BRENDAN Rodgers has outlined his desire for ‘three or four’ new faces to go straight into the Liverpool first team over the summer, and stressed the need for the Reds to keep bringing in players of real quality in the manner that they did in January.
“It is quality we are after, not quantity. We’ve seen Coutinho and Daniel Sturridge’s quality in January and if we bring in another three or four quality players to add to what we have got, then we have got a strong squad.
“Naturally there might be people who aren’t playing who might want to think about going elsewhere, but at the moment it’s a strong squad.
“Of course you have an ideal target but we are getting to a situation now where, for me, you have to have three players and if one doesn’t come off you have to be comfortable with the other two – if you get one of those you are happy,” he said.
Rodgers is now confident that with his scouting team up and running, he will be able to keep attracting players of the requisite class to Anfield.
“There is a lot of terrific work going on behind the scenes with the scouting department getting those lists together really. We never had that in the summer and what I had to go with was not what I knew but there were some key positions we needed support in.
“What I didn’t want to do was to waste the club’s money. I like to be extensive and know what we are bringing in, but also we did not have the time and that was the big issue. We are much better placed now. There is great collaboration that goes on between all the departments.
“January was a productive window for us and hopefully if we do the similar in the summer then it’s going to be a real good place for us.”
Liverpool have been linked with a number of players over the past week including Newcastle’s French winger Hatem Ben Arfa and Paris St Germain striker Kevin Gameiro.
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Mr rodgers I think this current squad and a good team selection …..I can see liverpool finishing this season on a high.I don’t want to blame any player for yesterday defeat but as allen jus give him a long run spell in the academy.well done lads let put this mess rodgerss gave us aside and bounce back in our next game…..Ynwa
Williams is a joke. Not top class. And Ben arfa is injury prone. Gamiero doesn’t score enough.
We must set our sights higher
coutinho was always on the bench but yet he’s done a terrific job already so if rodgers says he wants him there’s something he has seen
There has to be more than 4 signings surely there is a bit of rubbish to clean out at present.
Please,please a defensive midfielder!
Listen:
Out: Skrtel £10m, Downing £10m, Coates £5M,Carrgher retired, Assiaidi £3m. That’s £25m towards the rebuilding kitty.
In:
Dejan Lovren (Skrtel replacement), Tom Ince (Downing replacement), Christian Eriksen, Manuel Iturra (Lucas backup), Sofiane Feghouli or Alexi Sanchez and a backup left back.
Downing is not good enough period. Now he’s had a few good games he’ll rest on his laurels and slip back to mediocrity.
We have only 1 left back(who talks too much) we need another to compete with him. Skrtel’s gone! He’s terrible. Kelly will move to centre half and replace Coates. I just don’t see the downing thing and Joe Allen IS NOT a holding midfielder. Feel sorry for Henderson! don’t see what more he can do!
lol .clueless lad … clueless
there is also money that we could cash in on Carroll. (probably about 5 mil)
you mention 25 mil then 7 players. thats about 3.5 mil per player and not very realistic.
a defender we need, wide attackers we need, holding and creative midfield we need. i dont think we could get players of neccessary quality for 3.5 mil a player
we could start with a kitty of 50 mill after sales and a 20 mill add on.
Honda and Amorebieta free Wanyama 10 mill Bony 12 mill Lovren 10 mill and Mertens 10 mill.
Wht we need now for us go go forward is a proven scorer, strong defense, i think Williams from Swansea is ok for that nd a quality goal keeper. Not somebody like Reina or Jones, nd ppl like Borini, Spearing, Carroll, Reina , Jones nd sketel should be sold inorder
You forgot to mention that Rodgers needs a new pair of eyes and brains. Its the player carrying him not him carry them as you suggest. He put out a 4-2-4 team against a 4-5-1 Soton setup; with one of the centre 2 injured and we manage to blame the players? Nice.
Whatever happens , the totally useless and pathetic Allen MUST be got rid of
Fkin wimp
There is even less chance of any top players coming to LFC if BR stays. Rodgers scouting staff can not be trusted. They’ll cause even more long term damage.
Also, it’s funny how all the BR supporters and apologists go missing on this site after these abject pathetic performances like against Southampton.
Spot on . But I suppose we will beat villa and all the Rodgers ass kissing will start again. Talking about imaginary progress and Rodgers takin us to the promised land rubbish.
It’s laughable really
indeed it’s easy to come online and type sh*t about people yet i doubt if you were in BR’s position you would have done better ifyou can’t stick with BR you can as well log out of the club
How about u go ‘support’ some mediocre under achieving bum elsewhere!
Also, Jesus would be SO proud of your hate fuelled foul mouthed rant! Typical Religious Hypocrite.
yeah , u go support everton if mid table mediocrity is ok with u
We are Liverpool FC FFS
‘second is nowhere’ etc etc
out
reina 15
skrtel 15
enrique 8
assaidi 4
shelvey 6
downing 12
borini 8
carroll 16
henderson 15
in
ochoa 8
williams 10
howedes 15
eriksen 30
mertens 25
coentrao 20
strootman 20
————–ochoa—————
jonson–williams—agger–coentrao
————strootman————-
—gerrard————–eriksen—
suarez——-sturridge—–mertens
Sure sign of a madman – Allen and Borini are NOT on the exit list
BR spend £ 29 milion on 3 average players.
Out: Reina, Agger, Coates, Downing, Allen, Henderson, Asaidi, Spearing, Borini, Caroll.
In: Stegen, Papadopoulos, De Vrij, Strootman, Diame, Heung Min Son, Will Hughes, Griezzman, Alessandrini, Gameiro, Cissoko.
You really are a clueless idiot.
Brenda’s 3 goals conceded defeats this season:
3-1 to Villa
3-1 to Stoke
3-1 to Swansea (league cup)
3-1 to Southampton
3-0 to West Brom
3-2 to Oldham (FA cup)
3-2 to Udinese (Europa)
None of these teams are top sides.
Forget about signing players . First priority should be new manager
Rafa or mourinho
Don’t let Brenda have any more money. Since he took over its only average players we are linked with
Thats because were not in the ch/lge u nugget. How hard is it to understand, no ch/lge, no classy talented big names.
why on earth he played allen in midfield instead of lucas, had lucas been injured then fine but he played joe allen and he was terrible thats d reason we lost when lucas is in side gerrard is at his best and same goes for team come on BR dont pick allen just bcos u bought him he is not good enough just admit and sell him along with borini and if u continue these mistakes i guess we wont be seeing u at anfield next season
Zzzzzz…..I said it 4 months ago – Rodgers is clueless . We are wasting time and money with this loser
It’s a bit premature to assume Rodgers will be managing Liverpool next season, or it could be delusions of grandeur.
Hey give him a chance rodgers we need more experience players in the side he’s buying youngers only for the future hopefully afterthe summer signings we’ll judge him
No .he has had time and proved himself useless
Need to get new manager before speculating about plsyers