With the summer transfer window in full-swing, Liverpool continue to be linked with a move for FC Twente star Nacer Chadli.
In June, reports in Belgium suggested that Liverpool are interested in signing the 23-year old, and according to a weekend report in Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws:
"Chadli is wanted by Liverpool, Tottenham and Fulham, and they have already approached Twente about a possible transfer.
"Lokomotiv Moscow and Shakhtar Donetsk have made bids, but Twente declined both offers. Chadli's dream is to play in the Premier league"
This fits with a recent statement by Chadli's agent, who revealed that the winger favours a move to England. He told De Telegraaf:
"There are several clubs from the biggest leagues interested in signing him [Chadli] and I don't think Ajax can compete financially. Nacer is attracted by English football. I expect a decision about his future this month"
Like fellow Belgian Simon Mignolet, €10m-rated Chadli has his eye on next year's World Cup in Brazil, and he'll need regular playing time to ensure he makes the Belgium squad (should they qualify, of course).
Former Twente manager Jacobus Adriaanse is a huge fan of Chadli, and prior to his sacking in 2012, he gushed:
"Nacer is a complete player, the likes of which I've rarely seen. I really do not know what he cannot do. Nacer is creative, strong, fast, has a great free kick and he turns excellently. Everything is beautiful in him. Such a good player should have the ball as often as possible"
Stats over the last two years:
* 2012-13: 18 goals/1 assists in 26 apps.
* 2011-12: 8 goals/2 assists in 20 apps.
Chadli's goalscoring is impressive, but his assists stats leave a lot to be desired. If he can't consistently create goals in the Eredivisie, it seems unlikely that he'll be a prolific creator in the Premier League. Having said that, at 6'2, Chadli is physically suited to English football, so perhaps that might work in his favour. Worth a bid...?
Jaimie Kanwar
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In June, reports in Belgium suggested that Liverpool are interested in signing the 23-year old, and according to a weekend report in Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws:
"Chadli is wanted by Liverpool, Tottenham and Fulham, and they have already approached Twente about a possible transfer.
"Lokomotiv Moscow and Shakhtar Donetsk have made bids, but Twente declined both offers. Chadli's dream is to play in the Premier league"
This fits with a recent statement by Chadli's agent, who revealed that the winger favours a move to England. He told De Telegraaf:
"There are several clubs from the biggest leagues interested in signing him [Chadli] and I don't think Ajax can compete financially. Nacer is attracted by English football. I expect a decision about his future this month"
Like fellow Belgian Simon Mignolet, €10m-rated Chadli has his eye on next year's World Cup in Brazil, and he'll need regular playing time to ensure he makes the Belgium squad (should they qualify, of course).
Former Twente manager Jacobus Adriaanse is a huge fan of Chadli, and prior to his sacking in 2012, he gushed:
"Nacer is a complete player, the likes of which I've rarely seen. I really do not know what he cannot do. Nacer is creative, strong, fast, has a great free kick and he turns excellently. Everything is beautiful in him. Such a good player should have the ball as often as possible"
Stats over the last two years:
* 2012-13: 18 goals/1 assists in 26 apps.
* 2011-12: 8 goals/2 assists in 20 apps.
Chadli's goalscoring is impressive, but his assists stats leave a lot to be desired. If he can't consistently create goals in the Eredivisie, it seems unlikely that he'll be a prolific creator in the Premier League. Having said that, at 6'2, Chadli is physically suited to English football, so perhaps that might work in his favour. Worth a bid...?
Jaimie Kanwar
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What position does Chadli play?
ReplyDeletewing or cam
ReplyDeleteapparently villa will let bent go for as less as 5m surely thats a good deal ?
ReplyDeleteAssaidi mk 2?
ReplyDeleteNot for us...Bent is definitely not the type of player we're looking for.
ReplyDeleteHe'd be a good replacement for Downing or perhaps even Assaidi
ReplyDeleteright wing and if i remember correctly left-footed (but i could be wrong) downing replacement?
