Liverpool fans, so far this
transfer window, have endured a very much up and down time. Liverpool have lost
their best and most influential player in Luis Suarez to Barcelona for a
whopping £75million but in the meantime have done well in acquiring the
services of Rickie Lambert, Adam Lallana and Dejan Lovren all from Southampton,
Emre Can from Beyer Leverkusen and Lazar Markovic from SL Benfica.
Last Season Liverpool fans
enjoyed a terrific season seeing their team challenge for the league title,
which they narrowly missed out on, to Moneybags Manchester city. And with the
new season dawning Liverpool fans will hope to emulate their success achieved
last season. Inevitably, it will
be difficult and the loss of 30-goal Luis Suarez will definitely not be of
assistance to Brendan Rodgers but with the signings of, in particular, Adam Lallana
and Lazar Markovic; Liverpool should still possess enough quality and goals to
follow up last season’s success.
Last season, in Spurs, we saw
the departure of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid for £85million and the arrival of 7
new players for a combined total of £110 million each signing averaging £15.7million.
With all the money spent and the quality of the players brought in, it was
expected that spurs would enjoy a fruitful season and maybe even challenge for
silverware. Unfortunately for Tottenham fans, Tottenham endured an
unsatisfactory season with many of their new signings failing to impress and as
a result of the below par performances, Daniel Levy, Spurs Chairman, decided to
sack the person responsible for recruiting the unimpressive players who were
supposed to replace Gareth Bale’s quality and goals: Andre Villas Boas. One
Year on and we see Luis Suarez complete a transfer from Liverpool to Barcelona
for £75million and Liverpool spend £79million on five new faces each averaging £15.8million.
See any similarities?
Liverpool fans may argue this
comparison to be unfair as they say that the majority of Spurs signings came
from all around Europe and were all unproven the Premier League whereas most of
Liverpool’s signings are proven players in the Premier League. However,
Liverpool fans forget how they have lost 30 goals a season in Luis Suarez and
are still yet to replace those priceless goals that he provided. They have so
far added the attacking options of Rickie Lambert (13 goals last season) and
Lazar Markovic (5 goals last season) combined they scored a total of 18 goals
last season.
Further to disappoint
Liverpool fans, with Steven Gerrard the current Penalty taker, Free kick taker
and corner taker Rickie Lambert will struggle to reach his goal tally of 13
goals a season as in the last two seasons, of Lambert’s 28 goals, 14 of them
have come from set plays and with him unlikely to be Liverpool’s set-piece
taker, it looks as if he would struggle to reach even a meagre 10 goals next
season.
The majority of their summer
transfer business, in my opinion, is done and dusted but despite that Liverpool
are still looking to strengthen in one or two areas of the field. Here are
Liverpool’s transfer targets, one of whom they’ve just completed the signing of:
Jay Rodriguez – Following the
collapse of the Loic Remy transfer. Liverpool are being forced to look
elsewhere for attacking options. So once again Liverpool look to Southampton to
supply them with whom they want and whom they want is Jay Rodriguez. Last year,
Jay Rodriguez enjoyed a breakthrough season scoring 17 goals and recording 3
assists in 40 appearances for the saints. After his successful season he was in
line for place in the England squad for the world cup until injury struck which
ruled him out of the world cup and the very beginning of the next premier
League season. Despite his injury, Jay Rodriguez has been subject to interest
from a number of clubs including Spurs and most recently Liverpool. It is
rumoured that Rodriguez is keen on the Liverpool move as he is fond of the
prospect of linking up with his former teammates.
Divock Origi – Divock Origi
enjoyed a successful World cup and as a result of his impressive performances,
three weeks ago, became a transfer target for Liverpool. Three weeks on and the Origi transfer
saga has come to a conclusion. Although Liverpool are set to spend £10million
on the striker, he, sadly, will not be adding any goals to Liverpool’s tally
this season as it looks as if part of the transfer agreement between Lille and
Liverpol is that he will be loaned back to Lille for the rest of the season.
By @joelymo444
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