11 Mar 2013

Game on: LFC want 'formidable' €11m striker. Good enough to challenge SAS...?

During the January transfer window, Liverpool were linked with a move for PSG striker Kevin Gameiro. The Reds bought Daniel Sturridge instead, but reports in France this week claim that the striker is still on the club's radar.

According to french newspaper L'Equipe:

"According to our information, Kevin Gameiro is still wanted by Liverpool.

"He is disappointed with his situation at PSG, and could therefore leave the club at the end of the season. Dortmund and Valencia are also interested"


In December, The Guardian claimed:

"Liverpool will try to secure Kevin Gameiro on an initial six-month loan from Paris St-Germain should the [Sturridge] deal collapse".

Then, in January, The Telegraph reported

"Liverpool are pressing ahead with a loan bid for Paris St-Germain striker Kevin Gameiro, despite the imminent arrival of Daniel Sturridge from Chelsea"

The arrivals of Zlatan Ibrahimovic Ezequiel Lavezzi have relegated Gameiro to the sidelines at PSG, and with only fives starts for the club this season, the 25-year old would probably welcome a move in a bid to get first team football.

Despite his lack of pitch time, Gameiro - who cost PSG €11m in the summer of 2011 - has grabbed 4 goals in 4 starts for PSG this season, and his stats for the last three completed seasons are good, but not great:

* 51 goals/12 assists in 114 appearances.
* Goal every 2.2 games
* Goal/assist every 1.8 games

In January, PSG coach Antoine Kombouare outlined Gamiero's qualities:

"Gameiro is mentally strong, and has great self-belief. He is able to make space for himself, but he is, above all, a formidable goalscorer, and is in the right place at the right time"

When asked recently about the possibility of a move away from PSG, Gameiro seemed unfazed by his lack of regular first team football. He told RMC Radio:

"Everything can go fast in football but I'm Parisian and prepared to give everything for this shirt. I feel good in Paris and I want to stay for the moment".

The key phrase here appears to be 'for the moment', which suggests Gameiro is open to a move at some point. He certainly can't compete with Ibrahimovic (who can?), so a move would seem to be very much on the cards.

Good enough for LFC? Is he needed? Where would he fit in? If Gameiro is struggling for first-team football at PSG, I doubt he'd be a regular starter ahead of SAS at Liverpool.





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50 comments:

  1. If he can't compete against Ibra then how he is going to compete the place in LFC. Sturridge might be possible but Suarez I think he will be a guarantee start and Borini and Caroll will be gone soon? 

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  2. he would not start instead of suarez but thats if hes hear sturridge as done ok but still as lots to learn ,he seems to think its all about him and the team come second,imo or maybe hes trying to impress to much but like someone posted yesterday he dose not celabrate unless he scores

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  3. Who cares how/when he celebrates? His job is to score/create goals, and with 7 goals/assists in 8 games, he's doing his job.

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  4. ChampsWinnerTraore1:42 pm, March 11, 2013

    Whats ur issue with Sturridge ?

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  5. ChampsWinnerTraore1:44 pm, March 11, 2013

    Exactly it grinds my gears when people base ther opinion of a footballer on there character and attitude rather than there ability on the ball its pretty tedious

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  6. Why does he think its all about him? What are you actually basing this on?
    Juat because he has a confident manner, doesnt mean he thinks its all about him.
    You need your strikers to be confident. There is no point in having someone shy away from the occasion.

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  7. and his blatent dive still waiting for your view on that,or as i said do we only talk about these things if it suarez

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  8. I think maybe it's because he does not seem to celebrate the goals unless scored by himself. That's the impression he may give.

    Also he does a very silly celebratory dance and not getting to do it more often may leave him with pms.

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  9. is ability on the ball was poor yesterday,also the celabration thing like i said its what someone posted yesterday i did not see you getting all high and mighty with them ,and finally i do not have a problem with sturridge just imo he needs to vastly improve is game (which may well come in time )to deserve some(not all) of the exaggerated praise he recieves on this site

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  10. ChampsWinnerTraore2:07 pm, March 11, 2013

    There was contact though it was exagerrated

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  11. ChampsWinnerTraore2:13 pm, March 11, 2013

    Ok he had his worse game so far in a reds shirt but it wasnt massively dissapointing he's been involved in 7 goals directly out of 8 apps and he's overall play is being questioned what you expecting messi and ronaldo stats loool

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  12. personally i do not give a toss if there was contact or not it was a dive after contact and like i say iam not that bothered what bothers me is if it was suarez thats all what jaimies posts would have been about today ,ive asked him loads of time and he just ignores it,one rule for one one rule for all

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  13. I would not always be too happy to play with Suarez the guy rarely passes when he can shoot. Luckily he has good finishing abilty and scores so much because there are many times where there are team mates in better positions. For example the coutinho penalty shout sturridge was free for a pull back and he shot.

    Also downing when he scored sturridge had an open goal. But obviously im not complaining as he scored.

    In other news just read about Suarez's "outrageous" dive to win the penalty..  made me so angry! I thought it was superb movement to let it come over his shoulder and he was bundled over. pretty sure rugby tackles arent allowed..

