TRANSFER rumours come and go. Players linked with a certain team at one moment find themselves linked with an entirely different league the next. Such is life in the transfer mill, especially in the closed periods.
But there are always a few players that are routinely linked with a specific club no matter the duration of the gossip. And that’s what makes this all fun; it is after all, gossip. Nothing is ever concrete until a player signs his name but if we, as fans, don’t speculate then what fun can we have?
One player that has been often been linked with Liverpool is the Turkish midfielder, Arda Turan. The twenty-six year old is an exciting talent that fits the bill of Brendan Rodgers’ philosophy. His skills and ability shouldn’t be in question. However, the reported fee will raise a few eyebrows.
Plenty of fans have been critical of the manager’s approach to the transfer market saying that he’s overpaid for a number of players.
For example, the purchases of Fabio Borini and Joe Allen, as well as the loan of Nuri Sahin, have been regularly chastised, and with some merit. So the question remains as to if this midfield player from Atletico Madrid is worth the hefty fee?
Certainly part of that question can only be answered by assessing the rest of the market during the window and seeing if that money could be spent in a wiser way on a different or set of different players. After all, £19 million is a fairly large sum of money.
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However, a manager can’t go around expecting to consistently find talent for £10 million, especially when attacking players are considered. But we, as fans, don’t currently know what the scope of the market will be, come the summer or which players will be up for sale.
The part of the question that can be answered right now is whether or not the skills of Arda Turan make him an attractive option for Liverpool FC, even with a demanding fee. His current team, Atletico Madrid, are having one of their most successful seasons since the 1990’s as they sit in second place in La Liga.
Turan is playing a part in this success, surely, but the casual observer would expect his contribution to be larger. Currently he has only notched four goals and added three assists, hardly numbers that demand £19 million.
It’s hard to say how a player will do at a team he isn’t even playing for with players that he has never played with before. But before Brendan Rodgers and company go and splash the cash on this Turkish midfielder, they should consider all their options. Indeed, Rodgers can’t expect to convince the naysayers if he makes expensive mistakes.
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The fee mentioned ….is to stir some emotions and interest. When Rafa was looking at him, he was available for 6-10 M. I don’t think his worth is much higher now. We have other priority positions screaming for manager’s attention, offensive/defensive MF, goalie, and most of the CB. However some of the purchaser under Rogers were not not inspiring, and we paid well over the market: Allen, Borini, Assaidi, Sahin. We seem to repeatedly compete with ourselves.
You seem oblivious to the fact when Brendan was brought in,he was under instuction to reduce our massive wage bill & build a younger squad,in the first instance the scouting team was held up by man.city where they had mostly been with before,he thinned out the squad & brought enough players in,that he had already worked with & now his team of scouts are with him,so all in all, I think he’s done good
WTF ??????
How has Rodgers done well . His transfer record is embarrassing and has wasted huge amounts of money for LFC
Allen will probably go down as the biggest waste of 15m EVER . Borini, Assiadi and sahin were all wastes as well .
Wake up
At least Turan is proven quality , not like the rejects Brenda bought last summer . Anyway I’m not sure he would sign for us the state we are in
Guys I think we are all jumping the gun here. Personally I think Allen in the long run will be a very good player for us. Granted we might have paid £5mil more for him but his erly form was fantastic when the team wasn’t playing well and also his form for them GB. More importantly it takes time for players to settle not a big club just look at Henderson and to some extent Downing. Also with Assaidi we only paid about £2mil for this guy and again he’s only young and has shown glimpses. Borini I’d give him another year but off all the 3 he’s the one that looks suspicious but he played an excellent 30 minutes against Man U. Just be patient all players can’t be like Sturridge
Are u mad ?? really , are u ?
Allen is useless in every department , he is too lightweight for top level football , so it doesn’t even matter if he is on form or not – he never will be good enough for LFC . Plus he is a wimp
… No . Rodgers payed over the odds by 15m on Allen – Disgraceful
And you are wrong about EVERYTHING – good players adapt quickly like Suarez or Sturridge … only rubbish players take ‘time’
Totally agree with paullfc and Niall. Allen is shockingly useless , annd its only because he is Rodgers pet rat that he gets a game
Guys ,why we 8th now cause of big mistakes of last 2 coaches
KK wasted 70m , Carrol ,Hendersson ,Downing , Rodgers wasted 25m on Broni Allen
95m wasted on rubbish players , dont blame the owners for being short on cash this season.
