Last year, Agent Jorge Cyterszpiler confirmed Liverpool's interest in Argentinian striker Luciano Vietto, and it appears that the Reds are still tracking the coveted 20-year attacker.
Speaking to CalcioNews24 last night, Cyterszpiler said:
"Napoli has never stopped following the boy as well as many other great clubs.
"There is so much competition, and we have talked to top-level clubs like Real Madrid [and] Liverpool"
Vietto history:
Sep 2012: Brendan Rodgers sent LFC scouts to assess Vietto, who currently plays for Racing Club in the Argentine Apertura.
May 2013: Cyterszpiler told Tuttosport:
"The whole world wants Vietto, including Liverpool, Real Madrid, Juventus and other international clubs. Vietto is the best young player in Argentina. "
Oct 2013: The Daily Mail reported:
"Liverpool and Manchester City are among clubs to have asked about Argentina prospect Luciano Vietto. Both clubs have been monitoring the teenager’s development for over a year".
Oct 2013: When asked last about Vietto's future, Cyterszpiler enthused:
"Vietto is the best young player in Argentina. I have received many offers from several European clubs"
Vietto - who has a €12m release clause in his contract - scored a fabled 'perfect' hat-trick - left foot, right foot and header - against Club Atletico San Martinu in a league game in September 2012:
Vietto - who scored another hat-trick in April against Newell's Old Boys - made 29 senior appearances for Racing Club this season, scoring 11 goals along the way, but he missed the last quarter of the season after undergoing surgery for a bilateral inguinal hernia.
Liverpool spent £15m on Iago Aspas and Luis Alberto over the summer, and both players are struggling to make it into the first team. With Suarez and Sturridge ahead of him, would it be any different for Vietto...?
Author: Jaimie K
Speaking to CalcioNews24 last night, Cyterszpiler said:
"Napoli has never stopped following the boy as well as many other great clubs.
"There is so much competition, and we have talked to top-level clubs like Real Madrid [and] Liverpool"
Vietto history:
Sep 2012: Brendan Rodgers sent LFC scouts to assess Vietto, who currently plays for Racing Club in the Argentine Apertura.
May 2013: Cyterszpiler told Tuttosport:
"The whole world wants Vietto, including Liverpool, Real Madrid, Juventus and other international clubs. Vietto is the best young player in Argentina. "
Oct 2013: The Daily Mail reported:
"Liverpool and Manchester City are among clubs to have asked about Argentina prospect Luciano Vietto. Both clubs have been monitoring the teenager’s development for over a year".
Oct 2013: When asked last about Vietto's future, Cyterszpiler enthused:
"Vietto is the best young player in Argentina. I have received many offers from several European clubs"
Vietto - who has a €12m release clause in his contract - scored a fabled 'perfect' hat-trick - left foot, right foot and header - against Club Atletico San Martinu in a league game in September 2012:
Vietto - who scored another hat-trick in April against Newell's Old Boys - made 29 senior appearances for Racing Club this season, scoring 11 goals along the way, but he missed the last quarter of the season after undergoing surgery for a bilateral inguinal hernia.
Liverpool spent £15m on Iago Aspas and Luis Alberto over the summer, and both players are struggling to make it into the first team. With Suarez and Sturridge ahead of him, would it be any different for Vietto...?
Author: Jaimie K
No, I do not believe that 'manager is only a good manager if every single signing he makes is extremely good'. I highlight Rodgers' transfer performance because the majority of his signings are not up to scratch, and that is a major worry.
ReplyDeleteI would expect at least a 50% success rate, and by 'success', I simply mean that a player is making a positive impact in some way on the squad. In my view, only Coutinho, Sturridge, Mignolet, and Toure (at times) fit that description. Sakho also shows moments of promise, but the jury is still out on him.
Very good paste mate!
ReplyDeleteLet's be honest here, who is going to keep Sturridge or Suarez out of the starting eleven?
ReplyDeleteOi, I typed them all out one by one!
ReplyDeleteThat was a typo from lol
ReplyDeleteThat was a typo from me :-)
ReplyDeleteChelsea also have 28 players out on loan, including many of these signings.
ReplyDeleteAtsu was a player we were actually linked with and i think that was just another bullet dodged.
ReplyDeleteEverybody was screaming for us to sign Ba and Marin. Both these player have been failures...
With respect, what does Chelsea's transfer business have to do with the way LFC spends its money? Nothing. Two different clubs; different finances/expectations etc. Just because Chelsea loan out loads of players doesn't makes Rodgers' waste of the club's money any better. This is a typical attempt to divert attention away from the main issue. It's like when Suarez dives; instead of focusing on that, fans immediately start bringing other players into the mix, saying things like 'but X dived too, and nothing happened'. That may be true, but it doesn't make one iota of difference to the fact Suarez dived. Ditto this issue.
ReplyDeleteCan't you honestly put what Robo is trying to imply in to context to our predicament?? He's implying loosely, that the success rate of a player isn't always a given with high or low prices.
