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Parkdrive Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

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> > Because his wage demands aren't a steal

> probably.

>

> If the transfer fee is such a "steal" the wage

> demands wouldn't be such an issue, either they are

> ridiculously high, or there's something else amiss.


Hmmm.... what happened to those rape allegations against him?

Otta Wrote:

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> Alan Medic Wrote:

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> > According to Arry there's nothing wrong with

> > Remy's fitness. It's more to do the the other

> guy

> > not wanting to leave. I'd have thought Remy was

> a

> > steal at ?7.5M.

>

>

> Agreed. Hope we don't start the season with

> Sturridge and Borini as our strike force!



Poor Lambert :-(

I can't help but think Liverpool have done exactly what Spurs did last season, sold their best player/top goal scorer and so far have failed to replace him. Yes they've bought in other players, but are any of them going to replicate the 30+ goals which got Liverpool Champions League football? Lambert was bought as a 'Plan B' option, whether Suarez stayed or not. They should be looking at strikers much better than Remy, he's hardly set the world alight at QPR or Newcastle. If he was top quality he wouldn't have ended up going out on loan to the Toon, nothing to do with wage demands etc...

liverpool are in the same difficult position that spurs were in- you just can't adequately replace bale or suarez. The ?40m+ players only tend to go to the very biggest clubs (suarez, rodriguez) or are happy at their current clubs or simply not for sale (muller, neymar, messi, ronaldo, ibrahimovic, cavani, falcao etc).


There just aren't top top players available at around the ?30m mark.

Otta Wrote:

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> Oh, and Everton have got Lukaku, which is a great

> signing for them. They paid ?28m, which is quite

> the statement. I think they are going to get

> better and better in the next couple of years.


I'm not so sure Ots, it's good news for Toffees that they signed Lukaku and Barry, and have kept Barkley, but all they've done is kept the status quo of their squad from last season, whereas I expect all the other teams around them will improve their squads significantly with new signings...

Not the first footballer to get handy with a woman, but very glad he's spending some time in custody which will hopefully show him that he's not untouchable just because he's an overpaid footballer.


The fact someone like SAF didn't fancy controlling him does say quite a lot.

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