hope the lads do well,  but BR is writing his own resignation if he thinks that Ings and Milner are the answer to our problems.

[Dundreamin is back]

Premiership 2014-15
Balotelli 14 million. 1 goal
Ings       Bosman. 11 goals

[Reg]

Exactly, so be happy.

[RedAnt]

Premiership 2014-15
Balotelli 14 million. 1 goal
Ings       Bosman. 11 goals

Gerrard scored more than Ings and he's been playing as a defensive mid.

[leeroy74]

was Gerrard playing in a relegated Burnley team ? no. Lets see what Ings does in a season playing with better players around him . we just don't know how he'll fair.

[Reg]

Let's talk this one to death whilst we wait eh?

[RedAnt]

was Gerrard playing in a relegated Burnley team ? no. Lets see what Ings does in a season playing with better players around him . we just don't know how he'll fair.

No, but he was playing in a struggling Liverpool team that didn't score many. I'm not having a go at Ings, but stats about how he's scored more than our four strikers doesn't mean much. If our strikers had scored lots, then maybe it would mean more. For the record, I've scored more times than our strike force combined this year.

[number 8 ynwa]

From the Guardian

Liverpool require major improvement and have begun their rebuilding work swiftly, steadily and unspectacularly by agreeing deals with Danny Ings and James Milner in the past five days. Hardly a glowing assessment of their early transfer moves, admittedly, yet there already appears a clearer sense of what Brendan Rodgers needs than throughout last summer’s chaotic, ill-conceived and record £117m spree. The manager can only hope this represents a starting point.

Ings’ anticipated move from Burnley was confirmed on Monday, with Liverpool agreeing personal terms with the 22-year-old striker but not a fee with his relegated club. Liverpool expect to pay about £5m‑6m for the England Under-21 international, while the Clarets can cite Tottenham Hotspur’s offer of closer to £10m as reason for an increase. An independent tribunal will decide on the compensation due to Burnley for developing a player aged under 24 in the absence of a settlement.

“Burnley Football Club has rejected an offer made by Liverpool but will continue to have dialogue with the club in order to reach a resolution over the fee,” read a statement issued from Turf Moor.

Whatever the eventual price – and how Liverpool love to haggle these days – it will represent good business for a young, emerging English talent who scored 11 goals in his first Premier League campaign last term and 21 in contribution to Burnley’s promotion from the Championship in 2013-14. A Fenway Sports Group purchase in every sense but also, in terms of work-rate and movement, a signing far more suited to a Rodgers team than the two strikers Liverpool bought last summer, Rickie Lambert and Mario Balotelli.

With one Premier League goal for Liverpool since his £16m arrival from Milan and more public criticism from his manager than telling performances for the team, Balotelli is the spectacular transfer’s cautionary tale. He also remains the mystifying conclusion to a transfer search that once Luis Suárez was on his way to a dream move and the treble with Barcelona, started with Alexis Sánchez, turned to Loïc Rémy and ended in a choice of the Italy international or Samuel Eto’o, with deadline day looming. With the Belgium forward Divock Origi arriving from Lille this summer and now Ings agreed, Liverpool are clearly in position to avoid a repeat.

Ings and Milner will officially become Liverpool players on 1 July, when their contracts have expired at Burnley and Manchester City respectively.

The 29-year-old England midfielder has been pursued by Rodgers since he rejected a £165,000-a-week contract extension at City last summer and his experience, leadership, versatility and often overlooked ability will be invaluable to a callow team that lost their way last season and have now lost their captain, Steven Gerrard.

Milner and Ings will also provide a physical presence that Liverpool lacked last term. The pair do not represent a statement of intent from a club whose return to the Champions League last term proved to be fleeting – but they will undoubtedly improve the squad. With interest in Christian Benteke, albeit with some reluctance to meet the £32.5m buyout clause in his contract at Aston Villa, and the Southampton right-back Nathaniel Clyne, subject of a rejected £10m bid, Liverpool’s work has only just begun.

Of course, as Rodgers knows only too well from his time at Anfield, the club’s best-laid plans often go awry and with Raheem Sterling wanting to go, Balotelli’s agent claiming he wants to stay and Benteke by no means guaranteed, the potential for disruption lies ahead. But the Liverpool manager’s relief at surviving FSG’s end-of-season-night of the long knives extends to the addition of Milner and Ings. And both in time for a full pre-season with their new club.

Liverpool’s glaring weakness was in attack last season, where their recognised strikers Daniel Sturridge, Lambert, Balotelli and Fabio Borini produced a measly eight Premier League goals combined. Ings was more potent in a team that lost their Premier League status, with two more league goals than Liverpool’s leading scorer (Gerrard), four more than Sterling and six more than Philippe Coutinho and Adam Lallana. He enters the forthcoming European Under-21s Championship having scored four times in nine appearances for Gareth Southgate’s side.

Unspectacular the new pair may be but what matters before a critical season for Rodgers is that Ings and Milner are the right fit for Liverpool.

[RedAnt]

Let's talk this one to death whilst we wait eh?

Maybe a transfers discussion thread is in order? Would save cluttering these places up with more generalised chatter.

[Reg]

If we cut out the cr@p, we'd be ok.

[Soupyzrx]

If we cut out the cr@p, we'd be ok.

Yes...... if only FSG would start thinking the same way.......

[johnbarnes]

At the age of 22, having scored 11 PL goals can't include this as a bad signing. Yes more experience is required and I'm sure LFC will be looking for those types of signings since getting their fingers burnt last season. ALSO,with Copa America about to start it will be very difficult to tie down quality signings until after the tournament. So it's another waiting game for us!

[redshade]

We will just have to wait and see how he does for us. As he now is a lfc player im hoping he performs very well and bangs in some goals.

[kazza]

He will improve the squad and be a good replacement for Borini so I'm not sure why the negativity. I think he will not have so much pressure on him and will have a good season next year.