Downing to Liverpool?
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Leave Sneijder out of it and go back a bit and it looks even better:
De Gea + Young + Jones + Lindegaard + Chicharito + Smalling = £70M
De Gea + Young + Jones + Lindegaard + Chicharito + Smalling = £70M
The players will all improve their team & squad, so it's good for them really. The fans will probably be delighted. Just seems like an awful lot of money for players who aren't really world beaters but if the owners are willing to spend it then fair play to them. They haven't picked up a centre-back yet, which they were obviously keen to do, so expect to see them spending more cash.
£20m on Downing. Hehe, love it.
wouldn't be surprised to see us giving a new centreback a miss this summer. Think a leftback will be a higher priority.
Signs does point to re-sale value not being particularly important for FSG in their calculations .
20 million pounds sterling for Stewart fecking Downing. What is the world coming to?
Liverpool have really lost the plot, eh?
£75m on Downing, Carroll & Henderson, yikes.
£75m on Downing, Carroll & Henderson, yikes.
82 million on Downing, Henderson, Carroll and Adam.
Dear me. They could have had Ronaldo!
Dear me. They could have had Ronaldo!
Poor Suarez, they probably roped him into joining with promises of building a top level team with world class signings.
Instead they sold Torres and used the funds to sign a load of duff players Suarez has probably never even heard of.
Instead they sold Torres and used the funds to sign a load of duff players Suarez has probably never even heard of.
Looks like Kenny is desperate to buy the league again. Someone should tell him it's not 1995.
TBF, its better than some of the obscure signings previous regimes were making. It will improve the squad and play to some of the players strengths. They obviously wanted Downing and whether they paid 10m or 20m shouldnt really matter as long as he delivers for them.
Its just the way the transfer market is nowadays. At least you know what you will get with him rather than several players from a different league for a cut price (but who all add up to the same value)
Its just the way the transfer market is nowadays. At least you know what you will get with him rather than several players from a different league for a cut price (but who all add up to the same value)
Too long out of the game, etc.
With Adam's Hollywood balls and Downing's crosses it does look like they are setting up their team to get the ball on Carroll's head as much as possible. Suarez might be starting to wonder how he fits it Liverpool's game plan.
Who is that feckwit?
Stewart fecking Downy £20m!?
You cant spell Liverpool, without Lol.
You cant spell Liverpool, without Lol.
Columnist for their official website. Probably keep him locked in a cupboard.
He is a decent hardworking professional. He is probably on someone like Milner's level. Did well for Villa but in no way worth that sort of fee.
75 million for Andy Carroll, Stewart Downing and Henderson.
Opta said:
Hmm...how do you define a "created" chance.
feck knows. But apparently Henderson topped that stat in the league this past season, so it might be considered an important one by Commoli.
75 million for Andy Carroll, Stewart Downing and Henderson.
You couldn't make it up.
Although I've always been in the minority that rated downing.
Sounds like an even-more-bollocks stat than assists. Sky were going on about someone who made 42 'chances' last season (but only 2 assists). They probably count every fecking corner as a chance.
assists are no more bollocks than goals.
Honestly the 3 of them are barely worth 35 million.
The only thing more bollocks than assists is Gerrard in CM.
True.
The number of times a pass a player has passed to another who has shot immediately after or the number of times a player has passed to another who shot inside the box, I'd think, the latter would explain why the likes of Brunt, Davies and Downing are so high in the list.
Reminds me of when Benitez signed Riera from Espanyol and Ballague claimed he was the "best left-winger in Europe".
This has been doing the rounds on RAWK so I'm guessing Comolli is a firm believer.
35 million bid for Kevin Davies coming up next.
How can you say that without knowing what it is based on?
Is he assembling an all English XI?
Redcafe: Young 15M, very good player. Downing 20M, overpriced, mediocre player.
RAWK: Young 18M, overpriced, mediocre player. Downing 18M, very good player.
Football fans...
RAWK: Young 18M, overpriced, mediocre player. Downing 18M, very good player.
Football fans...
Yes but it doesn't take into account bad or inaccurate crosses.
A cross maybe bad and may lead to a player heading the ball straight at the keeper.
Now the header is on target but had the player crossed better the striker may have scored. Infact this sort of thing happens all the time with wingers. Yet this would count as a "created chance" eventhough its a bad cross in reality.
Very ambiguous and doesn't say much at all IMO.
Fair enough, but the fun fact to remember is which of the two players Liverpool went after first...
I do think Kenny is deliberately trying to regenerate a British culture and mentality as the dominant one at the club.
He's assembling an English XI out of the English players the English don't particularly want in the England team.
He's doing a cracking job so far to be fair to him. He just needs to go after Gareth Barry and he's almost got the full set.