Liverpool scouts travelled to Turkey over the weekend to run the rule over prolific goalscorer Burak Yilmaz, who was in action for Galatasaray in the Kıtalar Arası Derby against Fenerahce. The striker didn't score on this occasion, but the club's scouts reportedly left the game very satisfied, not only with Yilmaz, but also with Gala midfield maestro Selçuk İnan.
According to a report in Turkish newspaper Milliyet, Liverpool scouts were impressed with Burak, but even more impressed with playmaker Inan, who grabbed 13 goals and 16 assists in 40 games for the Turkish giants last season.
The report also suggested that Galatasaray are willing to negotiate over the potential transfer of 27-year old Inan, who was recently described by Sir Alex Ferguson as an 'excellent' player.
Inan is ofter referred to as the "Turkish Xavi", but his own personal role model is France legend Zinedine Zidane, as he told Turkish newspaper HaberTurk in May:
"I know most people say that my style looks like Xavi, I guess it's mostly because I search for free space on the pitch. But we are kind of different. I just like to play simple and I'm always looking for a place where I'll be able to do that.
"I grew up watching Zidane to be honest, even now I watch him before the games and try to remember his moves during the gameplay. I want to play the way he did, shoot the way he did. I'm still working on it".
Inan had two goals and five assists in twelve games for Galatasaray this season, and since arriving on a free transfer in 2011, he's wracked up 36 goals/assists in 51 games.
Jaimie Kanwar
According to a report in Turkish newspaper Milliyet, Liverpool scouts were impressed with Burak, but even more impressed with playmaker Inan, who grabbed 13 goals and 16 assists in 40 games for the Turkish giants last season.
The report also suggested that Galatasaray are willing to negotiate over the potential transfer of 27-year old Inan, who was recently described by Sir Alex Ferguson as an 'excellent' player.
Inan is ofter referred to as the "Turkish Xavi", but his own personal role model is France legend Zinedine Zidane, as he told Turkish newspaper HaberTurk in May:
"I know most people say that my style looks like Xavi, I guess it's mostly because I search for free space on the pitch. But we are kind of different. I just like to play simple and I'm always looking for a place where I'll be able to do that.
"I grew up watching Zidane to be honest, even now I watch him before the games and try to remember his moves during the gameplay. I want to play the way he did, shoot the way he did. I'm still working on it".
Inan had two goals and five assists in twelve games for Galatasaray this season, and since arriving on a free transfer in 2011, he's wracked up 36 goals/assists in 51 games.
Jaimie Kanwar
we already have the welsh xavi?
ReplyDeleteCan tell his loves scoring from free kicks.... Would be cheap too because he has a buyout clause.... Should get him,gomis,ince I would be happy with them signings....
ReplyDeleteLook good from dead ball situations... But can he play football?
ReplyDeleteYilmaz on the other hand is an all round quality striker!
id take them both to LFC. Inan has fantastic eye and boot for setpieces, something liverpool are missing. then again our previous setpiece expert didnt turn out quite the expert after all, and now he plays in Stroke City.
ReplyDeleteNo
ReplyDeletea Striker is our priority we need to score...hang on though we need a midfielder who can pass forward ...then again we need a goalie and a defender wouldn't go a miss...did i mention we need a couple of players who can beat a man ...and a player who can beat the first man with a corner kick....or testing the keeper from a free kick instead of hitting the floodlights.....what about a player who can score from outside the box ..we havnt had that since john barnes...oh i almost forgot ...a manager...and new owners...preferably sheiks or oiliarks with billions to spend.....WELL IT IS CHRISTMASS
ReplyDeletewhy are you saying we want sheiks or oil men ? We are a respectible club !! We dont want to buy the league .We want to win it by assembing a club with the wages that the players deserve!! We have won the 18 championships and 5 European cups without sheiks . HEY!! what if the sheiks decide to go What will happen and will happen to the likes of Man city and Chelsea? Lets get this right Football has to be a fair play system .So that every club starts the same .And another thing is for these greedy football players or the idiot directors offering players 100k a week that should stop , And every player should start on say 30k a week for top premier teams . then if you raise your game and play weekly , your wage will rise on performances and playing time . Just look for example of joe cole on 100k a week , Would you not want to be just on the bench? on 100k . And for sterling i would offer him 20k a week or less , and if he rejected it just let the guy go!! As he is only 17!! Lets get players who want to play football not just for the money And this should be right across the board throughout football / There should be a wage structure on performances and time on the playing field!!.
ReplyDeleteThanks Steve max
have you had a peep at my letter to santa lol
ReplyDeletelol i hope you meant this post with tongue in cheek
ReplyDeleteunfortunatly this is the real world so your post is totaly flawed also we were not shy in spending a bob or two in our day
ReplyDeletespeak for your self steve i just want to win ......we dont live in a utopian society the reason i want coles wage off the books is we cant afford it ...if it was some Russians money ( WHICH WAS PROBABLY GAINED BY DEFAULT ) i wouldn't give a hoot if cole was making tea at 200 grand a week...history doesn't remember losers.....do you thick city or chelsea fans care where the mullah comes from....Ps all property is theft in some form or another get over it
ReplyDeleteHm, for some people it would be easier to find themselves a new club to support.
ReplyDeletedon't insult Xavi by comparing him to the Welsh man
ReplyDeleteToday the chairmen of Prem clubs have agreed that rules have to be invented concerning the spending of clubs and possibly some sort of wage caps. http://www.football365.com/queens-park-rangers/8341423/PL-chairmen-agree-controls
ReplyDeleteFurthermore the financial fair play rules designed by UEFA will become effective any time soon. Don't hold my breath, because UEFA are, like probably most football associations and the FIFA, a bunch of corrupt r soles. The oil-rich of this world will probably find a way to work around all sorts of rules, but here's hoping that the mindless funding and exorbitant wages may find an end.
