Brendan Rodgers

[Harv]

Chicharito FFS

[S-RED]

without a doubt we need a poacher, so I can see potential behind signing him

[Fosterbloke]

Chicharito is a goal hanger. Great for Man Utd as they've always had one (Hughes, Solskaer)

[Harv]

He'd be a waste of money in our side. We need someone that creates space for others and chances himself like Suarez did. Obvioulsy will be near impossible to get anywhere near his class, but Vietto's a similar type of prospect and looks absolute quality at times.

[peekay]

LOL

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[danperkins]

He'd be a waste of money in our side. We need someone that creates space for others and chances himself like Suarez did. Obvioulsy will be near impossible to get anywhere near his class, but Vietto's a similar type of prospect and looks absolute quality at times.

Disagree mate, we need a goalscorer than offers good movement for likes of Coutinho to pick out & someone who can actually put the ball in the net.

Vietto looks a talent but he is a young lad, the last thing we want next season is to be relying on kids again.

[Yozza]

Disagree mate, we need a goalscorer than offers good movement for likes of Coutinho to pick out & someone who can actually put the ball in the net.

Vietto looks a talent but he is a young lad, the last thing we want next season is to be relying on kids again.

As we know you cannae win anything with kids....

[danperkins]

We might not be able to offer the same sort of financial incentive as some of the mega rich clubs, but we are still in a position where we can pay bigger wages than the majority of clubs. We can certainly offer players at the likes of Lyon, Dortmund, Ajax, Porto, Roma etc etc more money than what they are currently on, and even if the mega money clubs do buy up the Lacazettes, Viettos etc., then those same clubs will most likely be off loading players and a lot of the players that those clubs move on are still very good players.


We just need to be a bit smarter in who we go after, and if we fail to get a player then the back up choices should be players who would fit into our team in a similar manner as to how we thought the first choice would have done.

There are plenty of good to very good players out there. Some will be high profile and on a lot of shopping lists but there are always a few that the big boys don't have on their lists and those players often end up at clubs like Spurs, Southampton, Roma, Valencia, Napoli and so on, and those clubs we certainly can go head to head with.


To be honest I am not the sort to get overly annoyed if we lose out on a player to a club that can offer more. What would annoy me would be not trying for the player in the first place if the player looked right for us.

I think a big part of fans being disappointed is simply down to the era we are living in. Every story, rumour, and made up bit of tittle tattle is online within seconds and gets turned into long drawn out drama as a result.

We missed out on just as many top talents when we were in our pomp, but without the internet the first time the fans got to hear about some of the missed players was years after the event.

We can offer better wages than the likes of Lyon, Dortmund, Ajax, Porto, Roma etc but the likes of Chelsea, City, United, Madrid, Munich etc who are after all the top players...can offer better wages than we can and are a bigger draw than us. That's the problem we face.

I think you head the nail on the head with our second choices being players than fit what we are trying to do.. a mistake we have paid for this season no doubts. I'm still baffled at what our strategy actually was.

I'm not on Twitter and most of it is either bull **** or reguriatated from journos. In saying that, we have lost out on every big player we've went in for in the last few windows. It doesn't bode well for the club that it's been so publicised, slightly embarrassing. But to be honest, we don't need the internet to know that we are not the draw we once were.

[danperkins]

As we know you cannae win anything with kids....

Yup, darn kids these days

[paulg]

We might not be able to offer the same sort of financial incentive as some of the mega rich clubs, but we are still in a position where we can pay bigger wages than the majority of clubs.

Our trouble, historically, comes from paying inflated wages on players who aren't good enough and then being unable to get them off the wage bill.

[Maxiedge]

This discussion has kind of veered from Brendan Rodgers into transfers, no?

[danperkins]

Suppose it has, although he's the one in charge of the transfers.......or is he

We could always talk about Gerrard not shaking his hand instead or pushing hand away from his face or saying Mourinho is the best manager in the world

[Doc_Piptorious]

Our trouble, historically, comes from paying inflated wages on players who aren't good enough and then being unable to get them off the wage bill.

True, but that in itself suggests that our problem is not our ability to pay large wages but rather who we chose to give those large wages to.

[Yozza]

Suppose it has, although he's the one in charge of the transfers.......or is he

We could always talk about Gerrard not shaking his hand instead or pushing hand away from his face or saying Mourinho is the best manager in the world

I'd rather talk about his teeth whitening regime.... Outstanding

[danperkins]

True, but that in itself suggests that our problem is not our ability to pay large wages but rather who we chose to give those large wages to.

recruitment strategy has been ****e