A £15m centre half who could make all the difference?
Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown has praised the performance of Gary Cahill for England against Ghana on Tuesday night. He said in the Daily Mail:
“Gary Cahill should be walking on air heading back to Bolton Wanderers. Against Ghana he showed he’s comfortable on the ball, he can change direction quickly and that he has got a good awareness of the defensive line – not an easy thing to do at Wembley with all the pressure of making his first start. . . Bolton paid Aston Villa £5million for him in 2008 and back then some thought they had paid too much. But it looks a bargain. Managers at Champions League clubs would have to pay £15m to get him now. He is probably out of Arsenal’s price range but any of the other big clubs will pay the money – possibly Liverpool or Manchester City and he could go to either, if Bolton elect to cash in.”
Cahill does certainly fit the bill for what Liverpool are looking for. With Jamie Carragher going into the twilight of his career, aged 33, Sotirios Kyrgiakos also closing in on the latter stages of his playing time, as well as Daniel Agger’s constant injury worries, Cahill could be seen as an ideal candidate for a summer purchase.
The 25 year old has many of the attributes which would command him a place in the Liverpool team. He is very commanding in the air and is very dangerous in the opposition box at corners. During his career at Bolton so far, he has already scored 11 league goals in over 100 appearances for the Trotters and he would certainly give the Reds that much needed attacking threat which Kyrgiakos currently provides.
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March 31st, 2011
It’ll cost over £20 million to sign Gary in the summer. Unless the scousers can rob a few banks in the meantime, i don’t think he’ll be going off to Self Pity City!
March 31st, 2011
I totally agree (with the article not with that no/low life **** Geoff!)! You’d never had known that was his first start in an England shirt and for me he was man of the match! Hope we do go for him!
April 1st, 2011
=================== Reina ===================
Johnson/Kelly == Carragher == Agger == Taiwo
========== Gerrard ====== Meireles ==========
Kuyt/Turan =================== Cole/Dzsudzsák
=========== Carroll ======= Suarez ==========
Sub:
Def: Skrtel,Kyrgiakos,Wilson,Darby,Ayala,Insua
Mid: Lucas, Spearing,Sterling,Shelvey
Fwd: Pacheco,Suso,Eccleston,Saric
Sell : Aquilani,Jovanovic,Maxi,Konchesky,Ngog,Poulsen,
Degen,El Zhar,
Buy : Taiwo === Free
Turan or A Johnson
Dzsudzsák or Young
April 1st, 2011
I work with two Bolton season ticket holders and am happy to accept their opinion of Cahill – that when it comes to positional sense, he hasn’t got a clue .
After all , he won’t be playing Ghana every week .
April 1st, 2011
gary cahill is a beast but adil rami is a better player and more likely to move.
April 2nd, 2011
Excellent post! If he Cahill is available for 15m that would be a good addition. However, we also need Simon Kjaer (Wolfsburg is likely to ne relegated) and Camolli needs to get to work quickly. With the young ones (Wilso, Ayala, etc.) coming up, we should be fine. We need to offload those who have lost pace and confidence. Agger and Carra would make good squad players.
Besides a good LB and LMF (with pace and accuracy of crosses as criteria), we also need to address the vacum left by Xavi and Mascherano. M’Vila, Sissokho, Javi Hernandez, Gago or Matiudi should be considered. Lucas and Spearing need help and everyone seems to focus on AMFs only. If we add K. Honda to our midfield with Stevie, Meriles and Pachco, the attacking midfield will be sufficiently catered for and we can continue to add the youngsters.
I think we are OK on the front with Kuyt as back-up but we can consider offloding Ngong and getting O’Connor.
Since our requirements are very well known, Comolli should start commiting players now before the price war begins.
YNWA