KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Rasmus Elm 8mil deal or no deal?

sounds like jackson martinez and gaston ramirez. i don't wanna get all doom and gloom about this summer's transfers before the summer has even started but i dont know about you guys but im not too excited.

The club should never waste money either he is any good or he is not. If he is good we should pay the market rate not what we paid out for Carroll, Henderson and Downing.

Trouble is at 21 the idea of good isnt the same as at age of 27 for most players. The question i would ask is ;

Is he better than what we have?

And seeing as I could find someone up a local liverpool job centre who would do more than henderson I think he would be better. Then you have to look at the market value . Then you have to offer 45 million for him!

I agree
stan but armitage has a fair point also

I can tell you he is not much better.
Liverpool and KD will just waste money again on rubbish. I mean c'mon now lets spend it on class.

Stan is right of course. Last season this would have been a good buy. The problem is that given that we did waste a lot of money last year the proof is for all to see. This is not what we needed. BUT on the other hand the worst thing lfc could do is go out and splash 20million on a 29 year old, which would be reverting to the policy of pre dalglish. ITs a bit of a mess. All most fans want is a finisher to work in tandem with suarez the rest is tinkering with the system. There is a good set up at the club. Got enough 21 year olds for the future thanks kenny (but i do like this player- just the timing is bit odd)

Elm, Gaston Ramirez, Jackson Martinez, Olivier Giroud. All good, solid players, but we are putting an awful lot of faith in their ability to not only adapt to the Premier League, but to improve as players. Some players come to the Premier League and find that their career really takes off. Vidic and Bergkamp are the first examples that come to mind. Other players come here and seemingly forget how to play football (Reyes, Baros, Schevchenko - a very long list). So it's a gamble, certainly. But I would rather we signed foreign players for about £10 million each that are hungry to make an impression, rather than English players for £20 million who seem happy enough to rest on their laurels.

I think we have enough English players now. It's time for the foreign legion.

Interesting - you could be on to something. The english players know that thair place in the squad is safe due to the home grown ruling. And in Liverpool's case we simply cannot afford to buy any more english players so that current crop know that they'll get plenty of games regardless - hence some of their 'perfromances' this seaosn.

yeah dont forgetthe quote markd 'performance' more like pantomine for half the season

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