Celtic boss Neil Lennon has reacted angrily to continued speculation linking star midfielder Victor Wanyama with a move to Liverpool.
The Reds have been linked with Wanyama several times over the last month, and Wanyama recently confirmed that Celtic had received 'many bids' for his services. The youngster's regular public comments on the issue have irritated Lennon, who accused the Kenyan star of ignoring Celtic's club policy:
"I’m a bit annoyed with the agent and player [Wanyama] for talking about club business while on international duty. I am not just singling out Victor on this but he knows the club policy, and I'm not happy about the way things have been dealt with.
"It does not surprise me that there is interest in Victor as he had an incredible season. We think he is a great player but as far as we are concerned Victor he signed a long-term contract"
Wanyama's agent recently stated that the 21 year old wanted to play 'at the highest level', and in an interview with the Daily Record recently, Wanyama confirmed his desire to move to the Premier League. He said:
"I think the Premier League is the dream of so many players, so I'd be happy to play there. There are a lot of good clubs in England, and it would not be a terrible thing for me if the club agree to let me go, and they were to get a good offer. I'm proud I'm the first Kenyan to play in the UK and I'd be very happy to be the first Kenyan to play in the Premier League"
With Lucas Leiva the only dedicated first-team defensive midfielder at Liverpool right now, signing a back-up/competition must surely be on Brendan Rodgers' agenda, and Wanyama looks like he has the potential to be excellent competition.
€10m [£8m]-rated Wanyama cost Celtic less than £1m a year ago so if Liverpool go in for him, a transfer shouldn't be too difficult to conclude.
Jaimie Kanwar
The Reds have been linked with Wanyama several times over the last month, and Wanyama recently confirmed that Celtic had received 'many bids' for his services. The youngster's regular public comments on the issue have irritated Lennon, who accused the Kenyan star of ignoring Celtic's club policy:
"I’m a bit annoyed with the agent and player [Wanyama] for talking about club business while on international duty. I am not just singling out Victor on this but he knows the club policy, and I'm not happy about the way things have been dealt with.
"It does not surprise me that there is interest in Victor as he had an incredible season. We think he is a great player but as far as we are concerned Victor he signed a long-term contract"
Wanyama's agent recently stated that the 21 year old wanted to play 'at the highest level', and in an interview with the Daily Record recently, Wanyama confirmed his desire to move to the Premier League. He said:
"I think the Premier League is the dream of so many players, so I'd be happy to play there. There are a lot of good clubs in England, and it would not be a terrible thing for me if the club agree to let me go, and they were to get a good offer. I'm proud I'm the first Kenyan to play in the UK and I'd be very happy to be the first Kenyan to play in the Premier League"
With Lucas Leiva the only dedicated first-team defensive midfielder at Liverpool right now, signing a back-up/competition must surely be on Brendan Rodgers' agenda, and Wanyama looks like he has the potential to be excellent competition.
€10m [£8m]-rated Wanyama cost Celtic less than £1m a year ago so if Liverpool go in for him, a transfer shouldn't be too difficult to conclude.
Jaimie Kanwar
I doubt we will go for him. It sounds like the other Celtic players we've been linked with this past year(Kayal and their left back).
ReplyDeleteNever heard of him or of Liverpools supposed interest.
ReplyDeletedont forget nakamura that japenese player who knew how to take a fk
ReplyDeleteThis story is about 4 months too late
ReplyDeleteLooks good, strong and intelligent
ReplyDeleteOld news re-hashed and it was nonsense the first time ! Worth far more than 8 million irrespective of what we paid for him ! Lazy journalism
ReplyDeleteYou cant blame Lennon for being a bit peeved, this guy has one good season and now he thinks hes bigger than Celtic and is trying to engineer himself a move away. He looks a decent player but is yet another central midfielder. We need another striker if Carrol is to go and some pace and trickery on the wings, my choice would be Adam Johnson. Give Agger and Skrtel another contract and then sign Allen and then our team looks a good solid unit.
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well one thing i will say is hands off our players you go to the spl looking for bargains and then coomplain because they are inexperienced well guys cfc are not a selling club so go get someone else if we sellin anyone its ki
ReplyDeleteThis would be a very good signing for our club, but i think BR should be looking for more attacking options, ie Gaston Ramirez, Adam Johnson, and a good Forward player, who knows where the goal is? Im sorry but im not totally convinced with Borini? I hope im wrong. Ive recently heard rumours, that we could be going after Ricardo Quaresma but if rumours are to be true? Although i think he is better than 80% of our midfield players at the moment, i think he is a bit hit or miss at times. Just hope BR knows what hes doing? only time will tell. RedMan4Life.
