THE JANUARY TRANSFER window is wide open, and who better to guide us through the latest wheelin’ and dealin’s than ‘Arry himself.
Just don’t use the words wheelin’ or dealin’, alright?
Sano-gone: 21-year old Arsenal striker Yaya Sanogo has joined Crystal Palace on loan for the rest of the season. Alan Pardew will hope he can improve on the zero league goals he managed for the Gunners.
No Skrt-ing around: Liverpool are hoping to end any rumours of Martin Skrtel leaving the club by signing the defender to a new deal despite the 30-year old having 18 months left on his current deal.
Bit O’News: Sligo Rovers have signed former Chelsea striker Morten Neilsen. The 24-year old will join from German club FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt subject to international clearance.
Taking a Delphie: Liverpool have told Lucas Leiva he can join former Reds boss Rafa Benitez at Napoli if they land Fabian Delph this month. Benitez is said to have wanted the Brazilian in Italy for some time.
Any Laporte in a storm: Manchester United are reportedly set to sign Athletic Bilbao defender Aymeric Laporte ahead of Arsenal and Chelsea amid reports the club has offered up to £25m for the player.
Red alert: United are also said to be monitoring the availability of Thomas Müller after being alerted to the news the German was offered to Real Madrid for the princely sum of £45 million.
Sometimes I need a Ravelation: West Ham have told Ravel Morrison he can join Lazio with the London club not even seeking a fee for the problematic 21-year old.
No Dzeko: They may have surprised everyone when they picked up former Barcelona wunderkind Bojan during the Summer, but it’s very unlikely that Manchester City’s Edin Dzeko will join him this January despite interest from Mark Hughes.
Letting Lucas go to Napoli would be a huge mistake. Lucas has been a key player for Liverpool this season. He does the dirty work very well and yes he will get booked every 2nd game but he’s good at what he does. Liverpool have lost most of the games they’ve played without Lucas which is another key factor in him staying. Also replacing him with Delph? Another over rated English centre mid who produced a handful of decent appearances last season but nothing to capture the imagination.
Yep was just going to say it man. To be honest last summer I’d have let him go but he’s been the difference since coming back at the end of November. I think the only game we’ve lost since has been man utd and he wasn’t playing that day….
Letting him go now would be a mistake especially if they think they can replace him with Delph! Who’s more like for like with Joe Allen than Lucas anyway.
Which leads me to my next point… Sell Joe Allen
Who in their right mind would buy Joe Allen though? Unless Rodgers gets the sack and buys him for his next club..
Lol
In sure Swansea would take him off Liverpool’s hands for 5 million……
If someone pays 5 million for him I’d be amazed!
‘Müller to Manchester United’ anyone who believes this should read the book Pep: Confidential, and that’ll end all rumours. Guardiola holds Müller in the highest regard and has big plans for the future, over time he wants him to pay much deeper in midfield, doubt he’d sacrifice those plans to sell him to United
You’re probably right but we reds can dream! He looks enough like Lahm that we could stick him at right back and he’d still be exponentially better than Rafael…
United don’t need him anyway, they already have 4 players who play in largely the same position.
I wonder will sanogoal keep up his record at palace
Transfer window is already boring,pure fantasy to sell their crummy red tops.
If Rodgers sells Lucas to Napoli I think questions will have to be asked about this man. He’s already driven Suso out of the club, a player who deserves much more game time and would run circles around players like Borini who’ve started ahead of him. He also got rid of Agger, yet kept Kolo, and despite lots of investment in our back4 we’re actually worse than last season.
His persistent refusal to get a decent defensive coach in is costing our team valuable points because of his ignorance to the fact that he can’t organise a defence, never mind to the standards of other defense-organising managers like Simeone or Mourinho. If Lucas goes, we have little hope of top4 imo, he’s one of the only decent defensive mids we have and is much better than rodger’s favourite, Joe Allen.
Remember when Benitez took a huge gamble trying to sign Gareth Barry and disillusioned Xabi?!
Didn’t sign Barry and Xabi fooked off!!
Lucas is far more experienced than Delph, I’d sign him and hold onto Delph and let him gain experience while he is there for the rest of the season!
Despite the Champions League success, I still cannot find it in me to not hate Rafa over losing Xabi Alonso. He did his best to lose that final too by not starting Didi Hamann!
Heard a rumour that I’m going to sign for galway Utd….but fifa 15 denies it…
Delph…Jasus. Not impressed if this happens