16 Jan 2017 19:56:34
Evening Standard reporting that Liverpool have had a £32.5 million bid for Raul Jimenez rejected by Benfica hoping interest will drive the price up. Gonçalo Lopes reporting. Just passing it on guys.
16 Jan 2017 20:38:40
If this is true, Jurgen must have hit the bottle after the Utd match. £32.5 mil!
16 Jan 2017 21:13:22
Never heard of him TBH but a quick bit of research suggests some Chinese interest - I guess he'll end up there. Oh, and his scoring record isn't that great for a €32m striker either.
16 Jan 2017 21:33:17
MK had a review about the player couple of weeks ago when he was first linked to us by papers. Ed02 trashed this rumor as an old story being recycled ( Think we looked at him during Brendan regime )
MK claims he is exciting and a good striker who has pace in abundance and clinical up front. Benfica don't sell cheap and th price quoted in the OP us way less.
16 Jan 2017 22:49:22
SPARTAK MOSCOW sign luis Adriano from AC MILAN, is there something happening that we don't know about, that's two forwards they've signed recently. any news EDDS.
{Ed002's Note - I have already explained it all on the Spartak Moscow page - this is the Liverpool page. Ask me there.]
17 Jan 2017 10:22:16
Wheres the spartak page ed?
{Ed002's Note - The European pages.}
17 Jan 2017 11:49:11
Happy to trust Kloppo. Recruitment has definitely improved 🙂
18 Jan 2017 13:14:50
Just to clarify I never said he had pace in abundance haha. He is no slouch, but he is also not going to be going past Mane in training drills! I'd say he is more Henderson's ball park in terms of pace! Quick, but not renowned for it.
His key attributes are creativity, hold up play, aerial threat and poaching goals. He is also a good PK taker. His creativity means he can play out wide if required, particularly from the left cutting inside onto his right foot.
I'll concede his goal scoring record looks average on the face of it, but this is the kind of striker who as a rule tend to come into their prime around 27 years old, not a pacey Torres/ Owen kind who look finished by 27 years old! There is a clear upward curve in his recent seasons and I have been an admirer for a lot of seasons! £30m would be daylight robbery in todays market, in my opinion.
18 Jan 2017 13:33:49
Just to elaborate on his goal scoring record, if you look at his time in Spain you will quickly see he only scored once. The thing is though he only played about 600 minutes across around 20 substitute appearances whilst still being very young.
Since moving to Portugal, if you simply evaluate his league and Champions league form, he has 14 goals and 6 assists in roughly 2000 minutes of football. Or otherwise, a goal/ assist every 100 minutes. Only player in our squad who has ever posted figures like that is Sturridge. And 4 goals and 3 assists in the Champions league is probably more than our entire frontline has in their career. In fact if you take out Milner, it is probably more than our entire starting XI!
This is a forward who has proven he can score in high pressure situations, even if he isn't in the team every week. That makes him a very valuable asset to any squad; especially a team hoping to have a successful CL campaign next year. At 25 years old, his best is yet to come!
18 Jan 2017 16:42:49
Good research MK but still sounds too much money for a striker with an average goalscoring ratio and zero PL experience. I'm still giving him a miss.