ReplyDeleteSo our duds get magnified as we can't just ship them out at a loss. Where as Chelsea can take a financial loss with ease. We have to persist with our flops to see if the can turn it around.
With your views and thought process, Robert Pires or Thierry Henry would have been suplus due to a rocking settling in period.
You keep saying it wasted money but its a gamble. So is the 'Lottery', but people still play, taking a calculated risk with the fiances
(odds/probability it will bear fruit). Chelsea can just afford to buy more lottery tickets we can't...
Hit nail on head
ReplyDeletePlease don't start the Rafa beeching. He did well for us in all but his last season. I am sure most fans would give anything for the return of regular Champions League nights that was a fixture of his time at the helm. Yes he made mistakes - hence why he was moved on. Remember the good times, forget the bad.
ReplyDeleteUmmm how did .king Kenny pay for the ballerina Carroll . If that was not a waste of money what is .
ReplyDeleteMany have tried (unsuccessfully!!!) to justify Allen. Just about everyone I have engaged with on this topic have agreed he is neither an AM or DM, in which case to date he neither contributes to defensive or offensive play. In conclusion - FAILURE.
ReplyDeleteHmmn fair point. But then after a player is identified as a target, who within LFC places a valuation on that player (say X) and then who reaches out to the selling club with an offer tending to X/2.
ReplyDeleteIn the cases you highlight, after the event, it seems to transpire that LFC started the negotiations where even the value X was far below the selling club's valuation. Hence either annoying the player/selling club/agent and providing an opportunity for another club to come in and gazump LFC.
Finally, surely conversations should be taking place between BR and LFC officials to the effect of, "If X is not enough, I would like you to go up to say X + 20% to get my man - no matter what - otherwise he's too expensive".
Most of Anfield goers' as opposed to laptop fans,are only interested in Champions League qualification and FA or League Cup success rather than 'good business' which is surely eclipsed by the 'bad business',
ReplyDeleteTotally agree dude. You'd be surprise be thinks dipping into transfer market is as easy as in football manager simulation game. Hahaha....smh....
ReplyDeleteOsvaldo £15m
ReplyDeleteRamirez £12m
Sturridge £12m
Coutinho £8.5m
Which set of players is better value?
If Southampton had Sturridge & Coutinho right now, both would be playing regularly & helping them achieve their goals.
I hope it's not *diverting* attention, more dividing it: in a way I think it *should* be divided. Whilst I agree with you, who couldn't, that we need to see a higher success rate when we enter negotiations, and I do appreciate your position, I don't see that as part of a deeper problem. Actually my sense is that it's part of what's being done *right* at the club; it implies that we actually have negotiating positions, and don't just brush down the red carpet for every oligarch, agent, and trashy wannabe star that oozes into the place. For that reason I don't think that our transfer activities warrant a deeper critique.
ReplyDeleteCrazy Legs explained my position better than I could. I do waffle. But we are in a situation unique among the top clubs. It's amazing we're anywhere near them given where we've come from in the last two years. The club deserves credit and respect for the signings they *have* made and their successful integration into the squad. That's my line anyway.
i;m old,old school, in that case. i want the league over everything else.
ReplyDeletewow! i didn't know we were 'scouting' him!? brilliant........whoever he is?
ReplyDeletefantastic additions.........then came aspas, moses, cissshocko, toure, assaidi........i'll stop there as i'm depressing myself.
ReplyDeleteno rafa beeching at all merely pointing out that the same logic for rafa should be applied to Rodgers do you really think rafa taking over a team finishing midtable 7-8th and giving very limited funds far more limited than rafa he could have got us playing the same football with the squad Rodgers inherited answer no! I did not enjoy football rafa made us play abd he was there 5 years,,, everyone seems to forget he was in top two if not top for net spend in that time yet out of nearly all his years there we were out of cups and chance of winning league by the end of November!! hr inhrtited a gerard and carragher in his prime and selling one player to go from second to 6th was ridiculous,, we were in Europe when he arrived do not forget that,, Rodgers has been there only year and half with all that he has had to deal with while trying to play the most positive football ive seen since the 80's everyone should be asking the owners to give this man real money,, cus he is the business but needs to be backed what an incredible job he's done in last year with all injuries,, failure of club to get him players he wants due to not being in champions league which rafa inherited a champions league team In an environment where Rodgers who has inherited a midtable squad with aging gerard and carragher retiring while ONLY being allowed to spend at the most 15mil on one player!! especially in todays climate so wake up!
ReplyDeletechance gone on this guy. Should have already bought him while the other clubs were dithering. By June he will be out of LFC's price range.
ReplyDeleteare we sure to Suarez next season?
ReplyDeleteIt was a fluke IMO. Not so much targeting these 2 but landing them for the bargain prices. If other clubs had been chasing them probably we would have lost out. The fluke is nobody else really wanted them enough to compete with us in the bidding seriously.
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