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rurikbird

rurikbird

Part of the Furniture
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Last update: September 1st, 2014 FINAL UPDATE

COMPLETED SIGNINGS:
  • Rickie Lambert CF, 32 (Southampton, £4M+add-ons)
  • Emre Can (pronounced Jan) DM/CM, 20 (Bayer, £10M)
  • Adam Lallana AM/RWF (right-footed), 26 (Southampton,£23M+add-ons) [some sources say it's £25M, others say it's ~£17M+add ons. I'm going to count the £23M up front figure for now as it's the one most often-cited]
  • Lazar Markovic RWF/AM (right-footed), 20 (Benfica, £20M)
  • Dejan Lovren RCB, 24 (Southampton, £20M)
  • Divock Origi CF/LW, 19 (Lille, £10M)
  • Javier Manquillo RB, 20 (Atletico, 2-year loan with option to buy for £5M)
  • Alberto Moreno LB, 21 (Sevilla, £12M+add-ons)
  • Mario Balotelli CF, 24 (AC Milan, £16M)

Players highlighted in gray color are the links that seemed to have gotten cold.
Players highlighted in purple were former LFC targets who ended up moving to a different club.
Players in red have been signed by Liverpool
Players in green have been sold or loaned out by Liverpool

POTENTIAL SIGNINGS:
Back-up GK:
Michael Vorm, 30 (Swansea, joined Spurs)
Karl Darlow, 22 (Nottingham Forest, moved to Newcastle)
Guillermo Ochoa, 28 (Ajaccio, signed for Malaga)
Loris Karius, 21 (Mainz)
Diego Lopez, 32 (Real Madrid, moved to AC Milan)
Sergio Romero, 27 (Sampdoria)
Victor Valdes, 32 (could sign for us in Oct/Nov as he is a free agent)

Left-backs:
Alberto Moreno signed
Marcos Rojo LB/LCB, 24 (Sporting, £10M)
Ben Davies LB, 21 (Swansea, went to Spurs)
Ricardo Rodriguez LB, 21 (Wolfsburg, silly money)
Ashley Cole LB, 33 (signed for AS Roma)
Marcel Schmelzer LB, 26 (Borussia D)
Luke Shaw LB, 18 (Southampton, joined United)
Ryan Bertrand LB, 24 (Chelsea, loaned to Saints)
Jordan Obita LB/LM, 20 (Reading)
Caner Erkin LB/LM, 25 (Fenerbahce)
Daley Blind LB/DM, 24 (Ajax)

Right-backs:
Javier Manquillo signed on loan
Serge Aurier RB/CB, 21 (Toulouse, went to PSG)
Micah Richards RB/RCB, 25 (Man City, ~£7M)
Daryl Janmaat RB, 24 (Feyenoord, bought by Newcastle)
Šime Vrsaljko RB/LB, 22 (Genoa, we were linked with him this winter)

Centre-backs:
Dejan Lovren signed
Steven Caulker RCB, 22 (Cardiff, moved to QPR)
Martin Hinteregger LCB, 21 (Salzburg)
Jan Vertonghen LCB/LB, 27 (Spurs)
Kyriakos Papadopulos RCB, 21 (Schalke, loaned to Bayer)
Jonathan Tah RCB/RB, 18 (Hamburg)

Central/defensive midfielders:
Emre Can signed
Granit Xhaka CM, 21 (Borussia M, £15-20M)
Andre Gomes CM/DM, 20 (Benfica, sold to Valencia)
Alex Song DM/CB, 26 (Barca, loaned to West Ham)
William Carvalho DM, 22 (Sporting Lisbon)
Will Hughes CM, 19 (Derby)
James Milner RM/LM/CM (right-footed), 28 (Man City)
Dani Parejo CM, 25 (Valencia, £20M release clause)
Seydou Keita CM/DM, 34 (Valencia, moved to AS Roma)

Playmakers:
Adam Lallana signed
Ivan Rakitic CM/AM, 26 (Sevilla, moved to FC Barcelona)
Cesc Fabregas AM/CM, 27 (Barcelona, signed for Chelski)

