In January, Liverpool scouts travelled to Australia to watch Melbourne Victory attacker Marco Rojas in action against Sydney FC. At the time, Melbourne coach Ange Postecoglou insisted that no deal could be concluded until the summer, and with only two months of the season remaining, Rojas has hinted that a move abroad could definitely be on the cards.
According to The Mirror:
"Anfield officials sent back a positive report on Marco Rojas, the 21-year-old Melbourne Victory starlet who scored one goal and set up another against Sydney"
When asked yesterday about the possibility of a summer transfer to the Premier League, Rojas told the New Zealand Herald:
"We're still going over it, Dad [his agent] and me. Once the season's finished, I'll be able to speak about it a lot better."
“It [transfer speculation] has gone quiet for a while, so that's been good. If I focus on that too much, it'll affect my performance - and I don't want that to happen"
In March, Australia international Archie Thompson, hailed Rojas' contribution for Melbourne. He told reporters:
"It was good for him [Rojas] to be on the scoresheet. He's been one of our outstanding players and the team's always going to do well when he's scoring goals."
To be honest, I'd be extremely surprised if Rojas ended up at Liverpool. With the greatest respect to the A-League, the Premier League is a gargantuan step-up in quality, and signing the New Zealander would be something of a risk.
Rojas has 15 goals in 25 games so far this season, but last season he didn't score a single goal in 24 games. Overall, his career record of 17 goals in 69 games is not the most inspiring, and even though he'd probably be cheap, are his talents enough to justify stunting the progression of existing LFC youngsters toiling away in the academy?
Liverpool travel to Australia during the summer, and will face Melbourne victory in one of their games, so Reds fans will get the chance to see how Rojas fares against top class players. The 21-year is massively excited about the prospect, and in an interview with LFC.com, he enthused:
"I'm most looking forward to playing against Steven Gerrard. I admire everything about him. Luis Suarez is world class too. Daniel Sturridge is another exciting young player and Philippe Coutinho looks special too. All throughout the team, Liverpool have great players and that's why it's so exciting to be coming up against them."
Jaimie Kanwar
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According to The Mirror:
"Anfield officials sent back a positive report on Marco Rojas, the 21-year-old Melbourne Victory starlet who scored one goal and set up another against Sydney"
When asked yesterday about the possibility of a summer transfer to the Premier League, Rojas told the New Zealand Herald:
"We're still going over it, Dad [his agent] and me. Once the season's finished, I'll be able to speak about it a lot better."
“It [transfer speculation] has gone quiet for a while, so that's been good. If I focus on that too much, it'll affect my performance - and I don't want that to happen"
In March, Australia international Archie Thompson, hailed Rojas' contribution for Melbourne. He told reporters:
"It was good for him [Rojas] to be on the scoresheet. He's been one of our outstanding players and the team's always going to do well when he's scoring goals."
To be honest, I'd be extremely surprised if Rojas ended up at Liverpool. With the greatest respect to the A-League, the Premier League is a gargantuan step-up in quality, and signing the New Zealander would be something of a risk.
Rojas has 15 goals in 25 games so far this season, but last season he didn't score a single goal in 24 games. Overall, his career record of 17 goals in 69 games is not the most inspiring, and even though he'd probably be cheap, are his talents enough to justify stunting the progression of existing LFC youngsters toiling away in the academy?
Liverpool travel to Australia during the summer, and will face Melbourne victory in one of their games, so Reds fans will get the chance to see how Rojas fares against top class players. The 21-year is massively excited about the prospect, and in an interview with LFC.com, he enthused:
"I'm most looking forward to playing against Steven Gerrard. I admire everything about him. Luis Suarez is world class too. Daniel Sturridge is another exciting young player and Philippe Coutinho looks special too. All throughout the team, Liverpool have great players and that's why it's so exciting to be coming up against them."
Jaimie Kanwar
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To be honest I don't think we will make a move for him. But sometimes it's not about where a player plays but his quality.
ReplyDeleteHulk played in Japan for 4-5 years before moving to Porto and he was a success. Granted, the Portuguese League is not a strong as the PL but my point is...I love when teams sign obscure players and they turn out great!
If we do sign him I do hope he does well...but his stats are not that impressive to be honest.
cannot be to much of a risk because even though you do not metion a fee jaimie i am assuming it would be a pittance if any,hes hardly going to be pushing us towards the top four next year another one for the future,
ReplyDeleteThink this guy would be a waste of our supposedly limited funds
ReplyDeleteI watch him in the A league from time to time and although very talented i think a year in the championship would sort him out but not good enough for Liverpool.
ReplyDeleteYou may see in in the match against the victory on July 24 in Melbourne in front of 100000 people.
The tickets to the public sold out here in 10 mins online a record for the MCG so off to the rotten scalpers on Ebay.
Superb player for me in my FIFA career mode. haha.
ReplyDeletegoodluck with your ticket hunt;-)
ReplyDeleteHis contract with Victory expires after the season and there were no news of extension. So Rojas won't be just cheap, he will be free.
ReplyDeleteManaged to beat the filthy scalper dogs, and got my tickets to the LFC Vs MV match. Hopefully will be able o cast my eye over Rojas, but also over some of the players I have not been able to see since emigrating 6 years ago. Would love to see Suarez obviously, but really more keen on evaluating Wisdom, Robinson, Flanno, and the much maligned Lucas, Downing and Hendo.
ReplyDeleteThis may be the last LFC game I ever see live, so am very glad to be doing so at a time of great optimism for the club - at least, for most of us :-)
Well I watch this guy every week and while I think it would probably be too big a step up for him (I see him playing in somewhere like Holland in the future) there would be no risk at all IMO because I don't think any player has transferred from an A-League club to any other club for a fee over 1m. That figure is probably significantly less than 1m. So in terms of LFC and cash in football, thats chump change.
ReplyDeletecheers for clearing that up:-)
ReplyDeletedont they show all the lfc matches down there only the ones we win
ReplyDeletethnx jason i will need it
ReplyDeletemaybe you could get a spare one on this site i see some posters have tickets :-)
ReplyDeleteon another subject lfc,s youth cup semi final against chelsea is live on itv4 tonight at 7,30
ReplyDeleteJaimie, I can assure you, no team over here would be asking for any more than 2M at max. The financial resources clubs have over here are far smaller than the ones of Europe, and 2 million dollars in transfer revenue here is like 20 million pounds in england.
ReplyDeleteJason, we get much better EPL coverage here than you do in the UK.
ReplyDeleteJase we get every EPL game live apart from the last day of the season plus most of the FA and League cups.
ReplyDeleteHe would be incredibly cheap. Probably around 1m or so and his wages would be next to nothing however I'm not really sure he has to quality to play in the PL. He is incredibly fast though but I feel he would get bullied off the ball as he doesnt have the technical ability of some of the other small and agile players that are enjoying success in the EPL. I think he will move abroad to a bigger club next seasons but I would be surprised if its Liverpool.
ReplyDeleteI think Rojas would thrive under a more sophisticated game plan than LFC. Rogers certainly an improvement, but the Bundesliga is stronger, and would get what Rojas can do.
ReplyDeletethats what narks me the country that its played gets the worse coverage
ReplyDeleteYeah it's a funny old world!
ReplyDeletelol
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