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Lots of rumours that we are.close to signing him, but dont we have enough midfielders

sell adam and the soul of our club

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Quality is required, not quantity. If buying Sahin means less games for spearing, henderson and adam then surely that is a good thing?

we have always had problems with that point. we need to buy players that will go into the starting 11 and therefore relegating the other 1st team players to the bench. the whole squad would inprove. dont see why the managers find it hard to see

The problem is, he wont be replacing Spearing, Hendo or Adam in the 1st team, because they arent the 1st team anymore. He'll have to replace one of Allen, Lucas or Gerrard. Can't see Rodgers not playing Allen after spending so much on him, we need Lucas, so only think i can think of is that Rodgers doesnt think Gerrard has the legs to play that many games and is bringing him in as a replacement for Gerrard when gerrard cant play.

That said i dont really know much about this Sahin guy. what sort of player is he? attacking? creative? defensive?

defensive, but he isn't mascherano.

i think we're buying him as an early replacement for henderson, don't think rodgers is a fan. adam is deffo gone, as he seems to be 7th choice now

Thought this one was going to be a loan. Surely we do not want another high fee/long contract/high wages player on the books unless significant moves are being made to sell others.

another quality passer of the ball will fit into our team without a doubt.

if adam goes that leaves us with

Lucas, Allen, Gerrard - First Choice

Henderson, Shelvey, Spearing - Back Up

bear in mind we could easily play 60 games this season and after what happened with Lucas last year we could certainly use some strength and depth for this term.

Would always be the option to loan Shelvey out again too if we feel necessary.

Im all for the signing of sahin, even if its only a loan deal. he looks a quality player. just what we need if we're going to break back into the top four. brilliant passer of the ball, does his bit in defence and can create goals.

That's way too much backup for club that isn't fabulously wealthy. How much wages do those 3 tie up un-necessarily? Shelvey and spearing should be kept as their wages won't be high, they won't get many games and they have little resell value. Henderson on the other hand must be on a fair whack when you think he cost us the best part of £20m. If I'm not mistaken, not only did we spend a stupid amount on a player that no one else wanted but we quadrupled his wages - isn't he on about £3.5M A YEAR?!?!?!?