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moreinjuredthanowen said:
is there also a case that out financial year ends july 1.... are we trying to get all the losses in one year? who knows? Or maybe they all become "official" on july one and we minimise the loss and have all the year to sell players to balance the books.
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Surely that would only be the case if we paid all deals upfront? Most transfers are spread over a couple of years or the length of contract nowadays.

moreinjuredthanowen said:
one thing i would say is there is a tendancy for our fans to "forget" so while this is all good when suarez goes there will be a clamour to buy buy buy then.
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No doubt there will be forgetful minds. Fans always want that 'one more hit' so to speak <laugh>

InBiscanWeTrust said:
Belfast Red said:
Hopefully if Mkhitaryan arrives we play him in midfield, let him go box to box. That'll give us Lucas, Gerrard and him in midfield, with Hendo, Allen and A.N.other covering... that's quite strong.

It also allows us to play Coutinho, Sturridge and Suarez/Aspas up top.

Would like a Wanyama type for midfield though.
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If we sign Henri Ryan for £20mil then I can't see us spending £10mil on another midfielder like Wanyama (even if we could do with some strength in the middle). Especially as we're spending something similar on Mignolet and need another defender.
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Assuming we sign Migs, Toure, Aspas, Luis Alberto and Henri Ryan (three of which have been confirmed), we will still require a CB, DM and CF IMO. If Suarez goes, we may need two CF's but will we go out and sign three or four more? I sincerely doubt it <ok>
 
Lucas Talking said:
This.
At the minute, our backup keeper is bloody Jones! We would always need a new keeper regardless of whether Reina stays because he is not a reliable replacement. If Reina goes, I would expect us to sign another keeper on top of Mignolet anyway.
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The issue is not whether we could do with two good keepers (obviously that would be preferable), but whether we can keep two good keepers happy.
Which of them is going to be content parked on the bench watching the other play, with a World Cup in the offing? Perhaps the suggestion of sending Ming out on loan if Pepe stays could keep them both happy, but then we'd still be left with the problem of who covers for him for the odd short-term injury.
 
my view is challenge for medals and you can keep "some" happy. the thing about keepers is age, if you look at city the older guy given was not going to accept 90k per week and the bench when the younger guy came in but if it had been the other way round hart would have stayed a year or two.

same at utd. foster hung round for a while.... in the end you can't keep both happy.... so this is why i think pepe is going next year.
 
moreinjuredthanowen said:
my view is challenge for medals and you can keep "some" happy. the thing about keepers is age, if you look at city the older guy given was not going to accept 90k per week and the bench when the younger guy came in but if it had been the other way round hart would have stayed a year or two.

same at utd. foster hung round for a while.... in the end you can't keep both happy.... so this is why i think pepe is going next year.
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That would make some sense, we might have said to Mig that if he hangs around for a season he'll then be number 1. Valdes moves on, Pepe goes to Barca, then he's in. All well and good except for the World Cup, still seems odd for him to be on the bench in a year when he'd want to be making sure he cemented his place.
 
saintanton said:
moreinjuredthanowen said:
my view is challenge for medals and you can keep "some" happy. the thing about keepers is age, if you look at city the older guy given was not going to accept 90k per week and the bench when the younger guy came in but if it had been the other way round hart would have stayed a year or two.

same at utd. foster hung round for a while.... in the end you can't keep both happy.... so this is why i think pepe is going next year.
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That would make some sense, we might have said to Mig that if he hangs around for a season he'll then be number 1. Valdes moves on, Pepe goes to Barca, then he's in. All well and good except for the World Cup, still seems odd for him to be on the bench in a year when he'd want to be making sure he cemented his place.
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It does make sense apart from one thing, Migs has said he has ambitions of being part of the Belgium world cup team and he's not going to achieve that sitting on our bench. I'm going to revert back to a tactic from January when we were linked with Walcott and put my left knacker on the line...we won't have both Migs and Pepe come 1 September <ok>
 
Rodgers on Aspas, Toure and our work so far this summer.

Alberto is Liverpool's third piece of incoming transfer business so far this summer after the club also agreed deals in principle for Manchester City centre-back Kolo Toure and Celta Vigo's Iago Aspas.

Rodgers added: "Kolo Toure is a player I've admired since he came into the Premier League. He was a wonderful servant for Arsenal and a part of that 'Invincibles' group and did exceptionally well, and in the transformation of Manchester City, they brought him in as one of their key players.

"We're losing an absolute colossal player in Jamie Carragher, who was absolutely brilliant for me. It's very, very hard to replace that type.

"Kolo Toure will give us that experience and winning mentality. He's still very fit, very strong and will come in, offer that support and fight for his place in the team.

"Iago Aspas was one of the stars for Celta Vigo. He's a goalscorer, he's quick, dynamic, aggressive in his game and has a winning mentality.

"I feel these are the types of players that can come into Liverpool and keep our momentum moving forward. Players that are hungry to succeed, because that's important for us.

"We have to bring in players that are willing to fight for the shirt and these players are very much hungry to do that."

Having been busy in the transfer market so far this pre-season, Rodgers was eager to pay tribute to the work going on behind the scenes at Anfield to ensure Liverpool land their targets.

Indeed, the manager admits the Reds entered into the summer break consciously looking to get their business done as quickly as possible.

"There has been a lot of great work gone on over the last six months," explained Rodgers. "We wanted to get as much of our work done as early as we possibly could for the summer so we could get the group back in and get the players together as quickly as we can.

"It's been a good summer for us so far."

He continued: "I think every club and every manager would love to get it [transfer business] done as early as they possibly could. We had made a conscious effort this summer to do that.

"It's great credit to everyone at the club and our recruitment team, our analytical team, Ian Ayre our managing director and the owners who have backed us really well.

"There has been a lot of work that has gone on and a lot of people sacrificing holidays to ensure we can get the players in we want."
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Magic said:
Looks like Spurs are close to signing Paulinho, that'll be a decent signing for them.
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Saw that on the rumour thread this morning. Can't say I would have complained if we were looking to sign him, the only question mark is the immediate adjustment from Brazil to England <ok>
 
inter were said to have sold coutinho to finance a bid for paulinho as they thought he was better... what happened?

Supors will be seriously strengthened by his addition i think...
 
Where exactly does Paulinho play?

Is he an attacking midfielder? Bale was awesome in that role last season.

If he plays deeper then Dembele was also awesome.

I wonder what AVB has planned...
 
JK said:
Where exactly does Paulinho play?

Is he an attacking midfielder? Bale was awesome in that role last season.

If he plays deeper then Dembele was also awesome.

I wonder what AVB has planned...
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He's an all round central midfield player. Has played DM, CM and ACM. Abit like Ramires

For Brazil they use him in a midfield three, supporting the forwards but also working the midfield
 
JK said:
Where exactly does Paulinho play?

Is he an attacking midfielder? Bale was awesome in that role last season.

If he plays deeper then Dembele was also awesome.

I wonder what AVB has planned...
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Better option than the outgoing Parker <ok>
 
Gerrez said:
It does make sense apart from one thing, Migs has said he has ambitions of being part of the Belgium world cup team and he's not going to achieve that sitting on our bench. I'm going to revert back to a tactic from January when we were linked with Walcott and put my left knacker on the line...we won't have both Migs and Pepe come 1 September
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That's what I said.
 
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