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  14. Good player and we need 2 add another top striker,,, This lad fits the bill would be a cracking addition if we can get him!!!

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  15. It was a dive.  The slo-mo replay only hghlighted how blatant a dive it was.  I was surprised he wasn't carded for it.

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  16. Jason, if you mention this once more (i.e. you make the ridiculous comparison so Suarez) you're getting a one week ban. Stop clogging the site with your sniping about this issue.

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  17. I don't think he'd add anything more to the team, would be better off keeping Borini.

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  18. What about Fergusons non handshake with Benitez! He is a disgrace to football he should never be allowed to manager Utd again, well thats what he must surely think of himself, if that is what he thought of Suarez.

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  19. fair play m8 just as long as you keep your post live so people can make there own mind up who the hypocrit is,and as pandle as said in his opinion it was a dive as well so at least thats two of us who think it was delibarate

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  20. Christianthomasen3:06 pm, March 11, 2013

    Jamie K, you should really consider the way you run this forum. Eg. "If you mention this once more (...) you're getting a one week ban". Come on - that is just silly. Jason is actually pointing towards a real problem here; how Suarez temper, tendency of diving is viewed in a completely different, much more strict manner than any other domestic player in the league. Answer to that instead of going all soveriegn on him.

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  21. We all hvae to accept for now that the Press do not like Suarez.These are the same 'journalist's who refuse to be equally critical of Bales diving.
    Next season the press will be in full attack mode as we get nearer or in the Champions League places.

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  22. Iker Muniain please! Young, technically gifted, tricky, would link well with our attack as he could easily play right across it, probably wouldn't be a bank-breaker to get him and he scores. Him, Sturridge and Suarez, with Coutinho behind them, yes please!

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  23. watch him a few times, nothing special

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  24. brendans reds were lucky yesterday and have been with suarez, how many games has he missed this season and were not as good as last year when suarez missed  at least 9 games through bans and lucas was out had we kept kenny we would have had walcott and diame at 14m the cost of brendan but assaidi 3m+ allen "the crab"15m and sturridge 12m,borini 10m = 40m we could have signed falcao or cavani

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  25. While I don't care much if he goes wild to celebrate a goal for us or not, you have a point concerning his ability on the ball yesterday. Had he been more alert/already got out of bed mentally, we'd have been a goal up in the seventh minute.

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  26. Yes, in his opinion. He's free to write an article about it.

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  27. Great player in the making, but I'd be very surprised if he was in the same price range as Gameiro.

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  28. Spilt milk. Kenny is gone. Not sure about Walcott. It's not as if he had an agreement with Kenny. Diame, possibly. Falcao to Liverpool? Well, you are allowed to have dreams. That on won't happen.

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  29. Jaimie some good articles of late well done!

    My question IF we buy Gamerio how much of a priority would it be ?
    Personally, I'd rather have a new keeper, and two center backs.
    We have good wide attacking players in Couthnio, Sterling,Assaidi, and two quality strikers in Suarez and Sturrudge.
    Whats about promoting Morgan from the reserves?

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  30. so was it a dive or not stop sitting on the fence

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  31. kennys alive and well walcott was a done deal at 14m. and fat sam as said diame was going to liverpool but take this fact kenny was wanted he shocked football to the core when he took over and was doing well untill lucas was ruled out hence diame to make sure we would have stayed in the top4  even if lucas was missing but treated like dirt by FSG and wanna bees and bums like collymore who threw his career away unlike the messiah and 4 titles as a manager and sacked after a bad/unlucky 5 months it does make me laugh 1 home win and were world beaters again but rodgers has to go if he fails to get top 4 even on goals scored or it confirms kenny is better off away from the rats and brendan won't win anything he never has  

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  32. a new keeper and 2 centre backs and take 2 seasons to gel or fail like james,friedel,and kirkland and the top clubs want pepe,agger and skrtel why cos there bad players and assaidi aint a good player like sturridge hasn't proved he is quality he may do but he has to do it for 2 seasons like suarez

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  33. he just wasn't match fit yesterday .....but hes still a goal threat

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  34. wheres the sick bag

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  35. What are you talking about now, Jason? I am not sitting on a fence. If Pandle thinks something was a dive, it is his opinion and he's entitled to this opinion. That was what I was on about. If Jaimie thinks it wasn't it's his opinion and he, too, is entitled to it.

    If you want to know my opinion, both Suarez for the pen and Sturridge shortly before, went down in a theatrical way, but they were both fouled (that defender kicked out at Sturridge and hit him, too. The other defender bulldozed into Suarez.). It's a sad think in general that players tend to go down nowadays as soon as they feel the slightest of contacts (Bale clutching his face anyone? That's what I call feigning injury, yellow card offence in itself, plus another for going down for nothing.).

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  36. It has to be KK's fault Anthony.  He had 120mn to build his squad, but blew that on craps & garbage.  With 120mn one can build a whole squad of 25 players, who can finish at 8th position. 

