Liverpool fans would love to believe what the Anfield hierarchy says on important club matters, but the facts are they rarely speak the whole truth on any issue. The latest disclosure coming from the Reds is that the club have been in negotiations with Fiorentina about the sale of Emiliano Insua even before the appointment of Roy Hodgson.
It was stated after Rafa Benitez’s sacking that during the search for a new manager, no player would be sold until a person had been appointed. In fact, we have now learned that this was only a half truth as Yossi Benayoun came out at the weekend to state that his deal with Chelsea had already been finalised before Hodgson was appointed. Roy it seems, really had no say in the matter as Benayoun had already agreed terms and he could only rubber stamp the deal. Now, it seems another deal had already been authorised even before Hodgson’s arrival. Speaking about left back Emiliano Insua, the new Liverpool manager said to Radio Blu in Florence.
“I saw him play in the last three days and I like him both as a player and on a personal level. However, talks with Fiorentina started before I got here, so I don’t know how advanced they are. I cannot say if Insua will stay at Liverpool or not. I’ll have to discuss that with the club.”
Talks had obviously already been sanctioned by the Liverpool board and it will be interesting to see how Hodgson deals with this situation. If he wants the player to stay he must fight his corner. I certainly don’t think that after getting his first big job in England after 34 years in management, he is going to lay down without a fight.
Certainly, I have not been Insua’s biggest fan over the past season but it was his first season of first team football at aged 21, and he could be a useful reserve full back for the coming season. If Hodgson rates him as a player, like Benitez did, then there must be a player there who is good enough for the Liverpool squad, even if not for the first eleven. Although finances are tight and player sales will be needed to raise cash for new players, with Insua the only senior left back at the club, there is no real reason to sell him unless the Reds have two left backs lined up to fill the gap.
The new Premier League home grown quota system can’t be used as an excuse either because as Insua has been at the club since the summer of 2007, he would be classed as home grown. Whoever has determined to enter into negotiations then must have done it for pure financial reasons, and with Hodgson assured that no players would have to be sold because of the club’s financial state, he must get a guarantee from the board that he has the last say on transfer dealings.
With such things going on at the club, it makes it harder to believe anyone on the board, as well as Martin Broughton when he says that there is a concerted effort to ensure that the sale of the club will be sooner rather than later, and that the winning bid will be the one in the best interests of the club rather than the largest offer. In regards to player sales, let’s hope that this is not a worrying trend for the future.
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although i cant stand the two yankee parasites or their appointed yes men (not hodgson)i still think it likely that we will have a good season.
i think it was shanks who said football is a simple game complicated by fools, if hodgson keeps it simple and we play with our best players in their best positions we will do well, by the way did you see daniel agger’s excellent long throw at the world cup, do you think we might utilise it ? or would that be asking too much of our coaches.
What ever you guys might think, these players are just not LFC material, your correct we are skint, makes sense to dump players who can’t make it and want to leave to save on the wage bill and add to the transfer pot, the left hand side is a problem and has been for a while, get rid of the dead wood below average players and buy some good left hand side players is and always should be the target.
Get rid i reckon. Should have taken 5m for Lucas too from Palermo. Think Hodgson is looking at current Premier League players he knows can shoulder the challenge. These average Latinos have no stomach for a fight.
Why do you think Rafa was sacked?! The sole purpose was to allow the board and the bank to sell players and take money out of the club to service the loan.
The final step in this will be to sell Torres and Masch. The board knows that they would never have been able to force these deals through with Rafa as manager. He would have raised hell before allowing this to happen.
Rafa’s gone get over it, time 4 clear out of players who can not make the grade, mash wants to go let him, torres will be with LFC at the start off the season. We can’t get rid of the tanks but hey hoe can’t get everything we want
i was a big critic of lucas but the lad has shown great character we should keep him.
the problem that we and other top teams have with young players is that there is no reserve team football anymore, its youth football, the old liverpool reserve side was full of experience but more importantly so were the opposing teams this meant that the young players learned their trade in a big boys league, the step up was not that much, its daft now, boys against boys and the step up is too much, they should bring the old format back,
He can only lose if ivolved in any kind of power strugle.
I dont understand why board are so eager to get 5 mil. for Insua if they paid Benitez 6 just to leave.
I would like Liverpool to keep Insua, as he is home grown player, and if any good has come from the last season it is that both Lucas and Insua, yonger players, got some first team football at the regular basis, so dont dissmis them so easily.
to be honest he is only going to get better if they now were to keep big mouth Reira then that would be stupidity.