Young and raw attacking talents:
Lazar Markovic signed
Divock Origi signed
Xherdan Shaqiri RWF/AM (left-footed), 22 (Bayern)
Max Meyer AM/LW/RW (right-footed), 18 (Schalke, £8M up front plus add-ons)
Hakan Calhanoglu AM/CM/LWF (right-footed), 20 (Hamburg, signed by Bayer)
Mateo Kovacic CM/AM, 20 (Inter)
Juan Iturbe RWF/AM (left-footed), 20 (Hellas Verona, signed by Roma)
Bernard LW/AM (right-footed), 21 (Shakhtar, £19M)
Cristian Tello LWF/RWF, 22 (Barca B, loaned to Porto)
Keita Balde Diao LW/CF, 19 (Lazio, asking price £24M)
Zakaria Bakkali LWF, 18 (PSV)

Wingers:
Evhen Konoplyanka LWF (right-footed), 24 (Dnipro, ~£15M)
Antoine Griezmann LWF (left-footed), 23 (Real Sociedad, signed by Atletico Madrid)
Juan Cuadrado RWF/RWB (right-footed), 25 (Fiorentina)
Mathieu Valbuena AM/RW/LW (right-footed), 29 (Marseille, signed for Dinamo Moscow)

Strikers:
Rickie Lambert signed
Mario Balotelli signed
Loic Remy CF/WF, 27 (Newcastle, joined Chelsea after he failed medical with us)
Rodrigo Moreno CF/WF/DLF, 23 (Benfica, loaned to Valencia)
Alexandre Lacazette CF/WF, 22 (Lyon)
Heung-Min Son DLF/CF, 21 (Bayer, ~£12M)
Luis Muriel CF, 23 (Udinese, £17M)
Sebastian Giovinco DLF/LWF (right-footed), 27 (Juventus)
Pedro Rodriguez RWF/LWF, 26 (Barcelona)
Wilfried Bony CF, 25 (Swansea, £18M)
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar CF, 30 (Schalke)
Samuel Eto'o CF, 33 (Chelsea, signed for Everton)
Giuseppe Rossi CF, 27 (Fiorentina)

Suarez replacements:
Alexis Sanchez RWF/CF (right-footed), 25 (Barcelona, signed for Arsenal)
Isco AM/LW (right-footed), 22 (Real Madrid)
Marco Reus LWF/AM/ST (right-footed), 25 (Borussia Dortmund)
Edinson Cavani CF, 27 (PSG)
Arturo Vidal CM, 27 (Juventus)
Paul Pogba CM, 21 (Juventus)
Nicolas Gaitan LW/AM (left-footed), 26 (Benfica)
Ezequiel Lavezzi LW/DLF (right-footed), 29 (PSG, £18M)

Players returning from loans:
Suso
Borini

PLAYERS SOLD:
  • Luis Suarez ~£75M (Barcelona)
  • Conor Coady £0.5M (Huddersfield)
  • Pepe Reina £2M (Bayern)
  • Martin Kelly £1.5M+add-ons (Crystal Palace)
  • Jack Robinson £1M (QPR)
  • Daniel Agger £3M (Brondby)

PLAYERS LOANED OUT:
Luis Alberto (Malaga, 1 year loan, £1M)
Iago Aspas (Sevilla, 1 year loan, Sevilla can then buy him for £6M)
Andre Wisdom (West Brom, 1 year loan, fee unknown)
Divock Origi (Lille, 1 year loan as part of the deal to buy him)
Joao Teixeira (Brighton, 1 year, fee unknown)
Tiago Ilori (Bordeaux, 1 year loan, fee unknown)
Jordon Ibe (Derby, 1 year loan, fee unknown)
Sebastian Coates (Sunderland, 1 year loan, fee unknown)
Oussama Assaidi (Stoke, 1 year loan, £1M)
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SUMMER TRANSFER SPENDING:

Spent: £115M (not counting add-ons)
Earned: £85M
Total summer spending: £30M

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Markovic and Luis Muriel have been consistently linked. Have seen Julian Brandt's name mentioned a few times, too, and Mkhitaryan again.
 
We've been linked with Javi Martinez aswell.
Shaqiri (Bild reported today he'll stay for one more year)
 
Wow, I thought the Muriel link was dead, but apparently we might still be interested, despite his drop off in form this season. £17M quoted is a bit too much though, don't you think?

