Although nothing has been confirmed yet, Liverpool striker David Ngog looks more and more likely to be heading to Bolton Wanderers after both the Liverpool Echo and Daily Post stated that the Frenchman is on the verge of a move to the Reebok stadium.
If the 22 year old does move to Bolton, I think he will depart the club on a pretty good note. He hasn’t always impressed for the Reds, and he could frustrate the life out of you after initially taking a ball down with some good close control, only for him to lose out on a heavy second touch while running with the ball, but he is still learning the game and he may well flourish into an accomplished striker if he is afforded opportunities at Bolton.
Considering Liverpool only paid £1.5million for the player back in 2008, a £4million+ deal with the Trotters 3 years later would be good piece of business from my point of view, as long as the Reds have lined up a good replacement before the end of the transfer window.
Ngog did get his fair share of criticism while at Anfield, not all of it, it must said, justified. The biggest problem he had to overcome was the fact he was thrown in the deep end pretty early on during his time at the club. Only 6 months after his arrival at the club, he became almost immediately Fernando Torres’s direct understudy as Robbie Keane was sold back to Spurs after a brief period at the club, and no money from the deal was reinvested into the club to find a replacement.
personally 4 mill is to cheap he is still young and I have a gut feeling we are going to regret selling him. He just needs regular games and a bit of confidence, like you said he was thrown in at the deep end very early on.
re Dan:
I quite I agree. He has not exactly set the world alight but let’s be honest here, he was compared to Torres throughout & thrust into the lone striker role every time Torres was injured – rather often in the last two seasons. It was simply sink or swim and the service from the middle and the wings was not that great either (gerrard often injured & the lack of out and out wingers).
Ngog would be happily given a farewell in my book IF he was part of the deal to sign Cahill.
4M on a single sale is a little low….he just needs support, patience and a dose of aggression…
This season we’ve been all about bringing in young talent with loads of potential. Not necessarily the finished article yet, but showing flashes of brilliance and with years ahead to mature. And we’ve paid huge sums of money to secure that talent while they’re young.
Ngog is right up that alley. If he wasn’t a Liverpool player, he’d be the type of person we’d want to buy, not sell! Maybe in an exchange for Cahill, perhaps our need for a good centreback trumps his potential. But really, just offloading a good young talent with Premiership experience for 4-5m? That goes contrary to everything Daglish and Comolli have been trying to do with this club.
You just got it wrong completely.
wats ur argument
He aint english.
spot on LOL 🙂
Lord knows I’ll rather have Ngog playin as a out a lone striker than Kuyt.
kill me now
We should look at a Bojan type deal for him. Sell for say 3 mill, insert a clause that says we have the option to buy him back in 2 or so years for around 5 mill. We don’t really loose out on him if he succeeds, as we buy him back, and leave him there if he doesn’t come good. Just a thought.
I read about that Bojan deal and thought it was a fantastic idea.. saves the Fabregas type sage coming back and biting you in the arse, and means you get best of both worlds.
As far as N’gog goes (say that fast and it sounds welsh…) i’d take the 4-5 mil plus cahill deal anyday of the week, he always seems a bit lightweight to me, but without the pace or trickery to counteract it. He’s scored a few for us, i’ll always remember his goals v Scum and the ‘Arse but the rest have mainly been in Europa League ties against opposition we should have been tearing apart anyway.
Definitely need to have a back up striker on the cards tho, would be nice to see Adam Morgan thrown into the mix a bit, although we need to be careful not to put too much pressure on him, as he could be a big one for the future…