    Let's forget that chapter & silly comparisons.  KK is a living legend, my lifetime hero as a footballer, was a great Manager when he was in touch.  English game has changed lot in last 15 years & during this period, KK being out in wilderness, lost his Managerial touch.  & KK's media handling was pathetic, sorry to say.

    I was never comfortable, when FSG appointed him for long term.  Being a club legend, he came as a messiah when things were bad, but continued too long.  Now the relationship is twisted & someone like King Kenny is keeping distance with Anfield - should have never gone to this level.

    BR is a fantastic Manager, with vision & an own style of doing things; but he himself is learning as well.  The LFC job was too big for him at start, but his progress is also encouraging.  KK was hampered by the 8 games ban of Suarez & Lucas's injury, but, had LFC bought Sturridge in July, we would have been 10 points better now. 

    KK never tried to utilize his resources, but the way Enrique, Henderson & remarkably Downing playing, we must appreciate BR's contribution.  He is our Manager & let's support him.  In 120+ years I don't know how many Managers we had sacked, but in last 3 years, we have done 3 (Ok 2.5, Rafa left with "mutual understanding" before his contract expired).  I don't want it 4 out of 4.      

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  37. If KD and Comolli could pay 35 mil pounds for AC, what makes you think he will get Walcott and Diame for what, 14 mil pounds (not even half of that mind-boggling 35 mil pounds)? BR is not astute in the transfer market but that does not make him inferior to KD, in this aspect of the game, please. Also iyo, LS is a better player under KD. For me, I would prefer to look at stats. Right now LS is leading the league in goals scored. This fact should be indisputable.

    Let's see where LFC ends up in the league table at the end of this season.

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  38. Personally if we were going to go for another striker or a wide player who can slot into a 4-3-3 I would rather go for the following: Jesus Navas, Younes Belhanda, Arda Turan, Alexis Sanchez, James Rodriguez, Erik Lamela, Iker Muniain, Markel Susaeta, Ben Arfa, Mauro Zarate,  Matias Suarez, Cristian Tello, Dries Mertens, Siem De Jong, Alain Traore, Antoine Griezmann, Jeffren Suarez.
     
    If we are going for clinical ability in front of goal: David Villa, Hulk, Roberto Soldado, Jackson Martinez, Stevan Jovetic, Mauro Icardi, Antonio Cassano, Andre Schurrle, Leandro Damiao, Rodrigo, Lorenzo Insigne, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Lucas Ocampos, Wilfried Bony, Lacina Traore or Alex Pato.

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  39. Cavani or Falcao of course would be a dream but we have to be realistic.

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  40. Complete balderdash! Walcott or Diame was never going to come to LFC. How about Charlie "pork pie " Adam or Andy "snail pace" Carroll who cost 35+8= £43 mill down the drain. Whether they will be prem footballers next season is debatable!

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  41. lol they were chalk and cheese sturridge dived after the event it was embarrassing he looked sheepish when he got up

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  42. He went down theatrically. You can call that a dive if you wish to. Still the defender kicked out at him (and hit the target). Don't know why you can't acknowledge that. The way Suarez went down looked theatrically to me, too, though he was hit much more obvious than Sturridge.

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  43. First of all, let's get the following out of the way: Kenny Dalglish was my boyhood idol. I've admired him very much for his football playing ability.

    I didn't mean to say that Kenny was dead. My point was that he isn't with the club anymore.

    If Walcott was a done deal, then there would have been no way to get out of it, even after sacking Kenny. The deal, if there was one, surely was with the club and not with Kenny personally. Therefore, I'd like to disagree with the "done deal" you claim.

    We were 8th in the league when Kenny left, not in the top four. If Lucas was so pivotal to achieving top 4, why didn't Kenny sign a back-up for him after his first half-season? I won't use Lucas absence for parts of this season as an excuse for Rodgers, and I find it baffling that some people use it as an excuse for Kenny.

    I don't know whether or not Kenny shocked football to the core when he took over, as you claim. Many people were surprised. Shocked? Could be in a positive or negative way.

    Kenny did very well when he took over from Roy, but my opinion, which obviously differs greatly from yours, is that he should have rested it there, for his and the club's good.

    The way you describe, or rather get animated about, FSG tells me one thing. You obviously didn't get over Kenny getting the sack (or leaving by mutual consent as they call it today). He has received a hefty pay-off and my humble opinion is that, would he love the club as much as he claims to do, then he would have agreed to a more reasonable fee.

    Why you think that we are world-beaters after one home win is beyond me, though. And as for "Brendan won't win anything, he never has", erm, well, so no-one who hasn't won anything before has ever won something? Right. Think about it. And think about Shankly.

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  44. And may I add that I for one am glad that Andy Carroll isn't the focal point of our attacks anymore.

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  45. sturridges was a dive plainand simple he dived afterthe event ,obviously you do not want to upset big brother

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  46. Jason, you obviously don't know the concept that different people have different opinions. Sturridge was kicked out at by the opponent. Plain and simple. He then hauled himself to the ground theatrically. The only one who seems to think he is "big brother" or some devine being on here is you and I don't really mind upsetting you.

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  47. You should go and see the Doctor about that

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  48. He doesn't like Black Players at Liverpool

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