Tom Ince

[Helios Creed]

£5m for Carroll or £8m tops would have been ok but **** me Newcastle saw us coming. That money from the Torres deal should have went on Llorente. If we'd have offered £35 or £40m for him Bilbao would have bitten our hand off IMO.

maybe the new owners preferred to buy British thinking it would go down better with the fans?

[Captain Stu]

maybe the new owners preferred to buy British thinking it would go down better with the fans?

Nah, it's due to "risk" because 6 months of good form made Carroll less of a risk apparently.

We were in for Llorente at the same time, negotiating for both but decided to plump for Carroll. That's a horrendous decision every single day of the week.

We were also looking at Gomez on loan and if we'd waved the cash at Bayern they would have sold him because at the time he wasn't flavour of the month.

[Tee]

maybe the new owners preferred to buy British thinking it would go down better with the fans?

Problem is the new owners don't really know **** and trusted and were guided by Commolli and Kenny. Unfortunately they don't know **** either so it was the blind leading the blind.

I honestly think that given the transfer disasters over the past few years it is actually ridiculous not to have brought in an experienced figurehead like Van Gaal as a DoF. If BR did not want to work with a DoF we should have got someone who would. The risks we are taking with vast sums of money justify it.

[Jagan]

You are right I suppose. I think people are more annoyed that we are spending £4million to get him back. Then again, I think we need to look at it as we are signing 'Tom Ince - Blackpool player' rather than 'Tom Ince - Liverpool youth player who never signed for us'

If its looked at like that, I think we are getting an alright deal. £4million for a decent looking U21 player. If this was Man Utd, Ferguson would be getting lauded for picking up a good prospect ala Evans, Jones or Cleverly.

Exactly... £4million for Ince is a steal.... Lets hope totenham isnt going to steal him from us...

[Captain Stu]

Problem is the new owners don't really know **** and trusted and were guided by Commolli and Kenny. Unfortunately they don't know **** either so it was the blind leading the blind.

I honestly think that given the transfer disasters over the past few years it is actually ridiculous not to have brought in an experienced figurehead like Van Gaal as a DoF. If BR did not want to work with a DoF we should have got someone who would. The risks we are taking with vast sums of money justify it.

Louis Van Gaal was NEVER interested in a DoF role - he spoke to us about becoming manager but FSG wanted a younger man so negotiations stopped.

Rafa as DoF.

[Lecter]

Nah, it's due to "risk" because 6 months of good form made Carroll less of a risk apparently.

We were in for Llorente at the same time, negotiating for both but decided to plump for Carroll. That's a horrendous decision every single day of the week.

We were also looking at Gomez on loan and if we'd waved the cash at Bayern they would have sold him because at the time he wasn't flavour of the month.

We never agreed a fee for Llorente (they kept saying he wasnt for sale), we managed to agree one for Carroll

So to suggest we plumped for Carroll over Llorente isnt correct

That said there is no comparison between them as to quality of player Llorente is a much better player and I'd go for him time and time again if it was an actual choice between him & Carroll

[Lecter]

IIRC We offered £30m for him but it was knocked back and we didn't go back with a better offer and offered £35m for carroll instead.

We were told he wasnt for sale

[Captain Stu]

We never agreed a fee for Llorente (they kept saying he wasnt for sale), we managed to agree one for Carroll

So to suggest we plumped for Carroll over Llorente isnt correct

That said there is no comparison between them as to quality of player Llorente is a much better player and I'd go for him time and time again if it was an actual choice between him & Carroll

Never said we agreed a fee - we were in for him and we never offered anywhere near £30M. We were offering around £15-18M or something but had we offered more - every player has a price.

[Lecter]

Never said we agreed a fee - we were in for him and we never offered anywhere near £30M. We were offering around £15-18M or something but had we offered more - every player has a price.

No we offerred £30 million if you believe the reports

And we were told he wasnt for sale

[Captain Stu]

No we offerred £30 million if you believe the reports

And we were told he wasnt for sale

Hmmmm, never seen that anywhere.

[Phoenix07]

No we offerred £30 million if you believe the reports

And we were told he wasnt for sale

Those reports were widespread and Llorente spoke about it himself.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1353578/Spain-star-Fernando-Llorente-reveals-Liverpool-failed-January-bid-striker.html

[Captain Stu]

Those reports were widespread and Llorente spoke about it himself.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...d-striker.html

Fair enough gents.



Bet they wish they'd taken the ****ing money now.

[Shaggy]

William Watt @WillWatt
Liverpool tabled a bid for Tom Ince last night which Blackpool have described as no where near what they are looking for.

[Fivex]

William Watt @WillWatt
Liverpool tabled a bid for Tom Ince last night which Blackpool have described as no where near what they are looking for.

[Bender]

Blackpool screwing us again like they did with charlie adam