I hope there's no faffing around in thus window. fed up with whoever negotiates for us. we get more wrong than right and thats poor for a club like LFC. Michu- an inform player in la liga fir £2M or borini who hasnt done much for £10M? Allen for £15M? diame for Free?! Llorente's contract has 6 months to run. Bilbao won't want to lose him for £0 so surely we can get him for around £12M? Also David villa isn't getting a look in at barca. I'm sure he will come to LFC as we would give him game time and at 31 that's what you'd want above anything else. Say £15M for him. Try and sell downing and cole to offset wages. Llorente through the middle. Villa on left. Suarez on right. Job done up front. Llorente adds finishing with both feet and head and has some skill on the deck. Not overly quick but intelligent striker. Villa has creativity, composure skill and finishing ability.
ReplyDeleteAllen will improve more playing with a midfield and forwards that understand his game signings Rodgers wants! Pity Allen moving forward is the same time Sterling is struggling! Allen would make use of him like he did Dyer and Routlage at Swansea.
ReplyDeleteWe won titles without sheikhs you're right but we weren't competing with them when we were champions either.The mega rich has taken football to a place i'm not comfortable with but you have to keep up with the joneses by competing financially or bare having to withstand a painstakingly slow development of youth combined with intelligent purchases.
ReplyDeleteSTERLING, we overload him with games and he's keeping established players out of the team but we expect him to be happy with 20k.We shouldn't have armed his agent with ammunition where he can point to being heavily involved and keeping expensive signings benched.
I wouldn't be thrilled about paying someone so young big money but watching him develop in a side we're trying to compete with, would leave me more disappointed than giving him the inflated pay rise he's looking for.
I cannot understand what is going on at Liverpool, if half the Sports Reports are to be believed then we have about two thousand scouts on our payroll, we cant afford decent players but we can pay these characters to travel the world and watch football??, over the past few weeks we have seen a host of potential "stars" being watched by scouts and yet it seems like we are going to ignore them and go for Ince and Sturridge....is that really the best we can come up with?...surely not!!!...if we can get Ince at a good price thats ok, but Sturridge!!!!...bloody hell!!!!. It appears to me that when players join LFC they tend to deteriorate, not get better, so how will Sturridge do? let me tell you, he failed at Chelsea and he will fail at LFC, my opinion of BR will drop significantly if we buy rubbish in January, I still worry that he has that mid table mentality coupled with an aggressive "in your face management style" .....hell I hope I am wrong about all this and In Feb it all turns around and we start challenging for top four .....my alarm clock just went off ...I must have been dreaming
ReplyDeleteLlorente, half the Turkish national team, someone is showing Europa league ambitions anyway...
ReplyDeleteNo it would be easier to get someone in to run the club i support better.....If we had spent the miilions we have wasted over the decades correctly all the things i wished for we would have.....but if you feel continually wasting money on inflated fees.agents,loan fees and ridiculous wages on players making it imposable to sell them on ...fine i respect that...me im not....its gross negligence ....and id be happy for every reds fan in the land to sing it from the rooftops til it sinks in .......because from where im sitting its still business as usual at the bank of liverpool
ReplyDeletethe problem we have nige is we cant get rid of players without paying there contract off...rodgers and co have rendered the fringe players he wants to sell off as worthless .....why will clubs take them off our wage list when we will loan them out and pay there wages....we get took for a ride when loaning players out or loaning players in .....the incompetence on a commercial front at anfield is the stuff of legends....the likly hood is we will get ince at a loss of 4m....loan cole to QPR paying 80/90 per cent of his wages .....take a nominal fee for downing ...but have to contribute to his wages ....its grim reading i know buts its true YNWA
ReplyDeleteCan you please tell or inform us at Fédération Internationale de Football Association
ReplyDeleteFIFA-Strasse 20,
P.O. Box 8044 Zurich, Switzerland
Tel : +41-(0)43 222 7777,
Fax : +41-(0)43 222 7878.
Where you got your information from that,,, fifa and uefa are corrupt ,,and what football associations you are referring to,, If a publication of information is false, then a tort of defamation might have occurred.
Go away, you sad fool. Your IP address gives you away. Banned.
ReplyDeletecannot believe we are going after Sturridge and for around 12 mill too. We have become a club of mugs. I want so much to believe in BR, but when a manager starts playing half a team out of their positions surely the alarm bells should ring. And on another note wingers need target men to aim for, what is the point of the wide players when all they do is cut inside cos there is no big No9, they are just further congesting the last 3rd, crossing the ball is a waste of time now, instead we try to over complicate things an try to walk it in, get the lads shooting on sight no matter what I say lol...
ReplyDeleteWay better than Sturridge or Ince.
ReplyDeletejust a quick question lads,looks like frank lampard is on his way out,do you think it would be a good or bad idea to go for him,reason for asking this is because i think it would allow gerard to play further upfield to suport suarez plus would get him for next to nothing
ReplyDeleteWhat an absolute KN0BHEAD you are
ReplyDeleteOf course I don't think that we've spent our money wisely and wish we would do better. We've actually tried three sets of owners in the past two decades and they've all spent poorly in one way or another. My point is that it's obviously not so easy to find the perfect owners.
ReplyDeleteGo check the media. The other guy who contested Blatter for the FIFA presidency just got banned from all his jobs because of corruption. Blatter on the other hand hands out contracts to a company run by his son. It's all well documented.
ReplyDelete