re: Liverpool FC 2013/2014 - Season Long Thread

So just looking at a potential "budget" for this window

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Lambert ~ £4m
Moreno ~ £18m
Lallana ~£25m
Can ~£10m
Lovren/Caulker ~£10m
Shaqiri ~£18m
Vorm ~£5m

Total ~£90m

While that is certainly far from a guarantee of who we'll get and how much we'll pay, I just wanted to get an idea of some of the more likely players we're after and what their prices are. So if we are serious about spending this kind of money, I think it'll be interesting to see who we sell to keep us too far in the red.

I think Assaidi is pretty much a done deal, Reina will be once we find a buyer, Aspas unless they just decide to loan him to increase his value, and potentially Agger and Lucas (although I'm not sure about them unless a strong bid was put in for them). So those sales could give us anywhere between £10m and £30m I think depending on if we sell the latter two.

Clearly if we want to buy the 5-6 players that can potentially step into the first XI, we're gonna pay for it so I'm not sure our money will go as far as we'd like, but the above or something similar wouldn't be a bad foundation. I would like to see us make a little bit of a bigger splash at CB, but Lovren could be interesting to challenge Skrtel while him, Ilori, and Sakho could be a solid 3 rotating in the back for a while if they're able to live up to their potential.

Kolo has Malaria....

Is he still under contract for next year?

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Is he still under contract for next year?

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yeah, he signed a two yr deal... I wouldn't be surprised to see him go, especially if we get Lovren... I would hope to get a small fee, but I could even see us releasing him for free...

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I just don't see us getting a CB in that upper tier of established stars, given that PSG just over inflated the frick out of that market...

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I still can't believe they paid that much for Luiz. I know we weren't going to get an elite CB, but that transfer fee made getting someone in the upper echelon nearly impossible

ETA not to hate on Lovren, but I meant finding someone who was clearly ahead of the CB's we have. I think Lovren probably should come in and start but I'm not sure how much better he is than the guys we have already, even though he's still a little young by CB standards

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I am interested to see what we do with Ilori. I think he would be best served on loan another year and then coming into the team allowing us to sell Skrtel next season (assuming we sign Lovren/Caulker)... but if we sell Agger, Coates and Toure... we may need him for depth

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I'd like to see him go out on another loan, preferably in England. And I know Agger may be hesitant to stay without playing regularly, but I'd love to keep him for depth and because he loves the club. But we do have Kelly and Wisdom who could potentially step in if necessary although I imagine those would be more worse case scenario, although Kelly is losing time to make an impact on the club so this could be a make it or break it year for him given the younger guys at RB coming through the ranks.

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I just don't see us getting a CB in that upper tier of established stars

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Van Dijk is better than Lovvren and much cheaper (sadly). Pool could do better.

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Van Dijk

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Not familiar with him at all...

Edit: just watched his YouTube club... He looks like a man against boys in some of those highlights... Half the time it looked like a CFs highlight reel... He needs to work on his finishing

Except he would more than double Lallana's wages. Sure he's a good player, but no way we could afford him

Speaking of wages, this sounds ridiculous

Raheem Sterling to get £100k/wk after World Cup

That doesn't make sense after one good season for a 19 yr old...

Talks with Southampton have been at a little bit of a standstill trying to agree for a fee




#FreeAdam

Although we can't be too mad because we essentially did the same thing with Suarez, but I really hope we don't spend more than 25m on him. The only reason the price is so high is because they're agreement with Bournemouth to repay part of the transfer fee. I really like Lallana and think he'd fit in well, but I would've told them to eff off after they turned down 20m.

Sorry but I'm already astounded we're considering 25. I know in the grand scheme it won't kill our plans but its just too much money. He's a good player, but its just not worth 30m in any way, shape, or form, whatsoever. He's not even the most crucial area for us. In fact, perhaps least crucial.