ReplyDeletejk about the footed (didnt see the vid).....but still on right side
ReplyDeletefor 10m he could be a great addition... would love to have some more belgian players :)
ReplyDeleteunfortunately we missed out on mertens
Your joking right?
ReplyDeleteYeah pity....Great signing by Napoli,but he was poor in some of the big matches like against Ajax
ReplyDeleteHe may end up to be the best signing this year!
ReplyDeleteim glad we didnt go for him...
ReplyDeletePlayer profile is oppposite...right footed...plays left wing. Big and fast and young though.
ReplyDeleteFrom Rafa's poor record of wingers/wide players at LFC and Serie A sometimes being a bottleneck for wingers due to the lack of space, I don't hold out high hopes for Mertens to be a success there. Good luck to Mertens though, he is a lively one when on his game.
ReplyDeletehere is the future liverpool fc team
ReplyDeletemignolet
johnson papdoplos agger enrique
gerrard
sturridge alberto
coutinho
soldado suarez
subs: k.toure,reina,lucas,borini,henderson,assaidi,sterling
transfer plans for liverpool fc:
ReplyDeletespending budget £20m, not enough to gets quality players
sell carroll-£15m
sell coates-£2m
sell shelvey-£5m
sell spearing-£3m
sell downing-£5m
sell allen-£10m
new transfer budget=£60m
buy mignolet-£9m
buy k.toure-free
buy papdpolos-£18m
buy luis alberto-£7m
buy good striker-soldado around £20m
striker
ReplyDeleteAspas is the missing 6million yeah?
ReplyDeleteJust to put things straight....: we would get around 5 million for Coates. He not a bad defender, he would do well in Italian or Spanish league. Also downing 5 million? More like 8 million he a good player. Also Allen wouldn't be sold. And why do we need another striker? We need a CAM.... And goals from midfield....
ReplyDeleteyep...good player all the same,I think he would have done well in the BPL but,I think we should burst our gut to sign Eriksen now and even if possible a double signing with Alderweireld....That'd be expensive but two real quality players,While Eriksen wasn't great in the Euros I think its time for him to step up to a higher level of football for him to progress.Honda would be a good signing too but theres not much of a chance of getting them all I'd say
ReplyDeleteIf we want a pacey, strong, young Winger, we could save a few million by pursuing Atsu instead, as he's surposedly on a bargain haha.. Would make much more sense in my book..
ReplyDeleteAnd there's no way we could get £3m for Spearing..
ReplyDeleteTrue
ReplyDeleteAs a long time supporter of both LFC and your site it is very pleasing to read positive comments from you lately but I was wondering how you now feel after having been drawn by stealth into the media frenzy that permeated every football article last season regarding arguably one of the best players that has ever graced Anfield. It seemed to me that most commentators were like unscrupulous political attack dogs trying to destroy LFC from within by adopting a Machiavellian agenda so that the club will never return to their former glory. Can you now not see that every English club are more that happy to take Suarez off our hands regardless of his reputation and regardless of their budgets and nobody is now mentioning that he should be thrown out of England. Now I fully understand this comment does not fully and directly address your article but since I am in the twilight of my years I am hoping that I can make people look and analyze the agendas of the Muck Spreaders, they are the ones that shout the loudest but are also the attention seekers.
ReplyDeleteWhy would sturridge be playing behind courtinho? ridiculous
ReplyDeletehe has gone for 1.5 i believe
ReplyDeleteDowning replacement IMO, I hope he makes us more stronger on the right wing.
ReplyDeleteI think he's going for a wide 4-1-2-1-2....He has a decent back four, but then he just lost me. Play that team and you'd concede plenty of goals.
ReplyDeleteDon't know much about him. Wish we would go get a striker like lukaku or benteke to go with the new group of premier league rookies. Heartbroken to see Gomez go to Florence. I pray we don't go striker-less like last summer. one way or the other I think Suarez is gone like many of you guys do......
ReplyDeleteYou don't need a replacement for someone who is not even on the bench. What's the point?
