Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has provided an interesting update on the club's current transfer activity.
During an LFC press conference this morning, Rodgers was asked about speculation linking Real Madrid's Esteban Granero with a move to Anfield.
Rodgers ducked the question by insisting that he would 'never speak publicly' about specific Liverpool transfer targets. However, he did reveal a few snippets of potentially exciting information. He said:
"We've made three or four enquiries for players.
"We we hope to conclude one deal this week, maybe two.
"A whole raft of players have been linked but I will never speak publicly about specific targets".
"There won't be lots of players coming in, just three or four tweaks. We con't have a barrell-load of money, and I want to work with and improve the players we already have here"
So, the club could potentially have two new players by the end of the week. Great news, the question is, who...?
One potential signing is Bologna star Gaston Ramirez. Over the weekend, two respected Uruguayan journalists - Rodrigo Romano and Edward Pinon - claimed that Liverpool would complete the signing of Bolgona attacker Gaston Ramirez.
Posting on his Twitter feed, Romano - a football journalist who works for channel VTV Uruguay - said:
"Based on the information I have, Liverpool will sign Gaston Ramirez this weekend for 20 million Euros"
Edward Pinon, the Editor of Uruguayan newspaper 'El Pais' also confirmed that Ramirez is a done deal, stating on Twitter that a fee of £16m (€20m) had been agreed.
No announcements on the transfer yet but that doesn't mean a deal wasn't concluded behind the scenes over the weekend.
Jaimie Kanwar
During an LFC press conference this morning, Rodgers was asked about speculation linking Real Madrid's Esteban Granero with a move to Anfield.
Rodgers ducked the question by insisting that he would 'never speak publicly' about specific Liverpool transfer targets. However, he did reveal a few snippets of potentially exciting information. He said:
"We've made three or four enquiries for players.
"We we hope to conclude one deal this week, maybe two.
"A whole raft of players have been linked but I will never speak publicly about specific targets".
"There won't be lots of players coming in, just three or four tweaks. We con't have a barrell-load of money, and I want to work with and improve the players we already have here"
So, the club could potentially have two new players by the end of the week. Great news, the question is, who...?
One potential signing is Bologna star Gaston Ramirez. Over the weekend, two respected Uruguayan journalists - Rodrigo Romano and Edward Pinon - claimed that Liverpool would complete the signing of Bolgona attacker Gaston Ramirez.
Posting on his Twitter feed, Romano - a football journalist who works for channel VTV Uruguay - said:
"Based on the information I have, Liverpool will sign Gaston Ramirez this weekend for 20 million Euros"
Edward Pinon, the Editor of Uruguayan newspaper 'El Pais' also confirmed that Ramirez is a done deal, stating on Twitter that a fee of £16m (€20m) had been agreed.
No announcements on the transfer yet but that doesn't mean a deal wasn't concluded behind the scenes over the weekend.
Jaimie Kanwar
hope he brings in G. Ramirez and A. Johnson
ReplyDeleteBritsh Journo's are convinced Gaston Ramirez is not happening, but Italian and Uruguayan Journo's are saying it might. Dont know who to believe. I've heard on the grapevine that if Dalglish was still manager the deal for Raminrez would have been long wrapped up, but Rogers is looking elsewhere?
ReplyDeleteSell spearing downing sell adam and carroll . man city have 6 fowards buy balotelli gaston rameriz a defensive mid . we need cover for stevie g because most of the last two years his been out and getting older Jonjo shelvey will be fantastic in his place showed some good games end of last year
ReplyDeleteWe need to act quickly if we are to secure the right players, at the right price. We cannot afford to loose out on targets like we have in the past. A signing or two this week will be positive news.
ReplyDeleteLiverpool Echo are insisting Ramirez will not be joining us?, also saying Dempsey is unlikely!!!!....................hard to know who is a real target.
ReplyDeleteJaimie u rock
ReplyDeleteRamirez great news if true. Who's the other one. I'm liking what I'm hearing from BR. Welldone BR and good luck.
