16 Jun 2015 17:31:45
I have to say I'm quite pleased with the transfer work we've done so far. Little spend (compensation/wages etc) and 3 good squad players.
I still think we need another striker (assuming Borini, Lambert and Balotelli leave) but I wouldn't want Benteke. Does not suit our system at all and would be a waste of £30m.
I'd like to see the back of Skrtel and allow a potential partnership with Sakho/Lovren with Kolo/wisdom and Illori backups.
I feel we need a RB and terminate the manquillo loan.
Clyne or Sam Byram for me.
I think we'd be crazy not to snap Konoplyanka up on a free. Ideal signing for us and I find it strange how we can be willing to spend £12m+ on him 18mths ago but not jump at the chance of getting him for nothing. Especially when he's actually improved as a player!!
The only other major part of our team I'd change is the manager - Klopp in, but this has been done to death.
I don't like the negativity on this site about or transfers and impending transfers (Kovacic).
If this time next year, were in the same position then fair enough, you can say you're right. But until then, we need to get behind the team and the new players and SUPPORT them!!
Apologies for the long post, ed.
16 Jun 2015 18:29:25
We don't need squad players, we need signings who will improve our first 11. Ings, Milner and Bogdan won't do that. So I'm not at all happy with our summer activity, especially since they are being managed by hapless Rodgers.
16 Jun 2015 18:57:12
Milner won't improve our first eleven?
16 Jun 2015 19:31:26
Kono would!
16 Jun 2015 19:41:10
Didn't mean to dislike the "Milner wouldn't improve our first 11?) I was suppose to like it.
Milner is a cracking player, city didn't want to lose him.
Seriously stop criticising him. He may not be Ronaldo, Messi Augero but he's class and I think he'll have a major impact.
Majority of LFC will be eating their words.
I'll be having Milner on the back of my jersey (When his number is official lol)
16 Jun 2015 20:07:37
Everybody together now: KONO!!! KONO!!! KONO!!! KONO!!!
16 Jun 2015 20:17:09
Kono would excite people perhaps but MIlner i am confident will shut many doubters up fairly quickly, IF played in good position and regularly
16 Jun 2015 20:34:26
Well said Kopette- Milner is a really good signing, and he will be a more effective player in his first season for us than any of last summer's signings were in their first season.
I can't believe people are slagging him off before he's kicked a ball for us. Do they know that lots of City fans are gutted that he's going?
He has what all of our players seem to have lost over the last season- a big heart and plenty of guts, and he knows how to win. Oh, and he can play as well.
I think we should have a poll on who thinks Milner is a good signing, so that next season I'll know whose opinions are worth reading, and whose I will regard as b****cks.
16 Jun 2015 20:37:23
I'd be happy with a boss striker and a versatile defender.
Is there such thing as a versatile defender any more?
16 Jun 2015 21:22:09
I'm pretty sure we have one of the strongest 25 man squads in the league, unfortunately we can only field 11 at a time.
16 Jun 2015 23:24:41
To be fair, I'm not slagging Milner off, I'm just saying I don't think he's going to improve our first 11.
People who mention Konoplyanka, that's all very well but we haven't signed him yet. We've signed a championship level goalie, a decent striker and Milner who's not what we needed.
As it stands, we have a dodgy keeper, two inconsistent centre backs in Lovren and Skrtel. We have Lambert and Balotellinin attack which won't scare anyone. An injury-prone, albeit class player, in Sturridge a kid from Belgium who is unproven and now Ings. Backed up by an idiotic manager. I can't believe I'm the only person who's seemingly not champing at the bit with those 3 signings. Come the end of the season, you will all be on here trashing the season and this summer's transfer window, unless something good happens before this season starts.
How on earth do you think we are going to challenge Chelsea, Arsenal, City and Chelsea for top 4 and silverware by signing Ings, Milner and Bogdan? I'm not even considering it, I'm just going to be supporting Liverpool out of love, but I'm not expecting anything better than 6-9th.
16 Jun 2015 23:28:45
Milner is a decent player but he is not what we needed in midfield we needed a natural DM as we already have Can and Henderson who can play the box to box role
17 Jun 2015 00:47:01
Spasmith, you are very easily pleased with a backup championship goalie, a backup player that is no better than Hendo, Lallana, Can an Couts and a striker who is a bench option at best and who won't thrive playing on his own up top because BR won't play two up except Bielsa tells him to. Many on here are just happy with players coming in without even thinking of how such players will improve the first team, where they will play and if they are good enuff to get us over the hump. As for Kono, he's trouble and a greedy bloke due to no one having signed him yet even tho he's available on a free. Ibe and or Ojo with a better Marko would do nicely for me out wide.
17 Jun 2015 07:10:27
Milner would be an excellent signing if we didn't already have Henderson. It seems to me that we will be playing both of them together when Ideally it should be one or the other IMO.