Liverpool are reportedly considering a summer move for Leeds United wing-back Sam Byram, who is also being chased by Southampton.
According to reports today:
* Brendan Rodgers has allegedly sent scouts to watch Byram six times this season.
* Rodgers undertook a secret scouting mission last month to personally watch the 21-year old in action.
* Leeds president Massimo Cellino values Byram in the £10m range.
Some info about Byram:
* Can play right back, RWB, and right midfield.
* Started as a midfielder but now plays predominantly at RB.
* 113 apps for Leeds United (7 goals)
* 2013: Named 'Player of the Year' by the Yorkshire post.
* 2013: Leeds United Supporters' Club player of the year
* 2013: Called up to the England U20 squad.
* Rates Aaron Lennon as the toughest opponent he has faced, explaining that his 'stupidly fast' change of direction caused him more problems than Gareth Bale.
* Definitely wants to play in the Premier League. In a recent interview, he told reporters: "I'm looking to improve, to physically get stronger and faster, and being in the Premier League...would be the dream."
* Leeds boss Neil Redfearn claims Byram is comparable to Gareth Bale. Last season, he told the Yorkshire Post: "He [Byram] has unbelievable ability. I remember Gareth Bale coming onto the scene and looking like something similar. Sam has got that sort of ability"
Urgh. More totally unhelpful overpraise. But I digress...
If Rodgers is planning to stick with 343 for the foreseeable future, then it makes sense to bring in dedicated wing-backs (or players capable of excelling in that position), but £10m for a Championship defender with zero Premier League experience? No thanks.
That said, Manchester United paid a ridiculous £28m fee for Luke Shaw, so £10m for Byram is chicken-feed in comparison. The youngster also appears to have the right attitude to personal development, insisting that it's 'better to be over-critical than brush mistakes aside', which (IMO) is the right mental approach for a footballer.
Of Liverpool's current full-back, Jon Flanagan is arguable the most solid, with Johnson, Moreno, and Manquillo eminently expendable.
Worth a bid?
Author: Jaimie K
According to reports today:
* Brendan Rodgers has allegedly sent scouts to watch Byram six times this season.
* Rodgers undertook a secret scouting mission last month to personally watch the 21-year old in action.
* Leeds president Massimo Cellino values Byram in the £10m range.
Some info about Byram:
* Can play right back, RWB, and right midfield.
* Started as a midfielder but now plays predominantly at RB.
* 113 apps for Leeds United (7 goals)
* 2013: Named 'Player of the Year' by the Yorkshire post.
* 2013: Leeds United Supporters' Club player of the year
* 2013: Called up to the England U20 squad.
* Rates Aaron Lennon as the toughest opponent he has faced, explaining that his 'stupidly fast' change of direction caused him more problems than Gareth Bale.
* Definitely wants to play in the Premier League. In a recent interview, he told reporters: "I'm looking to improve, to physically get stronger and faster, and being in the Premier League...would be the dream."
* Leeds boss Neil Redfearn claims Byram is comparable to Gareth Bale. Last season, he told the Yorkshire Post: "He [Byram] has unbelievable ability. I remember Gareth Bale coming onto the scene and looking like something similar. Sam has got that sort of ability"
Urgh. More totally unhelpful overpraise. But I digress...
If Rodgers is planning to stick with 343 for the foreseeable future, then it makes sense to bring in dedicated wing-backs (or players capable of excelling in that position), but £10m for a Championship defender with zero Premier League experience? No thanks.
That said, Manchester United paid a ridiculous £28m fee for Luke Shaw, so £10m for Byram is chicken-feed in comparison. The youngster also appears to have the right attitude to personal development, insisting that it's 'better to be over-critical than brush mistakes aside', which (IMO) is the right mental approach for a footballer.
Of Liverpool's current full-back, Jon Flanagan is arguable the most solid, with Johnson, Moreno, and Manquillo eminently expendable.
