Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has revealed that his scouting team is watching a potential transfer target during the club's tour of Australia.
Speaking to The Australian after Wednesday's 2-0 win over Melbourne Victory, Rodgers explained:
"We are always looking to bring in great young talent and our head of recruitment may have found one.
"I'm not sure where he drove to, but he watched a game outside of Melbourne.
"The pitch was not in the best condition, but he spotted a kid who was absolutely outstanding and he is just 15."
Rodgers refused to divulge any information about the identity of the mystery player, and according to The Australian, further enquiries with the club also fell on deaf ears:
"Liverpool officials were adamant last night they would not reveal any information about the youngster because they wanted to protect him at this stage and not alert other clubs to his talent"
It's good to see that the club is still working on some kind of transfer business during the pre-season tour (!), but whether anything comes of this remains to be see.
Jaimie Kanwar
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Speaking to The Australian after Wednesday's 2-0 win over Melbourne Victory, Rodgers explained:
"We are always looking to bring in great young talent and our head of recruitment may have found one.
"I'm not sure where he drove to, but he watched a game outside of Melbourne.
"The pitch was not in the best condition, but he spotted a kid who was absolutely outstanding and he is just 15."
Rodgers refused to divulge any information about the identity of the mystery player, and according to The Australian, further enquiries with the club also fell on deaf ears:
"Liverpool officials were adamant last night they would not reveal any information about the youngster because they wanted to protect him at this stage and not alert other clubs to his talent"
It's good to see that the club is still working on some kind of transfer business during the pre-season tour (!), but whether anything comes of this remains to be see.
Jaimie Kanwar
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Brendan should get his priorities right ,resolve the suarez issue quickly and bring in 2 world class players a striker and attacking midf.so we can see thid season off in style ...or these "starlets" wouldnt have a future to look up to...the team looks too light IMO.
ReplyDeleteThey will sign the kid and wont create a buzz about it like they did with Sergi Canos and Pedro Chirivella....both of whom played U18 match for Liverpool last week.
ReplyDeletecould be rodgers just spouting again ,he should look at some of yesterdays opposition they made some of his signings look like they were worth 2 bob,saying that not to be unfair to brendon most of them looked poor
ReplyDeleteI'm starting to feel like we could get a bit screwed by the whole Suarez saga.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad we are scouting potential players, but we need to think about a replacement for Suarez, someone who can get 20 goals a season, but I fear that a lot of the "big" names, who are being touted as moving this summer, have already made there moves.
Who is left?
That's the third time I've had perfectly polite, reasonable posts disappear just because they put a certain editor on the spot
ReplyDeleteI'm off till that changes.
No doubt there'll be a reply to this one saying how unreasonable it was not to accept poor explanations for inconsistencies. Maybe this'll never go live
Whatever
Yes i would agree i hate Melbourne Victory but hats off to them they werent able to field a full strength side but they did them proud.
ReplyDeleteLiked the look of Connor Paine from Melbourne as a i have no idea who this kid they scouted was.
I am so wrapped to have gotten to the game last night and i hope and pray they will come back next season.
You still believe anything that comes out of the club?
ReplyDeleteYou're not 'putting me on the spot', you're twisting my views, and I can't be bothered to keep justifying/repeating myself.
ReplyDeleteMight as well do a bit of scouting while they are there, no harm in that. I just listened to YNWA from the match yesterday and all I can say is WOW. Well done to everyone inside that stadium. What an incredible rendition. Goose bumps all over watching that. Bet there were a few tears in the stadium during that one.
ReplyDeleteSuarez out , 15 year old 'outstanding' talent in.
ReplyDeleteI am excited! Yay!
they will come back if you chuck enough money at fsg,i do not know if they played well or we stank the place out, but i am glad you got to see them,maybe if they do come back they mite even play football ,instead of the center backs auditioning for the part of the new chuckle brothers
ReplyDeletethe 1 year old is not going to be suarezs replacement,more like aggers
ReplyDeleteA bit of both they played really well Liverpool were very ordinary in and around the box especially, it was only a practice match though i suppose.
