Re: Liverpool Thread(I Just Can't Get Enough!!)
Getting rid of both Maxi and Merieles in the same window (which might happen) sounds like madness. They might be old but they are established international players, who have proven themselves at a number of clubs abroad and have settled into playing for Liverpool.
If Downing turns out to be a turkey, Henderson takes a while to settle in, and Gerrard gets an injury your midfield could look a bit dodgy.
King Kenny might be a great team motivator, but some of his signings have been a bit questionable. At Newcastle he brought average British players like Gary Speed, or Pearce and Rush (both too old in 1996/7) or not very good foreign players (e.g. Pistone, Andreas Anderson) and sold some of Newcastle's best attacking players (e.g. Ginola and Ferdinand). Some of his last buys at Liverpool before leaving in the early 1990s were Jimmy Case and David Speedie, neither of whom set the world alight.
I think if the board want to let him take risks buy signing players that's one thing, but to have him sell a lot of established good-performing players just seems like an unecessary risk. Why not keep them for another 6 months or year until the purchased players settle into the team ? It would not cost that much and the financial rewards of getting into the CL could easily offset it.
good post, but how i see what we are doing now is to build a team of players who are young + quality + capable of being with the club for many years...soround them with other PL proven players and some TOP quality buys...then adapt the reserve players to the first team..
lot of people seem to forget what quality Liverpool have in their youth teams.. just look at the young players we have at the club right now..
IF we are about to sell Maxi and Meireles..the reason is to stabilise the club in terms of making the squad younger and remove the high earners who don´t deserve their salary or don´t perform... we buy players who might raise eyebrows, but in the same time they are not high earners and are capable of being usefull for the team in whole season, not just in some matches..
if we were buying without thinking, why would we then not continue our talks with Marveaux over some thousands pounds i think.. after we were almost done with him moving to us..he was at the stadium sitting and watching a game some weeks ago...
he was not injured or something, this transfer collapsed becouse of money.. wich indicates we will not risk on player who might get injury anymore...we won´t sign a second Kewell that we need to keep at the club and give money for nothing..
something chainged and i belive it chainged to good..
our squad was already VERY thin this season compared to other teams in quantity but also in quality...if we plan to get rid of the old not perfoming players that´s ok, we might buy some + promote more players than usually from reserves..
but with possible Meireles sell, i belive it´s not about questioning the players quality..but with chainged view on how we are going to make progress in future and how this team is going to chainge in view of salarys vs. performance vs. future grow...also in view of tactics that Kenny Dalglsish prefeurs and plans to teach.
or it might be Kenny don´t like Meireles...
pick for yourself what you think is true..