Worth a bid?
Author: Jaimie K
As long as he's an upgrade on Johnson in will be happy.
ReplyDeletePs Moreno need to step up, been playing quite average recently.
Funny you should mention those two players together; lately I've been struggling to shake the feeling that Moreno may be the new Johnson. Perhaps they could be related?
ReplyDeleteMaybe they're both half-Jamaican. Do they have fond memories of Africa?
ReplyDeleteWith no CL next year, without any TOP international players , a manager that cannot pull any TOP players , and owners that wont pay TOP wages .
ReplyDeleteNo top players will be coming to Liverpool .
So maybe this is the BEST we can do !!
He is a good player but not close to bale in any way would snap there hand off at anything over 8 mill
ReplyDeleteNow, my geography isn't so good - is that the Africa situated in Canada, Outer Hebrides? Where's man-Atlas, Code when you need him?
ReplyDeleteWell I guess it wasn't so secretive after all
ReplyDeleteI think this joke is going to stand the test of time
ReplyDeleteJust read that Jon Flanagan has also just turned down his new contract Sterling ,Henderson and now Flanagan, What is it with these Englishmen ?
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure South America and Africa are the same thing though. Maybe Brazilian.
ReplyDelete.............................................Berahino
ReplyDelete........Milner............................................................Ings
...............................................Coutinho
..................................Henderson.......Allen
..............Moreno...........Sakho.............Skrtel.......Bryam
.............................................Mignolet
This side looks disgusting
and more likely then not to be our first xi next season
Legend has it that once Africa was America and vice versa. So, in a way we are lucky to have the Code to informs us ignorant people. NOT!
ReplyDeleteOh I bet it will! I'm afraid its only started,..
ReplyDeleteI'd say that's probably not that likely..just because some paper links us to a player th at doesn't mean we have actually signed them. .
ReplyDeleteHow is Ings any more likely than Vietto? Milner than Konoplyanka? Byram than Montoya? Berahino hasn't even been linked...
ReplyDeleteThey are rumors. LFC is an English team, so it makes sense that we'll have more English rumors. Don't go around spreading panic :P
Forgot to add Will Hughes and Nathan Redmond
ReplyDeleteAnd I forgot Nainggolan and Depay.
ReplyDeleteIf Liverpool is an English team ,please get your fellow countrymen to SIGN their contracts
ReplyDeleteWhere is that guy, his name escapes me who always posts the players and their ages?
ReplyDeleteHave not seen him in a while.
Liverpools summer plan:
ReplyDeletein Berahino 14m
Ings free
Redmond 8m
Hughes 15m
Milner free
Delph 20m
Bryam 12m
Gibson 10m
total 79m
......Out : Sterling 34m , Balotelli 7m , Borini 5m , Lucas 6m Lambert 3m
total : 55m
fsg will spend their anaual net spend of 20-30m
Twistadee something or other. We're due for a team clearout comment anyway.
ReplyDeleteSturridge and Sterling are not gonna be happy with this line-up, cause frankly its racist to their continent.
ReplyDeleteTwistaddee
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to your account? Shamsy, right? Wouldn't it just be easier to edit this into the one below?
ReplyDeleteLiverpool's summer plan under Rodgers right?
ReplyDeleteSturridge will be dropped on current form
ReplyDeletewhile Sterling will most likley finance it
because we all know
FSG DO NOT GO ON SPENDING SPREES UNLESS THEY SELL THEIR BEST PLAYER EG TORRES AND SUAREZ
FSG don't spend unless they think it's worth it... which it isn't most of the time, but that's beside the point.
ReplyDeleteWhoever you want to blame
ReplyDeleteFSG sure wont mind paying their 10k to 60k wages
maybe milner will earn a bit more
What are you on??
ReplyDeleteHe's on a horse. Duh.