ReplyDeleteThis is brillant news hopefully its ramirez and another striker but also it maybe the real madrid midfielder..
ReplyDeleteEcho denies the Ramirez link! Let's see what happens!
ReplyDeletesounds like the youth are going to get a chance for once...a'la Suso, Coady, Morgan, Sterling, Wisdom, Sama, flanaghan, Robinson and dare i say it; Pacheco??..
ReplyDeleteremember the 'lavezzi to liverpool' nailed on piece once posted here? that was by a supposed expert who was in the know and look where he ended up.
ReplyDeleteas many sources saying this won't happen as it will.
im more inclined to believe that granero is a bonafide target(see reports that Real turned our bid down).
is ramirez instead of sigurdsson? double the price and less proven in the EPL. id be more than happy to see ramirez brought in, although , for the same money, there are many many options and there is some risk attached.
I just report what people say - I don't guarantee that what they say will come true. For example - Rodgers says that one or two signings may be concluded this week; if that doesn't happen, does that then make it wrong to have reported this in the first place? No. Transfers are never foregone conclusions, and things change on a daily basis.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone notice that BR hardly gave Carroll a vote of confidence, when AC Milan was mentioned. I wonder if he is going to bomb him out????
ReplyDeleteyeah great along with balotelli man city probably give us aguero to and while we are at it sign van persie from arsenal and ronaldo from real madrid...... Zuco stop playing football manager
ReplyDeleteYes, totally avoided the question, and didn't provide any positive comments at all. Great :-)
ReplyDeleteI would be happy with any striker as long as he can score 20 league goals, don't think we need to sign a midfielder as long as we can keep Aquilani but quality wingers would be welcome.
ReplyDeletewhy cant we do a part swap downing with ramirez
ReplyDeletebecause everyone apart from you knows that the day that AC milan try to sign carrol is the day that england win the world cup (which by the way will never happen)
ReplyDeleteOh really??, wait and see!!!!
ReplyDeleteAsk Bologna why they don't want Downing???
ReplyDeleteJohnson's not good enough - not a team player!
ReplyDeleteAnd Ramirez is going to Porto!
ReplyDeleteWe need marquee signings at LFC. I`m sick of seeing average players coming to our club while our rivals are signing better players every season and we wonder why we are always lagging behind. This season our rivals have already signed some pretty big names:
ReplyDeleteMan utd: Shinji Kagawa
Chelsea: Marko Marin, Eden Hazard
Arsenal: Olivier Giroud, lukas Podolsk
Even tottenham who just got their new manager a few days ago has already made two new signings. If we want to challenge them we cant sign players from relegated teams or rejects from other teams or good players from smaller teams. We need quality players only, we already have enough squad players like downing, henderson, caroll and company.
Hopefully Brendan Rodgers will get it right and we can finally move forward.
It seems that we are taking our own sweet time with any transfer dealings, the longer there is no movement IN or OUT..i will remain very wary, dreading seeing us play again tbh, last season was just diabolical for many different reasons, what bothers me most is that we still have quite a few players on our books who quite clearly let the previous 2 managers down.....
ReplyDeleteWhy are we taking so long?, we NEED a clear out...and we NEED some decent signings to address some of our "issue's" within the squad, failure to address these issue's will no doubt leave Rodgers with the same problems that faced Roy and Kenny....another dire episode of underperforming players etc and we (along with the new manager) will be well and truly fcuked.....
To say that i have lost faith in the current set up is a gross understatement, whilst we still have certain players on our books i will have absolutely no belief that things will improve....Rodgers, as things stand, will be the next manager casualty at LFC, is all.
Fingers out FSG ffs...
What are you 12 balottelli get you upset he killed euros they have 6 fowards they are trying to off load tevez and dzeko already for van persie so its out there but not so mad just your narrow minded or 12years old
ReplyDeleteMy argument was not against you or the site JK, merely about transfer gossip. it reminds me of the old harry enfield character who used to reply 'some bloke down the pub' when asked where he had heard some far out information. always made me chuckle.