ReplyDeleteSo you are not impressed with Borini, What a tosser
ReplyDeletehe as hardly completed one game yet give the lad
a chance ffs.....
This story is at least one week old and possibly two weeks old
ReplyDeleteWanyama being scouted by Manu, etc etc, and Celtic dont do loans, so thats us outa the equation.
ReplyDeleteQuaresma 29 year old past his best, just look at the club who are trying to get rid of him, is that we are reduced to.?
Beratov-Quaresma-Dempsey,,,,, thought there was already a team called the PENSIONERS.
Wanyama is a great midfielder but liverpool is an over ambition for him...he can perform but not regularly...so as a kenyan i would advise him to remain at celtic and continue playing regular football so that he can develop further,dreams are not achieved in a day because should come to liverpool then there is a very high possibility that he will be on the sidelines struggling for first team football that is not healthy for a player above 22yrs of age.
ReplyDeleteLook at his brother McDonald Mariga,he played good football at Parma and when he rushed to Inter Milan he played rarely under Mourinho and then that was the turning point of his good football,he went to Real Sociedad and then now back to Parma
Allen is overhyped because he played under BR, with one good-season everyone is claiming he is that good? Shevely, Suso are worthy players for the mid-openings, Wanyama is a good def-mid player, very cheap but effective cover for Lucas. Lets get around this Swansea players-links from the press, they are cheaper and better option available even on loans outside the UK as BR stated earlier. Sahin has been linked to us & Arsenal for a season-long loan, that should be priority not expensive 1-season wonders who will spend too much time on the bench and getting very well paid for it.
ReplyDeleteChelsea, Man Utd and Arsenal have all been linked to Wanyama, why is Lennon only angry with Liverpool as your title suggests? As a Liverpool news / fan site, I think we should not fuel the anti-Liverpool propaganda which the recent media love spreading.
ReplyDeletedoh, this exact story raised its silly head about 6 weeks agao..KEEP UP LIVERPOOL KOP.
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So we don't need cover for Lucas?! That's what Kenny thought and you saw how last season went! So who would you like covering Lucas then? Spearing again?!
ReplyDeleteHaving watched the GB team in the Olympics it looks like Allen doesn't mind putting his foot in, so I would play him in that position. He seems to play very deep anyway so he would be expected to win his fair share of tackles. I'd also like Shelvey to be given more game time because I've been impressed with him in pre-season, although I know he'd play higher up the field. If we really haven't got that much money to spend would you rather we spend what we do have on a back up holding midfielder or buy a player who will improve our first eleven??
ReplyDeleteWhy would Wanyama go to a third rate team like liverpool? Man. Utd - yes!
ReplyDeletei believe non of the BOSS will happy talking about their star player being linked out
ReplyDeleteI thought I read this a while ago on this site, did I not?
ReplyDeleteRemind me what Man U won last season. You had better get used to winning nothing, because your unbelivable jammy luck over the past few years with a decidedly average team just ran out pal.
ReplyDeleteWhy would Wanyama join a team which will be fighting relegation? Like any upcoming young player, his ambition must be to win medals. He has to set his sights higher than a poor Liverpool!
ReplyDeleteWith the way the transfer window seems to be progressing, Liverpool will not be finishing higher than 7th - provided Everton get their customary bad start to the season. The owners sell to buy policy is clearly not working, and I cannot see us being any more than a mid table team. Bellamy and Agger may leave, Skrtel hasn't signed a new contract, Chalie Adam is still around and none of the rumoured list of Gaston Ramirez/Vargas/Tello/Afellay/Johnson/Walcott/Sahin has showed up at Anfield. And they wont, cause it looks more likely than ever that we wont be spending anything close to the 30 million budget rumoured.
ReplyDeleteUnless Borini turns out to be the next Torres, what hope do we have?
The only good thing is Rodgers PR - that won't win us titles will it?
Another season down the toilet.
There was some talk of him and LFC about 2 months ago but it all went quiet.
ReplyDeleteThe rumoured budget ceiling was £20M but it is a well known fact that ceilings come high and low.....
ReplyDeletethe only celtic player i really want is ki seung yeung. seriously sell adam and spearing and get ki and some other solid defensive midefielder. our main targets should still be on the wing/forward positions.
ReplyDeleteid rather get hooper
ReplyDeleteThere won't be a striker like Torres in his prime at Liverpool for a long time. Pace and Power. Something we have been lacking for many seasons now.
ReplyDeleteI think Ki would suit Liverpool better than Wanyama as he is far more technical and would fit with BRs playing style, both of these guys and also Mathews and Hooper would do very well in the Premier league
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