Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

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Originally Posted by I am invisible

Yeah, good luck with that.

Although I do wonder whether some of these wage demands that we read about are what the players would actually be looking for from another club, or whether they're just some random, outrageous sum that they've chucked at their current club to kill any talk of contract extensions and force through the move they want?

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There will be an element of that I suppose. The grubby agents will go as high as they can so they can leech the biggest commission.

Balotelli for 16 million, wow what a snip, that's nothing in today's market.

Really think we missed a trick there.

We've needed a striker for quite a while now and somehow always manage to miss out signing them, as much as I rate Sanchez, he's not a striker and won't negate our need for one.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

We already have a better striker than Balotelli - without all the baggage:

http://www.squawka.com/comparison-ma...al_score#total

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problem is - the bloke that our manager see's as our striker is the other one in your comparison & look at his rating.

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Originally Posted by Özim

Balotelli for 16 million, wow what a snip, that's nothing in today's market.

Really think we missed a trick there.

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There's a reason he's 16 million.

And there's a reason why he's been pimped so ferociously by Milan. They have been desperate to get rid of him all summer. Looks like the have a bite.

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Originally Posted by Dein-machine

problem is - the bloke that our manager see's as our striker is the other one in your comparison & look at his rating.

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It shows Giroud is, on average, a competent striker but certainly nothing special. I suspect just about any striker bar Sanogo would do okay playing up top for us with the likes of Ramsey and Ozil providing the bullets. We can get 4th again with a competent striker such as Giroud, or we can push on if we make a signing or commit to playing Alexis in the role. Still a risk either way, a new signing may take time to settle, Alexis may not like having his kneecaps hacked off and his head caved in by connoisseurs like Terry and Shawcross. We can get relegated with Sanogo playing, that's another option.

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Originally Posted by The Emirates Gallactico

There's a reason he's 16 million.

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He hasn't caused many problems at Milan to be fair, yes he comes with baggage but so does Suarez and look how much he went for.

This guy has got superstar potential, based on that 16 million is a snip and a risk worth taking IMO, for 16 million you wont find a player anywhere near as good as him elsewhere.

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Originally Posted by Özim

He hasn't caused many problems at Milan to be fair, yes he comes with baggage but so does Suarez and look how much he went for.

This guy has got superstar potential, based on that 16 million is a snip and a risk worth taking IMO, for 16 million you wont find a player anywhere near as good as him elsewhere.

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This year, Chambers - better, twice as good. Previously (so allow a bit of inflation), Sturridge, £12mill, twice as good, none of the problems. Ironically it will be Sturridge most likely to suffer now this lunatic has signed. But good news for us of course.

Unfortunately I think he could be quite explosive in Liverpool's set up.

Hopefully he's still mad as fuck though.

Well however good he is for them, I doubt he'll be as good as Suarez was...