ReplyDeleteOf Jovetic and Ramirez, both are equally exciting and id be happy with either, or both! however, Ramirez seem's the more likely of the 2 due to the homeland connection with luis and sebas.
knowing our luck we'll end up with some championship plodder that's british , 'full of potential' and who came top of the assists league last season.
your a genius everyones opinion is wrong your right great crystal ball you have . tell all of us who will win the third race at ascot ?
ReplyDeletewe all want to see top class players at liverpool but its hard to sign big names when we dont have champions league its not fifa 12
ReplyDeleteSadly the player who will sign for us is Granero not ramirez
ReplyDeleteAnd Wigan have made a 150 million bid for Messi. Deal is supposed to be close and to be completed next week
ReplyDeleteno it's because city will not sell balotelli and 'trutherts' is being realistic
ReplyDeleteMarca reporting that Bara and Madrid both want Daniel Agger, this would be bad news!!!!
ReplyDeleteEven if MC would sell Balotelli, it would be for way way more than we could afford, and that's without taking wages into account, and realistically he would only move to a CL club
ReplyDeleteI'm sure there's a race-horse manager game you could get that info from Zuco ;)
ReplyDeleteRamirez is not going to Porto, that was Martinez you doofus'
ReplyDeleteHow is Kagawa any more of a marquee signing than anybody else?
ReplyDelete"Carroll knows where he stands"
ReplyDeletelooks as if Carroll is going out..atleast on loan..
Look at all the players Wenger has signed over the last 10 years (or however many it is), there have been very very few "marquee signings" and yet Arsenal have been consistently better then us over that same time period.
ReplyDeleteI think "marquee" should take second place to developing a good, FLEXIBLE system of play that can adapt to other teams weaknesses without being predictable and finding the right type of players who can play it well together.
If we discover marquee players to fit the system and we have the money then why not. They would add to the team strength and sell shirts.
Even commercially I think the style of play should come first as consistent performance on the pitch will obviously help consistent commercial performance. We're also more likely to keep the big money making marquee stars for longer too if our playing style is keeping us competitive, and so it creates a situation that feeds itself, allowing exponential growth in performance on the pitch and off it. Not rocket science really, it's what all the worlds top clubs have always tried to do with maybe the exception of Real Madrid and the Galacticos era.
Imagine if we got both Ramirez and Jovetic (!) Dreamland.
ReplyDeletemaybe if we all donate a few quid we can xavi and iniesta too.
ReplyDeletesuso meant to be getting a 3 year deal but will go on loan for the season.other rumour that lambert had an agreement to sign pacheco for norwich so he could go to villa now.
ReplyDeletebologna already have enough ball boys so they don't need downing.
ReplyDeleteha ha ha.
ReplyDeleteBrazilian, Ramirez is a chlesea player since a couple of years
ReplyDeletepart exchange downing + 6m-10m for ramirez
ReplyDeleteMaybe because he is referred to as the "asian messi"...
ReplyDeleteBetting odds on Dempsey joining liverpool on friday was 5/4 and today it's 4/6. If we believe in bookies' sources then it seems negociation has moved to an advanced stage. Not seen any betting offer on Ramirez's transfer though. Maybe bookies don't have sufficient info on Ramirez and they don't wanna take any risk!
ReplyDeleteI won't take gamble on trouble-maker Balotelli. We alrdy have short-tempered Suarez. Balotelli-Suarez it's a big risk bcoz defenders wud wind up these 2. Just imagine these 2 getting carried away and have a go at a defender. Can we afford 2 red cards at once, uh? By the way, after successful euro i think balotelli will cost atleast 50m. We dnt have any Torres to cash in anymore!
ReplyDeleteProbably be the conclusion of selling someone the way things seem to be going.
