KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Guilherme Siqueira deal is dead?

Apparently Grenada have gone full retard and are now demanding £12m, according to the ECHO.

Its a shame. Siqueira would've rotated well with Enrique and would've been a good player for us. He's already 27 and is never going to be a world beater, so why the hell would anyone pay over £10m? Goes to show that whenever LFC are involved prices escalate beyond reason.

I know people will point to Real Madrid being linked as a reason for the price hike, but that is just retarded. Real Madrid have Marcelo, Coentrao and Arbeloa for crying out loud! The media can link anyone to a club without there being any truth to it. Utterly retarded. This is most definitely media manipulation from Grenada's camp.

Question: Is it time to cut bait and move on? Personally I would call their bluff and leave a £7m offer on the table for another week.

this one will drag on until the last day of the window now then, at which point Grenada will either get a bigger offer from another team or accept our offer. I don't think we'll offer more!

I don't know the player so difficult to comment on a valuation, however, I understood that we initially valued the player at 3.5m but were willing to go up to 5m. For player to provide a cover, would not go more that the 5m.

not worth 12m to liverpool, cissokho looks very close right now

I doubt FSG would be willing to wait until the last day. If Grenada don't accept our offer with a week to go I think we move on.

never seen him play nor have i heard of him before a few weeks ago so am not overly concerned.

Was it? I don't know mate. All I read was the Echo report.

Doesn't even look like FSG will wait a couple of days. Cissokho gaining momentum.

I said Siqueira looked more like an Everton kind of deal some weeks back. Definitely an option for them if Baines heads to OT. It appears that BR rates him higher than Cissokho, but the price is a stumbling block. £12m for a left back competitor seems a lot. Never mind that he is 27, and by definition the club wants to spend less on risky older players, and he certainly would be. Cissokho will happen. I am as sure as when I posted it the first time. Not sure we'll make it permanent mind you, unless he sets the world alight.

Haven't read the comments so I apologise if I'm just repeating somebody, but apparently Real Madrid are preparing to lose Coentrao as part of the Bale deal and are looking at Siqueira as a replacement which would explain why Granada's valuation of the player has more than double. Moreover, Siqueira is apparently dragging out the deal as he would much prefer a move to Real Madrid.

I have heard similar things KingoftheKop. Not only that Madrid are lurking, but that they see him as the best replacement for Coentrao. Basically it all hinges on Coentrao leaving. I wonder if we'd be tempted to bid for him, because Spurs don't actually seem all that interested in him according to reports, and Enrique could be moved on if a fair price came in. I like Enrique, but I do think he is one of the two most disposable defenders in our first XI, alongside Skrtel. It won't happen I might add. We have been crying out for committed players, and Aly Cissokho has wanted to join us for years. Talented for sure, albeit his last stint displayed less than he'd have liked. Good deal all round to me. And I say that having questioned the move a few months back. I wasn't sure it made sense to have him as back-up to Enrique, but I almost feel he'd suit the bigger occassions better, and for that reason it should work short-term, and could long-term.