Summer of 2014: Part 2

The only guy from Soton I really wanted, Chambers, and we're not in for him when he's available

Morte ffs u goat

Belgian journalist

@svenclaes: Belgian striker signs a 5-year contract at Anfield Road. First year a loan back to LOSC Lille. Just got the confirmation from his dad.

@svenclaes: Pictures and videos will follow soon for the website of @LFC. On Monday Divock Origi will be present at training LOSC Lille.

@svenclaes: Good news for #LFC and his fans. Everything has been settled for the signing of Divock Origi. (19). Passed his medicals on Friday.

One fo da future, Doesnt affect our position right now.

Origi may be playing in Liverpool as soon as 2015. He's quite good, and has a lot of talent that Rodgers can groom. No later than 2016 IMO.

I like this signing...we are taking risk on a player and then either we will bring him in the future if he proves out to be good or we will sell him later.

I feel like I am done for this window, cant take it anymore, too many signings in one season. We need to take it slow imo and we will better realise what exactly we need when we start playing in this season.

Natalie Portman wrote:Agger-Skrtel have been around for ages...it's time for some fresh blood in that back line. We've only won one trophy with Agger-Skrtel in 7 years. Surely can't do worse without them ?!

Agreed wholeheartedly. So why sign someone that's arguably inferior to them for TWENTY mil ffs?

El Cujo wrote:Origi may be playing in Liverpool as soon as 2015. He's quite good, and has a lot of talent that Rodgers can groom. No later than 2016 IMO.

How many times have you seen him play? Legit question. What type of player is he? I only saw him feature once in the world cup...

RedOranje wrote:

Art Morte wrote:Sign three players from the same mid-table club in one window

Ahem:

I didn't mean we should sign all of them back then, though Just throwing some names in the air.

Also, if that was the season Wigan got relegated, their players would have cost nothing like what we're forking out to Southampton.

Red Alert wrote:

El Cujo wrote:Origi may be playing in Liverpool as soon as 2015. He's quite good, and has a lot of talent that Rodgers can groom. No later than 2016 IMO.

How many times have you seen him play? Legit question. What type of player is he? I only saw him feature once in the world cup...

He's only seen him in the WC as well. Anyone claiming they saw this kid before is lying.

This is El Hadji Diouf and Asamoah Gyan type signing. I'm not saying their talent level is the same, who knows Origi may actually turn out really good, but we're getting him because he's 19 and he played decently at the world cup.

Is Bertrand next then?

Alberto, Aspas & Andre has already been sent on loan and Aspas will be sold by end of this season. Don't think Alberto has any future either and would have preferred a deal similar to Aspas. I expected Andre to play some part this season as he played regularly (in the championship) last season. If that's not enough, don't know why he isn't being sold altogether. Kelly & Coates should be sold, IMO. Borini deal is hanging and with Ricky, Remy and inbound Origi; don't think he got much prospect here. Finally, Reina seems to have squeezed another year (and several millions) from us. Also, Teixeira & Rossiter should be sent on loan if we want their development to continue.

All in all, there are quiet a bit of clearing to do this season.

Don't call me James wrote:

Red Alert wrote:

El Cujo wrote:Origi may be playing in Liverpool as soon as 2015. He's quite good, and has a lot of talent that Rodgers can groom. No later than 2016 IMO.

How many times have you seen him play? Legit question. What type of player is he? I only saw him feature once in the world cup...

He's only seen him in the WC as well. Anyone claiming they saw this kid before is lying.

This is El Hadji Diouf and Asamoah Gyan type signing. I'm not saying their talent level is the same, who knows Origi may actually turn out really good, but we're getting him because he's 19 and he played decently at the world cup.

We had been tracking him well before the world and tied up a deal with Lille before his breakthrough in world cup. So hardly a world cup signing

See above. I saw a few of his games (Lyon, Monaco, Marseilles, Valenciennes) too before the WC and then watched all those games, as a person I know is heavy into L1 and had good things to say about him previous to the WC.