ReplyDeleteIf we sign an Australian on the strength of this piece of imaginary PR scouting, I'll show my bollocks to Crocodile Dundee. This never happened. The only surprise here is that he didn't use the same spiel in Indonesia.
ReplyDeleterodgers and spiel ,go together like chips and fish
ReplyDelete1 year old???
ReplyDeletehahaahha
Rodgers is the new Wenger I guess, hunting kids down under!!
agree m8 a lot of huffing and puffing ,and two bits of magic from the usual suspects
ReplyDeleteWatched the game last night and number 19 for victory was outstanding. He was a constant threat and had great movement of the ball. Look no further Mr Rodgers.
ReplyDeleteha ha missed the 5,and i am glad you spelled hunting right ,and not with a r
ReplyDeleteIt is definitely a lie. When questioned he could not say where it was but then he threw in a "little detail" about the condition of the pitch to make it seem plausible . The other clue to the fact that BR was lying was that his lips were moving......
ReplyDeleteif we signed every player who looks outstanding against us ,we would have more players than fans
ReplyDeleteWow...he can join the other outstanding Ozzies that came to our academy and are now playing league one football. Rodgers should stop talking rubbish and focus on getting some actual reinforcements in. He talks about strengthening the squad but so far we've lost Shelvey, Reina, Suso and Suarez and he's brought Aspas, Alberto and Mignolet in. It's like selling the entire Real Madrid squad and replacing them with the one from Harchester United. Next thing you know we'll be linked to Didier Baptiste and Santiago Munez again...but hang on people, Bren will get us some top top signings. Well maybe he won't but he'll sure as hell tell us how he regrets that just like he did last summer.
ReplyDeletehahahaha!!
ReplyDeletei do and farther christmas ,and the tooth fairy paid me a visit last night
ReplyDeleteWe cannot replace Suarez this window, simple as that.
ReplyDeleteSelling to Arsenal is Suicidal, selling to Madrid means they won't buy Bale. Best case scenario is selling to Bayern and getting Shaqiri or Gustavo + cash in exchange, doubt it will happen though.
We should simply refuse to sell and let him rot in the reserves rather than selling to Arsenal because I am sure if he stays he'll be itching to play.
It's how we got Pegguy Arphexad and you can't say we regrett....never mind...
ReplyDeleteApparently we have now ended our interest in Eriksen according to some reports. I won't be too upset if that is true.
ReplyDeleteyes a class act in every sense of the word
ReplyDeletewhat interest
ReplyDeletei said it at the begining of the transfer window ,they are going to ba a lot of dissappointed fans
ReplyDeletestarting to get the feeling , i always had it cannot wait for the excuses
ReplyDeletehahahaha at last someone else as picked up on rodgers and is porkies
ReplyDeleteI believe we were in for him as DeBoer said that they had contact from us and it was up to him to decide but who knows. Maybe there was no actual concrete offer.If he was as talented as some believe, surely there would be a lot more interest in him from other clubs but it appears as if Ajax haven't received any decent offers for him.
ReplyDeleteEric it doesnt matter where your from as to whether u can play there has been a few very good Australian players there has been plenty of flops from everywhere.
ReplyDeleteOne thing about us Aussies son we tough it out good enough or not.
Ok enough is enough. We need to stop fluffing around with our transfers. Signing and scouting young talent is essential yes. But i really dont see how we can be coming out spinning this as a positive when the suarez saga is hanging over the club.
ReplyDeleteI cannot believe that we ever thought we could hold onto him. Instead of being pro-active and lining up his replacement early, when there were quality names available, we are now going to be in a re-active situation, with little to no options available. The chances were always slim to convince top strikers to join a non CL club, but it seems to me we didn't even try. Now we are in the situation of having to replace a world class striker with 50m in the coffers. Every chairman in the world has just bumped up the asking price for any average striker they have by 10mil. Liverpool are desperate and will pay anything for anybody, will be the clarion call of evry boardroom. I'm all for the strategy of holding out for the right price, but if thats the way we were going why was there not more effort put into identifying his replacemnt earlier.
