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Jordo wrote:When Sunderland contemplated losing Henderson last summer, Steve Bruce told his chairman he believed they could get £4million for him. Imagine his delight when Comolli offered £14million and then swiftly improved that bid to £16million.

Fucking idiot. Glad we fucked him off.

Where's that from?

Jordo wrote:When Sunderland contemplated losing Henderson last summer, Steve Bruce told his chairman he believed they could get £4million for him. Imagine his delight when Comolli offered £14million and then swiftly improved that bid to £16million.

Fucking idiot. Glad we fucked him off.

I'd imagine that is bullshit.. it was always rumoured for a year to be 15-20 million to get him, I fucking doubt he'd be valued everywhere for around that then Sunderland think they can get 4 million for him.

Steve Bruce thought they could only get 4 million for what appeared to be a promising player who had just made the England squad? It's either bullshit or he's an even thicker cunt than I already thought.

Why was Henderson valued that high anyway! I get he was young and played for England, but the dude never really looked THAT impressive.

dena wrote:Why was Henderson valued that high anyway! I get he was young and played for England, but the dude never really looked THAT impressive.

Because that's the value of a English player that looks promising, and he did.

Who is backup for Torres? I can think of Sturridge and Hazard(who played striker at Lille the odd time)

kyro7 wrote:

dena wrote:Why was Henderson valued that high anyway! I get he was young and played for England, but the dude never really looked THAT impressive.

Because that's the value of a English player that looks promising, and he did.

16m though? I feel like there's a lot of better players who are a bit more experienced and shown their quality (English or not) who can be had for that price.

When does the 6+5 rule come in? Is that shit still going ahead?

dena wrote:

kyro7 wrote:

dena wrote:Why was Henderson valued that high anyway! I get he was young and played for England, but the dude never really looked THAT impressive.

Because that's the value of a English player that looks promising, and he did.

16m though? I feel like there's a lot of better players who are a bit more experienced and shown their quality (English or not) who can be had for that price.

When does the 6+5 rule come in? Is that shit still going ahead?

It's obviously overpriced for a player of his level, but that's just how it is..it's shit but it's so common now that everything just seems normal.

Young and Phil Jones cost us 30 million plus, could be closer to 40, Jones might turn out to be good but who knows, Young is good but form is all over the place, never consistent.

Downing will become the best left-back in England.

IT’S BEEN five months since Damien Comolli was shown the door at Liverpool FC but the cost of the Frenchman’s reign as director of football continues to cut deep.

Brendan Rodgers has paid a heavy price this summer for the financial mismanagement of the club prior to his arrival. The boss’ attempts to overhaul his squad prior to last night’s transfer deadline were severely hampered by budgetary constraints. A number of attractive deals in recent weeks had to be abandoned due to a lack of funds.

Rodgers has had to wheel and deal, off-loading fringe players in order to boost the £20million transfer kitty he was given.

However, that challenge was made even more difficult by the acute lack of value in players who Liverpool had previously paid a fortune for.


Between January and August 2011 the Reds shelled out £113million on transfers as Fenway Sports Group gave the green light to the biggest spending spree in Anfield history.

The subsequent poor return on that investment in the Premier League last season led to Comolli’s sacking in April followed by the exit of Kenny Dalglish.

The manager pinpointed the signings he wanted but it was left to Comolli to negotiate and complete the deals. FSG had expected a lot more bang for their buck.

This summer it’s been a case of once bitten, twice shy. Funds haven’t been as readily available as the owners want Liverpool to live within their means.

Recent events have been a damning indictment of the business Liverpool did under the previous regime as Rodgers has set about dismantling Dalglish’s team.

Andy Carroll and Charlie Adam departed this week and Jordan Henderson would have gone as well if he hadn’t rejected a move to Fulham.

Stewart Downing is now a £20million full-back.

Newcastle’s managing director Derek Llambias dines out on stories about the night he sold Carroll for a British record £35million. He took full advantage of Comolli’s desperation to do business.

