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Suppose we decide to make a move for some striker from the belgian league, Brugge for example.......without BR publicly stating that we have money to spend and are desperate for a striker, how would Brugge know to exploit our desperation? Yes they could spend a few hours online, but the internet is mainly full of sh!t. BR has simply alerted all clubs to double their valuations when we come knocking. He's very amateurish and not smart at all.

Seriously? Do you believe that other clubs have no idea that we are in need of a striker?

Oh my word what a stupid thing to say. How obvious is it we need a striker? If I can tell you Adelaide in Australia badly, badly need a striker surely a crowd from Belgium can see we do to, silly posts Carheex and there only coming because you want to stick by your original point which was also wrong. We need a striker every non blind/deaf person knows this! We even needed one last year ffs.

It comes down to 'doing business behind closed doors' which BR in his desire to become a big shot has rejected, spouting out everything going on at club. Wouldn't mind but he goes on about liverpool tradition!
The media especially the scum will love to drag him down should liverpool get success, hope he is big enough to take it cos at the moment he seems to be 'managing' / surviving quite well.

Nothing is done behind closed doors anymore. Too many interested parties involved who want to get the word out about interest in a player.

Not really sure if I agree. There is more pressure to release news sound bites in the internet tv on demand era, but this is why clubs pay pr reps and organise press conferences to release information beneficial to the club. Interested parties includes 'agents' the bane of managers and club hierarchy alike. I don't see why this interest justifies

Downing being rubbished to media. (I want rid of SD , i am just questioning BRs methods)

IF br had come in and said he was going to modernize the club i think noone would have protested NESV were an apparently dynamic company when they bought club that merged tradition with progress. But, BR harped on about tradition.

The one thing liverpool didnt do was single out individuals to the press Hodgson and BR both do this with frightening ease.
Its tolerable under BR as what he says about players is generally true, under hodgson it was twisted malingering to preserve his own job for long as possible.

The one thing u dont do when u need/want to buy something is to tell the vendor how much you need the thing...
Its clear liverpool need a striker BUT there is suso, yesil, morgan sterling all atttack minded players. Surely he could say something like ' well we are doing ok with the strikers we have?' Maybe he said that and it wasnt reported I dunno, but he sometimes comes across as a bit of a chump especially in the andy carrol affair. All my criticisms are based on him and his press conference I think as a coach he has d one a good job.

I rate BR as manager he has made interesting subsitutions and unlike the last 2 managers uses young players.
I think he is however so far up his own ar5e that when he comes on camera he is thinking of progressing his own personna before the press more than on the interests of the club. I think BR is learning himself , impossible to not mistakes in such a job, and a meglomaniac is not a bad thing as manager of a club.

It may well be that he is publicly reminding the owners that he needs a striker. Again this would be a bad sign as it shows that there is a lack of dialogue between fsg and the manager and that is my biggest concern,

Whether we do business behind closed doors or not, clubs still know we need a striker.

I can't argue with you about singling players out which shouldn't really be done but I don't think what BR says about us needing a striker will push the price up. We have 2 recognised strikers who have played any kind of senior football. Morgan and Yesil don't seem ready to make the step up just yet and teams can judge that quite easily.

I would say that I'd imagine most managers have a touch of megalomania about them. They would need to to have an unshakeable belief in what they are doing and to translate that to their players

I said the same thing myself.

I will show you the benefits of not spouting to media:
Imagine FSG have told BR he will get 40m in january

Number of possibilities:
BR if he is dumb (and clearly he's not dumb)
could reveal that he is getting '40M at xmas'
he could even say hes getting 'more than expected at xmas' This will affect (possibly) the amount asked by a team for their striker. It happened with carrol/torres. Saying we need a striker doesnt mean the price will go up but it increases the pressure on lfc to get one and get a good one, if everyone knows this and that br is not going to 'make do' with suso suarez for example until borini returns or yesil becomes pele, it can have a negative effect on negotiations and or team morale

Now leaks are possible, a lot of money gets bunged at people in the know to leak info given the press interest. But why tell the media everything, why tell them anything, why not say when asked 'are u looking at buying a striker?' reply 'all teams are looking to improve their squad, case closed next question!' ?

There is a difference between saying how much you have to spend and saying what you want to buy though. As long as the other side of negotiations don't know our limits, they still have to be realistic in their demands. Newcastle faced a situation when they were selling Carroll to us of knowing how much we were going to receive roughly and could stump up their prices accordingly.