6 Mar 2012

Hamann insists: LFC should've signed this cheap £9m striker in January...

Liverpool FC's goalscoring problems have almost become a cliche this season, and with only 15 goals scored in 13 home games, the problem is becoming increasingly acute. Many fans were hoping for the arrival of another striker during the January transfer window, but, unfortunately, that didn't happen. Finding the right player in January is always tough, but Liverpool legend Dietmar Hamann insists that the club may have missed out on a bargain deal that could've helped the club in the short term.

Prior to signing for Newcastle, I doubt many people knew that much about Senegalese striker Papiss Cisse. I certainly didn't, but with two goals in four games so far, he's having a positive impact for Newcastle, and at a cost of just £9-£10m, Cisse appears to be a potential bargain.

Speaking to LFC TV, Hamann - who played alongside brilliant goalscorers like Robbie Fowler and Michael Owen - suggested that Liverpool may have missed a trick in not signing Cisse in January. He argued:

"Cisse would've been one [A good signing for Liverpool], and he may have been a player who could've improved things short term.

"He scored a hatful of goals in Germany; he's come to Newcastle and made a immediate impact. I think he only cost £9m or £10m.

"If you want to have a top quality striker, you're looking at £20-£25m, and I'm not sure Kenny wants to spend that kind of money, or whether we've got that money at the moment".


As results over last month have shown, Liverpool desperately needed to buy a goalscorer in January, and the failure to do that has now arguably cost the club a place in next season's Champions League.

if Kenny is given money in the summer, can he be trusted to buy a prolific goalscorer? Hamann suggests that Kenny may not want to spend big on a striker again, but the Andy Carroll mistake must be rectified, and that surely means buying the best striker available who is willing to come to Liverpool.

Inevitably, that will cost big bucks, but if Liverpool want to avoid going four years without Champions League football, then buying the right player is absolutely essential in the summer, whatever the cost.

Jaimie Kanwar


20 comments:

  1. Lets just hope the next time KK and Comolli have £35m+ to spend on a striker, they don't buy a striker who only comes with half a season of top tier football as a first team regular under his belt.

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  2. wouldn't be surprised to hear commoli is looking at the opta index and we'll end up with grant holt.
    it's very frustrating watching teams sign quality players for smallish fees,cisse looks a quality player,his debut goal was world class.

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  3. We certainly won't recoup anywhere near the money we paid for Carroll should the decision to sell him be made and I doubt Mr. Henry will dig into his wallet again after seeing what he got for his initial investment. On the plus side we've already won a trophy and a place in the Europa League and we went on to win that back in 2001.

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  4. hamann is talking just bullshit

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  5. Giroud is one striker Liverpool can sign cheap, his buyout clause is around 16m and guess what? he can score goals.

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  6. He's just another Carroll except black.

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  7. Like the overrated players he bought, Kenny Dalglish is also an overrated manager who in reality is simply clueless and out-of-his depth.

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  8. agreed, i think it is too simple to say the players are useless, etc, etc. Apart from Meireles, who have we sold? We let Aquilani and Joe Cole go but i reckon that there are enough of the old squad there to have us on terms with Arsenal and Chelsea after their nightmare seasons. Funny how my standards for a decent season have gone from 3rd or 4th to being 'on terms with Arsenal and Chelsea'. Tottenham are nothing special, good team but not great, Man Utd are weaker than ever but seem to know how to overcome this, City have had all kind of player problems but have a great squad. Arsenal have had injuries, people have questioned Wenger and Chelsea have just sacked their manager. So our players must be really bad if they cannot beat these clubs. Or maybe it is the coaching and the tactics? Is a potential starting line up of Reina, Johnson, Skrtel, Enrique, Henderson, Gerrard, Lucas, Downing, Suarez, Carroll, 10 points, with a game in hand, worse than Arsenal. I know those 11 haven't all played together, but other clubs have injuries too. I wonder if Arsenal have even put out a better 11, man for man. If not, we have to look at the coaching.  

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  9. p.s. We need a proper creator more than a finisher. A Mata type player who shows up all over the pitch and makes us look a little less rigid. Silva, Modric, two more examples. Rosicky has started doing it for Arsenal in the last 2 or 3 games. Our team is so predictable.

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  10. His owner has said he wants 50m Euros for him, are you sure he has this clause? I don't think his contract has much longer to run either.

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  11. You're an idiot!

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  12. My comment earlier to this post was removed so I'll try and keep this one civil; YOU ARE AN IDIOT!
    Sorry, couldn't help it.

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  13. We have been creating plenty of chances this season, it's finishing  that's been letting us down.

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  14. Thought it was gonna be about Moussa Sow tbh

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  15. Here's the link where Montpellier president tells about the clause
    http://www.goal.com/en/news/90/france/2012/02/17/2911997/montpellier-president-admits-it-will-be-difficult-to-keep

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  16. Created lots of chances? Depends on what you call a 'chance'. To me, Arsenal create lots of chances, even Chelsea have been creating chances, we create half chances. Very rarely do I see one of our strikers bearing down on goal with just the keeper to beat. Managed it with the Arsenal defence, but all those home draws does not suggest that it is just missing chances that is the problem.

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  17. Look at the stats of our games on the BBC website, scroll down the page until you see the 'attempts on target' stat, that'll tell you how many times a Liverpool player kicked, headed or bumped it with another part of his body towards the goal and it was either saved by the keeper or cleared by an opposition player.
    THAT is what chance means.

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  18. No, that tell us how many attempts we had on target. Does Gerrard, or anyone else, shooting from 20 yards, into the keeper's arms, count as an attempt on target or a chance? From what I've seen all season, I don't recall that many missed sitters, but I recall lots of shots. Most missed sitters end up off target.

    Are you saying that keepers are just playing better against us? Because if the keeper is saving it and it is a decent chance, then, whatever our strikers are doing, we must be just unlucky to find opposition keepers are raising their game. I just don't recall us tearing into the opposition that many times more than the teams around us in the league. If that is the case, then, pretty much, any striker in the Premier League is better than the ones we have. Let's get Yakubu from Blackburn, why not? 

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  19. I am sold on Jackson Martinez. We should pull all the stops to sign him. The ball lands at his feet, he scores. None of our other players do that.

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  20. To be honest I don't think DC or KD should be trusted with any money again. 

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