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Luis Suarez moves to Liverpool
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Yes we were, so ended up putting my house on that we wouldn't sign him. Anyone else do the same??
MikeCOYS
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I think we see it in different perspective... The way I see it, he's like Torres but L'pool style don't suit him so he's shit for them; but he still have that class in him so we could pick him up on the cheap and again, Harry to work his magic and bang! 30 goals a season for Spurs...
Then again, all this is crap. Hope he is a flop and yeah I agree £10mil for him after being a flop was bit excessive, maybe £5-7mil?
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I`m getting sick of our failed search for a new striker. I guess Suarez will shine at Liverpool and they will finish above us in May. We`ll end up with Pav and Crouch as our strikers for the rest of the season if Defoe gets injured again 
Please, surprise me, Levy!
Please, surprise me, Levy!
MikeCOYS
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Yeah, I'm sick of us not getting a striker as well... With Bale gone, half our goals/assists is missing temporarily. That's a major hit to us, without a class striker, we're in more of a trouble. I can't see us getting a striker this transfer, I can see a defender or a midfielder coming in... which we all don't want.
We just have to have our fingers crossed and hope we get a striker. I think our next striker will come in this summer, that is not acceptable if we want to claim 4th again. Spending big in summer will be too late, and our chances of getting top 4 will be more or less over.
We just have to have our fingers crossed and hope we get a striker. I think our next striker will come in this summer, that is not acceptable if we want to claim 4th again. Spending big in summer will be too late, and our chances of getting top 4 will be more or less over.
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If we don't sign a striker in the next 3 days I'm going to shit in a bag and mail it to Daniel Levy.
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Was announced on SSN Torres wants to leave Pool... Seriously IMO this is bad news for football an indication for us all when club like Liverpool is no more glamorous enough to keep its prized assets, player power money rules.
It's happens to all clubs we've had our fare share of players leaving us. Ronaldo left Utd.
So when we here stories about Modric to Barcelona/Chelsea/RMadrid/ManU or Bale to xyz anythings possible.
It's happens to all clubs we've had our fare share of players leaving us. Ronaldo left Utd.
So when we here stories about Modric to Barcelona/Chelsea/RMadrid/ManU or Bale to xyz anythings possible.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/9377256.stm
Liverpool have agreed a fee to sign Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez from Dutch club Ajax for £23m.
The deal for the 24-year-old striker is subject to Suarez passing a medical and agreeing personal terms with the Premier League club.
Liverpool initially bid £12.7m for Suarez, but Ajax told them to come back with a more "respectful" offer.
That led to Liverpool almost doubling their offer to tempt the Dutch giants to sell the forward.
Clubs usually have to pay a premium to sign players during the January transfer window - Bosnia striker Edin Dzeko reportedly cost Manchester City £27m earlier this month - and Ajax will make a £16.6m profit on a player they bought from Groningen for £6.4m in 2007.
But BBC Sport blogger Tim Vickery suggested that Liverpool had invested wisely.
"If I had £23m in my bank account I wouldn't have too many qualms about spending it on Suarez," Vickery told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Everybody wins. Ajax played the transfer game poker very well. Liverpool have paid top whack but they have got a striker who can play across the line.
During his spell with the Amsterdam club Suarez scored 111 goals in 159 appearances. His scoring ratio for Uruguay is one goal in every three internationals, having scored 10 times in 30 games, including three goals in last summer's World Cup.
The Uruguayan has just finished serving a seven-match ban for biting PSV Eindhoven's Otman Bakkal on the shoulder in a league match in November.
"I can understand Luis wanting to go to Liverpool, it's a beautiful club, but then it has to be satisfying for both parties," said Ajax manager Frank de Boer.
Suarez is the first major signing for Liverpool's new owners, Fenway Sports Group, since it bought the club in October.
However, it comes at a time when the Reds have just turned down an offer from Premier League rivals Chelsea of about £35m for Fernando Torres and the focus is likely to remain on whether the Spaniard will be sold in the next few days.
The 26-year-old Torres has struggled for form so far this season but has scored nine goals in 26 appearances for the Reds.
Suarez was at the centre of controversy when he was sent off in Uruguay's World Cup quarter-final against Ghana for handling the ball on the line to keep out Dominic Adiyah's goalbound header in the last minute of the game.
Ghana missed the subsequent spot-kick and were beaten in a penalty shoot-out - with Suarez celebrating from the sidelines.
Last weekend Suarez, who has scored seven goals in the Dutch league this season, spoke of his desire to play in the Premier League.
"I used to think that English football was not my style," the Uruguayan, who turned 24 on Monday, told the Sunday Times. "But I saw Carlos Tevez play at Boca and Corinthians and I never imagined that he would play in the Premier League.
