AFTER admitting that he may look to pursue ‘quality’ loan deals from abroad in an attempt to bolster his squad for the upcoming season, Liverpool are now being linked with a move for Real Madrid’s midfield misfit, Nuri Sahin.
The Spanish newspaper, Marca, has reported that Liverpool wish to take Sahin on a season-long loan, and that the deal could suit all parties.
The Turkish international struggled to make an impact during his first season in the Spanish capital after signing from German champions, Borussia Dortmund.
Injuries blighted his debut season at the Bernabeu, where he didn’t make his official debut until November – making just three more appearances that season after failing to break into the then-established squad. The playmaker is now in need of consistent first team action, or would risk his career slipping further backwards – something which Jose Mourinho is conscious of.
The 23-year old has been strongly linked with Arsenal over the last few days, however it is the Real Madrid manager’s cordial relationship with the Reds new boss, that many see as the reason why Anfield would be Sahin’s most likely destination should any loan deal materialise.
If Rodgers can use his friendly connections with Mourinho, then Liverpool could land a player once hailed as the next bright young thing to come out of the German league, and a creative midfield player that the team currently lacks.
On potential loan deals and transfers before the start of the new season, Rodgers stated:
“There are some quality players in that market that I have enquired about and spoken to the European managers on.
“The make-up of the [Liverpool FC] group will change before the season starts and that will change the dynamic of the team also.”
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Staying with La Liga, and Liverpool have been put on red alert by the fact that long-time target, Cristian Tello, hasn’t been handed a first team squad number for the upcoming season with Barcelona.
Meanwhile is has been reported that Liverpool will accept a fee of £22 million for Danish centre-back Daniel Agger, if Manchester City are serious about signing him. It has also been suggested that City may look to offer a fee in the region of £18 million, plus attacking outcast Adam Johnson – a player the Reds have been tracking for a number of seasons.
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Is there anybody out there caring still?
sahin would be a tremendous signing.honestly a much better option than allen,i was actually much dissapointed after following him throughout the olympics. And i think the fans have truely lost it if they think agger should be sold. The money offered doesn’t matter,at the end all we want is a quality starting eleven,and if we are unable to find an equal alternative for agger,whats the point with all the money in the world if dont have the right players. clearly no one in the bench would be able to fill in aggers shoes,and a ball playing defender like agger is a very rare commodity,it would be foolish to let go of him,and i think the fans need to completely drop that idea
If there is any truth in the City rumour involving £18 mil plus Adam Johnson then the Allen saga needs to be put to an abrupt end. The advantage of Allen and Johnson in the same midfield is limited given Henderson, Downing and Adam are still on the books.
sell agger 22mill + andy carrol 15mill + adam 5mill , cole- free, bellamy free total= 42mill
In- sahin loan or permanent 10mill, ramirez 15mill, drek mertens15mill, dempsey 7mill so it means we just have to spend another 5to 10 mill and we will have one of the best squad in premier league
Reina
Johnson skrtel coates/kelly enrique
lucas sahin
ramirez mertens
suarez
dempsey/borini
sub: gerrard, sterling, suso, kelly, carragher, henderson(crap), downing
Gerrard on the bench! Get with it lad he’s the best player in that team
you numpty! gerrard on the bench?! the only time this legend is on the bench, is if he is recovering from an injury, needs a rest or is the blooming manager of lfc! He has single handily dragged Lfc through countless games in his career. we need more players with his desire, not dross like downing – can’t hit the target, or set anything decent up on a regular basis. Adam – should’ve gone specsavers cos he just can’t seem to win the ball fairly. Constantly fouling, poor set pieces. slow and ponderous. poor positional play. Spearing- average. too many mistakes in games that cost us. plays too nervously all the time. cole – why oh why did we sign him?! 10 years ago maybe! It’s very depressing what lfc fans have to read about everyday this summer. no ambition being shown at all. Borini?!!! who? unless he was scouted by a scout at newcastle, who now works for lfc, i’m not enthralled by this signing. Our only good players are reina, anger, skrtel, enrique, johnson, lucas, gerrard and suarez. build the team around them!!! Show some ambition! 1 quality midfielder – like moutinho. A younger player with potential is anger herrera or sego canales- if you’re after a creative player or javi martinez if you want a tough tackler with some technical ability. 2 wing forwards/strikers – la liga have many muniain- tello- rondon- llorente (carroll with ball skills and technique)- falcao- if you watch la liga you will know about these players.
