“The heart of defence will be an area of focus.”
Thank f*ck and I hope the defence in general.
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Couldn’t agree more, but we have left ourselves in a really difficult position, and unless we can find someone homegrown, we’d need to move on Endo or Chiesa before we could register them.
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Good point about homegrown spots. It’s an important factor to consider.
The two you mention, Endo and Chiesa, have been out of favor with Slot so if either is moved on to accommodate a cb, I would do it.
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I was expecting a CB in January only if one of our 3 CB’s pick up a serious long term injury or there’s an opportunistic buy for the future (who could also prove to be useful now) like when we signed Agger in 2006 (could’ve been that Ordonez guy).
Other than that, I didn’t expect Bradley’s injury to throw us into the market, either. We will cope with a various combination of right footers there.
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The other option is a CB who meets the U21 criteria. Joel Ordonez is someone who’d qualify as U21 for this season but wouldn’t next.
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That’s good info, cheers. It strengthens the case to get him now then! Assuming of course we like the player.
Protected by being U21 this season, and then in the summer, presumably there will be a bit of a shuffle in the cb department with one or two exits and more space opens up.
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Latest Guehi gossip has City making, sorry preparing, an offer. Does that mean that the offer will be perfectly wrapped with a bow on top?
Manchester City are preparing to make an offer for Crystal Palace and England centre-back Marc Guehi, 25, before the end of the January transfer window, but are unlikely to meet Palace’s asking price of above £35 million. (Talksport), external
But Bayern Munich sporting director Max Eberl has been making calls in recent days to try to convince Guehi to join them in the summer. (Sky Germany)
Also,
Liverpool will not offload England defender Joe Gomez, 28, this month after Northern Ireland right-back Conor Bradley, 22, suffered a season-ending knee injury. (Football Insider)
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That last bit is some weird info. Why would we let Gomez go in this window, even if Bradley was fit.
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Breaking news: we’re also not offloading Ekitike after Isak’s injury.
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Is Frimpong also staying as Bradley is injured and Joe is staying?
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I’m hearing van Dijk is staying also.
That’s cos he is too old to move too far, according to some 
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He can have my walking frame if he wants.
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How do you doubt the “football insider”?
Also teamtalk is shit
Team talk was even shite 25 years ago.
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Fast forward a year and a half from this deal, how surprising or shocking is to read something like this?
I don’t think he’ll leave in January, but the point might remain for the next transfer window.
Slot has barely used him, and while I don’t see him as starter material, there’s a case that he should have been used a bit more as a sub around 70mins or so.
Still, the overriding point is Slot has barely used him, so if he goes, especially if Mo comes back in a couple of weeks, I don’t see much of a problem.
Richard Hughes, fluent in Italian and fully au fait with the culture and footballing set up over there, will get the best deal for LFC. Because we barely use Chiesa it won’t be much, but the loan moves that Italian teams continually go for is galling.
Back in the day they were the richest league in the world, and the likes of Ian Rush went there to make more money. The Premier League has swamped all that, and then some, so these days even the largest Italian clubs like Juventus are nowhere near as rich as a team like Liverpool.
Hence they seem especially determined to keep trying to drive a hard bargain.
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Spurs have signed Gallagher from Madrid. £35m. Poor lad, just hope the money is good.
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I’m sure the money is very good, or he wouldn’t have signed. Spurs are not a poor club.
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He’s a very Spursy signing. Okay player who tries hard but is never going to set the pitch on fire. I like his honesty and he will probably improve them a bit, but not enough to make a big difference.
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