It was a panic buy following the exit of Fernando Torres for a rookie with only half a season of top flight experience. Newcastle couldn’t believe their luck.

Rodgers was clear from the outset that Carroll wasn’t for him but as Liverpool tried to offload him this summer there were few takers. The only clubs to register an interest were West Ham, Newcastle, Fulham and Aston Villa. No-one put a permanent bid on the table, forcing the Reds to accept the Hammers’ offer of a £1million fee for a season-long loan. There is no commitment on their part to buy him next summer.


Similarly, there was hardly a battle for Adam’s services. The Scottish midfielder was out of his depth at Anfield and was never going to be mobile enough to fit into Rodgers’ playing style. A year after arriving from Blackpool for £8million amid talk he was the new Xabi Alonso, Liverpool got half their cash back courtesy of Stoke City.

Henderson remains at Anfield but the fact that the Reds were willing to offer him plus cash for Clint Dempsey speaks volumes.

When Sunderland contemplated losing Henderson last summer, Steve Bruce told his chairman he believed they could get £4million for him. Imagine his delight when Comolli offered £14million and then swiftly improved that bid to £16million.

Comolli was FSG’s first senior appointment back in November 2010. The Frenchman convinced them he would get value for money. That he would unearth hidden gems and sign players who would have a high sell-on value. Comolli failed miserably and Rodgers has had to pick up the pieces.



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Fenway Sports Group are furious over the collapse of Clint Dempsey's proposed move to Anfield, and have deemed Ian Ayre responsible" #LFC

Got a feeling we'll get a striker in January. I hated the last January window, we really needed another forward (or was it winger) and signed no one.

Apparently they're going to sack/demote Ian Ayre and bring in someone else

So would any of yous lot welcome Owen back on a free?

With all the past aside, he is a goal scorer first and for most and given our current situation he is exactly what we need right now.

I wouldn't welcome him back, no.

He'd be okay as back up until January

Rather play a 12 year old kid than play Owen.

He was my idol

Don't think he'd be good enough, but I guess it would be no harm having him until we get another striker

If I knew it would've been like this then yes, I would have welcomed Owen back.

Don't mean welcome him back with open arms. More just accepting the fact that we have fucked up in the transfer market and need cover on the bench. He'd be the best of a bad situation and would do us until our annual budget becomes available again.

Drogba has been released apparently.

http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/football/910409-spurs-and-man-city-ready-to-fight-real-madrid-for-free-agent-didier-drogba

So has Anelka

Cam wrote:Drogba has been released apparently.

He'd never come to us. Anelka might though.

Anelka is passed it.

Scored 2 goals in 23 games in China.

Scored 1 goal in 15 games in his final season at Chelsea.

In his last full season he got 16 in 45.

It's about Numbers though, beggars can't be choosers, Anelka isn't bad to have as back up.

Apparently he can't be signed as you need to be released before the close of the window to be signed by another team.

They obviously got some sort of pay off to walk.

Jelavić7|EFC wrote:Anelka is passed it.

Scored 2 goals in 23 games in China.

Scored 1 goal in 15 games in his final season at Chelsea.

Yea but he was completely frozen out of the team by AVB.

Apparently this Samed Yesil is pretty good. Leverkusen fans are furious that he's been sold, his goalscoring record is very good and his potential on Fifa 12 is 81.

Actually, as a German I'm defeated, Yesil is one of the greatest talents we have and that actually exists in world football on the striker position, if he were from Spain, Brazil or a similar country he would probably be at an estimated worth of 20 million or something, and now leverkusen, instead pf seeing him qs the next star striker they have and having him as a backup for Kießling are giving him away for a piece of shit sum...instead of taking the 30million for schürrle from chelsea. German clubs need tp learn that their talents are amongst the best in the world and price them accordingly.

Anyhow, congress to Liverpool for that absolute steal. You guys got yourself an absolute star prospect, now put him in your lineup instead of downing and watch awesomeness unfold