It is never a great situation to be in when you wish for some of our teams players to be sold as early as yesterday but there is currently a lot of dead wood in the Liverpool squad right now who we need to get rid off this summer as they have simply not been good enough or added any value to the team. The longer we continue to hold onto these players the more we are going to be wasting on them in terms of wages and also they will possibly be preventing the emergence of young talent to fill into their positions.
I have highlighted 5 players that I feel must be sold this summer as they have simply not done it for us this season.
1) Milan Jovanovic
The Serbian international arrived on a free transfer at the start of the season after being signed by Rafa Benitez. We all looked forward to seeing him as he was meant to provide the width down the left that the team needed. I kept a close eye on him during the World Cup in South Africa last year when he was playing for Serbia and he looked pretty good.
He got a couple of games in at the start of the season under Roy Hodgson by Jovanovic never really shone at all. Then Dalglish came in and even under Dalglish the Serbian international does not look like an international at all. There is no doubting that Jovanovic has some talent but he has just not delivered in a Liverpool shirt. Surely if he was good enough King Kenny would have seen this and given him a chance.
Considering Liverpool signed Jovanovic for free we can actually benefit by selling him for around £2 million. Jovanovic came out recently and said that he wished Rafa was still in-charge at Liverpool and that he played under him. Maybe he is right and he would have played well under Rafa but that is not the case so I am sorry Milan but he have to go. Getting rid of Jovanovic will also give the likes of Pacheco and Sterling an opportunity to play in the first team next season.
2) Christian Poulsen
What was Roy Hodgson doing signing Poulsen, I have no idea! Poulsen must be one of the worst players I have seen wear a Liverpool shirt. When Hodgson became Liverpool manager he was tasked we bringing in some new players and he decided to sign Poulsen from Juventus for a reported £4.5 million fee. That was £4.5 million wasted in my opinion.
Poulsen came with the reputation of being a tough tackling midfielder and was set to take over from Javier Mascherano. Just like Jovanovic, I kept an eye on Poulsen during the World Cup in South Africa where he played all the games for Denmark and he did not do too badly at all.
But put him in a Liverpool shirt and it seemed like he had no idea how to pass the ball or who to pass it to! The fans turned against Poulsen and Hodgson dropped him. King Kenny came in and it seemed like he was going to give Poulsen a chance and Poulsen featured in a couple of games under Dalglish but the King himself saw that Poulsen was not cutting the grade and rather decided to go with Jay Spearing in midfield.
With Gerrard picking up an injury that ruled him out for the season, one may have thought that Poulsen would have been the one to step into his place but Dalglish did not even consider Poulsen as I am sure he knew it would be a disaster fielding the Danish player, so Dalglish rather stuck with Spearing who has gone on to do well.
If Liverpool can get £2 million for Poulsen this summer, I will be happy, in fact even if we were to let him go for free I would not be disappointed. Poulsen simply has to be sold this summer!
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The club has 12 players on the books who need to be shown the door and replaced by 7-10 quality,class, hungry players.
Outs: B Jones GK, Degan RB, Krygiakos CB, Insua LB,
Koncheskey LB, Aurelio LB(Injury Prone/Inconsistant/31 now but 32 in sep)
Poulsen DM/CM, J Cole RW/LW/AM, Jovanovic RW/LW/FD,
EL Zhar RW/LW And D Ngog FD.
And lastly Aquilani,Juventus are trying to get him on the cheap after a deal was put in place a year ago, the club brought Aquilani from Roma for £18-£20M including add ons and he was injured. Yet the club got him fit and ready,Hodgson loaned him out with Option to buy for £16M so already £4M Loss and Juventus agreed. Now time is up and loan period is over Juventus and Aquilani are acting up, the club should sell him to A.C Milan or to the highest bidder. If Aquilani doesn’t want to come back to club or England, thats fair but club will decide that and not him and he is certainly not being sold on a cheap.
that’s 100% my list too. Damn mind-reader… or is it that obvious ; )
Reckon that lot should bring in 30 mill,so with any extra fromFSG we’ll havelots to spend…
Not Aurellio, he is one of the best left backs in the league. It is such a shame about the injuries definitely worth keeping
Aurelio is a Quality class player but he is injured 80% of every season and has been since he joined the club, he is now 31 and will be 32 in september.
King Kenny can not rely on a player who will be on treatment table, thats y the club need to sell
Outs: B Jones GK, Degan RB, Krygiakos CB, Insua LB,
Koncheskey LB, Aurelio LB(Injury Prone/Inconsistant/31 now but 32 in sep)
Poulsen DM/CM, J Cole RW/LW/AM, Jovanovic RW/LW/FD,
EL Zhar RW/LW And D Ngog FD and Aquilani CM/AM.
And the club needs to clear the 12 players out and bring in 10 players: 7 Players to make club/team more solid,compact, disciplined, tough and harder to break down away from Home and at Anfield:
1: A GK: W Hennessey Of Wolves
2/3: Two CB’S: G Cahill Of Bolton and S Kjaer Of Wolfsburg,Rolando Of Porto Or Sakho Of PSG.
