08 Jun 2015 12:00:40
I think Ings is a good signing. He reminds me of Bellamy with his pace and power. I think he will do well for us and offers more than Borini. Let's get behind the lad. If he went to Chelsea or Man City all fans wouldn't say he's not good enough.Remember Suarez, Rush, etc etc were not great known forwards before coming to the club and look how they worked out.
Baz
08 Jun 2015 12:36:45
Borini played less than 400 minutes for us in the league last year, so I'm not clear why people keep bringing his name up? Ings has stated he expected plenty of play time wherever he went and was seeking assurances over game time. Make of it what you will, but I can't see him signing for us to only play 400 minutes.
08 Jun 2015 12:45:40
Stop hiding behind disagrees and post a coherent alternative view to Baz!
All this hate to new signings who haven't even played yet is just utterly pathetic!
08 Jun 2015 12:53:51
Ings is nowhere as quick as Bellamy.
08 Jun 2015 13:15:15
P.S. I'm not a BR lover or apologist, quite the opposite, I wish we had gone for Klopp.
However, Ings is a decent young British striker who we are likely to have not paid much money for. His style and effort fits with the sort of game that most of us like to watch and like Liverpool to play.
So, rather than slating him because he is not Benzema or Jackson Martinez, or Luis Suarez, let's support him and see what he can do in our team.
With a bit of luck, a more established striker will be bought to supplement him, Sturridge and Origi.
I certainly have more faith, given how BR sets up his teams, that Ings will have more of an impact for us than either Ricky or Mario did.
08 Jun 2015 13:19:13
Let negativity consume their sorry souls. Ings is young and could become a beast of a player with technical coaching and good service. Look forward to seeing him in a red shirt!
08 Jun 2015 13:37:11
I don't see how a striker that scored 9 goals from open play is going to make any difference. People saying they like his work rate and attitude yet the guy shirked his responsibility as top scorer and penalty taker to refuse to take the penalty that could of kept his club in the PL. What's he going to do if he finds he has a important penalty to take in EL? Refuse?
08 Jun 2015 13:47:24
Burnley were relegated.
08 Jun 2015 14:38:03
Zed, 'more faith given how BR sets up his teams' ? He didn't t even play a striker for half the season. Ings can be added to the borini, balo, aspas, lambert pile of bench warmers that get dropped if they score/ have a good game and then BR wonders why they don't do well when he recalls them 10 games later and gives them 10 mins playing time.
08 Jun 2015 14:48:18
I don't understand why you keep repeating that Yuri, unless you've got your keyboard set to paste your last comment over and over again.
Just to give you one in a myriad of examples why your comment is pointless:
in 2002-3 West Ham were relegated, much as Burnley have been now.
They sold (during that close season and/or in the following January):
Joe Cole
Glen Johnson
Michael Carrick
Jermain Defoe
Does that make all of the above crap players? I'm talking at the time, not now!
08 Jun 2015 15:28:00
Swishcleaner, let it he said that you're a knob.
08 Jun 2015 15:53:20
I really hope Ings comes in and makes the doubters eat their words. There are so many people that cannot see the wood for the trees. We don't have champions league football so we are not going to attract Tevez, or that level of striker. We are already in debt and people want 50m signings, it's not going to happen. We have the making of a great young squad and have increased our quota of English players. Get behind the team and stop slagging of our new players until they at least play!!!
08 Jun 2015 16:00:02
Swishcleaner may of expressed himself in an unsavoury way but the crux of the argument, that Rodgers seems to misuse all of the striking staff, is a pertinent one. Ings will fair no better than any of the other players if Rodgers uses him in a similar fashion.
08 Jun 2015 16:07:39
Swish, I agree that BR's peculiarities are a major risk, and that's why I would strongly prefer someone else in charge now. However, for whatever daft reason, Balotelli and Lambert were not in any way the same sort of striker that has been used in the past (i.e. Suarez). Ings is more that style, hustling, low centre of gravity etc etc. And he has what I deem successful experience of the EPL during his season with Burnley (which Borini didn't have prior to joining us and quite frankly was unlikely to gain sitting on the bench).
Therefore, I do hope that Ings will get more game time and see more of the ball, and therefore contribute more than our existing reserve strikers.
I do still think, as I've said, that we need a front line, experienced striker, as Daniel is unfortunately made of fine bone china, but Ings should still be given the chance to prove himself a shrewd buy.
Dwarfonaboat - although we appear to be in agreement on this point, I think, when looking for knobs, you should look closer to home. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, it just gets my goat when people start jumping all over a young new joiner before he has even pulled on the shirt.
08 Jun 2015 23:29:16
Ings might not have been my choice but he's here now and needs our support because if he succeeds, we all succeed. However as Swisch and Zed have plaster, I don't trust BR with getting the best out of new signings. In fact, I can say that he has actually made them worse and Can, a very talented player, is a good example of that. If Ings comes in and we start playing Lallana as a striker just because BR feels like it, don't be surprised.