Alex Teixeira

[redmike65]

Kenny Rodgers? No wonder we're **** - buying players from Country and Western warblers.

[Irishnev]

Kenny Rodgers?

We need a "gambler" to pay the money for Teixeira - no room for "cowards of the county" in our club!!

[Gibbo]

I was all set with a Texiera is moving into the danger zone joke and remembered that that was Loggins.

[marcus50bucks]

Liverpool have £28m offer for Alex Teixeira rejected with opening bids still some way off Shakhtar Donetsk's valuation for forward

By SIMON JONES FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 15:50, 25 January 2016 | UPDATED: 16:07, 25 January 2016

Liverpool have been unsuccessful in their £28million bid to sign Shakhtar Donetsk star Alex Teixeira.

The increased offer is the Reds' second attempt at capturing the exciting forward, who has also been tracked by Chelsea.

Liverpool's opening offer of £24.5m was rebuffed by the Ukrainian league leaders last week after chief executive Ian Ayre met with Shakhtar officials in Miami.

Manager Jurgen Klopp has made no secret of his need for extra firepower and Teixeira fits the bill after scoring 22 goals in just 15 league games this season.

Shakhtar are notoriously difficult to negotiate with and their valuation is still some distance from Liverpool's two offers.

When quizzed about Liverpool raising their bid on Monday, Klopp rebuffed the question, saying: 'There's absolutely nothing to say. Maybe it surprises you. I have nothing to say to things like this.'

The 26-year-old has also attracted the interest of Chelsea and Bayern Munich with his prolific strike rate in the Ukrainian Premier League this campaign.

While averaging 61.4 minutes per goal domestically, Teixeira also netted three times in a Champions League group that included Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain.

The uncapped Brazilian is looking for a move to western Europe to further his ambitions of playing for his country.

Teixeira told Brazilian newspaper Globo Esporte: 'I would like to move in this transfer window and have told them [Shakhtar] that.

'They have received a very good offer and they are working on a solution. But if I don't go now then I will leave in the summer.

'After six years in Europe and with Shakhtar we are ready to move and I have spoken to my wife and daughter.

'It is my desire to move to a big league and I know that the English league is very strong. I am ready and I know that I will grow up a lot there.

'I am aware that two big clubs such as Liverpool and Chelsea are interested but I haven't given my word to either of them.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...tand-firm.html

[redmike65]

Come on, make him our most expensive signing (if only to remove Carroll from the top of that list)

[Norbs]

I wonder sometimes if we spend our transfer window chasing an unrealistic target on purpose to avoid it looking like we're doing no business, while in fact that's precisely what we're doing

[Gibbo]

You mean like United with Neymar?

Well we tried to get this foreign bloke but he was too expensive, we had to make a decision late in the window.

Welcome to LFC Shane Long

[danperkins]

Anyone else got this feeling of inevitability now Ramires is on his way to China for £25million?!

The comments from Texeira are very positive but if we don't meet the asking price.....

Yup, same old ****. He'll go for more money and to the bright lights of London

[Buzzo]

I reckon we'll get him. Why not be positive eh? He is bezzies with Lucas, Phil and Bobby.

[Fierce]

I reckon we'll get him. Why not be positive eh? He is bezzies with Lucas, Phil and Bobby.

Are you new here?

[redmike65]

Second bid NOT made according de Echo and Melissa Reddy.

[Leyton388]

£28m bid for Vardy imminent!

[frank the tank]

i can see Teixeria going to chelsea.......and being ****in amazing.

On a sidenote, if Ramieres is leaving on a deal that "could" be worth up to £25m, should LFC not have a sniff at that? He could be the sort of defensive midfielder with an engine that Klopp's teams could use. Or are we so covered with that position that it wouldnt even be worth thinking about.

[Norbs]

^ Sicko

[Buzzo]

Are you new here?

Negativity is sooooo 2015.