Its obvious that some people dont think much, before they post thier comments on these sights, Stevie G, not in the starting 11! on the bench? I bloody dont think so. My starting 11 for the season, pending on players that have been associated with coming too LFC, would be, Reina, Johnson, Skrtel, Agger, Enrique ( Gerrard ) Lucas, Sahin, Ramirez/Dempsey, Suarez and Borini up front. Subs, Jones, Kelly, Coates, Allen, Sterling, Downing, Carroll, That would make for a good team too challenge for a top 4 finnish. Brenden could rotate these players too suit the opposition, every Player would then have a break, and be given the chance too recharge thier batteries. Henderson, Shelvey, Adam, Morgan and Suso, could be loaned out which would be great for thier proggression, and maybe the season after we could have 2 or 3 out of the 5 good enough too enter the first team if Downing, Dempsey or Borini dont work out? only time will tell. RedMan4Life.
i think most liverpool fans still care its just that we are totally upset about the noises coming out of lfc it makes very depressing reading NESN stated they would keep up with top clubs they must have meant arsenal ie\selling best players to rivals lfc are crying poverty this is bulls*** they made 300mil last week in USA stop selling our best players and INVEST in your team money spent last year was recuperated in sales if brendan cant attract quality put somebody else in to do the talking. players dont want to sign as it looks bleak for future COME ON NESN WE ARE LIVERPOOL NOT SWANSEA SORT IT OUT and make fans happy again i hope BR is the right man to take us forward but everytime he opens his mouth another fans hope die
£18m + Johnson for Agger, are u kidding me? Damn, i will snap off someone’s hand for that, take it! After that, get rid of Charlie Adam and Spearing!
Tired of this link here n there br should make a move.
I getting fed of off br getting loan deal and all the talk talk bullsh…
Time is going lfc is going to be worse off this season.sorry to say lfc should hire director sport ,(can’t be infective in the transfer market ,
We are all ways linked with swansea players come on take a chance with other players.
If agger wants to stay, we should keep hm no matter how much hs price is, but if he wants to leave, then sold hm for 18m adam johnson.
Goodbye Hicks&Gillette, Welcome FSG. You have to admire the Yanks, he he, we fell for it hook line and sinker. Looks like Brendan was the cheapist Manager they could get, or am I being paranoid. Borini from Chelsea reserves (give or take a few months) Allen from Swansea, Williams Swansea, Brendan, have you looked in the Championship, some nice players there. Oh then there are some interesting loan deals,new Stadium should be up and running soon I guess. We are in a nice place ATM, the EXCITEMENT of getting Borini, I can hardly contain myself. Me thinks I have experienced this b4, with H&G. Oh nearly forgot almost 30 year old Deauce Dempsey yet to arrive to boost the shirt sales in the USA, now thats what I call investing in young players with a resale value,(as FSG declared would be their policy) he could go to the MLS when he is 35. I really really fear for my beloved LFC.
Thats the reason they didn’t want Rafa back. Why would you overlook Rafa with his CV and bring in Rodgers. Maybe because they can control him, and if they tell him to cut costs(i.e.wages) by selling our better players, he will? Kenny wouldn’t and neither would Rafa.
spot on fella. Rafa had us in 2nd in the premier league. remember? alls he needed was one or two top top quality players. never happened. He was THE BEST manager we have had in the last 15years. Gave all the big teams a proper game of football. tactically astute. champions league nights were awesome. Istanbul! what a roller coaster game! He was strict, but the players still played for him. he earnt the respect of the players. Everone makes bad decisions- i.e alonso out, barry in, but rafa didn’t make loads of them. His budget was limited to the extreme thats why we had players like jovanovic, voronin etc. But when he had a wedge to spend he would get it right mostly – mascherano, alonso, torres. Brought in skrtel, agger, reina, lucas. Now we are after dempsey! allen for £15m!!!! agger out, williams in?!!!! OMG! So depressing! FSG are turning out to be the same as H&G – slowly, but surely if they keep this up. Rafa is too strong minded etc for these yanks. They talk about bringing in young players with re sale value, but then want dempsey?! At least when ambramovich ‘wants’ a player, it’s eden hazard, torres – quality players. we want williams and demspey! mickey mouse owners again. i can feel it. football is not baseball. money ball bullish… better players = more points in the league= higher league finish= more prize money = champions league= better players interested in playing for lfc = equals more merchandising, revenue = more money to re-invest . average players = average league performance, which is exactly what we got from downing, spearing, adam, hendersen, carroll. only hendersen and carroll can improve purely because they are young and still learning the game.