ReplyDeleteI'm worried about Liverpool getting left behind here. I'm hoping BR isn't seriously banking on the likes of Adam and Joe Cole to contribute significantly.
If I had to bet, I'd say this deal will be Borini. Or Messi. It really is 50-50 at this point.
Yeah along with trouble-maker Balotelli we could also get Joey Barton, Nasri, etc.
ReplyDeleteNot being able to sign top class players because we are not in champions league is ridiculous. Money talks in football, being in champions league or not is irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteif that happens, its definitely curtains for AC!
ReplyDeleteThe more i hear about what rodgers is upto, the less i can see AC being first choice.
Signing Jovetic and Ramirez would be a massive statement, and all the more possible if AC is palmed off for 20m somewhere.
Oh dear. he is one of the best and by far the superior of our 2 main CB's. loosing him would be bad. id rather MS was sold than fanny agger.
ReplyDeleteborini, granero ramirez or jovetic.
ReplyDeleteJake i share your frustration mate. I think that our manager had had his heart set on bringing Gyfi Siggurdson over , so much so that he really did not take a long look around till it became clear to him and pretty much everybody else that his number one target was not going to join him at Anfield. He spent too much time on Siggurdson and I believed the whole deal became a little bit of a distraction. Yeah under Kenny we were linked with Ramirez and I think he would have been Kenny's first choice signing. Seems like Rodgers is working to make Ramirez his first signing now that his first two options are no longer viable. I would like to see Rodgers conclude the signings quickly so that he can have more time with the new players in the off season.
ReplyDeleteGuess he isn't smarter than the average bear, after all.
ReplyDelete:(
BR has since done an interview with the printed press, he said 'the fans will love' his first signing. I wonder who it is?????
ReplyDeleteI just decided that I hate the Echo. I think i will be planting explosives at their headquarters as soon as i figure out where that is.
ReplyDeleteWhen the manager changes, so naturally will the targets.
ReplyDeleteI heard that Lavezzi and Walcott were close to joining when Kenny was manager, but Rodgers will obviously have his own plans.
I blame Kenny for Liverpool having little money and why our team is lacking real quality. The player United signed and the two Chelsea just signed Kenny had enough money to buy them all or young players of that quality, instead we're stuck with Carroll, Downing, Henderson and Adam, the funny or not so funny thing is them 4 players cost more than the players United and Chelsea just signed #Kenny you complete idiot..
ReplyDeleteExcellent post!!!!
ReplyDeleteOr let AC go to AC on loan?
ReplyDeleteIt may well do him the world of good, and if he turns out to be the player we all hope he will become, then we recall him.Just don't put a "first refusal" clause in, as the Eyeties will probably try and fleece us again.......
And because LFC were linked to him.
ReplyDeleteGranero is a better more experienced player than Ramirez imo.
ReplyDeleteI dnt think Sigurdsson saga has anything to do with us not having signed any player yet. Clearly the manager said that he wanted to have a closer look at all players currently available at liverpool. Having said so, i realise we only have couple of days of training so far and most of our regular starters are still on holidays. How can u sign players when u dnt knw which areas need to be strenghen? Secondly, i dnt think Sigurdsson was to be our only transfer target. For example, why didn't we get a striker (Borini maybe) simultaneously while sigurdsson negociation was on? For me, it means that being a new manager and euro competition have forced the manager to delay his signings. For Anfield sake, no more quick fix buys like KD did.
ReplyDeleteDalglish
ReplyDeleteI am hoping our first signing to be Jovetic and second one to be Ramirez.
ReplyDeleteLOLOLOLOLOL
ReplyDeleteEdward Piñon attributes his information to Alvaro Levrero - any idea who Levrero is?
ReplyDeleteBalo is Mancini's pet project and isn't that low down the pecking order at City anyway. If he ever was going to become available, I reckon he would want to go back to Italy, if he had the chance.
