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Liverpool related transfer speculation
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What's wrong with getting a stop gap?
You get a player for 2-3 years, the other one grows up becomes better and then you find a young one to be his understudy.
I mean it's been done before. Were we wrong to buy a 67-year old McAllister?
Fergie bought several stop-gaps. Sheringham, Larsson, Owen.
Clearly Milner is one of a kind but you can't say, oh whoever we buy must be versatile, English, capped 50 times or whatever and from Leeds.
Nothing wrong with a stop gap if it makes sense. For the RB position I don't think it does given the options available and what you potentially pay for a similar player profile to Bradley with Vanderson.
You might end up paying close to the same amount and will have no resale value. Just doesn't make sense.
And no, Ola Aina isn't the answer. He has also triggered a new 12 month contract with Forest.
If there was an obvious target then sure.
For the first time ever, I’m going into a transfer window relaxed, knowing we have a team with a track record of signing the right players. So if it’s Frimpong for RB, I have my reservations — but ultimately, I trust the process and the research that went into the signing.
Yes, I have my own list of preferred players, but I honestly don’t mind if none of them are signed.
For me, the priorities are: fix the defence, find a way to rotate the midfield more effectively, and bring in one or two players who can actually convert our chances into goals.
Even a 10% improvement could get us an extra 7 points — turning two draws into wins and one loss into a draw.
Yes, I have my own list of preferred players, but I honestly don’t mind if none of them are signed.
For me, the priorities are: fix the defence, find a way to rotate the midfield more effectively, and bring in one or two players who can actually convert our chances into goals.
Even a 10% improvement could get us an extra 7 points — turning two draws into wins and one loss into a draw.
Yup, and he was also a cunt on the pitch.
Love players like that if they're with you, hate them when they're not.
I think it will hinge on what Slot wants from a full back. If it’s bombing overlapping runs then an old stop gap won’t work. It’s a young man’s game.
Fair, thought he was bigger than that.
Well you’ve come up with 2 examples of stop gaps now.
If we can give an older player that’s captained an English champion winning team, vastly experienced and was considered to be one the finest midfielders of his generation, then I’m all for it.
At the other end of the scale there’s Arthur, Kabak, Caulker, etc where all stop-gaps that were a waste of time.
Thiago was also arguably a stop gap.
So in answer to your question… no problem with a stop gap if they offer something significantly important to the team, or they’re good enough to hold down and excel as part of the team… otherwise the question is why? Would we not be as well using a youth player?
Those were more panic signing than stop-gaps and were signed because we were skinned at the time.
For instance a good but expensive signing right now would be De Bruyne although he's not a RB.
De Bruyne would be fucking terrible.
And there’s a very good argument for signing a De Bruyne or a Lewandowski or a Kane - absolutely agree.
If you can find something similar for RB - I’ll back that.
The closest I could think of would be Kyle Walker.
I wouldn’t, like because he’s a massive cunt., but there’d at least be something close to an argument for it.
Otherwise, no - let’s just get a really fucking good RB in and the worst that could happen is we cash in on him or Bradley in a year or two when we can command a huge fee.
I gave a like for the part in bold. De Bruyne is Thaigo all over again.
Anyways I doubt KDB will happen, he is at the tail end of his career, a Man City Legend. As much as the young KDB would want to play for Liverpool the older KDB is a Manc and he would I assume not want to play for a rival. It will tarnish his name.
No. And lets be honest KDB is pipe dream signing as you think of earlier performances and not his current ability.
If he could stay fit I would take him on a cheap 1 year deal. But the if is so big.
Nelson Semedo looks in great form and is a free agent. But I can't see us signing a 32 year old stop gap.
Its weird that Tyrick Mitchell haven't been strongly linked to anyone yet. Been great for Palace, HG, 25 and a left back to be out of contract.
If he could stay fit I would take him on a cheap 1 year deal. But the if is so big.
Nelson Semedo looks in great form and is a free agent. But I can't see us signing a 32 year old stop gap.
Its weird that Tyrick Mitchell haven't been strongly linked to anyone yet. Been great for Palace, HG, 25 and a left back to be out of contract.
Both shit at hattricks. I’ve decided I want neither. SHOW ME THE HATTRICK GOD OF RIGHT BACKS
So we want Danny Butterfield
Dumfries got a hattrick of goal contributions last week against the side many thought were the best playing side in the world until a few days ago, if that counts.
Let’s sign him and kill two birds with one stone by playing him at RB - remember how everyone said Trent was like “KDB at right-back?” Now we can have the real thing 🙂
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