United's Jones bid in tatters: Blackburn warn they won't be bullied as Liverpool launch £22m swoop

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this is just unbelievable. FSG is really scary when they're serious

i've read somewhere it says we're only going to make a real move for Mata after the transfer window opens. I rmb it saying that all foundations towards making Mata a formal deal is in place as well

forgot which article lol

^ remove MCQueen's post thank you

can somebody explain to me what are Kenny's exact intentions? we are being linked with so many Central midfielders and strikers! Fernando Gago 10m bid rumored now wth!

3-5-2 formation nex season?

btw about the 3rd kit it's actually pretty nice, but if somebody could change the blue stripes to red it would be reallllllly awesome

1st of all, shinji kagawa is japanese lol not korean. kagawa will be playing Champs League football next season with Dortmund, how do u rate the chances of him coming over to us? also, them ManU are very interested in this guy, should a bidding war starts I doubt FSG will want to shell out all their ammunition on this guy. There are still many English players out there waiting for us to over-price

mata is still realistic. but i would like all liv fans to forget about ageuro. he's young and talented yes but his transfer fee coupled with the wages he will require contradicts FSG's values

i've got no qualms with him. he gave us his best years in a red shirt. and when his career is starting to get blighted with injuries and riddled with poor form, he responded by giving us 50 million pounds. it's saddening to see him leave, but he did it in a fashion much more respectable than that loathed owen could ever manage to

I still think Rafa did the right thing in not accepting Owen back to the club. Owen walked out on us once. This is Anfield, not any place you can come and go as you wish m8. He got his league medal now so what? not like he's going to parade it at all lol he himself admitted it

really unfortunate though. one great striker leaves before another managed to come in. it has always been this case. we did not have the luxury of watching Owen-Torres partnership or even Torres-Suarez partnership

i hope andy comes good. i dun even know how to use him in FM2011. weave your magic King Kenny

most probably in July when the European transfer market opens. most youngsters are away with their international team now so everything is at a halt for now at least

btw good thing we missed out on another crocked player. 60k/week for 5 years? no thanks mate.

you guys need to slow down and read sols very first post on selling gerrard again. it was more towards a joke rather than a suggestion, and sols was saying if, IF somebody offered us another 50m for gerrard he would happily let him go.

all clear now?

bcos none of them is celebrating their 31st bday when the top clubs are going after them. cesc, modric, ronaldo are all hot properties when they're in their prime. Gerrard, touch wood, probably has a couple of years in him left. good seasons? im not sure. i just hope he makes me eat my words

it wouldn be ideal to sell your club legend for any amount of money, regardless of where he goes to. but if you everything else that is in it for a moment... 31 year old midfielder out, 50 million pound in, can be substituted for a couple other great young midfielders

then again, this is all just a big IF. doubt this is all gonna happen XD so chill ya guys have funnnnn looking forward to 14th june haha

if mourinho gets desperate enough, he might bid 30m for gerrard. i think there were such rumors last winter right?

watching Cavani and Hulk play makes me wonder what Carroll will turn out to be in the near future. Hopefully it's a mixture of Cavani and Hulk! Good movement, quick, strong, aggressive, beast in the air, amazing powerful long shots, good finisher, knows how to get past his man and last but not least, injury-free...

king kenny please make my dream come true. i will wet my bed if carroll becomes a scoring machine

nahhhh downing is smokescreen, actually behind the scenes we already curi beli mata and lennon liao hahaa

I've been reading a lot of complaints from LFC fans all around the net lately regarding our choice of purchases, our over-valuation of them as well as the imminent sale of Fans Player of the Year Raul Mereiles. I think we should all accept the fact that we're not playing some football manager game. This is real money we're dealing with, real players that come and go. Every little thing you do affects the club (as so obviously portrayed by Roy Hodgson)

Assuming that everything I have read on the net is NOT a smokescreen (regarding the recent focus on Adam and Lennon) and is somewhat true to a certain degree, I would like to think that Kenny may be playing 4-5-1 with 3 holding midfielders and not the 4-4-2 everybody has been speculating about. This is probably how it looks like

----------------------------------------Pepe-------------------------------------

-Glenny/Flanagan----Carra/newCB----Dagger/Skrtel----Clichy/Robinson-

------Gerrard/Henderson---------Lucas/Matuidi------------Aquilani/Adam---

-Lennon/Kuyt---------------------------------------------------Suarez/Downing--

-------------------------------Carroll/Wickham---------------------------------------


now I know some of it sounds ridiculous say for example we paid 16m for Henderson and prolly the same amount for Downing there's no way on Earth they'll be rotated as frequently as I have portrayed. But sorry folks this is what I can envision at the moment.

Why are we paying over the odds for seemingly mediocre players who only plied their trade in the top flight for only a couple of years? 35m for Carroll and now 16m for Henderson. that's 51m, more than enough to buy somebody seemingly more exciting like Neymar from Santos. but let's not forget that we're not competing in Europe next season (and no, Europa League isn't going to help our reputation much) so who do the fans expect to come over to Merseyside? Juan Mata? whom just about every big club has their eyes on? Rumor has it that even Barcelona has him on their tabs. I say let's not get too enthusiastic boys...

Also, 1 thing I've noticed is that a lot of hopeful fans are still banging on about challenging for the Premier League trophy next season. I believe Kenny has already stated somewhere that the main aim is to achieve qualification for European football through league standings and anything more than that is a bonus. Yes it's good to be optimistic but what LFC needs the most now is for the fans to be REALISTIC. For too long LFC fans have been living in the past and still think with a couple of world-class signings we'll be owning everyone again. People who know King Kenny understands that the great man has a knack for buying mediocre players who DO THE JOB. Instead of focusing more on individual talent, I believe Kenny sees what we the fans don't which is how every single player can fit and complement each other perfectly when they play together week in week out. 16 big ones for Henderson might look like a lot to you right now but I'm very confident that few years down the road we will all appreciate what we have. The lad's only 21 this year!

I think paying a few more million for English players are fine because there is no denying that their English nationality does affect who we can register in the competitions we compete in. So what if you think some players are over-rated? If we don't go for Adam, Lennon, Henderson who can we go for? Foreign players always pose a risk that they might not fit in well with the rest of the squad especially when everybody eats different dishes and tells different jokes. And as somebody mentioned here, Liverpool in England would be the equivalent of Johor in Malaysia. Add the soggy dull weather to the list and you see that you must really love Liverpool to play for us.

Once again, I think the whole theme for this summer's transfer market is one word - future. What the players can do for LFC for the next 10 years is more important than what they can do for a couple of seasons. I'm feeling good now whatever Kenny does, because I know that Kenny really knows what he's doing. I trust his decisions.

Not to forget, why are we selling Mereiles you say? If I'm not mistaken I think Mereiles is on a contract of 40k/week currently and the previous management promised to improve his terms of contract should he perform well enough in his first season. Sure enough he did but he's already 28 this year with only a few years to play before his value greatly reduces. Since we're already undergoing a total reconstruction now why not perform it full-scale? Sell the aging senior foreign players and replace them with young promising English players. Most importantly, players that Kenny he himself chose.

Here's cheers to a future world cup winning England squad with Liverpool players left right top down in it!

actually, king kenny is the only person i'm excited to meet/see

the players... hmm....