ReplyDeleteJourno I think for the Uruguayan newspaper Diario El Pais
ReplyDeleteOr maybe it's already a done deal
ReplyDeleteTHEO WALCOTT
ReplyDeletejovetic and ramirez wud be good for livpool
ReplyDeleteWe need 1 winger, 1 playmaker, 1 lethal striker to start off new season with optimism. These 3 positions need strengthening.
ReplyDeleteMainly because most of our Jedi manager is not yet skilled enough in the art of the Jedi mind trick.
ReplyDeleteBR: You will take Downing in part ex or Ramirez *waves his hand*
Bologna: F£$K YOU!!
BR: oh......
that's mature.i'll give you a clue,their headquaters are in liverpool.
ReplyDeleteDear Kevin if you take the time to read my written words you will see that i never said that Siggurdson was to be the only transfer target. I just said that he was a distraction. Rodgers's first order of business was to go after players he'd worked with. Which ofcourse makes perfect sense because he knew those players. Just not as much as he'd thought he knew them it turns out. Energy and time should be spend on players that actually want to come to Liverpool. Now forced to trudge on ahead he has identified Ramirez whom I think would be a great signing in loo of the new foot-ball strategy being introduced I think that he is a perfect signing.
ReplyDeleteYour comment about the manager needing time to evaluate the players sounds good , and appears to be logical but yeah there is a "but." The reality is that while we wait for all the players currently on vacation to all come back be assessed and they will not all come back on the same day. Our possible transfer targets run the risk of being tapped up by other enterprising clubs. Unfortunatley there is a lot of competition for good talented players with clubs pursuing the same players in many cases. Ramirez has offers from Man City as well as another club so it is in our best interest to close this deal as soon as possible and not wait for Brendan Rodgers to meet all the players and asses them before we make any signings. The transfer window is the same length for every body. How organized you are as a team in pursuing your targets is up to you.
That being said Rodgers is at a disadvantage having just taken the reigns at a new club right at the start of the transfer window. He has less time to do what many other managers have time to do with their squad and that is to develop a working relationship with his core team. The advantage of bringing in all the new players early is simply that to have more time with them in the preseason to fully asses them before games that count officially begin.
If you have a pulse you and you have followed any bit of news about Liverpool from last season you wouldn't need to see the whole squad assembled before you to know that we have need for a striker to compete with Carroll due to his inconsistent play all last season. You don't need to assess the whole squad to know that we need some reinforcements on the left and right side of midfield. Downing's performance leaves a lot to be desired and we have now lost Dirk Kuyt. Henderson is clearly not the answer to the right side of midfield. With a list before him of the players on the team and a list of their respective positions Rodgers can get an idea of where the team needs strengthening even before he conducts a training session.
and a keeper !!!!!!!
ReplyDeletei agree. Spending from last summer affects our transfer budget this summer
ReplyDeleteif only they would want him in fact i wish anyone would want him 10m pounds anyone
ReplyDeletei dont blame kenny for signing carroll it was last minute transfer to replace torres
ReplyDeleteYeah i agree and its because of him that the owners are more reticent this time to give us money for transfers. The purchase of below par players at overinflated prices last season was a complete waste of their money. Our owners are businessmen and businessmen dont like investing money for nothing. Hopefully Brendan Rodgers willl be able to acquire a few gems with whatever funds he will get.
ReplyDeleteAmazing Jamie that you believe 2 journos from overseas, not questioning their intergrity, ahead of Neil Jones of the Echo. I believe the Echo, it's standards aren't as high as they once were but they won't say Ramirez is not coming this summer unless they've been given a tip off by the club. Imagine it Ramirez isn't coming and a week later there he is on the back page having signed, they'd be a laughing stock and they'd never be believed again. So Ramirez isn't coming, who will the player be? I'm not certain and if pushed I'd say Borini but it's only good news if they're top notch, after all do you think it was a red letter day when Downing signed?