This is a fiasco that in my opinion could cost rodgers his job by christmas, and rightly so. Not because we lost suarez, but because we failed to act when the writing was on the wall. I have no desire to see suarez in a liverpool shirt next season if a proper replacemnt can be found. But both look extremely unlikely.
Unless something extrordinary is pulled out of the bag this will go down as a fiasco of a transfer saga.
Sorry to go so off topic on the article but this is the only situation that should be concerning rodgers, not a 15 year old australian
Like sick note Harry Kewel who didn't even make 100 appearances for us in 5 seasons?
ReplyDeleteStill a month 6 days to go. Calm down, we've brought in 4 players another 2/3 to go. :)
ReplyDeleteSo Craig Johnston was no good then too 1 injury prone player doesnt make a nation full of em if you are British i can understand you being upset us having dominated u at sport for decades.
ReplyDeleteI don't think he has an argument against Craig Johnston, but still, it shouldn't matter where a player is from.
ReplyDeleteyeah but lets be honest, based on what we have seen, it doesn't look like they will be top top players
ReplyDeleteBut players who will still make a impact.... If the players are cissoko from Valencia, papadopoulous, and Soldado or Muriel then il be happy :)
ReplyDeleteI hear when Wenger went for a swim he was found hanging of the bottom of a buoy :)
ReplyDeleteI agree Pete, it doesn't matter where a player is from at all. I wasn't insinuating that all Aussies are like Harry Kewel but was just giving an instance to disprove a statement that all Aussies tough it out.
ReplyDeleteYou can't categorically state that all people of one nation are one thing whether it be good or bad.
That just isn't cricket ;-)
ReplyDeletelets hope the child inside Suarez stops him from joining Arsenal!!
ReplyDeleteYeah but it won't be happy/ I'm not going to wet my pants for Cissokho
ReplyDeleteI totally disagree Kewell did tough it out he had a lot of injuries i dont think u understand how bad it was.
ReplyDeleteOur athletes do tough it out thats why we are such a great sporting nation.
A rough pitch in australia? well that narrows it down to only 98% of the pitches left...
ReplyDeleteIt looks like we have missed out on another striker, Kevin Gameiro, the problem is all top players are being bought, all top teams are getting their strikers in so they won't be looking for a bidding war over Suarez and we will sell low and left with buying a Carroll type player again
ReplyDeleteThere isn't really much point in anyone spending 24/7 constantly worrying about one player. It's frustrating for us as fans but the club is far from desperate. Sure, if you read every article in the paper and think every Suarez rumour is true, it feels fairly uncomfortable, but Rodger's is not doing that and I don't think he should be. We'll have our targets to get if Suarez leaves, even a couple of weeks at this stage won't make a huge difference. If we keep Suarez he's still got 6 games suspension to serve, that's a huge disruption. Any replacement would be available immediately, so already we'd be ahead if we're forced to sell. And while I sense your pessimism and I can agree to an extent, the truth is still that until a team fronts up 50 million cash, Suarez is going no where. He'll stay with his contract and do what he's told. If he's happy to play for Arsenal then obviously the whole press story was bogus, so if we force him to stay then he'll be just fine.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I don't see what people are so worried about. There are only two outcomes: 1. He stays or 2. He goes and we get 50 million quid to spend. That's a win-win situation, even if it drags on right to the start of the season. The window is open till September and we'll have a long list of players who will cost a fraction of what Suarez will cost. In the meantime all our existing targets are still viable. What happens to Suarez is almost irrelevant. I'm changing my feeling now and thinking that we're probably better off making the deal and taking the money, but he's still a world class striker that we should be happy to have on the team.
