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Rumours: Liverpool in £60m spend
Will Benitez be around long enough to splash the cash? Or is it all just hot air from the rumour mill?
by Mark Apostolou on 19 February 2008
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It's make or break for Liverpool and Rafa Benitez tonight. Inter Milan are their Champions League opponents in what some see as a must-win game for Rafa – so what better way to prepare for the match than to take a look at the latest trio of talent supposedly on the Anfield shopping list.
First up we have Palermo striker Amauri who is apparently a £17m target for the Reds (various) This speculation has been fuelled after Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini admitted that his side were unlikely to be able to keep the 27-year-old at the club.
Zamparini said: “I will not be able to keep Amauri here – he is worth €25 million and other clubs offer him three times his current wages. Whoever comes first with an offer will get him.”
Will Liverpool make a bid? Clearly such a bid would only come about if they got some cash, maybe from the sale of either Peter Crouch or Dirk Kuyt.
Liverpool will also apparently have scouts in attendance as Schalke take on Porto in the Champions League. They will be keeping a close eye on Schalke full-back Rafinha, who will be in a fierce battle with another Reds target – Porto's Ricardo Quaresma.
Rafinha is looking forward to the clash but is not in awe of his highlyo-rated pponent – "Quaresma is a player like any other,” he said. “I see him as a normal player. He has his qualities, but he will also have to worry about us, because in this side there are also major players."
The defender could well be a Liverpool player of the future but Quaresma’s agent’s attempts to court a deal for his man have verged on the ridiculous with the Portuguese player seemingly touted to every major club in Europe.
Comments (10)
by zatta paaal on February 19, 2008
how comes you always quote a figure in your headlines? its a little bit annoying....
by Leonardo Coppi on February 19, 2008
Forza Inter
by magnum opus on February 19, 2008
Forza Liverpool! YNWA
by Paul Bridges on February 19, 2008
Why not Villa's Young & Agbonlahor & Blackburn's Bentley before MU, CFC & AFC get them.
by Silly Billy on February 20, 2008
17 million is too much for a 27 year old.
by Jimmy D on February 20, 2008
Why not Villa's Young Agbonlahor Blackburn's Bentley before MU, CFC, AFC get them.
by G W on February 20, 2008
So the number this week is '£60m', brought to you by the letters M-A-R-K and the letters T-W-A-T. More innane plagarism.
by ReikiRebel reikirebel on February 20, 2008
I agree with a lot of the above comments …… we do need to be clear 1. Rafa has had approx. £140m over 4 seasons (this being his fourth season) yet he has only bought £6m average premier players, it seems to me that he has focused too much on buying lots of players so he can rotate, but he is rotating our best with avaerage players and that means average games …. our position proves that! If he had bought 7x £20m players, we would have a team to equal all!!! The old expression is right here (Less is More) or (quailty is better then quantity). 2. On the flip side to that lets look at how many quality outfield players we have in the team and an approx. value; £30m Torres £30m Gerrard £18m Mascha £15m Alonso (was £20m a couple of years ago) £12m Crouch £10m Kuyt Lucas (value will go up towards 20m) Agger (value will go towards 10m - £15m) babel (value will go up over/around £20m) carra (no value needed) Riise (was a 10m player a couple of years ago) I have only mentioned a few but for me we have a group of players able to compete with the best, its clear the excessive rotation policy in place is dictating the type of players rafa buys ….. if you build a quality team with 11 regulars and 5/6 fringe players (youngsters hungry for success) then you have a team able to win trophies. If you are buying to build a team of 11, then you can buy 2x £20m players each year, in 4 years you have bought 8x quality players valued at or above £20m add those to the present quality (torres, gerrard, babel, masha, alonso, lucas, carra, agger) .. that makes 16 quality players ….. So my point is buying average players to ensure we have lots of players to cope with an aggressive rotation policy doesn’t work and unless your chelsea I dont see man u or arsenal spending silly money each season … the difference is not so much money but what you do with the money …. man u and arsenal approach this differently but achieve the same … a quality team with quality players! The players in now are rafa’s buys and if they are not doing the business, then rafa needs to make changes to his approach …… Man U and arsenal have bought wisely, invested heavily in youth and look at them ….. often they only buy 1 or 2 a year but they buy quality … not average premier players ….. If Rafa sells several players he can raise approx. £35m … add the same from the club and he has £70m to spend …. I would expect to see 3x £20m buys and a £10 kid (a babel type quality) …… and i would expect to see the same team each week (same 14 or 15 players) …. will rafa sell more to have less numbers but better quality … not sure but i do feel thats the way forward couple that with the fans getting back to supporting our team and less paper talk, we’ll be fine … I BELIEVE ! ! !
by RJ on February 21, 2008
Can we (liverpool) just concentrate on who we have and boosting team morale?!
by Sonny-bill Jones on February 24, 2008
Liverpool should sign him, He is consistent, can play on the left or middle (Better in the Middle) and he can play Left-back and Liverpool need some UK players. He will be the best player born in England in about 2-3 years.
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