Sebastian Coates

[Pablo]

Id prefer it to be in this country though. Going back to River Plate will mean its basically paving the way for him to go back.

If he does go there on loan he's never coming back here again, that's for sure. He needs Premier League experience if he is to have any chance of making it into our team

[Lee]

Very strange. I don't know what the issue is with Coates (or BR in this case).

It'll leave us light at CB if he goes on loan so I'm assuming if he goes then we'll look at getting a replacement in which to me makes little sense.

If he does go on loan then I'd like to see him stay in the PL. A club like Southampton would be ideal. They need a CB and he needs game time to adjust to the PL.

[the rev leeroy brown]

can only assume if coates goes its to do with homesickness or the like.

seems a good player who could be top class.

hopefully he stays but im unconvinced seeing as carra seems to be 3rd choice at the moment

[kalesh]

Interesting point made on TAW recently as they speculated that Coates’ lack of first team football might be due to the fact we’re due to trigger an additional payment if he plays a certain amount of games. If we have a deal lined up in January, maybe we’re trying to avoid this and only using in exceptional circumstances – like against West Ham and Everton.

Shame though as I really like the look of him

[Mattshark]

Interesting point made on TAW recently as they speculated that Coates’ lack of first team football might be due to the fact we’re due to trigger an additional payment if he plays a certain amount of games. If we have a deal lined up in January, maybe we’re trying to avoid this and only using in exceptional circumstances – like against West Ham and Everton.

Shame though as I really like the look of him

If that was the case we could have easily used Carragher last Sunday.

[baitman]

i thought Seb was going to be our new Sammi. he needs game time over here. if he goes back on loan then i reckon he will be gone

maybe its a step too far from south america to Liverpool [see lucas]...
for most of the lads who make the change it is usually via spain or holland. maybe that softens the homesickness shock

[kalesh]

If that was the case we could have easily used Carragher last Sunday.

Maybe so, but it depends when the payment kicks in. Also Coates is much better in the air than Carra and was required to deal with a very specific aerial threat.

[Alex]

Maybe so, but it depends when the payment kicks in. Also Coates is much better in the air than Carra and was required to deal with a very specific aerial threat.

Thats why I assumed he came on.

[James P]

I think something is up with Coates. I've thought it for a year now.

I know he appears to have the attributes. And I know he was player of the universe for Uruguay u21's or whatever. However, it made no sense that he didn't get more of a look in last season, and although that could be written off by that regime having lost the plot a bit, he also hasn't been getting the time on the pitch I would have expected this year either.

And now there have been consistent rumours of him going out, we presume on loan, in the next transfer window, despite Carra and some kids being our only cover at the back? I dunno, maybe he's not settling or happy in the UK, maybe the coaches are worried by what they see in training, something is up here to make me think this guy is not going to be what we were all hoping he was. For us anyway.

I'd really like to be wrong of course.

If it's any help, he asked for a transfer in the first season of my Liverpool Career team on FIFA13 because he was homesick. True story. Makes me think that the FIFA guys must be .

[Cormack74]

Interesting point made on TAW recently as they speculated that Coates’ lack of first team football might be due to the fact we’re due to trigger an additional payment if he plays a certain amount of games. If we have a deal lined up in January, maybe we’re trying to avoid this and only using in exceptional circumstances – like against West Ham and Everton.

Shame though as I really like the look of him

Seems a bit early for "trigger" payments IMO. He can't have played more than 30 games for us including appearances from the bench?

[The Birdman]

Interesting point made on TAW recently as they speculated that Coates’ lack of first team football might be due to the fact we’re due to trigger an additional payment if he plays a certain amount of games. If we have a deal lined up in January, maybe we’re trying to avoid this and only using in exceptional circumstances – like against West Ham and Everton.

Shame though as I really like the look of him

Are there any interesting points made on TAW anymore?

Its a rhetorical question.

[Mostar]

Id prefer it to be in this country though. Going back to River Plate will mean its basically paving the way for him to go back.

Same here.

If we are going to loan him I'd go with either another PL team that desparately need a decent CB and/or Championship club.

If he goes back to Latin America I cannot see him coming back to us.

I like Coates and I think it is very unfortunate that he wasn't given more playing opportunities this year.

It is clear that his confidence and concentration are not existant in those rare opportunities he was allowed to start/play but that cannot really be a surprise knowing how few chances he had to prove himself.

[Fosterbloke]

Send him to QPR or Southampton on loan.

[Est:1982]

Be good if we could send him to Wigan on loan, or even Swansea.

Would rather we just gave him more games though.

[dww]

Aren't River Plate broke? Sounds like someone there end is trying to placate the fans.