ReplyDeleteunfortunately i am on Liverpool fc
ReplyDeleteit is so fustrating supporting us
but you have to once you are a red you always will be
Chelsea have spent money that was made up fro selling other players for the last two seasons due to having to comply to FFP. Player sales +- £170 and that is what they will keep on doing from now on.
ReplyDelete^^ I wish ;(
ReplyDeleteRemember all the plastics that left with Torres? Sad, sad day.
Are you for real?
ReplyDeleteOf course not. He forgot Andy Carroll.
ReplyDeleteAnd that is why they were willing to sign Sanchez who would have most likely been our highest earner if he did sign?
ReplyDeleteChelsea sell their rejects
ReplyDeleteeg David Luiz,Lukaku aand Mata
Liverpool sell
Suarez,Torres and Raheem sterling
what you are saying is equivalent of selling Borini for maybe 20m
that si what chelski do sell their rejects for big prices
they ahve not sold Hazard, Oscar ,Costa, Terry
Torres and suarez clearly wanted to leave.what did you want them to do?
ReplyDeleteWe most likley offered him 130k
ReplyDeletehe earns 120k at Arsenal
but if we offered
280k a week same as Rooney,Van persie and Falcao
he would be an lfc player right now
Well we won't be blaming Rafa. Apparently West Ham are keen on him.
ReplyDeleteWhy would we offer him 280K a week? There's a reason people think Man Utd are overpaying for players right now.
ReplyDeleteIts so odd though he loves horses.
ReplyDeleteLallana
ReplyDeleteJoe Allen
Lambert
Lovren
prove me right
Lovren isn't English. Neither is Allen for that matter, but a bit closer.
ReplyDeleteWe would have won league
ReplyDeleteyes won the league
with him
the difference is 80m
it would ahve been worth paying him whatever he wants
Chelsea sell rejetcs?
ReplyDeleteMata a reject? Lukaku? Bertrand? Ba? De Bruyne? Schürrle?
These are all players that surely would have improved us? But best thing about it all is they replaced all these players with others with the same quality or better.
Don't you spot the difference? of course not.
ReplyDeleteI meant pl based players
ReplyDeletefrom small teams
you may see
a 40m bid for Saido Mane
I'm not sure you understand how these things work...
ReplyDeleteLet them have him!
ReplyDeleteMata was not getting a game
ReplyDeleteHazard,Oscar,Willian
was Mourinhos first 3
de Bruyne played 2 games
they are rejects if they cannot get into they team
I highly doubt Sanchez had any interest in LFC.
ReplyDeletehe thinks Scotland is England. Obviously not met JK.
ReplyDeleteWell, Johnson can't be Brazilian - he's not tidy enough in the box...ba-dum-ch.
ReplyDeleteWell, Allen is Welsh, but yeah ;)
ReplyDeleteMoney talks look at city and psg even monocco
ReplyDeleteif he could earn double
he would play at west ham or even newcastle
why would any sane person reject what you could earn in 4 years at arsenal compared 2 years at liverpool
So... you're saying the solution is to only buy from big teams in foreign leagues?
ReplyDeleteLook, I want a marquee name as much as anyone, but that's nuts. Hazard was a big name player at a relatively smaller team before he moved. So was Neymar. So was Bale (comparing Real to Spurs). Buying the really good players from smaller teams (like, say Carvalho, or perhaps Lacazette) is more effective than taking Big Team rejects.
From what I understand it was purely down to Location. London > Liverpool. Paris and Monaco are hugely popular destinations for celebs and normal people alike. If you had to choose between Monaco and a maybe a slightly larger club, I'd still go with Monaco if they could guarantee success (which they proved the could to an extent).
ReplyDeleteOr maybe there was no place for them.
ReplyDeleteGive me Mata over Lallana any day of the week.
De Bruyne over Markovic any day of the week.
Schürrle over Lambert any day of the week.
Hell, I would take Lukaku who I am not a masssive fan of over Balotelli.
