Lille is only going to listen to Liverpool if they are going to get £M3. Funny old world you have to pay to get your own back. Scoring goals has been our problem during the first half of the season. What do you think?
It looks like it's going to happen, I hope he can handle the pressure and that we are open to offers for Balotelli.
for me this is mad.. they are paying some of his wages and he's playing awful. its a waste of 3mil IMO. he won't have any impact and the preseason next year is where he will need to settle in anyway. spending 3 mil to get him here early won't do a thing for us this season.
It is mad but we're better off admitting the mistake of letting him go on loan other than buying another striker. It's an expensive mistake just like Balotelli but I know which one of the two I'd rather on the pitch.
Seemed like a knee jerk transfer in the first place. The lad is almost completely unproven and spending £10million on him based on a couple of goals in the World Cup was yet another Rodgers gamble (punt?).
He looks a very good player, every signing has a certain element of risk I'm happy enough with the money. Transfer rumours have us in for Berahino at about £23 million, now that's a risk.
We bring him back early and chuck him in at the deep end and in all likelihood he will be a rabbit in the headlights for 3 games and then will be "pulled out of the limelight to give him time to settle". Then, as happened with Markovic, he will have already been tarred with the not-good-enough brush and will probably never recover from that stigma. I am with Mito on this one, the pre-season will give him chance to settle, get to know the lads and get his head around playing for Liverpool. Rodgers said the scale of the club really hit home to him when he was on the pre-season tour of America. Rodgers needs to show Origi some sold out stadiums around the world and judge his reaction. Don't just bring him back now as our savior - effectively piling too much pressure on his young shoulders
well... if the way to buy the talent for a price that had value was to loan him back for the year it was not a bad thing. for me the balotelli disaster is an entirely separate mistake that we made. I say keep the two separate. The fact is from now til may if we do not sell badontelly then we would have lambert, this kid and balotelli all for one slot or at best two on the bench... so we have to be selling borini and balotelli AND buying to make this make sense for me. Shteve is talking bollocks. 10 mil is basically nothing for a young talent when the interviews with the kid showed lfc were tracking him for 2/3 years at underage. the fee represents value for a player whos a belgian international already. its like saying oh jordan henderson at 16 mil was crazy. the only crazy thing is the handling after. I agree with Luv bernahino on the other hand at 23 mil looks to be terrible value for the outlay.....
too sensible that. it'd be a huge turn around in form for him to be playing his bad in france then turn in in england and start scoring. 3 mil waste IMO.
If Liverpool had been tracking him for 2-3 years then they really ****ed up by waiting until after the World Cup to sign him as his transfer value must have at least doubled!
keep trying..... offical window opens 1st july it was confirmed then. It was well public by start of world cup ans was lallana (which was a cock up) it was in the times.... 10mil isn't exactly a big price... the going rate for any player round europe is that if they are to play in a top league at all. (which btw is why shaqiri will not go for 13mil)
How many Lille games have you watched MITO? I am willing to bet none and you are relying on press reports England and they are lazily written. He started off well as were Lille but as soon as the team performances went down, so did his. They have been playing pretty much defensively and he has at times been shifted to the wings. What I can tell you about Origi is he is very fast and he can finish. Currently the formation Liverpool is playing would do him good as he is more of a Sturridge type of player. Doesn't drop deep too much like Balotelli or Lambert. The reality is if he was recalled back, he would be at goals zero same as Balotelli and Borini and one worse off than Lambert. Madness for me is hoping Lambert,Borini and Balotelli will come good.
He is (and was before the WC) one of Europe's more coveted young players. Calling it a 'knee jerk' says more about your awareness than Rodgers, no offence. Would usually say we should leave him there but Lille are a mess... would depend on money. Can't bring him back at expense of a signing - but we can only speculate on this sort of thing. MITO - you'd get a better idea of Origi looking at clips of Belgium. He's raw but has a lot of interesting attributes. Not just fast but able to drop off and play a little.
I don't really need a better idea though... any 19 year old who'd gone that long without a goal will IMO take quite a while to settle in over here. Its a big move to change countries and start talking a new language even if he has a good foundation. he is switching from french after all... then get to know team mates and ways of playing etc etc. By the time he settles in it'll be game over. He is better off moving in may, getting his house sorted, going on his hols, report for duty july 1 and get going. 3 mil? its a lot for a 19 year old on the assumption that if he comes now then he'll really be ready on august 1... i don't think in iether scenario he's going to be our go to big star. he is one for gradually bringing in over next 2 years.
c'mon c'mon.... please.... I'm not even going to bother with a pissing content on lille. The boy is where he is, in a goal drought and for me no 19 year old should be though of as the saviour. I've have at no time today said rely on that set of muppets you've just given a rocket to. i agree the lot of them are crap. thats why i have consistently said on this site that we needed to be signing on jan 1. I just don't think 3 mil washed down the pan on a boy to sit on the bench is value cos if we've 3 mil there we should be shovelling borini out the door for 10 and balotelli for 8 (half price deal there) and put the 21 mil together and go buy.
Ah yes because we saw him score one goal and thought lets buy him. No chance we were scouting him for months before hand? That can't be right because none of us fans had heard of him before then so liverpool must not have either,..
Fair enough. I'm sure a similar amount of thought and research went into the Balotelli signing. You know, the player who Rodgers stated Liverpool would categorically not be signing!
