LFC To Move For This Barca / Madrid Pair, and a Fulham Star?
WITH just seven, the transfer games to go in the 2011/12 Premier League season and Liverpool’s league position as it is, thoughts have turned to the summer sales and just who will be arriving at or leaving the Anfield club for next season.
Here’s a round-up of the latest transfer talk.
According to Tutto Mercato in Italy, reports that Liverpool are closing in on the signing of out of favour Real Madrid midfielder Sami Khedira.
Khedira, who was an integral part of the young German side who reached the World Cup semi-finals in South Africa, has failed to settle at the Bernabeu and is believed to favour a move to the Premier League. Kenny Dalglish is known to be a long-term admirer of the central midfield man, and with Liverpool’s need to strengthen in that area, and Liverpool known to be preferred option for Khedira himself, the two could be a perfect match.
Several sources including The Mail Online, The Daily Mirror, Spanish website NuevoFutbol, and Dutch site Sport1.NL, report that the Anfield club are ready to make a €12 million bid for Barcelona’s Dutch international winger, Ibrahim Afellay. Afellay who signed for Barcelona from PSV has just resumed light training, following a sixth month lay-off after damaging knee ligaments. Having become surplus to first-team requirements during his lengthy spell out of the game, Barcelona would be willing to do a deal over the creative attacker in the Summer. Liverpool are in need of more creativity in midfield and genuine pace on the right-hand side – Afellay ticks both boxes.
Caught Offside report, in an article featured on the LFC.TV, that the Reds are lining up a move for Fulham’s Moussa Dembele. The roving forward, who has had great success this term operating in a free role behind the strikers, is said to have sparked the interest of Kenny Dalglish. The report goes on to say that Dalglish is looking at Dembele with a view to how he can compliment and help get the very best out of Luis Suarez by utilising him in a front three, as was the case with the Uruguayan at Ajax.
Finally, Tutto Mercato in Italy have reported that Juventus are interested in signing Liverpool forward Luis Suarez, however the report goes on to say that a cash plus player deal, which includes Serbian flop Milo Krasic would be the preferred deal for the Bianconeri. An offer, which is unlikely to interest the Merseyside outfit. Also in Italy, the Corriere dello Sport reports that Roma are keen to beat Juve to the punch in the race for the tricky striker, with the Roman club believing their connection to FSG will give them the upper hand if there is a deal to be done.
Roma’s sporting director Walter Sabatini recently stated that they were in the market for:
“an important player of great quality, of which we are near”.
However, Liverpool are unlikely to have any intention of parting company with their No. 7. Widely recognised as the Anfield club’s finest player since his arrival last January, the FSG ownership, and current coaching/management staff are known to wish to shape the future Liverpool team around him, as a key player.
Suarez, who has also been linked to Paris Saint Germain and Real Madrid this season, is himself happy with life at the club, and recent comments in an interview with LFC.TV indicate that he will remain at Anfield for years to come.
“No one at the club has told me that they want to try and sell me or that I will be leaving! I’m going to carry on playing my football here at Liverpool. There are a good few years left on my contract and I want to carry on enjoying myself because both my family and I feel really happy here.”
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April 4th, 2012
khedira will be a blessing,Affellay will help a lot, Dembele will be a very great blessing for the reds.YNWA
April 5th, 2012
Affellay is a MUST! At that price he would be a fantastic buy!
Don’t know much about the others!
April 5th, 2012
Affellay just came back from an injury!!!I personally don’t think we should sign injured players…don’t want to screw up again like Carroll & Aqualini
April 6th, 2012
We screwed up with Aquaman because we let him go on loan, look at our present midfield and it is easy to see HOW we have screwed up with Aqua.
April 5th, 2012
The best signing LFC can make now is a new manager. The can and must do it now, no need to wait for end of season.
Any player with some degree of talent would not relish to play for a clueless, bungling manager such as KD. He couuld not even get the best of his flops such as Downing, Carroll, Henderson and Adams who all speaks the same language as the manager.
After watching KD burn 85 mill on these 4 amateurs do you think JH would be comfortable to give more money to KD?
The combine Newcastle strike force that sank us last week cost less than what we paid for Carroll.
Pappa Cisse who scored 7 goals in 7 games, cost 10 mill.
Take note of than Mr. Henry.
April 5th, 2012
Give it a rest Chan, haven’t you got anything else to say? We’ve heard that one already. Get some perspective man. Here check this out, it might help http://www.talksport.co.uk/magazine/features/120402/five-reasons-why-liverpool-must-keep-faith-kenny-dalglish-168636
April 6th, 2012
Robert obviously those at LFC and KD fans (not to be confused with LFC fans) have not heard this, if not Kenny would be out of LFC by now to save what is left of our season and more importantly, our future beyond this season.
There are some who talks about giving KD one more season but can’t come up with 1 single solid reason as to why except to say he is KD.
I can think of 85 mill reasons and loss of games that dates back to the 1950′s for starters.
April 5th, 2012
Ya, please don’t give this KD any chances to manage Liverpool again, he wasted big money buy all the donkey players and sell all the superstar players. Sack him now Mr Henry!!!
April 5th, 2012
The pain is too much for me to bear to watch my beloved team is beaten by lower teams and fall behind our arch rivals…really unacceptable. Waited more than 20 years with hope but still cant find hope of light at end of tunnel..
April 5th, 2012
I think lfc have to get some few player and give kenny a chance.
April 6th, 2012
They should be looking at Dempsey as well, he’s creative and agressive and would be a great compliment to Suarez.
April 6th, 2012
KD out all day long !!! FSG need locking up if they give him another 100 million to spend !!!