re: OFFICIAL LFC 16/17 Season Long Thread - Piss off, Gunners!!

Di Marzio says our new LB target is Napoli Faouzi Ghoulam. He is usually at least more plugged into Serie A but still take with a grain of salt.

If true though, AFCON is gonna rape us in 2 years...

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Arda Turan

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I mean Lacazette's name is already out there so might as well throw him in too

Apparently, Southampton wants the league to investigate is for tapping up VVD.

Did the same with Clyne.. did the same with TA going to spurs...

They can get fricked. This is not how you treat loyal customers

From what I understand, Southhampton is just reacting to their fans displeasure at continually selling their best players, etc. (we're annoyed that Barca is sniffing around Cou a few years after Suarez, imagine it was every year) Since he's been rumored for months, I can't believe there was any tapping up that really happened because surely everyone has gotten permission to talk to him. No reason not to if the rumors are already out there. Purely face saving/negotiating going on by Southhampton.

One thing I'm a fan of - there are transfer target rumors all over the place now - I love to keep the media guessing and hope we bring in a Mane/Gini player without the media attention suddenly.

Seems likely that Salah may move to Liverpool (though rumors, at least in Rome, have it that Liverpool may be interested in Keita Balde from Lazio as a second option if the price is too high for Salah.)

Salah would be tough to lose for Roma but it seems he likely wants the move and the club probably needs to sell someone to add some more cash for bringing in 4-5 more good players this summer since depth was an issue last year and they'll likely try to do that without touching the defense or midfield if possible.




Salah is a lot better than when he first arrived in Italy mainly because he's gotten a lot better at setting up the striker when he gets into space on the counter whereas he was pretty wasteful when he first arrived.

However, much of that coincided with Dzeko playing well and getting into those positions instead of formations with a "false nine" and less of a fixed target in the box.


He's not the best at breaking down packed defenses but he doesn't lose the ball nearly as much now trying to dribble into impossible spaces. He is, by far, best in broken field situations (which seems to bode well for the EPL style).

Some stats sites rank his defensive contribution as weak but I think that's mainly because Roma set up to have him always waiting to run in behind defenses when the ball was turned over. He got a lot of praise from both managers for the amount of times he sprinted back 100 meters to break up a counter.

Salah only plays on the right wing (or right side off striker in the 3-4-1-2) effectively though and he seemed extremely out of place when he first arrived and Roma were in habit of switching the front three fluidly with Perrotti or Totti as a false 9 anytime he was on the left.

If Liverpool is interested, it must mean Klopp would try Sane on the left.

Overall, though he's a player I really like a lot since, talent aside, he's kind of a no nonsense, no drama guy that always works hard.

His "pace" too isn't just the normal fast guy but Gervinho-esque where you often see him get to long balls where the CB has a 15 foot head start.

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If Liverpool is interested, it must mean Klopp would try Sane on the left.

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I think Mane was only on the right for us, because of Coutinho's right foot(on the left)... he's played plenty on the left in previous teams...

Pallotta was on Sirius XM this morning and he basically said Roma needed to sell to buy for FFP reasons.. At least that's how I interpreted it.. He declined comment on Salah...

I love when he comes on that show... he's a pretty funny guy... Seems you all will be much better off once that new stadium is in place..

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though rumors, at least in Rome, have it that Liverpool may be interested in Keita Balde from Lazio as a second option if the price is too high for Salah

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As soon as word came out that we didn't want to get held hostage over a specific price tag, rumors started running wild about Keita, Douglas Costa, and now Gelson Martins.

I suspect it's more just trying to play the "we have other options if we need" card

Negative. How about they take what is already on the table and we don't put their shite show of a tapping claim on blast?

Either take 60M and be fine or ask more, get nothing, and get skull-dragged through the international media.