The_MC

Has there been any official news re Johnsons injury? Says 'muscle spasm' and 'no return date' on physioroom, wondered if there has been anything on the offal?

Thought I'd post this, in case it hasn't already been seen by YNWA'ers-> Petition to bring forward Inquest It's the E-Petition, mentioned in the below article, to bring forward the Inquest into Kevin Williams' death, due to the news of Anne's battle with cancer. 10,000 signatures and counting.

I guess so, but for the time being at least Wisdom and Johnson look set. Enrique and Downing are fit but not in the first 11 (at least not starting LB) and Kelly despite his injuries was one of our best young players last year and made the England squad playing as RB. McLaughlin is just a kid yes, but so are Sterling, Suso, Wisdom, etc. Unless the LB's step up I think Johnson will remain there.

Agreed Adder, Kelly is brilliant all-round right back. Hopefully he and Wisdom will both prove versatile enough for CB cover, especially if Ryan McClaughlin can continue the progress he showed in pre-season. Looking increasingly like Johnson will stay at LB permanently considering the options available on the other side of the field.

Liking the haircut Raheem, very early 90s.

Bingo. Ban anyone doing this kind of crap. They're not welcome and the kind of people that will do it once are likely to do it again and again if you don't remove them. There should be a zero tolerance attitude on this if the two clubs are serious about stamping it out.

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Depends on the conditions of the 'option' really. Milan and Juve had the 'option' to buy Aquilani if i remember correctly.

My guess is the latter. We seem fairly set in the formation we've been playing under Rodgers. Would be interested to see Gerrard in the forward line with Shelvey in the midfield role rather than vice versa though.

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Aweful news to see him out again. Such an important player for us. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but why on earth did we start him when he'd already felt something going in the warm up? The Sahin signing is all of a sudden looking much more important than it was.

If it's only a loan signing I can't see Sahin being first choice anyway. We wouldn't have spent so much on Allen only to bench him, and Lucas and Gerrard are better players than Sahin anyway. Sahin looks like an opportunistic signing to add quality to the squad at low cost (as Siggurdson would've done and maybe Assaidi has done). I rate him and it'll be good if we get him in but it's not the end of the world if we don't pull off a loan signing for a squad player. The main plus for me if he comes in is it would likely push Adam out the door and we can add the money from his sale to bringing in another forward.

Fantastic goal Sterling. Shame my stream froze just before it!

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I'm still hopeful of seeing Kelly moving into the CB position at some point, especially when you see the likes of McLaughlin showing such promise for the RB spot.

I'm with you there. Really don't see where all the love for Aquilani comes from. He's had a bad attitude from the start and taken us for mugs, yet he seems to have a cult following. I want to see him succeed and become a good player for us because it would be good for LFC but can't say i like him. Another of those players who people rate more the less they plays for us (e.g. Cole, Maxi, Meireles, N'gog, the huge list of wonderkids we've had over the last 10 years who haven't made it, etc).

Good. £10m is too much for Dempsey considering he only has a year left on his deal. He'd be a good addition to the squad in my opinion but it seems we have decided not to pay over what we think a player is worth (as already seen with Sigurdson) - and that's how it should be. I wonder how far we'll go for Allen? Rodgers should know better than anyone his true value to a team, and personally I'd really like us to get him in, but again we may have a number we just won't go beyond.

Scouted via the Internet? Sounds like a recipe for disaster. Presumably if we go for him (whoever he is) we'll have checked him out a few times in person?

Wow, 6 months. Scary prospect losing a talent like him. Let's hope the owners have their heads screwed on as to contracts.

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Same. I just don't think he's that good and to be honest I can't see him improving a great deal. Never worth the reputed 100k/week contract he's after at Arsenal. He's still young but if injuries take some of his pace away he'll quickly become a mid-table standard player.

I wonder what 'acceptable' loan terms would be? I don't see any benefit of loaning him out personally. Even if you set a fee with a view to a move at the end of the loan it's pointless. Say we set a £15m fee for at the end of the loan and he bangs in 25 goals... we end up losing out because his new market value would then be more than the pre-set price. Say we set a £15m fee and he scores 5 goals... they simply won't buy him or will renogotiate to a lower fee. Lose-lose situation. I remember saying the exact same thing when we loaned out Aquilani (almost word for word). I very much doubt we'll be stupid enough to make the same mistake twice, but if there are 'acceptable' terms then it suggests to me its not impossible.

Never seen him player and know little about him, but for a 21-year old striker who was in the Italy squad for the Euros that is surely a very good price.

Re Sturridge; if reports are to be believed then one of the reasons he wants to move on from Chelsea is that he's not happy being restricted to the wide positions. I get what you're saying about having a player that can play any of the forward positions but often it's because they aren't consistent or good enough to make any one position their own. He is, as you say, a good young player with good control and pace but if we go for him i hope he's earmarked to play a certain position rather than just to cover gaps.

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