Javi Martinez is added to pie-in-the-sky targets. Don't think we are desperate enough for a player like him to pay the kind of money he and Bayern will want. Shaquiri will stay at Bayern, probably, and I don't see Mkhitaryan being sold so soon. Markovic added.
 
rurikbird said:
Wow, I thought the Muriel link was dead, but apparently we might still be interested, despite his drop off in form this season. £17M quoted is a bit too much though, don't you think?

Javi Martinez is added to pie-in-the-sky targets. Don't think we are desperate enough for a player like him to pay the kind of money he and Bayern will want. Shaquiri will stay at Bayern, probably, and I don't see Mkhitaryan being sold so soon. Markovic added.
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Apparently the basis of the Mkhitaryan link is that he hasn't settled well at Dortmund. Don't know any more than that.

I'm not sure what's going on with Muriel tbh. His record looks terrible this season, and he seems to get injuries and even get overweight. And yet, his potential looks so amazing that if he *were* performing near it then you'd expect him to be in the £30m category. So I'm not sure how much discounting for those negatives would get you down to - £15-18m would maybe seem about right.

I guess you'd really need to know a bit more about the exact nature of what's gone wrong this season and how likely he is to bounce back.
 
I want Griezmann, Shaquiri, Iturbe and three or four hot shit starlets from the lower leagues.

Pesam ive heard a lot about Trippier and Ings. Any others who could make it? Will hughes?
What about CB's? Anyone we should be in for?
 
Sky Sports reporting that we want to sign Lallana before the WC.
Some rumours on Twitter that Lallana and Konoplyanka are all but done.

*Cue RawkCo entering the building*
 
There were some outlandish links for us with Marcelo. I see you have a category for that.
 
How many of Rodgers signings have hit the ground running and kept their form?

Just Sturridge? Case for Coutinho and Mignolet too I guess.
 
Conor Coady & Jack Robinson area another 2 to come back from loans - do either of them have a future?
 
StevieM said:
Conor Coady & Jack Robinson area another 2 to come back from loans - do either of them have a future?
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I think I'm going to only count players who have featured for a few games in the first team – otherwise it's going to be a long list with all the comings and goings of the youth players. Robinson is added.
 
I wish we were in for Serge Aurier (Toulouse RB). Arsenal look like they are about to snap him up (to replace Sagna). I only saw him on Youtube, but really like what I saw.
 
localny said:
I think I might take the summer off from the SCM rumor mill. I'm spent
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I hear you mate. But I doubt you've got that kind of willpower :) You will hold for maybe a week and then some cunt journo will "link" Fabregas or Draxler or whoever to us and you'll be back on this thread, refreshing maniacally…Can't fight it.
 
Liked Gayle from Palace every time I saw him (not many times admittedly). What do people here thing about him?
 
Herr Onceared said:
I want Griezmann, Shaquiri, Iturbe and three or four hot shit starlets from the lower leagues.

Pesam ive heard a lot about Trippier and Ings. Any others who could make it? Will hughes?
What about CB's? Anyone we should be in for?
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I would love us to get Trippier and Ings and would be confident they would be great for us but would cost a combined fee of about £15m (it would be more except they've only got one year left on their contracts).

The more I see Hughes the more I'm convinced he's NOT worth anywhere near the £12m that Derby are rumoured to want. He's the same age as Sterling and yet couldn't even get into the Derby team last night in their hugely important play off game. If all the Derby midfielders had a price tag of £3m I would buy, in order, Thorne (on loan from WBA), Bryson, Ward, Hendrick and then maybe Hughes.

There's a dearth of decent CB's in the lower divisions at present. The best one in League 2 is our player Sokolik who we've loaned to Southend. The best in the 1st division is Andy Butler of Walsall who should have played Premier League football but is now 30, the best of the young ones are Harlee Dean of Brentford, Danny Batth of Wolves or Jack Baldwin of Peterbro. Dean & Batth would cost at least £3m with no guarantee they're gonna be good enough. Baldwin is Hansenesque in style would cost £1m (ish) and might be worth a go.

All the best CB's in the Championship this season have been the older ones such as Upson, Shackell, Pearce etc. The most promising of the younger ones is Liam Moore but Leicester are under no pressure to sell him and they will need him now they're in the EPL.

If we're gonna have a clear out of CB's I'd be tempted to go for Caulker and Lovren.
 
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