On his day he is unstoppable and one of the best one on one players in the League.
The question is could he become a more consistent performer with us and more direct he does drift wide even in possession when he should be driving toward the goal mouth to shoot.
For a reasonable fee I’d be happy to give him a crack but I feel like Wolves would want 50 mil and for that money its not the right deal for us.
25-30 mil and I’d be very interested but cant see Wolves doing business at that price.
What happens if as per recent rumours Nat is sold, Davies, Rhys and Neco Williams go on loan or sold and Ox moves to West Ham, where do we stand then - are we faced with having to buy english players to fill the squad?
If those moves – and only those moves – happened, we would have spots for 3 homegrown players in the PL squad or 2 association-trained and 1 club-trained homegrown players in the CL squad.
On both lists, the 17 non-HG spots would remain filled (as presently).
The issue is typically less one of struggling with homegrown, but finding yourself with more than the 17 non-homegrown senior players you’re allowed to register. As it stands, if we include fringe players most people think are available like Shaq, Divok and Mini, we are at 17. So if we’re looking to bring in any non-homegrown players we are in a sell to buy situation.
We’ve also got plenty of homegrown players to fill out the squad towards its max of 25, 7 on my count assuming we keep them all - Kelleher, Trent, Gomez, Phillips, Millner, Hendo, Ox. On top of that we have several players who will be available we dont have to register as part of the 25 - Jones, Elliot, and the Williams boys, plus which ever kid is next in line to step up (Bradley?).
Basically, our numbers are more than fine, but it means we have to be a bit careful in what sort of moves we make. For example, we couldnt have moved on Phillips and replaced him with Kabak without also making room for the Turk by moving on another non-homegrown player.
No I agree that’s a really weird story in the first place as this happens with dozens of youth players every summer and I’m not sure the one in the story will ever even become a player worth that much. Then for BBC to include it is Nother strange choice too.
Also also… “Missed out on millions” for Larouci is a weird way to phrase it when the story is he ran his contract down which happens all the time. Adding that he joined Troyes and that they are part of the City Group seems like a pretty desperate way of getting a reaction on twitter from Liverpool fans towards Man City (more a criticism of the Daily Mirror than the BBC but still).
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