4/5: Two LB’S: A Cissokho Of Lyon and J Enrique Of Newcastle.
6: DM: Momo Sissoko Of Juventus, M’Villa Of Rennes, Moussa Sissoko Of Toulouse Or B Matuidi Of St Etienne, One of these needs to be brought to club in the summer.
7:CM: S Defour Of S Liege, C Adams Of Blackpool Or E Banega Of Valencia, One of these should be brought to club.
Then 3 players who will bring speed,pace, creativity, class, quality and excitement to the attack:
8: AM: Willian Of Shakhtar Donesk,Valbuena Of Marseille, C Eriksen Of Ajax Or Diego Of Wolfsburg, One of these players needs to be brought to the club.
9: J Navas Of Seville, A Sanchez Of Udinese, A Young Of A Villa, A Turan Of Galatassary, P Hernandez Or J Mata Of Valencia Or E Hazard Of Lille,One of these should be brought to club this summer as Right winger.
10:LW: R Drenthe Of Real Madrid, C Nzogbia Of Wigan Or D Capel Of Seville, One of these players should be brought to club as Left footed Left winger.
I spent money on an Agger kit, so I believe I will say this! Agger needs to go! He’s weak/frail and will probably spend 75% of his career injured. Play Carra/Skrtel/Wilson/Kelly/Soto in CB slot with G.Johnson taking a more advanced role as a RW and Kelly/Flanagan in the RB role. LB should have Wilson/Aurelio/Robinson with a LB coming in! Coady and Wisdom are coming in the ranks and there’s your new Carra and Sol Campbell in the making! For all those who say Navas, you obviously don’t know football. This kid scores under 5 goals a year with some Assists. How will he handle the EPL?? Stop everyone with this Hazard thing! He doesn’t want to come here and just like Sahin, they’ll want to go to RM or Barca and rot on the bench! Keep Gulaci as back up Keeper and why not keep Soto for experience and is a good back up to have around. In’s should be Turan/N’Zogbia/A.Johnson, Park Chu Young (Benayoun type player), Daniel Sturridge (4th Striker that will get plenty of games in rotation), and splash £9m plus Eccelston/Amoo for Leighton baines. I would even throw Scott Dann into the mix if a CB is needed with Danny Wilson going out on loan to get first team action with a prem club (Swansea, QPR,)..Bye Bye Ngog, Poulsen, Konchesky, Cole (rather use Pacheco in his role and would do more than Cole at a huge cost reduction), Degen, ElZhar, Brad Jones, Aquilani, Agger, may be even Skrtel (to get Dann or even Shawcross…G.Cahill=over-priced), and Jova (I was hyped over his signing, however we didn’t utilize him effectively, where he could have scored about 7-10 goals this season). What you lads think?
Liverpool need to get rid of all the deadwood as soon as the transfer window reopens in the summer in order to boost funds for transfers.
However, I disagree with you in that Jovanovic has to go as I still think he just has not been given a fair chance in the team. He has only started a few league games which isn’t enough to judge him. He has done well in the cup games where he has scored goals. The guy has pace and strength and is a good finisher and given a bit of confidence and a run out he will show what he is capable of doing. I suggest Kenny gives him a run out on the left of a three man attack or on the left wing and if it doesn’t work out then I would understand if he gets sold but selling him after just a few starts is unfair to the guy. Surely a Serbian international who has a decent goalscoring record for Serbia and with Standard Liege cannot be that bad.
Other than that, I agree with you in saying that Konchesky, Poulsen, Soto and Ngog have to go. But I would also like to add the following players to the list: Jones, Degen, Darby, Irwin, Saric, Eccleston and Aquilani for the price to the list.
Eric if Jovanovic has not be used by King Kenny and rarely plays now,where would you think he will get chance after the summer?
Jovanovic is not good enough, thats why he is not picked to play its that simple.
King kenny has given everyone a chance ,obviously the standards he has of Liverpool players Jovanovic,Ngog,Poulsen,J Cole and M Rodriguez to a certain extent were not cutting it or not up to the task,so he never uses them unless he has to.
we have 11 dead wood players on books and 1 class player(Aquilani) who is on loan and him and his agent keep trying to say that he doesn’t want to come back to club Or England, so he should be soldto the highest bidder and club should cut their losses.
And not sell to juventus for any cheaper than original asking price,they got a injury free fit player on loan with permanent deal of £16M at end of loan spell. Liverpool got injury proned player from Roma for £18-£20M with hefty wage packet and club had to work and treat him for 5-7mths to get him sharp and fully fit. And now he’s played full season and got back into national team and has been 1 of their most consistant star players this season,they claim the £16M is too much to pay.
He is a regular international again,£16M is too cheap
Dennis for some strange reason I get the feeling you was one of the ones who wanted Maxi out not too long ago??
