21 May 2015 20:19:58
What do Liverpool need this summer?

1. Striker

To be fair to Liverpool FC, there were no strikers available last summer but not buying this summer will be a disaster.

We need two strikers.

An English striker who can find the back of the net. ** Either Danny Ings or Charlie Austin. **

A continental/south american striker who can do any/all of the things
- can link play if required
- can score from outside the penalty box if required
- can hold the ball up for the wingers/midfielders
- should remain injury free

I have three choices
** Lacazette - I think we can get him if we want him. If we don't do it this summer, he will be gone.
Logic - He needs first team assurance which none of the top 4 can provide this summer. With Euros, next year he may not move without first team assurance.
** Vietto - He is my choice. He is fast and can really shoot from distance. He is Argentine and I think he is really mobile with good movement.
Practically it will be risky tbring him in.
** Bacca - He is good and pacy. Though he is not really a number 9 but he isn't bad. Best part he doesn't get injured often.

2. Midfielders/Wingers

In this department I would prefer James Milner and a left footed midfielder and a left footed winger.

The reason we should seek two left footed players is because a left footed player in midfield really opens up the pitch and creates angles which the opposition can find difficult to handle.
Someone like Verrati or Kondogbia would be good example of the kind of player we should look for, not necessarily them.

A left winger is imperative because of Rodgers tendency to overload the left. The opposition knows nothing will come in from the right. Hence a left winger.

3. Right Back

A quality right back. No big name but a solid right back with a decent final ball should be fine.

4. Back up GK
I don't much is required here.

1.) 21 May 2015
21 May 2015 21:31:24
We have an English striker in sturridge zo I wouldn't count that as a necessity!

Those strikers are never happening, except for bacca who I don't really know much about as there are not many Sevilla games on except for Europa (maybe watch next Thursday's game)

Ojo is the left footed player I would bring through, its not a necessity and if we were to purchase one, it might block the line for ojo! Again though we wouldn't need one like downing ie to cross the ball, because we have noone to target!

I agree we need a defensive mid but with brendans refusal to play Lucas suggests to me he does like that deep midfielder to be of a play make type rather a defender, like can isn't a defensive mid but he can play a pass! But both kon and veratti are of the more aggressive midfields but verratti is Allen but more consistent and of a higher level he's certainly not a dm to break up play, I would love him though!

And a rb for sure but someone 28-30 as we have a lot of talent for that position in the ranks and it wouldn't require clyne for say 20/25 mil as we have a lot of players who can slot in until one of the younger crop are ready!

And gk is an absolute priority, mignolet is nowhere near good enough, regardless of goals conceded, we have actually had to change our style of play to suit him and therefore we lump the ball up to noone and continue to have the opposing team hurtling towards us over and over.

Striker - the best our budget and principles can buy. **must be injury free or a great track record! Its not even about goals but more you can't build a system without a striker and a gk! Someone like drog in his pomp with the right system would bring all our other players to life, look at giroud at arsenal (yeah at some point they need to improve that position to win a title bur still with the same sort of player)

Wings - ojo and if sterling goes pedro (as would give us maybe 2/3 good years and then leave the slot open for one of the kids to come through or step up (ibe,Marko) )

Rb - arbeloa/rangel etc

Gk - cech (number one 20 million pound 200k a week choice) but others are avalible but must be coming in as number 1 not number 2 or you end up with jones! Cech & ward for me (hopefully the stigma of young gk is breaking with the top young talent getting chances there coutios, de gea, ter stergen!) ward does look top notch!

2.) 21 May 2015
21 May 2015 21:34:03
A new manager.

3.) 21 May 2015
21 May 2015 21:44:36
In the entire world of football, there were no strikers available last year? Seemingly bizarre statement.

4.) 21 May 2015
21 May 2015 22:02:06
I agree RDL - I stopped reading after that point.

I appreciate we may sometimes shop at a level lower than some (but appear to still overpay for some players when there level is lower than their price tag). But BR / Transfer committee seem to be able to buy square pegs for round holes then play the square pegs in a triangle system!

5.) 21 May 2015
21 May 2015 22:14:55
Bacca would be a great get!!

6.) 22 May 2015
21 May 2015 23:55:12
There was Bony and Remy who were virtually ready to be bought but BR either dithered on one as in Bony or rejected as in Remy so that debunks that first paragraph, right there. Bony would have been a great improvement on the dross strikers hope did get in so saying there no strikers in the world that could have improved us is just intellectual bankruptcy at its worst.

7.) 22 May 2015
22 May 2015 07:26:52
Liverbird, an English striker, either Ings or Austin? Why don't we just give Sinclair the opportunity? It does my head in that we don't look to what we already have here first and give them an opportunity.

8.) 22 May 2015
22 May 2015 10:53:28
Sinclair wasn't there last season plus he needs a to spend a season on loan.

Obviously we did not go for Remy last season.

Bony is not a striker with pace or constant movement, which is what Rodger's teams need. He is phenomenal but falls into the Andy Carroll style of player. I like him but he wouldn't have impressed us.he isn't much different from Balotelli except he doesn't sulk and is a team player.

9.) 22 May 2015
22 May 2015 14:04:02
And Balo and Lambert have pace? Nonsense! Bony would have improved us with Stering Lallana and Couts around him and that is a fct, if compared with the dross he currently bought who combined, are not better than Bony.