KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Sturridge injured AGAIN!!!

We aint gonna sell coz no one would pay the £50+ million we would need to replace him. I think we have got to accept we will get him playing for 50% of games, but when he plays he's a very good player who will score goals, with Origi/Firminho/Ings/Benteke (if he stays) we have enough to cover his absences.

sturridge wouldn't do all that pre season intensive fitness preparation if he didn't want show what he can do again this season, then again, on the other hand we do need someone of his quality as reliable backup for origi, wait to see what klopp does perhaps? might dip into the transfer market mid season?

If his injury heals before the transfer window closes...sell...sell...sell.
If we can get 30 mill for him that'd be good business, we can't have passengers and Sturridge time and again misses too many games with these random injuries. He's an expensive handbag, not fit for purpose!
If there's also no takers for Balotelli with a week to go of the transfer window closing, we should sit down with him and his Agent and compromise on a severance fee...just get him out of the club, it's clear nobody wants to buy him or to pay his wages for a loan so we may as well cut our losses for the last year remaining on his contract and let him find a club and a fresh start elsewhere.
I'd like us to follow up our previous interest in bringing Dzeko back to the premier league. I think he'd be a good signing for us without the need to spend too much.

Unless we get a top striker who will cost well above 35m, if at all available and willing to come to us, I think we should keep him. It's getting late now and we might just end up in the Suarez situation where we had no other option but to buy Balotelli.

Keep him despite his injuries. I rate him highly as good as any striker when he plays. If he plays 30 games this season its a plus for me.

We still have plenty of time left in the window.

I can see Benteke going for 30million and someone offering a nominal fee for Balotelli.

The problem with Sturridge is that he is seen as a bit of a sick note, would any club offer 15million plus for him? Debateable.

Bony is available for 13million from City so I would definitely try to sign him.

Or maybe the ex Man Utd Chilean striker Hernandez.

Bony? Are you ok dude? My grandmother is more mobile than him. We can't play with these strikers its not our style to play slow and besides we never cross a ball, its like a sin to our players. Benteke is better than Bony and he is reportedly being ready to leave for more playing time so why do the same mistake for a third time after Carroll and Benteke?

Hernandez is mexican.

klopp is changing our style though, crossing should become more of our identity as it was partly under benitez. but I agree Bony is a good striker but we should be able to do better.

it seems klopp is probably looking for a pacey striker as we were interested in Jese, he might revisit Hernandez who knows. I'd perhaps like lewan to resurface as a name

Well said. Bony is garbage and wouldn't fit our style of play at all.

When I started watching football back in the mid-70s, a lot of players couldn't wait to start games even though they had to suffer pain-killing injections first. And they were only receiving £300 a week in wages if that.

Fast forward to 2016, with all the advances in medical technology, players wages and therefore season tickets at obscene levels, and what does the average fan get to see? Most "stars" sitting out every other match because of a calf strain, little finger injury, hair follicle tear... these people need to man up or find something more suitable to do for a living.