07 May 2015 16:00:15
If anyone has actually seen depay play live for full 90 mins you would not be complaining this much. He is quite wasteful, and has a lot to learn until he can become a £30m player, kind of like sterling. Let's be honest here, sterling is better and will be better than depay. Don't be fooled by the record he got in the Dutch league, he will not replicate that at all in the bpl where there will be huge pressure on him and he will not be the main guy in the team. The only reason we would have got depay was as a replacement to sterling. If sterling can commit another couple of seasons then I would prefer that option than selling now and getting depay. Because in two seasons time sterling will be worth a lot more and we will be able to get a better player than depay. I think everyone should chill out about this transfer because it was never an area we needed to boost.
In those wide positions we have coutinho, sterling, Ibe, lallana, markovic. I suspect a main striker will come in to play centrally and most probably take sturridges positions, so Sturridge and origi will most likely play in those areas as well.
Striker is the position we need to spend well for, along with central midfield.
07 May 2015 16:44:37
Your spot on mate.
Wasting your breath on here though.
07 May 2015 16:56:26
Agree with you on the striker part. That is where we should focus on. Depay was not a priority because he was up for discussion if Raheem left and besides, we are well served in wide areas. Striker is the priority and the ONLY priority.
07 May 2015 17:08:55
I would say a right back as well Ohio. But striker first yeah.
07 May 2015 17:22:40
LFC were looking at Depay as a potential replacement for Sterling. What makes you think Sterling will be at LFC next season? I do agree that at the moment in time, there is no big difference between Sterling and Depay IMO. And again I agree that we have plenty of players to play in a similar position, but clearly, LFC want to bring in a replacement if Sterling leaves, hence interest in Depay, Ntep, Vazquez and scouting Kishna, Bakkali, Ayew.
07 May 2015 17:55:01
I don't think its loosing Depay that bothers so much. Its the thought of losing him to Utd and losing another SUPPOSED target. Its who have we actually got here that young players would want to come and play or work with. We have no big players anymore and a manager that nobody around Europe has heard of. We have shown little ambition. What is there to excite or attract? Its this that hurts more than the Depay saga.
07 May 2015 18:34:50
The difference (if we believe the media) is Depay is a class player, whereas Sterling may have pace but misses open goals!
07 May 2015 18:36:52
We need goals from ALL over the pitch not just a striker.
07 May 2015 20:17:15
When did this turn into a saga, as far as i was concerned he was never coming as ed02 has said on a number of occasions. Not trying to big up ed02 but she has got more right than the number of hens teeth any of us have ever discovered. I also agree with her that it would have been a mistake to buy him, not convinced by him at all. Anyway history will judge.
07 May 2015 20:28:34
Unless sterling is a complete idiot he will be at Liverpool next season.
07 May 2015 21:46:24
Sterling believes he has seen the writing on the wall.
He wants a club and a manager with ambition.
One cannot blame him, a footballer's career is short.
He has not been given the right signals.
Players loaned out, played out of position etc.
He talks to his agent and asks where is this club going ?
The agent says; nowhere.
He is at the centre of operations and has a better view as to what is going on?
Therefore he wants to move on.
That is the reality.
08 May 2015 00:01:08
You're not far from the truth, Yuri. There is no direction nor definite structure at the club and the manager makes up systems as he goes along and sometimes, he plays a game having played at three diff positions a times like wingback, striker or wide. The poor boy prolly doesn't know what position he will play before a game. He wants to compete and progress and if we are dithering around and can't do that especially with an incompetent manager who can't keep his gob shut, he will and should assess his options.
08 May 2015 09:17:12
Sooooo . going to a Real Madrid or some team of that ilk is going to provide a better platform for Sterling to progress?
You only have to look at numerous examples of that NEVER working out for a young player.
If Sterling wants to progress as a plyer, he either stays with us or goes to a club below us to play in his favourite position every week.
08 May 2015 14:35:13
Which is NOT as a striker.