I 100% agree with you mate, although we can't really blame BR or anyone for this because negotiating a possible 50mil transfer does take time and as a result all the #1 replacements are gone. Although I haven't seen him in action personally Leandro Damiao sounds like an interesting prospect as does Pablo Osvaldo at Roma who has had two back-to-bak 20 goal seasons. There's a notion out there that we really don't need a striker with Daniel leading the line and should re-inforce with a big time goal-scoring/assisting attacking mid. One thing's for sure tho, the longer it takes to sell him the more complicated replacing him becomes :/
ReplyDeleteThe thing about Carroll is that I'm pretty sure Kenny and Comolli thought we were getting a good deal. OK, it was a ton of money, but I'll bet they had visions of him banging in 15-20 goals in the league and causing nightmares for defenders. They were wrong, but I don't think it was because they made a knee-jerk reaction. I think they honestly thought he was worth the transfer fee at the time. The problem wasn't that we went late in the window, it's that when Kenny was asked who he wanted to replace Torres he said "Andy Carroll". Rodgers seems to have a much better eye for players and he'll have a long list of quality strikers.
ReplyDeleteAnd remember this ... Torres was considered not yet proven at the top level before he came to Liverpool. He was good, but his time under Rafa made him truly world class. Plenty of people were not 100% on Torres considering how much he cost us, I think we just forgot what was said at the time.
We can refuse to sell and make him play. He's not the kind of guy to not give 100%. If the move doesn't happen he'll get over it, after all he's got 6 weeks on the sidelines to think about it no matter what happens.
ReplyDeleteExactly. And he doesn't know but he is gonna miss LFC!! ;)
ReplyDeleteSo it might be a good decision for him too!!
I just think the longer we take about it, the harder its going to get. Look what happened when Torres left. I'm not saying that will happen again, as i'm sure they have leant, but if a club knows we have sold Suarez for £40million + then they are going to want more for their players.
ReplyDeleteI'm a big fan of Damiao, I've seen him a fair amount. But I think he is kind of similar to Sturridge, maybe a bit stronger. But I would like to see him at Liverpool.
We should have gone for Gomez. At least made a bid, just to see what happened.
I agree that we are beyter off taking the money and getting rid. But i really dont know who we are going to spend the money on. If we had received this early in the window i could have listed six players i would like to see replace hin. Now most of these have moved on or extended their contracts. I suppose thats where the bulk oof my pessimism is coming from, the feeling that there really is no plan in place if, or in my opinion, when he leaves.i see us in the same situation as last uear. Going into christmas short up front.
ReplyDeleteThis is probably the first negative post you will have seen from me, as i have supported the direction the club has been taking. But the sale of our best talent to our biggest rivals for fourth spot, seemingly without a realistic back up plan, to me is directionless, and thats what worries me most.
thats what i said above your point being??
ReplyDeleteYeah, I get ya. It worries me too from time to time, but then I look back how seamlessly things worked out in January and how since then we've grown our scouting team even bigger. I think there absolutely IS a plan place, it's just painful as fans to not know what that plan is. The only thing these guys do is make lists of players that we might want to sign, it's their full time job. If Suarez goes we might not even have heard of the potential replacements, but there will be someone. It's just not fathomable to me that a club like Liverpool, run by guys who have proven themselves as successful sports owners, haven't learned from their mistakes and made sure their arses are covered. Folks like Jason don't share that view and are convinced it's all going to be a big mess of failure, but if we can sit here as fans and think of all the things that should be happening, that should be in place, there is no way the club isn't doing the same.
ReplyDeleteStill I agree very strongly on one thing: selling Suarez to Arsenal is a bad move. It takes them from top 4 to being title contenders again and that's bad for us. They're one of the teams we want to knock out of the top 4 to get into Europe. I just don't think we'll do it. I think all the stories about him demanding to talk to Arsenal, about being about to submit a transfer request ... I think it's all paper talk nonsense. Suarez won't be happy at first if he has to stay and play for us, but he'll get over it quickly enough, and I really can't agree that he sees Arsenal as some huge step up for him. Real is the club he claimed it's hard to say no to, not Arsenal. Let's get real for a minute and remember that. Arsenal is NOT Suarez's dream move.
