Lucas Leiva signing thread

[PLY]

I'm looking at the stream now and he's defo not playing

[Sebastian Rooks]

Lucas Pezzini Leiva..... Video

Don't know if it has already been posted but I stumbled across this...

http://www.recontragolazo.com/?p=339

If you scroll down there's a short interview (in Brazilian!) but it's followed by his goals...(with some **** music)......it starts off a little slow... but it gets better at the end....there's a couple of screamers on there .

He looks pretty good...and still young...I heard Man U tried to hijack him....glad we got there first!..:bird:
....sorry if it's been posted already!

[El Jefecito]

I'm looking at the stream now and he's defo not playing

I know. Chris set me straight

Sorry 'bout that.

[REDSCOUSER]

Gremio got beat 2-0 even though Defensor had a player sent off 35 minutes in.

[PLY]

I know. Chris set me straight

Sorry 'bout that.

No worries mate , thanks for the heads up I wouldn't have even thought about it

[SB]

I wonder how exactly he "rumbles" forward...

By eating too much nachos

[AFII]

Leiva deal triumph for Liverpool owners

Leiva deal triumph for Liverpool owners
tribalfooball.com - May 17, 2007

Liverpool trumped a host of Italian clubs for Gremio midfielder Lucas Pezzini Leiva because they acted quicker than their rivals, it has been revealed.

In a tribute to how the club's new American owners are backing Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez, it's been revealed the Reds took less than 72 hours to close the deal for the Brazil U20 captain.

Filippo Taddia, who leads an agency that was handling Italian clubs' interest in Leiva, said: "Liverpool had an option on the player for 72 hours and we all believed he would go to Fiorentina, which was the Italian club that was closest to signing him.

"But to our surprise, Liverpool acted on their option. They didn't mess around and met the demands of Gremio, which were around £6 million. It was only the option that prevented the player from going to Italy."

[Shaggy]

A refreshing change.

[Neil Young]

Leiva deal triumph for Liverpool owners
tribalfooball.com - May 17, 2007

Liverpool trumped a host of Italian clubs for Gremio midfielder Lucas Pezzini Leiva because they acted quicker than their rivals, it has been revealed.

In a tribute to how the club's new American owners are backing Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez, it's been revealed the Reds took less than 72 hours to close the deal for the Brazil U20 captain.

Filippo Taddia, who leads an agency that was handling Italian clubs' interest in Leiva, said: "Liverpool had an option on the player for 72 hours and we all believed he would go to Fiorentina, which was the Italian club that was closest to signing him.

"But to our surprise, Liverpool acted on their option. They didn't mess around and met the demands of Gremio, which were around £6 million. It was only the option that prevented the player from going to Italy."

That's encouraging if true.

[Darth Marty]

This summer will be the biggest and most important since we signed Dean Saunders & Mark Wright.

[redbuz]

Very un-Liverpool like!! Great sign of things to come!

[MrMichael]

This summer will be the biggest and most important since we signed Dean Saunders & Mark Wright.

So its Darren Bent and Phil Jagielka then?

[dww]

Leiva deal triumph for Liverpool owners
tribalfooball.com - May 17, 2007

Liverpool trumped a host of Italian clubs for Gremio midfielder Lucas Pezzini Leiva because they acted quicker than their rivals, it has been revealed.

In a tribute to how the club's new American owners are backing Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez, it's been revealed the Reds took less than 72 hours to close the deal for the Brazil U20 captain.

Filippo Taddia, who leads an agency that was handling Italian clubs' interest in Leiva, said: "Liverpool had an option on the player for 72 hours and we all believed he would go to Fiorentina, which was the Italian club that was closest to signing him.

"But to our surprise, Liverpool acted on their option. They didn't mess around and met the demands of Gremio, which were around £6 million. It was only the option that prevented the player from going to Italy."

So how does one go about getting an option for 72 hours? Surely such a short term deal would almost certainly mean we were very keen and thus would buy him, or is there a deal between us and Gremio about other players too?

[Maestro]

Worst pun Ive ever seen.







Until now.

[Diego]

So how does one go about getting an option for 72 hours? Surely such a short term deal would almost certainly mean we were very keen and thus would buy him, or is there a deal between us and Gremio about other players too?

might be a deal we struck a while back, to give us first option. 72 hour window sounds short though...