12 May 2015 18:38:33
Hi Eds, been reading basically everywhere that we're interested in bring Pirlo to merseyside and i've also just read that Liverpool are willing to meet the £21.7m release cause for inigo martinez, find this hard to believe with all the centre backs we already have on the cards.
12 May 2015 19:45:10
Its fake rumours mate. We had scouts at Soceidad to watch Carlos Vela not Iniago Martinez as reported. Ed002 was good enough to share this with us.
Pirlo is just fabrication totally made up.
12 May 2015 19:55:01
Don't really understand the pirlo interest tbh, why didn't we just keep gerrard
12 May 2015 20:43:27
Liverpool don't have £20 million to spend never mind on one player,I've said many timed now expect Ings,Milner maybe a back up keeper.
12 May 2015 20:49:47
ahh okay, thanks for the info guys :-)
13 May 2015 06:35:31
One point to add to Redman - as far as I understand, Gerrard didn't want to stay given the role he was now being asked to play.
Fair play to him and completely his choice, although if this is true, I am slightly miffed as, for example, Giggs and Lampard were willing to scale down their appearances in the latter part of their careers to be able to continue to play at the highest level, but more via cameo appearances than 60+ games in full every season.
Perhaps we should've offered Gerrard his new deal straight away in May/June last year, and clearly I don't know the behind the scenes politics.
Therefore, an appraoch for Pirlo doesn't seem completely unfounded to have a wiser head who can play the quarterback role. However, I do agree that it is extremely unlikely.
13 May 2015 08:31:07
Pirlo would crash and burn in the EPL, it's ten times faster then Serie A. Great player but not suited at all, £21m is a joke for his age even if we had the cash.
13 May 2015 10:00:03
Max, have a re-read of the OP. It doesn't suggest we are offering £21m for Pirlo
13 May 2015 12:54:57
Thanks, just booked an appointment with specsavers
13 May 2015 22:07:12
@Max Renn - Did you watch Pirlo play against England during the world cup? Against Real Madrid tonight? The man is a door opener. He breathes life into system. Switches play with a level of accuracy you just don't see in the EPL. Silk personified. Probably the greatest passer in the world still, at the age of 35, so stop whining. We would be very very lucky if this rumour was even remotely true.