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Watched Grujic and he is doing well in Germany. Big and strong dude he is. Attacking midfielder is a must for me and a goalscorer that is willing to sit on the bench. Left back and a goalkeeper except if we have a young one that meets the demands.
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I expect the likes of Harry Wilson, Brewster, Woodburn, Ojo & Comacho to be given opportunities, but we need an experienced AM/Forward to strengthen/cover the front 3, we know Klopp wanted Fekir, he never brought someone in, so we we should get a forward, especially with losing Solanke & Ings, with Sturridge & Origi likely to leave, we cannot rely on Brewster, he is unproven but promising.
We need to be careful, the last few title challenges in 2008 & 2013 were followed by a dramatic drop off in performance & quality, losing key players afterwards, we need to continue improving & seriously challenging, so we need some investment, we can now attract & retain the top players, showing we are serious contenders for the PL & CL, you keep improving the team, even after success. That was one of our strengths in the 70's & 80's, same with Utd in the 90's, they would win the PL and then went out and bought some of the best players in the world to strengthen and stop complacency.
Sorry, but I don't understand? We have won now't and we have no track record of success in the last decade or more. What is there to be complacent about?
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Out: Lovren, Moreno, Sturridge (potentially Lallana and Milner too, depending on the contract situation).
In: A flexible striker/inside forward: Werner or Dyballa would be my first choices. They have Bobby's flexibility and can score goals. Dybala looks unsettled, and Werner is about to make a next move. Leipzig and Juve would probably rather sell to us than rivals.
CB: De Light. I love Gomez, and don't think he should be shipped out, but he has injury problems and we can't count on him to be there all year. Being able to rotate De Light and Gomez with Matip as 4th choice would be a better situation.
A Fullback option: Wan Bissaka or Chillwell would be good options to rotate Andy and Trent. Either that or blood youth.
An attacking midfielder: Someone special who can fill the gap Coutinho left. Ox was great, and I have high hopes for Keita still, but someone that's less about breaking the lines and has that pass to unlock a defense. Isco would be my first choice. Def unsettled at Madrid. Madison from Leicester or Jack Greilish might be worth punts.
Winger/Wide Forward: Julian Brandt or Steven Berjwin from PSV.
Last edited by redordead13; 22/03/19 01:26 PM.
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I expect the likes of Harry Wilson, Brewster, Woodburn, Ojo & Comacho to be given opportunities, but we need an experienced AM/Forward to strengthen/cover the front 3, we know Klopp wanted Fekir, he never brought someone in, so we we should get a forward, especially with losing Solanke & Ings, with Sturridge & Origi likely to leave, we cannot rely on Brewster, he is unproven but promising.
We need to be careful, the last few title challenges in 2008 & 2013 were followed by a dramatic drop off in performance & quality, losing key players afterwards, we need to continue improving & seriously challenging, so we need some investment, we can now attract & retain the top players, showing we are serious contenders for the PL & CL, you keep improving the team, even after success. That was one of our strengths in the 70's & 80's, same with Utd in the 90's, they would win the PL and then went out and bought some of the best players in the world to strengthen and stop complacency.
Sorry, but I don't understand? We have won now't and we have no track record of success in the last decade or more. What is there to be complacent about? I was saying we need to invest & continue improving to challenge and hopefully win the PL, the last 2 decent challenges we made in 2008 & 2013 were one off's, then the next few seasons were disasters. so we need to make sure we are challenging for the next few years and build on the improvements. I used the 80's team and Utd team as examples that even when you win things, you need to improve and bring in quality to stop complacency.
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Out: Lovren, Moreno, Sturridge (potentially Lallana and Milner too, depending on the contract situation).
In: A flexible striker/inside forward: Werner or Dyballa would be my first choices. They have Bobby's flexibility and can score goals. Dybala looks unsettled, and Werner is about to make a next move. Leipzig and Juve would probably rather sell to us than rivals.
CB: De Light. I love Gomez, and don't think he should be shipped out, but he has injury problems and we can't count on him to be there all year. Being able to rotate De Light and Gomez with Matip as 4th choice would be a better situation.
