As in close to joining the club or has he just found a nice restaurant in the area for tonight? Any word on whether these are permanents or loans? So that would just leave Balotelli of the players who need to go this window. Allen/Lucas optional and not without replacements.
goal keepers Brad Jones......................Bogdan. not improved Pepe Reina ....................Mingolet. Not improved. Doni ............................... no replacement Defenders Glen Johnson.................. Clyne - definite improvement José Enrique................... Still in place (for now) Daniel Agger.................... Lovern. I think its an improvement as agger was rarely fit. Fábio Aurélio..................... Moreno. Good improvement Sebastián Coates.............. Ilori... no change Jamie Carragher................ Toure . worse. Martin Kelly........................ Wisdom . Improvement IMO Martin Škrtel....................... Stil in place performing the same Jon Flanagan...................... still in place, no improvement, at least he has some memories. Jack Robinson..................... Gomez... real improvement Midfielders Steven Gerrard.................... Milner. Big improvement over last year Maxi Rodríguez....................Coutinho. huge improvement. Jordan Henderson................still in place and huge step up in game. Stewart Downing................. lallana. no improvement Jay Spearing........................ Can.. huge improvement Lucas................................... still im place, really gone backwards. Charlie Adam...................... Joe allen. no real improvement Raheem Sterling.................. Ibe: different player not a step up. Jonjo Shelvey........................markovic.... no improvement Forwards Luis Suárez........................... Benteke.... certainly not an improvement. Andy Carroll.......................... Sturrdige. At this point not an improvement as both are sick notes Dirk Kuyt................................ Ings. Kuyts legs were gone. Ings is a willing runner Craig Bellamy......................... Firmino. Huge improvement And origi and teiteria as mentioned So all in all we've spent a shed load and ended up with more legs, more time on the clocks of the players at the club, more resale value therefore but probably only a few spot are really better. All in all a better squad that can go further (5th not 7th) and might even win a cup or two in the next while... but it just lacks a real top top player to form round. We will have to see what the brazilians we have develop into. I still say my opinion of our first 11 will give everyone a good game. Mingolet clyne skertl lovern gomez henderson can milner firmino benteke coutinho Pity I can still mark down 7 or 8 players there i consider dead wood.
get on with it i say. balotelli has vanished off the planet. lucas wants to go. I am now hoping we can scrape 10-15mil together for a CM. I've not idea where we are at with spend and FFP or what we can get back out of the sales we've done so i am hoping if lucas is going a CM comes.
Man Utd: Pedro warned by Hristo Stoichkov not to join club Former Bulgaria forward Hristo Stoichkov has warned Barcelona's Pedro not to join Manchester United, calling their boss Louis van Gaal "mediocre" and someone who "destroys" clubs
wellllll I think external mouth pieces having a go is not really a manc melt. the valdes stuff would seem to be rather unwise however if you ant to hire on his old team mate.
I think we will be going in quite short of options there and stuck with a 4-2-3-1 formation i don't think suits if not.
Shaqiri has signed for Stoke now, £12m Good to see how he gets on, Stoke could be a dangerous team this year with Bojan & Shaqiri wide of Diouf.
Yes I'm glad we don't have to face it for a while That's a lot of pace. Diouf looked quick. Shaqiri is fast as hell. BoJan we will have to see post injury.
All fall down was also fast.... I think stoke look good for their attack and defence the midfield not so much... functional comes to mind.
Pulling power PSG left-back Lucas Digne has turned down the opportunity to join Liverpool, according to reports in L'Equipe. The France international, 22, has opted to move to Roma instead
considering we were told over what a month ago we were not getting any more signings and the only source for this story ever was l'paris newspaper one can only conclude we never actually bid. same as kovatic and illaramende. We've the best young defender i've seen for 25 years playing for us. I'm not bothered. Why didnt you buy him? not duthc enough for you?
Don't care that 'big' teams didnt come in for Shaqiri - would take him in a heartbeat. Direct, skillful, powerful, intelligent - £12m while we have £25m Lallana on our books!
the two are unrelated. shaqiri has screwed himself over and ende dup in stoke... rodgers over paid by 10 mil min for lallana 14 months ago... it'l like saying there was a hurricane in USA yesterday and in chine there was a lack of rain.. one caused the other... nope.
