Mikel San Jose : Has joined Atletico Bilbao on a season loan.
Fernando Amorebieta : in the meantime the Bilbao central defender is being linked with Liverpool.
Pape Diakhate : The Daily Mail reports that Rafa is also chasing the Dynamo Kiev central defender who is rated at £7million.
Michael Turner : This deal is looking dead after Hull City got too greedy.
Someone take Voronin away…please…..
defenders ,defenders,defenders,defenders,defenders……daaaaaaaaaamn !!
no strikers :(
Can someone please explain how a team of defenders are going to win the title ??
With the injuries in our central defense we need someone to cover.
I really do not think we need any more strikers. Remember we scored more goals than any other team last year. We have plenty of players that can score goals.
No top striker is going to join us only to sit on the bench. Rafa refuses to start with or play 2 up until the last 15mins or so. As it is we have a striker – Kuyt – who scored 72 in 101 appearances in Holland and Voronin whom I am told was top striker in the Bundesliga last season – how much better do you want? Tevez never came because he wants to play and I’m always hearing we want Villa. Do you honestly think for one moment that Villa will leave his current club to be a bench warmer here?? As it is we could play a back 4, Yossi, Stevie G, Aquilani, Riera across midfield ( or Mascherano for Aquilani if you MUST have a holding player) and Torres and Kuyt up front. Straight 442 the old SUCCESSFUL LFC way. Torres was well shown up yesterday with 2 committed defenders on him.
Cannot see why we need defenders. The center of the park is were we lost on Sunday. I know we have purchased the new boy but out for 8 weeks the title could have already been lost. We played well yesterday when Stevie dropped to the right / middle. Drop Stevie to the middle and play two up front or buy a midfielder who can pass the ball forwards not backwards and side to side.In two weeks time when all three CD are fit it wont be a problem. If Masch, lucas or Stevie go down we have no one to come in at all
The midfield is always key to every game , you lose that and you will lose more then you win
buying a top striker means we change the formation.bcoz big signings wont be for bench warming.most likely option comes out to be a winger.we need bloody creativity in our play. hope we get silva…
what we lack are not defenders….. its the playmaker!! without alonso, and the unavailability of aquilani, we need somebody to create openings. other than gerrard n benayoun, i dont see anyone who can do it… how about another playmaker? maybe c poulsen, or ……..
Craig i see your point but then we need wide players and if we did play Kuyt and Torres then who is our back up? Ngog? dont think so. So we desperately need another strriker. At half time they said Spurs bench is better than our and they are right. limited attacking options