AFTER his second brief pre-season appearance against Thailand in Bangkok on Sunday morning, it became much clearer that Luis Suarez was on his way out of the club, or at least clearer that he wanted out of the club.
So far there have been few players linked with the club as ‘replacements’ for Suarez but one name that has cropped up once or twice in the past week is Valencia’s Roberto Soldado. With reports that Tottenham are to finalize a move for the Spanish striker late Sunday evening it would appear that Liverpool will have to set their sights elsewhere.
Many Reds fans have spoken of their joy at being linked with the striker and I’ll admit that his goalscoring record in the past few seasons has been highly impressive but he is far from an adequate replacement for one of the most deadly footballers – and strikers – on the planet.
With a record of 81 goals in 144 games for the struggling Spanish side, Soldado would appear to be a solid replacement for near enough anyone but what a player like Suarez brings to a team like ours is much more than just goals, he is more or less the epitome of our style of play; he is all-action and adds something to the first-team whenever he’s on the pitch.
As good as Soldado may be in front of goal, the £30 million touted for him wouldn’t buy enough of what Suarez gives us to be worth the money.
Not only that, but at the age of 28 I believe he is too old to be able to adapt to the Premier League and that is something a lot of fans seem to have missed. Remember Morientes? Shevchenko? They were world-class strikers that were in their late-20s and were all set to set the league alight but failed.
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I have always believed that, for certain players there is an age that, once passed, makes a player much less likely to adapt – physically – to the pace and speed of the English game. That isn’t to say that the English game is better or worse, it’s just a simple fact – football on these shores requires much more from a player and the younger they are, the better as they’re more likely to be able to adapt to it.
Tottenham will surely feel that they’ve jumped ahead of us and that this will be a ‘coup’ on their part but I truly believe that we’ve dodged a very expensive bullet, if we do happen to miss out on Soldado.
If we were bankrolled by a Russian oligarch, then I wouldn’t care how or when we squandered our money but we’re not so we can’t just go blindly throwing a fortune at players who are too close to 30.
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You just don’t get it, do you. Even if LFC have to put him in the reserves for a year, Suarez will only leave this club on our terms. Standing up to him, and this *in general, is more important even than the fee he might fetch. Real come in on the last day,and the answer will be NO, or FO whichever you like. Suarez will be worth just as much in January or next Summer as he is now, and won’t be cup-tied for any of the CL qualified teams. So stop worrying, BR has showed us so far how ruthless he can be, and winning this saga is critically important to his image as manager of this club, to the worldwide image of the club, and indeed to the image of our owners.
If Liverpool have to sell Suarez then how about selling him to Chelsea for Lukaku + £25m? We could use some of that money to buy a top class centre half (strong, pacy, good in the air) and a strong aggresive midfielder (I like Diame at West Ham).
Lakaku + £35m. Lakaku is not a £25m player yet
We should be looking to buy Bernard – I wouldnt care less about Suarez, if his replacement in the squad was Bernard, he’s pure class, left foot, right foot, headers and still young.
Is it me or Suarez clearly looks p off when his come on for liverpool in the last two games. Its clear he does not want to play for us.
Yes he show no interest in the games. Just get rid of him. But please buy a good striker not just young recruits.
Wus is suarez? Ho…u mean dat monstrous aberation creature of life,please get ride of him hs probably insulting us. And try to buy a fantastic well trained striker.
How can suarez rate Arsenal better than us when we are their giants champion league fine but atleast we hav them in our cuboard what about Arsenal they are simple accampaning clubs into why shld Suarez hate of his own mistakes shame on him let him go enough is enough he is not God let him know all clubs hav failies and one day would be up
Luise he is asupper class stricker he is irreplaceble dont loss da player if u do the club will end up worst position ever exprience……..
Bernard is not a stricker so dnt need him.
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Suarez should not be sold for no less than £55M and owners need to giv B Rodgers £35-£50M of their own capital/money to bring in players.
If Suarez is sold for £55M
Then the owners £30-£50M extra would see Rodgers have £85 -£105M
And Rodgers should ship out these 8 dead wood average hard working players and generate another: £25-£30M
Then These five attacking players should be brought to club:
AM: I Munian(20) Of A Bilbao for £12-£16M to compete with Alberto and Coutinho
RW/RWF: C Tello(21) Of Barcelona for £9-£14M to compete with Sterling
LW/LWF: B Arfa(26) Of Newcastle for £12-£16M to compete with Aspas and IBE
FD: P Cisse(28) Of Newcastle for £12-£16M to compete with Sturridge
FD: L Muriel(23) Of Udinese for £10-£14M to compete with Cisse and Sturridge
And these Five Defensive players:
GK: A Mccarthy(23) Of Reading for £4-£7M to compete with Mignolet for the next 4-8 years
CB: K Papadopolous(21) Of Schalke for £12-£15M to compete with Skrtel for next 2- 5 years and then too take over from Skrtel
CB: T Alderwierld(24) Of Ajax for £7-£9M to compete and learn from Agger and Toure for the next two seasons then to take over and be first choice partner of Papadopolous in three years
LB: A Cissokho(25) Of Valencia for £3-£5M to compete with Enrique for the next 4 seasons
DM: E Capoue(24) Of Toulouse for £7-£10M to compete with Lucas for next 5 seasons
You’re off your rocker!
The 8 dead wood players still at club are as follows
GK Jones
RB Flanagan
CB Coates
DM Spearing
AM Pacheco
RW / RWF Assaidi
LW /LWF Downing
FD Borini
Denis tjis is not fantasy football or fifa, get ur head out the clouds
Lol how true.
Get back to championship manager