A Fullback option: Wan Bissaka or Chillwell would be good options to rotate Andy and Trent. Either that or blood youth.
An attacking midfielder: Someone special who can fill the gap Coutinho left. Ox was great, and I have high hopes for Keita still, but someone that's less about breaking the lines and has that pass to unlock a defense. Isco would be my first choice. Def unsettled at Madrid. Madison from Leicester or Jack Greilish might be worth punts.
Winger/Wide Forward: Julian Brandt or Steven Berjwin from PSV. That's 5 players who would cost probably more than 200m, not sure if it's good to dream that much. Unless we sell our best couple of players it will not happen
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There's just not going to be a marquee signing in the summer. We will probably be purchasing below the 40m mark on individual players.
I expect us to look at players elsewhere running their contracts down and relegated clubs like Fulham...Schurle, Sessegnon, Seri etc... If we were to do the double of PL & CL then things might change regarding our transfer policy for the summer.
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Out: Lovren, Moreno, Sturridge (potentially Lallana and Milner too, depending on the contract situation).
In: A flexible striker/inside forward: Werner or Dyballa would be my first choices. They have Bobby's flexibility and can score goals. Dybala looks unsettled, and Werner is about to make a next move. Leipzig and Juve would probably rather sell to us than rivals.
CB: De Light. I love Gomez, and don't think he should be shipped out, but he has injury problems and we can't count on him to be there all year. Being able to rotate De Light and Gomez with Matip as 4th choice would be a better situation.
A Fullback option: Wan Bissaka or Chillwell would be good options to rotate Andy and Trent. Either that or blood youth.
An attacking midfielder: Someone special who can fill the gap Coutinho left. Ox was great, and I have high hopes for Keita still, but someone that's less about breaking the lines and has that pass to unlock a defense. Isco would be my first choice. Def unsettled at Madrid. Madison from Leicester or Jack Greilish might be worth punts.
Winger/Wide Forward: Julian Brandt or Steven Berjwin from PSV. That's 5 players who would cost probably more than 200m, not sure if it's good to dream that much. Unless we sell our best couple of players it will not happen The question was how I would do it, not what will happen realistically. I don't think we will sign all of these players, though I would like us to. But I don't think it's a coincidence that as we've been playing better, finishing in the CL places and doing well in Europe, our buying power has increased. We spent 161,000,000 last year, and 155,000,000 before that, and FSG have reported reccord profits. We would get some money for the likes of Henderson, Moreno, Origi Lovren, and Mignolet, and we will have big earners like Sturridge off the books. We got 15 million for Jordan freaking Ibe and 20 million for Solanke, so that will raise a bit of money. Do I expect us to sign a ton of players? No, not really. But I do expect us to add a few pieces of quality, and I wouldn't be surprised by a big splash or 2.
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We need to look for quality additions, 2-3 max depending on any first team sales.
1. Competition for front 3. We don't need a 'different option', but someone who can slot into Klopp's style. We can't go another season hoping the front 3 stay fit.
2. I'd go for a top CB. Depending what Klopp thinks of Gomez's fitness, sell Lovren and bring a big name in. It would cement our defence as the best in the league.
With Ox to return and Keita getting another season to prove his worth, I think midfield is ok. Lallana doesn't need replacing so depends who else goes. Milner's got another season in him. Utility player for RB/LB would be nice if there's one available.
I'd splash the cash on 2-3 signings and use youngsters are back up. Anything we get for Origi, Migs/Karius and players off the wage bill should add to those big signings.
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Klopp saying we won't be spending big means nothing, he's hardly going to come out and says we have a fortune and will spend it, as all the prices will go up.
I can't see us spending big like we did last year, that was to fill 2 key areas (GK & CB) and I do think Klopp want's to bring players through like Wilson & Brewster, I can see us going for an AM for around £40-50 million, Ox type money who can challenge the first team, but maybe not be in it straight away, similar to what we expected from Salah.
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Klopp doesn't announce big buys before he does it. I wouldn't take him at his word for that. He has good reasons to keep his cards close to the chest.
I don't think we'll get a ton of new players, but I wouldn't be surprised if 2 really exciting players did get signed. We got 80 million for our CL performance alone.
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