I am sure it was me that first posted that on RAWK!
I did not work out strike rates though!
Bony is boss
- Thread starter cloggypop
- Start date
- Latest activity Latest activity:
- Status
I am sure it was me that first posted that on RAWK!
I did not work out strike rates though!
Sturridge can play wide left. But what would be the point? Bony is relatively shit so you shouldn't be fucking around to fit him in the team for no reason.
I'll stick my neck out and say Bony could be really great for us.
Scoring record aside, there will be games next season where we'd like to control possession rather than quick counter. Pretty sure Rodgers doesn't want us to only be able to play one type of game well. This is where Bony could be fantastic. I understand we still need pace upfront if Sturridge is out and we want to carry on playing the quick counter game. Could Rodgers not groom Ibe for that role?
Scoring record aside, there will be games next season where we'd like to control possession rather than quick counter. Pretty sure Rodgers doesn't want us to only be able to play one type of game well. This is where Bony could be fantastic. I understand we still need pace upfront if Sturridge is out and we want to carry on playing the quick counter game. Could Rodgers not groom Ibe for that role?
He could, but I think he might not - Ibe's decision making and finishing (basically staying calm in front of goal) needs to improve a lot at this level. Rodgers will probably need to send him back to Inglethorpe with a brief to play him as a central striker regularly for some months in the U21 games to grow into the role, and that's time we don't really have given our current needs. I'd prefer to see him continue to develop and pick up experience in his primary position, then convert him when he's got the tools for a new role.
An example of that approach is Sterling - he didn't shift into the central AM position (tip of the diamond) until later last season; he started and kept playing as a wide attacker for the best part of two seasons. Now I think he even has the tools to make it as a central striker option, given his own improvements and the improved depth (on paper) we have in the wide forward positions that allow us to move him around. It's a progressive process that's helped him, starting with familiarity, development / correction, experience and then (re-)adaptation.
Sounds like we're intent on sticking to our wage structure. We had to haggle with Remy and Moreno to drive their demands down. I reckon we'll sign a keeper plus one more now, either an attacker while pushing Sterling uptop, or a striker. Fuck knows who though, I don't see us getting either Bony (because of the price and demands) or Reus (because we won't be the only ones in the running).
Don't agree with any of that. You can't judge Lambert once and for all on a couple of meaningless close season friendlies, and I doubt we'd be considering Bony at all if Brendan and the transfer committee didn't believe he would fit into our style. That style's going to have to change to some extent anyway now Suarez has gone.
If wages are the reason for him not taking the chance to join a big club in the Champions League, with a chance to really launch his career on a big stage, then it speaks volumes for either him or his agents.
Really bugs me reading stuff like that.
If, as Brendan and the transfer committee seem to believe, Bony is good enough for Liverpool, he'll be good enough to dovetail with the existing players in the squad. In any case, if we do sign him (or any other striker) it won't be a case of him/them *or* Sturridge up front. They'll be interchanging, as we did all last season.
Same here. Unlike some of us I'd be OK with signing the guy, but we need to stick to our guns on this.
As someone else mentioned above. Bony will be great when we are piling on the pressure and have teams pinned back in their own 1/3. Far more his forte than Remy who was a pace specialist. We already have more than enough speedsters for when we are playing on the counter.
Those players aren't the right players thankfully. If this is true. Could be bs.
Rumour is 100k a week
Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins is keen to keep hold of his star player, but has revealed that he'd be willing to listen to offers at the right price. In the meantime, Bony's agent, Dalibor Lacina, has been in Germany. Dalibor recently spoke to the regional newspaper Wolfsburger Nachrichten. He was quoted as saying the following.
"Wilfried is out to play in a European club competition as much as he is out to play in a big European league. The Bundesliga is a league tempting to Wilfried. He would fit the bill at Wolfsburg."
Wolfsburg finished fifth in the Bundesliga last season, meaning they have automatically qualified into the group stages the 2014/15 Europa League. Clearly, Bony sees this as a major attraction. Even more so given Swansea's poor league performances last season, meaning they failed to qualify for any European competition.