Was he your list? Be honest.. Lool
Eric – Spot on mate.. Jova has not been given a fair crack and hopefully he will do at some point.. Having seen him play for serbia recently he was very impressive and turned a game they looked like losing into a win…
The other player I’d like too keep is Ngog…
He’s young and has scored goals for us Europe and in the past has scored against Man u and Arsenal this season.
Yes he doesn’t look that great, but who did under Roy?
I rate him because in all the games Iv seen play in as a lone striker he hardly lost the ball and that’s the sign of a good player….he should stay for sure!
Btw Maxi was never on my deadwood list… As I knew What he was capable of….
As for Aurilio inconsistent? Maybe in attendance but never in contribution or ability.
Yeah i was one of the people who wanted maxi gone, how many games in a season is there? How much money is maxi on a week? 70-85,000 a week has he been consistant all season or in every game he has played this year? NO
Aurelio is too injury prone and is on treatment table 80% of every season, not consistant. Whenever he plays he is great and class but 20% of greatness out of 100% is not good enough!!!!!!!!
Jovanovic and Ngog are simply not good enough for Liverpool, Liverpool need players in the calibre/class of the spine and best players of club: Reina, Johnson, Carragher,Skrtel, Agger, Meireles, Gerrard, Kuyt, Carroll and Suarez.
For the club to move forward!!!!!!!!!!!!
And then the 7-10 players needed are:
1: A GK: W Hennessey Of Wolves
2/3: Two CB’S: G Cahill Of Bolton and S Kjaer Of Wolfsburg,Rolando Of Porto Or Sakho Of PSG.
4/5: Two LB’S: A Cissokho Of Lyon and J Enrique Of Newcastle.
6: DM: Momo Sissoko Of Juventus, M’Villa Of Rennes, Moussa Sissoko Of Toulouse Or B Matuidi Of St Etienne, One of these needs to be brought to club in the summer.
7:CM: S Defour Of S Liege, C Adams Of Blackpool Or E Banega Of Valencia, One of these should be brought to club.
8: AM: Willian Of Shakhtar Donesk,Valbuena Of Marseille, C Eriksen Of Ajax Or Diego Of Wolfsburg, One of these players needs to be brought to the club.
9: J Navas Of Seville, A Sanchez Of Udinese, A Young Of A Villa, A Turan Of Galatassary, P Hernandez Or J Mata Of Valencia Or E Hazard Of Lille,One of these should be brought to club this summer as Right winger.
10:LW: R Drenthe Of Real Madrid, C Nzogbia Of Wigan Or D Capel Of Seville, One of these players should be brought to club as Left footed Left winger.
Many of your potential signings are very good just what we need… Nice list!
What about joe cole?
good list..just add joe cole and aquilani to that list..
I can’t remember Jovanovich even playing under Dalglish at all, never mind failing to shine. Nevertheless he should move on, along with;
– Joe Cole (waste of space player with no position to play even if he could find some sort of form)
– Konchesky (no need for justification)
– Degen (no need for justification)
– Aurelio (injury proneness makes him a libaility that just can’t be trusted)
– Kyrgiakos (played his role, but his time is clearly up),
– Skrtel (needs to make way to clear the way for Kelly and/or another new CB to step in)
– Poulsen (no need for justification)
– Ngog (either loan him out to get his price up or just sell and let Kuyt remain 3rd choice striker behind Carroll & Suarez)
– Maxi (yep, I’m refusing to buy into him suddenly reverting to a player from 5-6 years ago after consistently offering us nothing for 2 years)
That’s a lot of deadwood, but seeing as none of them (barring Skrtel) should really be considered first team players right now anyway the impact of the overhaul on continuity at the club would be minimal
If the outgoings were just capped at five for some reason though, I’d just ship out Cole, Konchesky, Skrtel, Poulsen and Maxi as they’re closest to the first team and would generate the most income/cash savings to be spent on quality replacements…
LFC should keep Skrtel, Maxi did nothing special throughout his Liverpool career now he’s suddenly on fire (tought decision to get rid of him now – let’s wait Jan 2012!). Otherwise I agree with Jay’s list.
Players In: Coentrao (£30m), Charlie Adam (£10m), Leighton Baines (£10m), Lennon (£15m + Joe Cole)& Gary Cahill (£15m).
Baines & Coentrao will be fantastic on the left!
At end of day the spine of Club is : Reina, G Johnson,Carragher,Skrtel, Meireles, Gerrard, Carroll,Kuyt and Suarez.
Lucas has been very consistant this season and is always improving so he will be squad player if club get One of these players in the summer:Momo Sissoko Of Juventus, M’Villa Of Rennes, Moussa Sissoko Of Toulouse Ot B Matuidi Of ST Etienne.
Maxi Rodriguez has played well in last three game but has been quite poor during season,he is hit or miss player not consistant!!!
The club need players of the spines calibre and class brought to the club, then the club will get back to winning ways!
i think we should just give some of this player more time to prove there self like Ngog, sketel and maxi i believe they can do well if giving the chance