KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Benteke deal agreed

The consistent theme running through most of the criticism doesn't appear the targets themselves Growls more the prices.

Our transfers have been a disaster for years so why is it wrong that many fans are somewhat apprehensive it will happen again. These are not academy players or frees we are talking about here and we don't appear to be able to attract the no-brainier safe as houses personnel such as Fabregas.

Can't see much wrong with it myself. Bit of ol'e healthy cynicism

This signing will prove if BR is indeed a technical genius.

It has been suggested that Benteke will not fit in well with Liverpool’s style of play but Lambert does not agree.

"He will score all types of goals," he said. "If you look at the way he plays, especially his first year at Aston Villa, where he was a phenomenon.

"He was third behind (Cristiano) Ronaldo and (Lionel) Messi in goalscoring ratio. I think he is one of the best No 9s I have seen in a long time."

...according to his ex gaffer, Lambert.
No ulteria motives here.

I have a quiet gut feeling here about how successful he's going to be for us.
Just PLEASE don't be getting injured is my only fear.

Good move this, I'm pretty well sure of it.
Roll on 2 weeks on Sunday.

Stoke, it's going to be pay back time.

There's a lot been mentioned about him fitting into our style of play. But I think there should be a bigger question mark over his quality.

He's has no big club experience. He's hasn't had a stellar season as of yet. He needs to improve his game over the next couple of years if he is going to be considered our main man.

All in all I support the signing though.

What the heck am I talking about? We'll I'm not the same thing you're talking about, but what's new there? For your edification, I'm talking about quality, while you're talking about cost, and can only ever focus on cost it seems. Is it any wonder you don't get it?

Does that mean Andy Carroll is LFC's best player ever then?

That the point van, but some don’t seem to be able to distinguish between cost and quality.
I’d be the first to accept that if you want quality you generally have to pay a premium for it. But thats not the same as paying over the odds for something that doesn’t equate to the quality level you’re paying for, as was the case with the example you gave above.
As regards Benteke I hope they’ve got it right this time, but as things stand most would say we’re paying over the odd’s again, we’ll have to wait and see. My earlier point was that there’s higher quality out there but we wont go the extra mile in terms of wages and/or fee for them.

If you mean that our manager cannot buy value for money, then yes, I would agree with you. So who you think we should have bought for 32.5m instead of Benteke?

I’d suggest a striker of proven higher quality that isn’t injury prone and suits our style of play. We’ve known for over a year, and a number of transfer windows, that we needed to replace Suarez whom we sold for 75m. The money’s there, so there’s no excuse.