Every single player I have mentioned will improve LFC. How can they be rejects?
Horse tranquilisers maybe
ReplyDeleteI'm sure your prefer winning the title and sinking the club along the way....
ReplyDeleteAre you sure? I thought I saw him on the field vs. Germany...
ReplyDeleteMate, Sanchez called Wenger a world renowned manager.
ReplyDeleteWonder what he would have had to say about Brendan who?
since when is lyon small?
ReplyDeletethey won more leagues then Liverpool in last ten years
Mmm... no it doesn't. Logical fallacy.
ReplyDeleteBoggers.
ReplyDeleteSuccess also brings money
ReplyDeletemore tv money
more shirt sale
more cl money
More lucrative sponsors
it is a 2 way street
By Gibson, do you mean Darren Gibson - the Everton player who used to play for Man Utd.
ReplyDeleteLogical fallacy? don't tell me he's English
ReplyDeleteWhat is your plan in case we came short Mr Bean?
ReplyDeleteLiverpools manager does not really need a name
ReplyDeletesame as Barca,Bayern,Real Madrid
wow you are sniping
ReplyDeleteSporting Lisbon and Lyon are pretty big clubs in Europe my friend and have pretty vast histories. Also, buying big team rejects has been actually pretty profitable for us in the past - we signed Sturridge and Coutinho from pretty big clubs
ReplyDeleteyes but for chelseas standards they are rejects
ReplyDeletefor chelsea they are rejects
for us they are MVPS
same as Rooney for Real Madrid he is just another player
for man u he is the closest thing to god
Standards mate
Nah Seriously, what if we do got trapped into FFP?
ReplyDeleteNo, he meant the Championship player from recent articles I guess.
ReplyDeleteLike City did ?
ReplyDeleteWhat is the worse that happen?
a 50m fine
okay that is 15m more then Carroll
and three players less in the cl squad
And romor has it City will spend upwards of 200m this summer to replace their old players
we might not have money like city but they showed ffp is pretty leniant
there would be no big sanctions because lfc would take it to court and win
ffp
ReplyDeleteis smoke in mirrors
What?
ReplyDeleteJust because Alonso was sold by Rafa does not make him a reject. The fact that Rafa felt he needed to replace Alonso with Gareth Barry is for another discussion.
Do we have 200mn?
ReplyDeleteI mean for a club like City a 50 m fine is okay. For us it means 2 transfer windows without finances.
Nail hit on the head.
ReplyDeleteAlonso was a player Rafa thought would not help him
ReplyDeletesame as Mata was a palyer that Mourinho thought would not improve the team
while Torres and Suarze play went through him
they were the team
chelsea are selling players they dont need
while fsg are selling players taht are the team
see teh differnce?
Hey, stop trying to do JK's job for him
ReplyDeleteThey don't have names?
ReplyDeleteBarry is a palyer Rafa though was a suitable replacement for Alonso.
ReplyDeleteSuarez got himself banned how many times to speed up his exit out of Anfield?
Torres handed in a transfer request and we made Chelsea pay us for a player who has failed miserable after he left and was pants in his last season with us too.
Barry is a palyer Rafa though was a suitable replacement for Alonso.
ReplyDeleteSuarez got himself banned how many times to speed up his exit out of Anfield?
Torres handed in a transfer request and we made Chelsea pay us for a player who has failed miserable after he left and was terrible in his last season with us too.
That makes Sterling's nationality
ReplyDeleteJaCaAfBrSAAf?
FSG will pay top wages to the right players i.e. Sanchez if we had signed him.
ReplyDeleteWe need a figure who can pull top players otherwise we have no chance of signing top players.
As a LUFC supporter, I'd say 10 million was a bargain. He's Paul Reaney plus goals.
ReplyDeleteWow that takes me back
ReplyDeleteYes, but compared to Real or Barca? That was more of my point. If we could get them, that's good business.
ReplyDelete