I warned some of our thiko fans to beware what they wish for when they demanded change. 3 managers since Rafa, they got what they wanted and now we’ve no choice but to play this game out. The problem though is the club will probably never recover it’s status back at the top of the game.
Even now as we read above those same fans are living in a dream world writing out their first 11 with players included that we havn’t even signed. Even when it’s clear that cost cutting at the club is most important at this moment. I will be supprised if we sign anymore than 1 or 2 average player, and that will be only on the basis that we sell to buy. Being unable to force Carroll out has left Rodgers no choice but to raise money elsewhere and that means Agger probably has to go.
Why does nobody remember how we played under Rafa???
Lets face it, for 5 years of his reign we were a cup team. Very hard to beat, but quite poor creatively and dull to watch for non-Liverpool fans. We had a magnificent 3 month period where we destroyed everyone and was very unlucky not to win the league.
Before that, we never competed for the title. After that, it was horrific. Alonso left and the nightmare began. Shocking performance after shocking performance. Carling cup OUT early, FA cup OUT early, Champions League OUT early, Europa League OUT early, Premier League OUT before Christmas.
He provided some of the most epic cup final victories of any team, but it was most definitely time for him to go!
How have we played in the last 3 season bright spark? I bet you were one of those fans that wanted change. A simple question,are we better now?
What i remember is may 2005, beating the likes of ac milan, real madrid, barcelona, chelsea, man u and being ranked no 1 in europe. Rafa was aware that he needed to stay in the champions league to generate money to eventually challenge. Thats where Kenny got it wrong because he went after domestic cups. One of his many mistakes.
Maybe you wanted more, another simple question, do we have better than that now?
When do you think we might get back in the CL because I’m not sure?That what change brings you.
wit all dis news nd players we ar being linked wit i tink liv’pool will become a mid table team in d next 2 seasons.
When riera call lfc a sinking ship,i feel like killing him,but now i can understand what he mean,agger for willams,BR will take us back at championship,BR will fail if he can’t get us good signings,allen ?? an average player not better than Jonjo,we need quality players in our team.
I can’t believe we are now some kind of dumping ground.God save lfc.
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you! Without FSG we would probably would have gone like Rangers or Pompy! We were that close to going under and at least they helped with the debt situation. Like it or not, you have just got to face facts, we can’t compete. Rafa, Hodgson and KK all made some terrible mistakes in the transfer market, but the worst has to be Aquaman and the entire saga. I am just worried that we have shipped out good quality players and the constant rumours in the press are unsettling. Little quality seems to be heading our way! Still, I’ve got my tickets sorted for the season and I shall be doing my best as a Liverpool supporter (not a Liverpool fan) to encourage The Redmen on the terraces, I’m not going to just sit there, say nothing during the game and then boo at the final whistle. Times have changed and football is obscene I know, but I will continue to support like I have been doing since 1970 (good and bad times). YNWA
Nonsense. There was another offer on the table besides FSG and rumour is it was slightly better than FSG’s.
I heard they offered 18m + Johnson for Agger and 100m + Agüero for Charlie Adam. I say: keep Adam and sell Agger!
This is BS. Is this hw far the mighty lfc hav faln 2. we cant compet wid mans, chlsk,spurs..i wld tak sahin n buy ramrez. Fst 11. Reina,kely,skrtl,ager(coates)enrque. Gerad,lucas,sahin.,ramirez,borini suarez. Sub. Suso,pachco,strlng,hend,shlvy,coady,jones
Am not willing to buy Gaston because I want Allen.I ve failed to take Andy out and am stuck. Wat shud I do pipo? The job is too big for me. I cant manage a club like ths one wth such a rich history. Help me plz..
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