The BigFooty Liverpool Army - Part 17

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Gerrard is becoming a worry. From memory, he'd already had 2 or 3 groin operations in his career before this latest one and he's not getting any younger (31 in May).

I think his days as a rampaging CAM, like we saw in 08-09, are over. He's possibly going to have to re-invent himself in the last few years of his career.

I liked the way he played against Scum last weekend. His play was obviously restricted by his injury but I liked the way he generally sat deeper and played a more disciplined, composed game. Even playing this way he still had opportunities late in the game to have a few shots on goal.

Let Meireles continue as our attacking mid for the time being. He's seemed to relish (har har) the role lately and in any case, I'm not sure he has the tackling power for a CM in the EPL.

And while I'm on the subject of midfielders, say no to Charlie Adam. The man has absolutely no defensive side to his game at all. I'm sure there'll be better options in the summer window anyway.
 

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Actually been quite happy with Gerrard under Kenny before his injuries in the past few weeks. Seems to be playing more intelligently instead of just bombing forward all the time and leaving holes all over the midfield. Has just been working himself to the ground and being everywhere on the pitch, doing the simple things well.

One of the main strengths of Gerrard's game is how dynamic he is physically. He just bursts up and down the pitch better than most in the world. Now that he's getting older, he'll probably just rely on good positioning and keep up with the simple things, which could be better for the team in the long run

Raul has kinda been doing what Gerrard does in the last third of the pitch and being superb at it, so there's no reason for that to change

We need a top stopper in midfield though, while Lucas is great in the important games, I'm not sure he can be completely reliable through the whole league season.
 

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LIVERPOOL GIVE KENNY DALGLISH TWO-YEAR DEAL

KENNY DALGLISH has been offered a two-year deal and substantial transfer funds to become Liverpool’s permanent manager.

The 60-year-old Kop legend, who has transformed the club’s fortunes since replacing the sacked Roy Hodgson in January, had asked American owners John W Henry and Tom Werner for a four-year deal.

Henry and Werner were reluctant to look beyond two years but have promised a review if progress continues to be made under Dalglish.

Sunday Express Sport can reveal that Steve Clarke, who was brought in as a coach to work alongside Dalglish by Damien Comolli, Liverpool’s director of football strategy, is on a three-and-a-half-year contract.

It is understood that Dalglish wants a lucrative financial package to compensate for a lack of long-term security. Those negotiations are still going on.

Anfield commercial director Ian Ayre has been the conduit between the owners and Dalglish, travelling to the USA last week.

Dalglish has told the Liverpool board he must have a hefty transfer kitty available this summer to strengthen his inherited squad. Henry and Werner displayed their commitment to the club in the January transfer window, splashing the £50 million they received from Chelsea for Fernando Torres on Ajax’s Luis Suarez and Newcastle’s Andy Carroll.

They have told Dalglish they will repeat their transfer largesse in the summer – Comolli is already working on a number of big-name targets.

The owners are delighted with the progress under Dalglish, culminating in last Sunday’s 3-1 victory over Manchester United.

While Dalglish hoped to be rewarded with a four-year contract, he is ready to say yes to a two-year deal, providing the figures add up – both personally and in the transfer market.

http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/234251/Liverpool-give-Kenny-Dalglish-new-two-year-deal
 

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With my cricket grand final being washed out today, I was a pretty bad mood with no LFC this weekend - but this has made me a happy man.

But there'll no be susbtantial sales in the summer because we have no attractive prospects for sale - but I'd take any money for Cole, Poulsen, Jovanovic and the like - if it frees up some wages, all the better - we'd need about 50m plus any small figures we get for sales to buy a few stars.
 

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Lol... brilliant.

Still can't believe he's gone. I've been backpacking since New Years and the first I heard of the whole saga was a radio sports news segment talking about how he was lining up for Chelsea against us that weekend. Considering I had no idea he was even thinking of leaving it was a f**king big shock to the system.

I might have to go back and read over the Liverpool Army thread from back then, could be quite entertaining.
 

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With my cricket grand final being washed out today, I was a pretty bad mood with no LFC this weekend - but this has made me a happy man.

But there'll no be susbtantial sales in the summer because we have no attractive prospects for sale - but I'd take any money for Cole, Poulsen, Jovanovic and the like - if it frees up some wages, all the better - we'd need about 50m plus any small figures we get for sales to buy a few stars.

i agree, and in reality we probably need about 70-80 mill worth of investment, but i cant see us having as much to spend as we all hope we do.

if juventus buy aqualani, and we can move on insua, cole, poulsen, jovanovic, degen, el zhar, although they wont gerenate massive sums, 5 or 6 small sums could give us between 12 and 15 million.

its vital that we make at least one free transfer and that the transfer pays off.

wendt or taiwo for left back would be ideal, and id also like us to look at bringing in klose to be our back up striker for a season or two, he is getting on a bit these days but could still offer us something off the bench, certainly knows where the goals are and gives us more then ngog.
 

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I forgot about Aquilani - he's the only player who could get us 10m + (but seeing as Juventus are being wankers over the figure) it wont be to them.

I'd also recall Insua and keep him as back up to the new LB - I'd let Aurelio go.

I can see Cole going for maybe 1.5m, Poosen 1m, Jovanovic 1m, Degen and El Zhar 500k, I'd even look at selling Johnson if the offer was good enough, Kuyt the same, only if the offer was something we couldn't turn down.

Hopefully we sell Skrtel, also for about 2.5m maybe, if that's the case, we might be able to rustle up an extra 6-7m from small player sales, not including Aquilani, Kuyt or Johnson's potential transfers.
 

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The kids line up as follows: Belford; Flanaghan, Sama, Wisdom, Smith; Suso, Coady, Roddan, Sterling; Adorjan, Morgan.

Andre Wisdom returns in place of Matthew McGiveron and Bradley Smith replaces the injured Jack Robinson at left-back.

The pine is: McGiveron, Stephens, Silva, Mukendi and Ngoo
 
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