Oh that word. Outstanding.
ReplyDeletewhoever he is, is the least of my concern. getting rid of suarez should be top priority. the odious, goofy tw*t, needs to be shipped asap. take the 40m for him AND the £1 for downing, then get back to recruiting!!
ReplyDeleteYou know there are a few junior clubs by the beach in Montevideo with pitches that make a local Victorian AFL oval look like a bowling green. I reckon those rough pitches make good footballers.
ReplyDeleteToughen up the ankles :P lol
ReplyDeleteI'll be very very happy if BR can learn a trick or two from Arsene Wenger in terms of finding players cheap and good. Nothing wrong with that. We are not in the Champions League and with crude oil as backing.
ReplyDeleteI understand fans concern but we have to hold our nerve. We can't just roll over on Suarez just to complete a deal. Equally most people are just making assumptions that we don't have options that we are pursuing. The club said they would not comment until there was news so we just have to hope that's the case.
ReplyDeleteI get the feeling that a lot of transfer activity is just waiting for 1 or 2 major deals to happen (be it Suarez or Rooney, etc.).
I'm sure BR wants this resolved quickly but it kinda depends on the buying club, Arsenal or whoever, coming up with an acceptable bid and that's out of his control.
ReplyDeleteYou didn't say that at all...
ReplyDeleteExactly
ReplyDeleteDuring his early days Kewell was one of my favourite players and he developed into one of the best attackers in the League before his constant injuries.
ReplyDeleteA lot of athletes "do it tough" not just Australian ones. Australia has a fantastic sporting culture, but in terms of football we are quite far behind. Stop being so biased towards your own nation.
Haha, when I used to play there was a damn cricket pitch in the centre circle of our home ground! It was never easy on the knees.
ReplyDeleteI didn't mean that there are no good players in Australia. I meant that it's pointless to start harping on about some kid when you know all LFC fans care about right now is what happens with Suarez and what signings we'll be making to actually improve the squad. So far, the quality going out has been much higher than what came in.
ReplyDeleteBut they won't be though, will they.
ReplyDeleteu havin trouble reading
ReplyDeleteno one said only aussie athletes tough it out seriously read what i write properly and stop biting me in the backside and worst of all get some comprehension lessons before u start trolling
ReplyDeletewell i agree there whole heartedly Eric i get a bit sensitive when it comes to Aussie football as we are still minnows by world standards and would love to see an Aussie star at Liverpool.
ReplyDeletewhy dont u read all the comments before making uninformed and rubbish comments please.
ReplyDeleteMy heart is distraught because you voted my comments down. I did read all the comments. "Our athletes do tough it out that's why we are such a great sporting nation" has no factual basis whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteYou're the one talking rubbish by claiming Australia has dominated Britain, and if BB is British that's why he'd be upset. We must of dominated them because our athletes do it tough, right? Get real, stop making such subjective statements.
u need to read comments properly or stop telling lies u r saying above i made no such comment on your statement but its there for all to see u r taking everything out of context and really i can see have NO IDEA
ReplyDeletei never said they do it tough read comprende god whats your IQ
ReplyDeleteI really liked Bony and thought he would have been a revelation at anfield; the BPL needs to look out for that partnership with Michu cause there will be a lot of upsets next season *watch this space (always wanted to say that). There's still Lukaku though and will Torres and Shurrle there, I think a cheaky bid couldnt hurt.
ReplyDeleteBut to your point I'm hoping, at the very least, we're working in the background trying to materialize a deal for a striker just in case Suarez does go in the end; just to make sure that we are prepared. At the very worst Damiao will provide direct competition for Sturridge which, as seen when playing second fiddle to suarez, really brought out the best in him.
Oh yes he did wow you should read the comments more closely
ReplyDeleteYeah alright champion. Follow the conversation.
ReplyDeleteThe name is Greg not champion havin trouble gettin it today do we?
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