ReplyDeleteForgot my user name with your site.....
ReplyDeleteMaybe we should judge a player based on his merits rather than who signed him. Mertens won't be a better player had Ferguson sign him.
ReplyDeleteIts called a squad. Liverpool have been lacking depth for years now.
ReplyDeleteYes he would. Some managers know how to get the best out of players. I hate old whiskey nose, but he was the master of it.
ReplyDeleteCan't believe you got no replies, mate.
ReplyDeleteThe media have had an agenda against LFC for years, and constantly try and get our best players sold for us (I'll probably get "paranoia" comments now...)
Whenever we had a big game (usually Utd) we always faced the morning hearing or reading stuff like, "McManaman on his way", "Owen set to leave", "LFC player to be outed as homosexual".....
The MEDIA want him away from LFC, and because there is no concrete interest from Real, they are now trying to flog him to Arsenal or Chelsea. Yet they conveniently forget the stuff they wrote last month saying he wants to leave England, not just LFC.
And they ignore the fundamental quotes from his agent Guardiola on Sky, saying his client has no plans to leave, they ignore the lavish praise Suarez heaped on his manager, club and the fans in his Confederations Cup interviews, and they just cherry pick the bits they want whereby he answered leading questions about other (bigger) clubs with respectful answers. As anyone would who was asked about Real Madrid, or Bayern Munich.
Suarez has aired grievances about the British media, and so they crucify him for it. Yet he has been treated unfairly / differently / disproportionately ever since the nasty and spiteful Evra allegations. And now they are trying to coax a London club into buying him. I would say, 'You couldn't make it up' - except they have.....
And somehow the media have even managed to turn a small but vocal minority of our fans against the best player we've had in years. Which is a crying shame.
Evra lied. Sky lied. The Sun always lie.
And Jaimie Kanwar has a vendetta ;)
'Maybe we should judge a player based on his merits rather than who signed him'
ReplyDeleteNah, maybe not.
How a manager utilizes a player does effect how good a player can be. Football isn't that simple where ability alone of the player is all that should be taken into consideration.
'Mertens won't be a better player had Ferguson sign him.'
Considering how fond of wing play Ferguson was and importance of wingers to his philosophy in most of his career, one would be more hopeful that he would have been a good signing under Ferguson. So yes, I think he would have been a better player under Ferguson.
Do you think Gerrard was a better player when Rafa moved him to the right wing? He seemed to score a lot more goals if I can remember.
ReplyDeleteStevie did really good out on the right wing and probably the second or third best period of form in his career but his best days were playing right behind Torres, imo. Always will be a attacking midfielder to me.
ReplyDeleteI thought Rafa finally found something at least half-decent in Reira, in terms of a genuine wide player but that didn't last long.
Wingers/wide players like to have a certain level of freedom to take risks, etc, but unless your a talisman like Gerrard, it is tough getting that free reign from Benitez me thinks.
I agree with you. It may also be tough to get freedom from Benitez because he was all about structure. If I remember correctly, during his early days we played more of a 4-4-2. When he got his preferred players in, he adapted to a 4-2-3-1 with 2 holding midfielders, which I remember a lot of people complained to be too defensive. Gerrard was moved to accomodate a more effective partnership in deep midfield (Alonso + Mascherano). IMO these two gave Gerrard the freedom to constantly supply Torres.
ReplyDeleteDon't be fooled though, IMO natural wingers are duds under Brendan Rodgers too. He expects them to constantly cut inside. That's why we saw Borini playing left wing early on, and that's why Coutinho is so effective. Assaidi and Downing seem a bit too wide for Rodgers
Where did my reply go JK?
ReplyDeleteWell whats the point in selling players and not replacing them making the squad thinner? Something BR wants to actually rectify to it'd make sense to be replaced and not just sell Assaidi.
ReplyDeleteI doubt a scouting report of a player would suggest which manager will improve him.
