Liverpool is back for former target Jose Enrique,though not English he can do the job. Liverpool missing out on Clichy, Enrique can be an option. Liverpool don't hang around when they miss out on a player - they just move on to another target, this time Newcastle left back Jose Enrique Read:http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/media-watch/liverpool-target-enrique
He's been linked before,but as someone recently said in the past month Liverpool have been linked with 66+ players.If they signed every player they were linked with they would have a squad bigger than Man Citys.
It must be a result of Clichy going to City. We have been linked to bloody everyone, but it's true there is no smoke without fire.
I wouldn't go that far with some of the rumours out there. Absolutely anyone can link any player with us, and suddenly it becomes a rumour. There doesn't need to be any truth in it at all.
True, but are you telling me there has been no correspondence between Liverpool and Clichy and En Rique? It's probably based on truth.
Like I have said in another article about our left-back situation, i'd prefer Aly Cissokho. He's young (23) and if reports are to be believed, he's available for £9M.
No, I was referring to the first part of your sentence, which was 'we have been linked to bloody everyone'. There's obviously truth in the Clichy/Enrique links, but the point I was making is that there often is 'smoke without fire' in today's world. Anyone can set up a blog and claim we're linked to so and so, and other less reputable sports sites make often unsubstantiated claims just to get traffic. Sometimes (kopsource do this) the word 'Rumour' is strategically placed at the end of the headline (which in itself is expressed as fact) rather than the beginning so you have to open the article to read the full title/truth. Anyway, rant over.
Yeah. I hate the phrase 'according to...' in articles. They pass something off in their headline as fact, and then they stick that phrase into the first paragraph. If it's just a newspaper's story you're regurgitating, say so in the title, e.g: 'Daily Mirror: Enrique agrees terms with Liverpool'. It's not hard, and I'm sure it's no mistake that they don't do it. That, and the mysterious anonymous source 'close to' the club. They may as well not have any quotes.
problem is even some of the broadsheets and the official site have 'gossip' sections, and these things just snowball. Caughtoffside or some crap site post a load of rubbish, The Times and BBC put it in their gossip section, it get's reposted as being by The Times, lazy journos then jump on that, and before you know it The Times own reporters are tweeting that Liverpool are interested in the player. It's like the human centipede of football rumours, everyone's eating the guy in front's crap and sh*tting it out themselves for the guy behind.
givemefootball, tribalfootball and caughtoffside are terrible for it. Followed closely by goal.com and the tabloids. Even radio stations get in on the act. I remember the 'Ashley Young will reject United for LFC' rumour started because of a comment on the radio. The actual words of the bloke were 'United MAY miss out on some targets because of competition from other clubs like (can't remember the first example) ...or Liverpool with Ashley Young.' The story had no basis whatsoever.
Bound to pop up following City's move for Clichy. Personally I'd prefer us going for Aly Cissokho like ChrisWood said, Enrique is good but not worth the £15m price tag, I'm sure King Kenny and the team will realise that.
Well since we never actually made an offer for either player, I don't see how we missed out on one, and can be confirmed that we are back in for the other. More made up press talk since no-one at the club is saying a word to anyone.
What i find is that a newspaper starts the rumour based on little evidence, then weeks/months later they confirm us as 'back in' based on that original rumour which they started! They start to believe their own stuff, which is rarely, if ever, backed up by anyone within the club.