He actually reminds me of a young CR7. Obviously talent and style are one thing, and only time will tell if he can develop that killer instinct and unmatched work ethic to become even close to the player that Ronaldo has been.  He has the pace, versatility and talent to become a real great player though. He was mainly used as a winger in L1...I'm pretty confident he'll be here sooner than later.

But I'll defer to James, he knows what's up. If he hasn't seen a player probably nobody has IMO.

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/28385300

Remy move falls through. Make Origi permanent with immediate effect!

nah we gonna bid 20m for Boner now.

Boner and Orgy leading LFC in da future.

Uh-oh, this is quite depressing news.

From selling Borini for £14m and getting Remy for £8.5m to Borini refusing the move and/or getting injured and Remy deal called off.

Well, we need a striker. Remy and Bony were pretty much in the same bracket for me, but I did prefer Remy because I thought his abilities fit us better. So, I don't really hope we're going revive our possible interest in Bony - would cost double the money, too. Then again, it's not easy to get a very good striker.

http://liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/167331-dejan-lovren-seals-liverpool-transfer

Official hmm

Get in son Dejan I'm 100% behind him. Can't be any worse than Skrtel. He's already an improvement in my eyes just for being a CB.

it was a dream come true for me to watch Lovren and Lallan start against Southampton, but poor Lallana got injured

Now we have already signed a CB , it will be a piece by piece solution to the puzzle of so many CBs.

Ifti, I liked the way Coates played in the last game, so I am looking forward to more of him in the following games

really sad that Remy deal falls off, it will be again a saga of another striker now.

What else is left, just a LB, right?

Mignolet, Lovren and Sakho all speak fluent French. Should help massively

yh hopefully that helps. I think not only individual defenders but our whole team set up will be more intact this season compared to last season. I am sure BR is growing and learning, so we will certainly improve our defense compared to last season.

I would still not sell any of the Skrtel, Agger...we should wait till Jan window unless a very good offer comes for one of them.

Donuts wrote:Oh hey time for those yearly Agger to Barcelona rumors

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/transfernews/article-2707274/Barcelona-weigh-12m-bid-Liverpools-Daniel-Agger-La-Liga-seek-strengthen-defence.html

what a timing that I post and here it comes

Rodgers atm

Spoiler:

We now have a very handsome spine in the team

Lovren-Can-Henderson-Sturridge


more female fans = more sold jerseys = dat marketing

Natalie Portman wrote:We now have a very handsome spine in the team

Lovren-Can-Henderson-Sturridge


more female fans = more sold jerseys = dat marketing

One Giroud beats all your sexiness and he doesn't mind going both ways

sportsczy wrote:Origi is nobody.  He has done nothing in Ligue 1...  he's played a total of 45 games with LOSC and has 7 goals to his name.  No idea what the hype is about.  But then again, WC tends to hype these unknown players and 99% of them flop.

So you have no idea what the hype is about when a guy has played 45 games total in a top team in a top 5 league in the world in his age 17 and 18 seasons? On top of which he has 4 goals in his last 14 games played mostly as a sub and mostly as a winger** in a very defensive and goal-shy league. Then he goes and looks like a monster in the WC and outperforms Lukaku. All of this done mostly before the age of 19 (he turned 19 in April).

**to be clear, not as a traditional winger but more of a wide forward as is fairly common these days

Then you look at his physical attributes (speed, size and strength combination), his talent level and his versatility and it's not hard to see where the hype is from and why Liverpool was actually scouting and tapping him up before the WC even started.

Serves Liverpool right for what they did to Remy.  He has a frakking heart defect since birth.  It's been well documented and known since his youth days at Lyon.  How could Liverpool not know about it?  Not to mention he's never had a problem with it... ever.  If he hasn't had even the slightest problem until now, he's not going to suddenly have one.

Um...I don't understand what this means "serves Liverpool right for what they did to Remy". Did they wrong him in some way? They tried to sign him and give him a chance at a top flight club and he failed the medical...I don't see how this is some negative thing by Liverpool.

Would rather Lacazette or Bony anyway.