Javier Mascherano is one of a number of Liverpool’s key players being linked with a move away from Anfield this summer, but it seems now that the club touted as his most likely destination have pulled out of the race to sign the Argentinian midfielder. Internazionale president Massimo Moratti was recently quoted as saying:
“Mascherano is a strong player, but it is unlikely that he will arrive. He simply costs too much and it is uncertain that Liverpool will sell.”
Whether or not Mascherano is worth the reported £25 million price tag is up for debate, but Inter’s reluctance to splash out is great news for Liverpool. The only other club which has been strongly linked with him is Barcelona, but Catalans seem more intent on signing Arsenal’s Cesc Fabregas, who would most likely cost a fair wedge of Barca’s summer transfer budget as well as taking up one of the centre midfield spots Mascherano would occupy.
Aside from Mascherano, nothing much has come up surrounding other players linked with moves. Steven Gerrard has been linked with Real Madrid, but could, like Mascherano, prove to be too expensive for Jose Mourinho’s side (although if there’s one club that love paying large transfer fees, it’s Real Madrid). Fernando Torres was rumoured to be off to Barcelona, but they have already brought in David Villa, and with Zlatan Ibrahimovic in reserve, they are unlikely to be after another striker.
It seems as if the media could simply have gone into overdrive after Liverpool’s poor form last season. It was inevitable that after such a low finish, big name players would be linked with other clubs, but of the three biggest that looked like they might leave, Mascherano, now looks like he could be staying. Of course it’s not good to have a player who wants to leave, but Liverpool have been fair to Mascherano in declaring an acceptable price, and if Inter aren’t prepared to pay that, then hopefully he will be professional enough to still perform at a high level while he remains at Anfield.
Obviously, there is still a long time left until the transfer window closes, but this revelation by Inter is great news for Liverpool, and I believe that the core of Liverpool’s squad will still be there come September 1st.
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Let inter milan give us Cambiasso + 25m for Mascherano
The problem with masch not being sold, is the club needs to sell some one to offer the new manager a transfer kitty
Well the club should try to keep hold of our spine at the club: Reina Johnson Agger Skrtel Carragher Mascherano Aquilani Gerrard Bennayoun Rodriguez Babel and Torres.
Hopefully new investment comes in very soon and the two greedy americans are gone, so the club can move forward: And then a new manager should be implemented, hopefully not Roy Hodgson.
And the new manager should sell all the dead wood at the club for what they can get:
Itandje £1-£2M , Cavalieri£2-£3M, Degan £2M, Insua £3-£5m, Aurelio release, Krygiakos £1-£2m, Plessis £2-£4m, LUCAS £6-£10m, El Zhar £3-£5m, Riera £7-£10m, Ngog £4-£6m and Kuyt £9-£12m
And then give the new manager all the money made from sales and give the new manager an extra £40-60m on top of that to be put on the transfer kitty.
And hopefully we can bring in some quality, cheap, class individuals to get a good,quality squad assembled who can challenge for all trophies year in year out:
Bring in: W Hennessey of Wolves £2-£3.5m GK
M Richards Of Man City £6-£9m RB
G Cahill Of Bolton £8-£12m CB
T Taiwo Of Marseile £5-£8m LB
E Belhadj Of Portsmouth £2-£4m LB
S Ireland Of Man City £6-£9m AM
M Sissoko Of Juventus £8- £12m DM
A Sanchez Of Udinese £10-£15m RW
D Capel Of Seville £10-£15m LW
L Podolski Of Cologne £8-£12m FD
C Cole OF West Ham £8-£12m FD
We need a huge change of the current squad, if we are going to get back to winning ways. We do not have to be exactly like Man City and spend over 200m in transfers over 18mths, but we have to spend about half of that to get us back on track as the spine, we have at the club is very strong!!!!!!!!!
Just need to implement the spine with some more quality players and we will be back winning things!!!!!!!!