The German side could very well be priced out of a move, with Bony demanding wages in excess of £100,000 a week. It remains unclear if Wolfsburg could afford to pay such high wages. However what is clear is that the Wolves are in desperate need for a new striker. The club has already seen moves for Romelu Lukaku, Alvaro Morata, Mario Mandžukić, and more all fail. With Ivica Olić turning thirty-five in September, and the uninspiring form of Bas Dost. Wolfsburg manager, Dieter Hecking must be starting to worry about the lack of firepower in his frontline.
Who are vavel.com?
http://www.vavel.com/en/football/pr...ty/376313-bony-open-to-bundesliga-switch.html
My mate got 37,000 views of his last made up stuff on t'interklacker. He knows absolutely nothing.
http://www.vavel.com/en/football/pr...ty/376313-bony-open-to-bundesliga-switch.html
My mate got 37,000 views of his last made up stuff on t'interklacker. He knows absolutely nothing.
Probably one of those websites that capture cheap traffic because people enter misspelled / mistyped URLs. In this case, maybe it's trapping traffic intended for vulva.com.
100k...jesus. F*ck right off.
Yes, I think that could work reasonably well. Bony as the target man, Studge as a speedy 2nd striker.
The problem with this plan is, they wouldn't be quite as effective, versatile and hard-working as the Sturridge-Suarez combo, so is it worth it to sacrifice one of our talented midfield players to accommodate those 2 strikers? If you're sacrificing a midfielder, you're also sacrificing a degree of control of the game. We would have more cutting edge, but less possession and chances. Worth it? I don't know. Maybe in some games.
If we had a goal-scoring winger like Reus at LW (who can also lead the line if necessary) and Sturridge at CF, that's probably the most effective potential attacking set-up I can think of post-Suarez. Alternatively, we could make Sturridge and Bony compete for 1 place up front, Higuain/Benzema style and hopefully our midfielders will create enough chances for whoever is playing up top to score lots. That could work.
Bony OR lambert but definitely not both. Both similar in style and lack of pace.
Liverpool transfers: Wilfried Bony is Rodgers' No1 striker target but Kop are wary of £19m asking price
Reds' manager is happy to meet Swansea's valuation and the player is keen to go but some within Anfield feel he is NOT worth it and keep looking for alternatives
Action Images
In demand: Rodgers wants Liverpool to pay the £19m Swansea are asking for Bony
Brendan Rodgers wants his Liverpool bosses to push the boat out and land Wilfried Bony, writes Alan Nixon in the Sunday People.
The Kop boss has had the Swansea scoring sensation at the top of his wish list for weeks and still sees him as the best man for the job.
Bony is keen on making a move to Merseyside too – but the major obstacle is thatthe Anfield giants' ‘transfer committee’ are worried the 25-year-old is not worth his £19million price-tag.
The striker – a hit in his first Premier League season – has the fixed fee in his contract and Swans supremo Huw Jenkins is sticking to it.
Rodgers is happy to pay the cash and bring in Bony to team up with Daniel Sturridge and Rickie Lambert, as he looks to fill the gap left by Luis Suarez.
But that battle is yet to be won as the Liverpool chiefs look at alternatives – many unrealistic – following the collapse of Loic Remy’s switch from QPR.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...s-wilfried-bony-rodgers-4029958#ixzz39wYCTrqK
Reds' manager is happy to meet Swansea's valuation and the player is keen to go but some within Anfield feel he is NOT worth it and keep looking for alternatives
Action Images
In demand: Rodgers wants Liverpool to pay the £19m Swansea are asking for Bony
Brendan Rodgers wants his Liverpool bosses to push the boat out and land Wilfried Bony, writes Alan Nixon in the Sunday People.
The Kop boss has had the Swansea scoring sensation at the top of his wish list for weeks and still sees him as the best man for the job.
Bony is keen on making a move to Merseyside too – but the major obstacle is thatthe Anfield giants' ‘transfer committee’ are worried the 25-year-old is not worth his £19million price-tag.
The striker – a hit in his first Premier League season – has the fixed fee in his contract and Swans supremo Huw Jenkins is sticking to it.
Rodgers is happy to pay the cash and bring in Bony to team up with Daniel Sturridge and Rickie Lambert, as he looks to fill the gap left by Luis Suarez.
But that battle is yet to be won as the Liverpool chiefs look at alternatives – many unrealistic – following the collapse of Loic Remy’s switch from QPR.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...s-wilfried-bony-rodgers-4029958#ixzz39wYCTrqK
No. He is usually shite.
- Status