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit unconvinced about how Rodgers' uses his wide players still, in terms of what kind he likes and how in/flexible he is. Because it wasn't so long ago that he had Sinclair and Dyer, who are nothing special coming inside. Massively speculating as its early days but I think Rodgers doesn't mind wide wingers as long as they are willing to control their urges to be risky/gamble (i.e. the usual winger likes to be given freedom to go on one-on-ones on the full back) in order to not jeopardize the team play, hence maybe why he has been more receptive about the more obedient style of Downing then Assaidi and maybe one of the reasons why Sterling lost his way a bit, aside from inexperience. Coutinho may well be more his ideal style of wide players but I don't think Rodgers is too inflexible, even though it is early days. To be honest, I'll admit I am massively musing here! Definitely be interesting to see what he does with the right wing. I don't know much about Henrikh but he doesn't seem like a out-n-out winger, yet some think he would have done a job for us there and obviously offering a different dynamic to a natural winger. So maybe Rodgers ideally doesn't want a natural winger but maybe not afraid to incorporate them. Musings, speculating and maybes sums up my post I guess ;)
ReplyDeletemaybe but then again we have aspas for that
ReplyDeletehe is versatile .......
ReplyDeletenot really all we need is a clinical finisher ......also he is english and cheap ....... and his injury record isnt bad as compared to sturridge ....... he would be a good impact sub
ReplyDeleteif we can look at gomez why not bent .....agreed gomez is better but he sure is hell expensive
ReplyDeleteHi Peter. Thanks for your comments. With respect, I wasn't 'drawn by stealth' into anything re Suarez last season. Five months before the signing, I posted an article arguing that it would be a mistake to sign Suarez, so in reality, I was ahead of the game (so to speak), and it's others who were drawn into the 'frenzy', not me.
ReplyDeleteI've been entirely consistent with my views on Suarez, but also fair, to the extent that I defended him in greater detail - and in more depth - than any other news provider/blog/website on the planet.
Suarez is a fantastic player, but that doesn't mean he is exempt from criticism. The club is bigger than any individual, and any player who drags LFC's name through the mud will be criticised on this site. Indeed, this is one of the main principles underpinning everything posted here. I am anti-anything that damages LFC's reputation, and Suarez definitely falls within that.
I stand by everything I've posted about Suarez since he signed. Every article is based on fact, and is backed up with specific examples. There's no personal element, and if Suarez didn't cause so many problems, I wouldn't write about him.
Ultimately, I support LFC, not Suarez FC, or Gerrard FC. To me, it doesn't matter who it is; my allegiance is to the club - and the Shankly philosophy of what LFC is supposed to be - not the players.
It wasn't a mistake to sign him. He's been the most entertaining player we've had in the last 10 years, and perhaps the only reason to renew our season ticket.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to be "Roncalifornia".
ReplyDeletewould be hard to add anything positive or negative as i've never heard of the guy at all.
ReplyDeletePlus Spearing wouldn't bring us 3m.
ReplyDeletePapadopoulos has publicly stated that he is indeed happy at Schalke and does not want to leave them in the foreseeable future.
ReplyDeleteYou have a point here. Babel was seen as the next big thing, then he joined us, under Rafa, who seemingly never knew how to utilize him correctly. Not only Rafa's fault, though.
ReplyDeleteRegardless of speculation and opinion, it's still always interesting.
ReplyDelete+1 to you, I totally forgot about the likes of Sinclair and Dyer. So it's clear that Rodgers can adapt his game and tactics slightly, but his preferred options are still relatively unknown.
But if you think of all the Barcelona, tiki-taka stuff, all the wide players cut in, and they pass around the outside of the box. Even on corners they don't whip it in, they pass it out.
Think of Downing too, sometimes I scream at the TV to get him to take on the fullback, because he is capable. I thought it was a lack of confidence thing, but maybe he's not instructed to?
We will wait and see I guess, but either way if goals come flying in, who cares? :P
He is a complete player and I think he is a bargain right now. Just check his stats, he has great stats. Please Bendan get this player before it is too late like you always are!
ReplyDeleteToo late!
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