ReplyDeleteWhy is it 'amazing'? Why should I not believe these two journos? Don't you think they're more likely to be in a position to know whats going on with Uruguayan players? I do.
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Confirmed by the BBC as Borini. Not sure he's that exciting.
ReplyDeleteI'll tell you why it's amazing you have taken the word of 2 Uruguayan journalists over the mouthpiece of the club, which like it or not the Echo is. Journalists guess stuff all the time, the club know the truth
ReplyDeletehardly exciting though
ReplyDeleteOh God. You've just use 3 buzzwords there. Everyone who uses this site, expect a visit from Special Branch during the night.
ReplyDeleteI'm off to me ma's.
and your clueless, dirk was a team player but offered little as a propper winger. we need players to get past player with a bit of imagination. johnson would be a great addition.
ReplyDeleteI can't say I've seen much of Borini, but his youtube videos are, well, pretty ordinary (I appreciate that that doesn't mean much though). He's young though, so i am hopeful that if he comes, he can develop under the style of Rodgers. Can anyone shed any light if it was Borini that kept Bojan out of the Roma team?
ReplyDeletebig signings this week is 1 player from rangers on loan no money involved. and centre back for italy to replace martin skertel goin to m,c. watch peeps true words
ReplyDeleteExplain how it's curtains for AC if both players are signed....one is a winger and the other plays in the hole....neither of which is AC's position.
ReplyDeleteBut Downing, Henderson and Carroll were all considered good team players weren't they? Isn't it time for a change? Isn't it time we started signing outstanding talent and begin integrating them into a team pattern rather than constantly walking down the road of buying "steady Eddy" players who will take us nowhere quickly.
ReplyDeleteWe have enough natural team players on our books.......it's time for some natural talent.
Carroll was injured and didn't play for 8 weeks. What was the rush to have him.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget Tevez...
ReplyDeleteutter tosh if we wanted a player from rangers we'd just take him not loan him as they went bust their contracts aren't valid. There is a precendant in this Derry City went bust in 2009 and rhe majority of their squad left, and even those that stayed had to sign new contracts with the new company. I do wish fans would stop making stuff up
ReplyDeletebuy Estaban Genaro in order to play spanish footall we hav 2 hav the heart spaniardmiddlfield
ReplyDeleteCould just be a tactic to keep the price down as low as possible. We don't want to sound too desperate so coming from a position of abundance will help our chances.
ReplyDelete.....dude are you actually serious?! Did you think before you typed out that sentence?!
ReplyDeleteThey are talking about GASTON RAMIREZ (URUGUAYAN) not the guy who is already at chelsea!!
andrew u sad lonely prick ur probably a fat computer freek who thinks he knows everythink, u will c and andy carrol is goin out on loan for all u non believers.
ReplyDeleteandrew u sad lonely pri*k u think u no everythink bout football u know sh*t wait an c then ur probably a non*e
ReplyDeleteSeriously how many Spanish midfielders has Rodgers played in his midfield in his 3 previous clubs? He had one Orlandi who was a squad player, making 24 appearances, in 2010/11 but once Swansea got in the Premiership he became an afterthough only making 5 appearances , 2 of which were in the cups. Don't get me wrong I'd love a Xavi, Iniesta, Alonso (God we miss him), or Martinez (Bilbao) but why do we need to sign Spanish midfielders? It's not as though the Spanish invented the style they play, the Dutch did and Rodgers has got British players to play it successfully. If there was one player I saw at the Euros, and it was only on TV so I didn't see him without the ball, who'd suit us to the ground it was Moutinho who looked perfect in the deep lying playmaker role but it'd be a stretch to get him.
ReplyDeleteBorini or Messi:-D I think it could Allso be Robben, Ribery or C. Ronaldo
ReplyDeleteactualy it is now 1/5 (not to be confused with 5/1) that dempsey comes to LFC. They know something.
ReplyDeleteno keep doni. sell the usless spainish clown is what i meant
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