Off Season Puntsphere Rumours.

[manker]

I hear Liverpool are selling Baros and buying Crouch

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ol/4677639.stm

They actually did it, Baros has been told he has no future at the club.

[manker]

He would be a good get, price seems very reasonable for the quality / age.

I've been doing a bit of looking around since I posted that about Ballack.

It would appear that he only has a year left on his contract and could be making noises about moving so that the contract Bayern are currently offering gets improved

[Peerzy]

Ballack would be a very good signing, however think about it he only has maybe 3 years of top quality football left then maybe another 2 of shyte football thats not up to the premiership standard. Still for £12 it's a great buy and one you really need.

Baros needs to be fucking shot. He's hopeless. From 1st January of this year till this second right now he has scored 3 goals. 1 in the friendly a few days ago and 2 in 2 different premiership games. he's had over 25 apparences though. He's hopeless. Cisse is alot better but maybe not a great target man. He's far better as a wide striker or playing behind the front man so he can use his pace and strength. I think Liverpool should play maybe a 4-4-1-1 (Crouch up front as a large target man to hold up the ball).

Or maybe even better as a 3-5-1-1, with Harmman (sp?) as a defensive midfielder.

[JPaul]

Still for £12 it's a great buy and one you really need.

Feck for that I'll buy him.

How much wages do you think he'll want

[Peerzy]

Still for £12 it's a great buy and one you really need.

Feck for that I'll buy him.

How much wages do you think he'll want

Minimun wage at least, thats like £4.86, depends if you're paying him weekly in which case it could be upwards of £20.

[JPaul]

Feck for that I'll buy him.

How much wages do you think he'll want

Minimun wage at least, thats like £4.86, depends if you're paying him weekly in which case it could be upwards of £20.

Is that incl bonuses or will I need to put £25 aside, just in case we win anything.

[Rat Faced]

Krul and Emre have both signed now for Newcastle..

Anyone know what Krul is like? Dutch Goalie apparently

Sounds like a Stephen King character..

[Peerzy]

Minimun wage at least, thats like £4.86, depends if you're paying him weekly in which case it could be upwards of £20.

Is that incl bonuses or will I need to put £25 aside, just in case we win anything.

He wants a £5 signing on fee and a copy of Nuts magazine (Non negotiable), Also he would like a 50p per goal clause so he can get the bus home after matches

[manker]

Baros was top scorer in Euro 2004. He is a fantastic player, pacy, skillful and a better finisher than he's given credit for - but he was never given a chance by Liverpool. Those 24 appearances were mostly 10 mins as a sub or playing out of position.

Added to that, the bloke's confidence is shot to bits by consistently being dropped in favour of young lads and Liverpool always saying that they were looking for a striker.

This affects some players more than others. I think I watched every game he played in Euro 2004 and he was absolutely buzzing because his manager had told him that he was #1. Okay, it's a pain in the arse to have to treat a player like that but it happens and you can either nurture them or destroy them.

I just hope it's not too late for him to get back on track.

[Peerzy]

The second half of the season he was usually the starting striker, Cisse was out, he might be better for his country but in EPL football i can't see him making his mark. What Liverpool really need is a world class striker, someone in the top 10 in the world, yet there settling for people who maybe in the top 50.

Cisse is looking better now, but still not world class.

From what i've seen of Baros he's been shyte (which might not be true, i've only really taken an interest in the Liverpool team from Jan onwards)

Le Tallic is far from EPL quality.

Morrenties, well i havn't seen enough of him.

Crouch, is well tall and quite a good finisher but can't dribble for shit.

I think maybe a Crouch and Owen partnership would have been good. Having Ownes pace and Crouch's hight.

Baro's is by no means tall, can by no means dribble, he rarly gets into a chance where he can finish.

When you're champions of Europe, and for the best part of the season you're main striker is Baro's you must be thinking someone up there loves you.


Im really suprised no one has made a bid for Owen yet, the only thing he lacks is arial ability, and he is still in the top 20/15 strikers in the world with more than 1 goal to every 2 games on international turf.


Agree'd that Baro's confidence was shot to bits, but to be honest as soon as they signed FM from Real Madrid he's never really looked like he wanted to fght for the position. All the way through the season the papers ave been saying when will Liverpool sign a real striker and he has been put under pressure but he hasn't delt with it.

With hours to go before the Champions League final he released a statement saying Valencia are interested in him, hardly a way to encourage you're team mates.

Against top quality oppenents (Lets take the Chelsea (Home & Away CL matches) and Milan CL match.

Over 3 games he had 1 shot on target (The header in the first leg of Chelsea match which was saved by Cech. Over the 3 games he had 3 off target shots. In all three matches he played at least 75 minutes.

Thats 1 offtarget shot every 75 minutes, and one on target shot even 225 minutes. Owen has on avarage (while playing for Liverpool) a goal every 162 minutes.