Christian Atsu

[marcus50bucks]

Gary Jacob,Tony Barrett

Liverpool are closing in on a deal to sign Christian Atsu after the Ghana forward rejected the offer of a four-year contract from Porto to seek a move to the Premier League. Atsu, a 21-year-old winger, is likely to cost about £3 million

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http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/premierleague/article3794578.ece

[Arn]

Is he Japanese ?

No but the shirts won't be that expensive so we will sell a few million of them.

[Cormack74]

Please please can we be linked with a defensive midfielder.

[Leyton388]

He's no Phil Jone

[Gibbo]

Gary Jacob,Tony Barrett

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http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/...cle3794578.ece

Jesus, took two blokes to write that.

[Neil Young]

Has everyone signed yet?

[marcus50bucks]

Early days I know but I'm still concerned that with the little resources we have we still seem intent on using the money on attacking options. We still need a left back, defensive midfielder and a couple of centre backs imo. It would be nice to see those areas sorted out at some point but I'm not sure we will. I also question how much game time Atsu will get and is he really needed when you consider that Ibe and Sterling are developing well? I'm actually hoping now that it's either Atsu or Luis Albeto we buy but not both because we really need to strengthen other areas of the pitch.

[Fredo]

Has everyone signed yet?

Good point.

[Leyton388]

A defensive midfielder is a must Imo. Fingers crossed we get one in

[Fosterbloke]

He'd be a great option off the bench. Power and pace. End product not the best but looks really hard to get the ball off him!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwl3r-BY-YI"]Christian Atsu - YouTube[/ame]

[little dave hedgehog]

17 minutes of highlights

[Ams12]

Early days I know but I'm still concerned that with the little resources we have we still seem intent on using the money on attacking options. We still need a left back, defensive midfielder and a couple of centre backs imo. It would be nice to see those areas sorted out at some point but I'm not sure we will. I also question how much game time Atsu will get and is he really needed when you consider that Ibe and Sterling are developing well? I'm actually hoping now that it's either Atsu or Luis Albeto we buy but not both because we really need to strengthen other areas of the pitch.

Score **** loads of goals with a starting 11 of 10 attacking players & a keeper...who needs defenders! After scoring 5+ goals the opposition will just get demoralised. Then 2nd half we do the same :P i think this may be the strategy for next season!

[Shaggy]

And Porto selling for 3m only? Is he gonna be that much better than Assaidi?

I think he's in the last year of his contract. Obviously don't know how true it is but I read Porto wanted to give him a new contract and insert a buy out clause of about £24m

[spud_gun]

This hacked Man Citeh player database that we've gotten our hands on is ghreat!

[Resu]

I don`t think we hacked it, we just employed the guys setting it up.