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Ben Davis from Preston - Sky just announcing we've agreed fee and medical on Monday. Van den Burgh goes on loan the other way. I don't know anything about this player - does anyone?

So any clue who he is? any experience in PL or is this just another bound to go on loan jobs in an endless cycle until they leave for FREE?

Same as what everyone else is reading. 25 years old, been at Preston his whole career, left footed. This doesn't sound good though:

Former Preston and Liverpool defender Mark Lawrenson:

Ben Davies has done well at Preston and has let his contract run down so he was going to move on in the summer. If he'd gone to Celtic, which I'd heard had been agreed, then I was thinking he could do well there, but being honest I didn't really see him as being good enough to be on Liverpool's radar.

He's a real steady Eddie. He's left-footed and quick enough but he's not got phenomenal pace or anything like that.

He's been good in the Championship, very good. But I've watched him and thought, up against the extra nous and quality you get in the Premier League, on top of extra pace, it will be a test for him. You wouldn't want to just throw him in to face Manchester City next Sunday, put it that way.

This is obviously a great move for him, I just can't see him getting near the first team. Nat Phillips has done well when he's come in and he is probably a better player.
So, Davies would be behind him and also Rhys Williams, so even before Joel Matip comes back and the other two long-term injured players - Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez - he is going to be below them on the list. And Fabinho and Jordan Henderson too.

If he's not even as good as Rhys Williams, what's the point? I suspect Lawro has got that wrong. Rhys Williams is 19 whereas Davies is 25.

Lawro was a great player but not much of a pundit. He's only just a shade better than Stevie Nichol!

hes a very good player in the championship whether he can make the jump remains to be seen but Liverpool scouts might know something we don't

He is extra cover at least, we haven't spent a fortune, so it should not affect out plans in the summer, I guess it comes down to who you can bring in a day before the window shuts, at least we bought someone.

Latest news we might have another player from Marseille coming in also.

Marseille are not letting him fly until they have a replacement.

https://theworldcupnews.com/2021/01/31/l...nd-replacement/

Sooooo, Lawro thinks Ben Davies will be behind Phillips and Williams in our pecking order!

Former Preston and Liverpool defender Mark Lawrenson:

Ben Davies has done well at Preston and has let his contract run down so he was going to move on in the summer. If he'd gone to Celtic, which I'd heard had been agreed, then I was thinking he could do well there, but being honest I didn't really see him as being good enough to be on Liverpool's radar.

He's a real steady Eddie. He's left-footed and quick enough but he's not got phenomenal pace or anything like that.

He's been good in the Championship, very good.

But I've watched him and thought, up against the extra nous and quality you get in the Premier League, on top of extra pace, it will be a test for him. You wouldn't want to just throw him in to face Manchester City next Sunday, put it that way.

This is obviously a great move for him, I just can't see him getting near the first team. Nat Phillips has done well when he's come in and he is probably a better player.

So, Davies would be behind him and also Rhys Williams, so even before Joel Matip comes back and the other two long-term injured players - Virgil van Dijk and Joe Gomez - he is going to be below them on the list. And Fabinho and Jordan Henderson too.

I am not sure he will play very much at Liverpool, but the experience alone should be fabulous. I hope he experiences playing in the first team, but even if he is just sitting on the bench then it is still great for him.

He has come through the ranks at Preston, learned his trade with loan spells in the lower divisions and improved a lot. He has done really well.

Regardless of whether he gets a chance or not, it is a great move for him and Ben is a lovely lad. I've got to know him over the years and with people like that, you just think 'great opportunity and good luck to you'.

sorry didn't see somebody had already posted Lawro's comments

but what the hell? why? it just looks like another way to try and make money - get him before contract runs out, play him in some meaningless games and sell him on! It's almost as bad as when we signed K-Pop...I mean Minamino, because he'll sell shirts in Asia!

F.cuk improving the team...bank balance above all else!!!