"When I see the way that Tevez plays there I think I can be a big name in England. It's because of the energy, and the spirit they put into the game in England. Now, I think it's a kind of football that suits me."
Who'd have thunk it?
Liverpool have agreed a fee to sign Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez from Dutch club Ajax for £23m.
The deal for the 24-year-old striker is subject to Suarez passing a medical and agreeing personal terms with the Premier League club.
Liverpool initially bid £12.7m for Suarez, but Ajax told them to come back with a more "respectful" offer.
That led to Liverpool almost doubling their offer to tempt the Dutch giants to sell the forward.
Clubs usually have to pay a premium to sign players during the January transfer window - Bosnia striker Edin Dzeko reportedly cost Manchester City £27m earlier this month - and Ajax will make a £16.6m profit on a player they bought from Groningen for £6.4m in 2007.
But BBC Sport blogger Tim Vickery suggested that Liverpool had invested wisely.
"If I had £23m in my bank account I wouldn't have too many qualms about spending it on Suarez," Vickery told BBC Radio 5 live.
"Everybody wins. Ajax played the transfer game poker very well. Liverpool have paid top whack but they have got a striker who can play across the line.
During his spell with the Amsterdam club Suarez scored 111 goals in 159 appearances. His scoring ratio for Uruguay is one goal in every three internationals, having scored 10 times in 30 games, including three goals in last summer's World Cup.
The Uruguayan has just finished serving a seven-match ban for biting PSV Eindhoven's Otman Bakkal on the shoulder in a league match in November.
"I can understand Luis wanting to go to Liverpool, it's a beautiful club, but then it has to be satisfying for both parties," said Ajax manager Frank de Boer.
Suarez is the first major signing for Liverpool's new owners, Fenway Sports Group, since it bought the club in October.
However, it comes at a time when the Reds have just turned down an offer from Premier League rivals Chelsea of about £35m for Fernando Torres and the focus is likely to remain on whether the Spaniard will be sold in the next few days.
The 26-year-old Torres has struggled for form so far this season but has scored nine goals in 26 appearances for the Reds.
Suarez was at the centre of controversy when he was sent off in Uruguay's World Cup quarter-final against Ghana for handling the ball on the line to keep out Dominic Adiyah's goalbound header in the last minute of the game.
Ghana missed the subsequent spot-kick and were beaten in a penalty shoot-out - with Suarez celebrating from the sidelines.
Last weekend Suarez, who has scored seven goals in the Dutch league this season, spoke of his desire to play in the Premier League.
"I used to think that English football was not my style," the Uruguayan, who turned 24 on Monday, told the Sunday Times. "But I saw Carlos Tevez play at Boca and Corinthians and I never imagined that he would play in the Premier League.
"When I see the way that Tevez plays there I think I can be a big name in England. It's because of the energy, and the spirit they put into the game in England. Now, I think it's a kind of football that suits me."
Who'd have thunk it?
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BringBack_leGin
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I'd take Anelka, I'd love him.
I'd also take Daniel Sturridge, he's going to make it big and whoever has him at the time is going to reap some major rewards.
I'd also take Daniel Sturridge, he's going to make it big and whoever has him at the time is going to reap some major rewards.
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I'd forgotten about him - Chelsea seem to have done a pretty shabby job in further developing him (unless he's been injured).
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He was offered as a makeweight in the Torres bid wasn't he? If so, expendable and gettable.
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I haven't seen anything of him to suggest he is going to be a world superstar, or even a top level PL striker for that matter.
He looks a good player, but then so does Danny Welbeck and people were once tipping Frasier Campbell for big things after impressing at Hull.
He has looked the better prospect and has played CL football and such already but I would like to see him tear things up at Bolton before I starting thinking of him as a star for the future (he isn't ripping up trees like a young Rooney or Owen that you knew would make it big one way or another, he's career is more like Welbeck than Rooney's to date)
We shall see, good luck to him but I wouldn't be surprised if in the end he developed into a Carlton Cole level PL striker, good player knocking around the International scene but not top draw. (infact as a youngster at Chelsea I think Carlton Cole looked more impressive than Sturridge has thus far)
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Yeah, I was reading something about how Michael Ricketts had a similar record to Andy Carroll at the same age so you have to be careful. As this football blog suggests, getting £35 million for an unproven striker is probably one of the best bits of buisness in football ever. He's certainly no Rooney.
BringBack_leGin
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Wayne Rooney, over a two year period (admittedly at a much younger age) scored precisely 4 more goals in his first two seasons of regular Premiership football than Carroll has in his first 5 months.
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This is a massive point though
BringBack_leGin
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Not that massive. You can only do the business when given the chance to do the business, and boy has Carroll done the business thus far.
That said, much as I wanted him, we were right not to pay a ludicrous amount for him. Suarez however, has made a pretty good start.
Then again, Crouchy did score tonight :wink:
