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    [FOOTBALL] 2018 January Transfer Window Thread

    The transfer window opens again in eleven days, and Bayern Munich have moved first and completed the signing of Sandro Wagner from Hoffenheim for £10.6m.

    Now that half the season has gone, where do you feel your team needs to strengthen?

    It could be a quiet one with it being a World Cup year, but rumours aren’t going away for Sanchez, Coutinho and the like.

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    I would try to bring Mesut Oezil in early just for a lol.

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    Chelsea only have 21 players named in our squad at the moment, and David Luiz and Batshuayi are being fattened up for goosing season, so if we don't bring a couple in I don't know what the old dear Marina is doing with her time.

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    Actually I miscounted. We have 20 players named in our 25-man squad. Didn't know Kenedy counts as yoof.

    No wonder Conte was kicking off in August.

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    Kenedy was a beast of a forward for me on FM15. Imagine my surprise when I first saw him playing for Chelsea and he appeared to be a wingback.

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    Isn't he off on loan somewhere?

    Looks like we'll be letting Woodburn go somewhere for the rest of the season, hopefully a Premier League team. Sturridge too, although that seems less likely in the rumour mill now.

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    I heard Sunderland or Leeds for Woodburn. I wonder what he did to Klopps mum.

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    Anywhere nicer would too much of a culture shock.

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    Celtic have accepted a bid of around £18m for Moussa Dembele from Brighton.

    http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...pted-by-celtic

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    Celtic have taken them to town there.

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    In the interest of filling their own pockets. Sanchez or ozil should see out their contracts at arsenal. You were willing to pay arsenal £25m for me in January. Now you have to pay me that to sign, right now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    Celtic have taken them to town there.
    Wasn't he linked with Chelsea for 30/40m last summer? Has he been found out a bit this year?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Weaver View Post
    Celtic have accepted a bid of around £18m for Moussa Dembele from Brighton.

    http://www.skysports.com/football/ne...pted-by-celtic
    Celtic have denied it and that link has now been taken down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by five time View Post
    Wasn't he linked with Chelsea for 30/40m last summer? Has he been found out a bit this year?
    He only had 4 goals this year so far.

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    Turned out he’s not as good as Leigh Griffiths. Likely to stunt your prospects, that.

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    I’ll try to tally up the transfer prediction game from summer tomorrow. Someone should post a January one.
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    Jesus

    When was his deal up?

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    I’m sure he signed a six year contract last year, so the summer of 2022.

    Huge deal that.

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    Will probably still play like a mong in Klopp's defence.

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    Need a defensive coach in next.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry View Post
    Will probably still play like a mong in Klopp's defence.
    Exactly. It's not really worth their while spending huge money on defenders unless they're going to change the manager too.

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    lol at Fenway signing off on that price. He's been on strike for a year.

    Southampton should use the money to fire Pellegrino and hire Gary Rowett.

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    £75m. Fucking hell.

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    Klopp has refused to name a single other defender he wanted for the sake of signing Van Dijk.

    For £75m I think he's going to live or die by this signing.

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    The fee is almost irrelevant. Very good defender, and miles better than Lovren and Klavan.

    Great signing.

    EDIT: not that he alone will fix our defensive problems, of course. He's just a much better defender than we currently have.

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    Mario + VVD sounds genuinely formidable, I reckon he'll be worth it.

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    Unless Klopp changes tack or brings in a new defensive coach there will be no noticeable change because regardless of VVD’s undoubted quality the best defences are drilled to fucking death on the training ground and that’s clearly not happening at Liverpool (it’s not happening at Arsenal either to be fair).

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    He is not two-and-a-half Andy Carrolls.

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    This has all probably been done without Southampton's consent.

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    In defence of our defence. We've conceded 23 goals this season, only 3 more than Spurs. However the majority of those goals have come against our would-be rivals. 5 away to City, 4 away to Spurs and 3 away to Arsenal.

    It would also be of use if the midfield helped with defending. That's the key. Henderson is not capable of the role he's needed to fill. We're getting Keita in and letting Emre Can go in the summer. If we can get someone who will actually sit behind that, we'll be a solid unit. Not someone who fucks off leaving a 30 yard gap between defence and midfield.

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    People think Liverpool's defence is worse than it is, because when their high line gets caught out they usually end up looking silly.

    Case in point was that Everton game where literally the only chance they conceded all game was a 60/40 penalty shout that was given and they ended up getting hounded. In terms of chances conceded they're no worse than United or Arsenal.

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    I assume it’ll be van Dijk & Matip, right?
    Lovren’s on the bench right?
    RIGHT?

    Now we just need to relieve Donnarumma from his nightmare in Milan.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dino View Post
    People think Liverpool's defence is worse than it is, because when their high line gets caught out they usually end up looking silly.

    Case in point was that Everton game where literally the only chance they conceded all game was a 60/40 penalty shout that was given and they ended up getting hounded. In terms of chances conceded they're no worse than United or Arsenal.
    People think Liverpool’s defence is shite because they keep coughing up 2 goal or more leads.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    I assume it’ll be van Dijk & Matip, right?
    Lovren’s on the bench right?
    RIGHT?

    Now we just need to relieve Donnarumma from his nightmare in Milan.
    Whilst I'd love that, the kids going nowhere other than to the Old Lady.

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    Doesn't every defender look good at Southampton because they never attack? Dejan Lovren, for example.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lofty View Post
    People think Liverpool’s defence is shite because they keep coughing up 2 goal or more leads.
    That's not really related to their ability to defend.

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    It's because their manager is clueless/stubborn and one decent defender won't change that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    It's because their manager is clueless/stubborn and one decent defender won't change that.
    Based on what? Don't you think individual mistakes from the current goalkeepers and central defenders are more to blame rather than the 'stubbornness' of the manager?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Doesn't every defender look good at Southampton because they never attack? Dejan Lovren, for example.
    He was good at Celtic too. And that includes opponents sometimes even getting into your half.

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    Let's not go overboard here, Klopp's Dortmund (with the, at the time, world class CB Hummels and Subotic as the big fucker next to him) was equally susceptible at the back quite often, they'd just attempt to score more than the opposition (and batter fuck out the shit). He's had the exact same gameplan since day one, and in the long run that's what'll fuck him in the arse when it all crumbles down.

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    Aye, never win anything with that approach.

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    Almost six years since they won anything, may as well keep doing the same thing.

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    I was talking more of his massively unsuccessful stint at Dortmund.

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    Aye I think that was fairly obvious.

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    I honestly don't mind Klopp being [so-called] defensively inept because Liverpool are amazing to watch nowadays. Every game is enjoyable and it's boss.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Doesn't every defender look good at Southampton because they never attack? Dejan Lovren, for example.
    Pretty much, up until last season we always had three fairly solid midfielders sat in front of our defence. Wanyama and Schneiderlin made all our defenders look a lot better. Van Dijk is far better than the other defenders we've had though, only other centre back we've had close to him was Alderwiereld. The likes of Lovren and Fonte not even close.

    I think he will improve their defence but until they sign a proper holding midfielder they're going to keep getting exposed and making the odd mistake.

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    Hopefully we can invest properly with money, supposedly we've gotten a large chunk of the money upfront with an aim to reinvest.

    Before anyone comes in we need to get rid of the manager and Les Reed. Then a few players need to go, Shane Long and Fraser Forster are both comically bad. Yoshida is fine as a third choice but shouldn't be first choice.

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    Mister Pellegrino strikes me as the worst manager in the league by a distance, in that he took over a solid team and has made them steadily less solid whilst also not improving them in any other respect.

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    Forsters regression has been surprising.

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