Lazar Markovic
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Agree. The "Suarez replacement" club has only two members, Messi and Ronaldo, and we ain't gonna waste our time trying for either of those.
I sure hope not. Ideally it's him and someone closer to Suarez's level (Reus, Sanchez, Griezmann?).
May actually be pretty decent speculation! 😀
- http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/30/chelsea-links-third-party-ownership
They already have Oscar, Hazard, Schurrle, Willian, Salah and just signed Fabregas who can all play that attacking midfield role, Markovic strikes me more as someone who has the quality to be top notch but isn't quite there yet - I think it's more a matter here of us benefitting from the fact that they can't sign everyone.
Yeah, hopefully, I just don't see it happening. If we buy a couple of people at the Markovic level, then I don't think we can complain. It's impossible to actually replace Suarez, so we need to spread the money on a few players and hope that their combined effort will add as much as he did, if not more.
Aye. This and getting the existing players (Sturridge, Sterling, Cou, Allen, Lallana, Lambert) to step up.
This is taken from a Chelsea blog (http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2014/2/26/5448986/lazar-markovic-chelsea-benfica):
So this Tom Kundert tweeter is supposedly some Portuguese/English journo or English journo for the Portuguese league or something like that.
Anyway, how can this not read anything but super fishy? If Benfica owns 50% of the player, and some fund owns 50% of the player, and Chelsea has a side deal with Benfica to buy Benfica's share at some point, then it essentially means Chelsea has a side deal to enter a 3rd party ownership deal for a player, albeit one who isn't playing in the EPL. They may have another side deal with the fund to buy up the rest of the 50% at the same time they buy out Benfica's share, but I don't know... it all just looks very suspicious.
In any case, I don't know if the FA / league ban on 3rd party ownership only extends to players playing for a EPL club, or to EPL clubs' participation in 3rd party ownership deals for players not in the league. It would be a bit funny and probably against the spirit of the law though if the latter was not explicitly stated and clubs could actually own parts of players as long as they weren't playing in England.
So this Tom Kundert tweeter is supposedly some Portuguese/English journo or English journo for the Portuguese league or something like that.
Anyway, how can this not read anything but super fishy? If Benfica owns 50% of the player, and some fund owns 50% of the player, and Chelsea has a side deal with Benfica to buy Benfica's share at some point, then it essentially means Chelsea has a side deal to enter a 3rd party ownership deal for a player, albeit one who isn't playing in the EPL. They may have another side deal with the fund to buy up the rest of the 50% at the same time they buy out Benfica's share, but I don't know... it all just looks very suspicious.
In any case, I don't know if the FA / league ban on 3rd party ownership only extends to players playing for a EPL club, or to EPL clubs' participation in 3rd party ownership deals for players not in the league. It would be a bit funny and probably against the spirit of the law though if the latter was not explicitly stated and clubs could actually own parts of players as long as they weren't playing in England.
Nemanja Matic told Tom Kundert of the Daily Mirror:
"What can I say about Markovic? He has such massive potential that if he changed his attitude in training, he could be one of Europe's best players in his position. But he's young, he'll mature, and then nobody will be able to stop him!"
"What can I say about Markovic? He has such massive potential that if he changed his attitude in training, he could be one of Europe's best players in his position. But he's young, he'll mature, and then nobody will be able to stop him!"
We wouldn't have signed him if there were attitude issues to worry about. BR and the team have a specific criteria (apart from natural talent, skill & potential) for players they want at Liverpool and scout them extensively. I wouldn't worry about that. Plus the lad is stepping up to an iconic club and its a great opportunity for him to progress and fulfil his potential. Liverpool will provide everything he needs to excel at every level.
Hope he visited the museum and especially the Trophy Room - do Spurs have one of those ?
Yeah the highlight is the transcript of Arry's court case bound in leather placed below a giant portrait of Rosie the dog.
Apparently so. Thieves broke in one night and stole the carpet.
They probably have a whole museum devoted to the glorious 1961 double ...
I wouldn't be so sure about that first bit. Another criterion FSG have is to look for good players with problems and then solve those problems. If Markovic has a tendency to be lazy but combines it with the kind of ability Matic was referring to, he might come under that heading.
Depends in what way. I'd say Lambert is the more skilful, but with the right service Bony might well end up getting you more goals.
I'm not so sure, he just seems like a poor mans Lukaku to me. Score goals, true, but there doesn't seem to be too much to his game.
I glanced through Benfica forums a bit, and they seemed to be of the opinion that Matic has no grounds to be making comments on Markovic's work ethic. Guess they weren't too happy with Matic if that's the case.
I'm not so sure about your quoted criterion about players having problems then solving them. Where did you get that from and who are these players?
IMO Lambert is better than Bony and has more to his game. Given the same service Bony may outscore him from open play but Lambert has more in his toolbox. He is aces at set pieces and I hope he gets enough opportunity now that Suarez is shipped or about to be.
For some reason, Lazar reminds me a lot of a David Ginola.
Well pace & finishing are two qualities I've noticed.
I'm already liking the lad alot after reading this:
"O Jogo say that Chelsea had the option to sign Markovic for €15m, rather than Liverpool's €25m, but turned them down because he preferred a move to Anfield. They claim that Chelsea have made an attempt to exercise their option but Markovic rejected it because he didn't feel that Jose Mourinho would use him enough.
Markovic has himself confirmed about previously being invited to Chelsea for a tour and to have dinner with several of the first team squad. The London club were expected to sign him next summer but Liverpool's move forced the issue and Markovic had to make a decision."
"O Jogo say that Chelsea had the option to sign Markovic for €15m, rather than Liverpool's €25m, but turned them down because he preferred a move to Anfield. They claim that Chelsea have made an attempt to exercise their option but Markovic rejected it because he didn't feel that Jose Mourinho would use him enough.
Markovic has himself confirmed about previously being invited to Chelsea for a tour and to have dinner with several of the first team squad. The London club were expected to sign him next summer but Liverpool's move forced the issue and Markovic had to make a decision."
I think any young player with ambition and a little substance upstairs can see the difference between the two clubs' attitudes towards young players. Which club has Sterling and Coutinho moulded into the players they are and which club doesn't.
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