Good news, looked electric as a CF for those two games at the end of the season, problem as always with Walcott is, can he stay fit?
Also Walcott is a 'horses for courses' option upfront, and shouldn't be considered as a main starter at CF, though he is electric and deadly in the right conditions
How messed up is Liverpool's transfer strategy? They just seem to sign loads of players (mostly from Southampton) and then hope they all click. Good news for us is that we play them early on in the season when they are trying to get all their new players to fit into their system.
I love the fact all their supporters claim every player that looks poor there can`t "step up" to a big club It never crosses their minds that Brendan has no clue how to use them
Looking at the betting odds, I think Rodgers is a good bet for first PL manager to get sacked, they have a tough start and he has to try and fit all these new players into his system and teach them his famous 'football philosophy'.
I read somewhere that it's FSG that make the decisions over player transfers.They seem to be wanting to run Liverpool as an American sports franchise.They also seem to be using the "money ball" concept in player trading
There are many clubs where the managers has no say in sales/purchases Madrid being probably the highest profile. The trick is to get a manager who is good enough to get the best out of the players he has, much easier at a club like Madrid where the players are all top quality and picked by someone with an idea of how teams work.
The Vidal rumour is still persisting with both the Independent & Telegraph running the story tonight.If anything the rumour is gathering pace
The rumours of Vidal continue. So I wonder if this has any substance or the media continue to spead one big lie after another. The Metro now report that its almost "90% done". Where do they get this stuff from?!?!
I think the Metro are getting that news from foreign media Edit :- A Spanish media outlet called COPE are the ones who are reporting that the deal is 90% done.Some are saying they are a reliable source If you have a Twitter account just search for Vidal,you'll see the various rumours there
Arsenal Report on Twitter gives a good synopsis on how the Vidal rumour started and how it spread like wildfire
Sky Sports now reporting the Vidal story.It would appear that the Spanish outlet reporting the transfer as 90% done is a radio station called CADENA COPE Is anyone else reminded of the Higuain saga of 2013 ?
If you take the first two letters and the last two letters of Arturo Vidal's name, they are the same as the first two and last two of Arsenal's name So he must be joining .....
It seems to me in this time of 'click bait' and reduced budgets/staff in newspapers/media companies, that they will just tweet/repost anything without checking it 1st. With this story, apparently a guy just made up the story and tweeted it, saying that Hernan Feler had reported on a Chilean radio station that Vidal to Arsenal was a done deal. Apparently since he may have broken the Sanchez story, this gives him inside knowledge on our and Vidal's transfer dealings. For some reason Feler retweeted, and then every news organisation in the world seemed to pick it up, sourcing Feler without ever checking their source or facts. I suppose they know, whatever happens, that they'll get lots of clicks, reposts and shares, which gives them lots of money in advertising, and if it comes out their wrong, then nobody will remember.