Rogergers cant not be tusted with money and coaching ,clear and simple .
Samrt coaches make impact fist season in new football .
If Luis saurez is gone ,50m plus we need wise man to spend that cash , if this 50m gone like before , we will end up below 12, the death of our great team .
it make me cry to see we wasted 95m in 19 months
Yes . I fully agree . Rodgers should not be let spend (waste) any more cash . A proper experienced coach is needed to sort this mess out
Allen needs to be sold . We might get 2m for him
2- 3 years ago yes Turan would have been a great player to buy.
Not now, he is not doing enough although if it was for a reduced price then maybe, but for around 17 – 18 mill then who the hell in there right mind pay that out?
id snap him up for around 10 mill at best, if not then leave it.
Paul, Niall, Jonas and Mesmeric. What absolute idiots who know absolutely nothing about football. Stick to your computer games idiots
No Bob . your the idiot !
calling people names cos they dont agree with your dumb opinions . Dont be sooo childish
Club should not go for A Turan:
The thing is Dalglish over spent £83M on Four average english Players; Adams, Carroll, Downing and Henderson. The Owners gave Dalglish £115M during 18mths but our club brought in £80M + on player sales during same period. (Torres, Babel,Bennayoun, Koncheskey, Poulsen, Ngog, Meireles) So that is no excuse for the owners not to back B Rodgers heavily, as our playing staff at club needs huge surgery completed to it as soon as possible. Our club does not need to do a Man City, Chelsea,R PSG, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and spend over £230 in TWO Seasons. But our club needs the owners to put at least £85-£140M in the squad in a year and half to get club back competing amongst the elite again and competing for the league again.
The owners need to give B Rodgers £85-£95M in the summer to bring in these 8 players to change dimension of club/squad and then to bring healthy class quality competition for places amongst the squad so complacency within side is eradicated.
Rodgers has shipped out Adams, Aquilani, Aurelio, Bellamy, Carroll, Cole, Doni, Kuyt, Rodriguez and Spearing since his Reign. (10)
And only brought in 5 players and 1 loan player who has been shown door, Allen, Assaidi, Borini, Sturridge and Coutinho. And Sahin, but he is now gone.
This shows how thin, weak our squad currently is: B Rodgers needs to ship out some of the dead wood still within /at club: These Four players: Plus a player Rodgers does not want at club
1: GK : Jones 2: CB: Coates 3:RB: Flanagan
4: FD: Borini 5: FD: Carroll
And with J Carragher retiring at the end of season that would be 6/Six players should be leaving club in summer.
Then the owners need to Give B Rodgers £85-£95M to bring in these 8 players who would make side alot stronger, bring more class, quality competition and Experience to the squad and we would be able to field two strong sides within 4 competitions with these players amongst squad.
Five Defensive players:
1: GK: Vorm(29) Of Swansea For £2-£4M to compete with Pepe.
2: CB: A Williams(28) Of Swansea for £7-£9M to compete with Agger.
3: CB: A Pearce(24) Of Reading for £3-£5M to compete with Skrtel.
4: LB: A Cissokho(25) Of Valencia for £5-£7M to compete with Enrique.
5: DM: E Capoue(24) Of Toulouse for £7-£12M to compete with LUCAS.
Three Attacking players:
6: RW/RWF: A Sanchez(24) Of Barcelona for £16-£20M to compete with Sterling and Assaidi.
7: LW/LWF: B Arfa(25) Of Newcastle in swap deal with A Carroll and £10M to compete with Downing.
8: FD: C Benteke(22) Of A Villa for £17-£19M to compete with Suarez and Sturridge.
Two Strong Sides with those players in squad:
League Team:
Team 1: Reina
Johnson Williams Agger Enrique
Capoue Gerrard
Coutinho
Sanchez Suarez Arfa
Cup Team:
Team 2: Vorm
Kelly Skrtel Pearce Cissokho
Lucas Allen
Suso/Shelvey
Sterling Sturridge Downing
No. Don’t give Rodgers any money . He will waste it on more crap like Williams