With yet more Virgil van Dijk denials from Southampton, new names have emerged in Liverpool’s search for a centre back, with The Reds now linked with Schalke’s Benedikt Hoewedes.
And with fresh Philippe Coutinho claims emerging from Barcelona, should Liverpool be concerned about Barca club officials talking openly about the coveted Brazilian?
Joining Rob Gutmann to navigate through the transfer mire are Ben Johnson, Gareth Roberts and Neil Atkinson.
Howedes is a big massive fucking no brainer to me.
£20mil (possibly euro) for a vastly experienced World Cup winning German defender/leader who’s very versatile?
Why the fuck would we not be interested?
Even if we bought VVD I’d still want us to buy him.
Sell Klavan and let Gomez earn his spurs playing fullback or loan him out.
Our options at centreback would be VVD, Matip, Howedes and Lovren.
Bought collectively for approx £100mil.
We need to start showing some fucking ambition. That’s a central defence to challenge on all fronts.
Heavy duty panel on the gutter, really enjoyable show.
Hold my hands up and say Neil knows a dam site more about football than me but don’t understand why he is so against spending money on getting a really decent left back(it was me who brought up the fact Robo wanted to by Hector last year, sorry for the very long rambling incoherent message, however did feel better after getting it all of my chest!).
Do however agree with Neil about Ake’, extremely good buy for 20 million in this market as long as we had brought another, Van Dijk would have been the obvious one but still don’t think we will get him.
Surely if we don’t get him we are not going into the next 4 months with the centre back options as is, so if not Van Dijk then who.
Think its going to be a very busy last couple of days of this transfer window , any chance of Rob doing a 48hour live gutter show special!
It was interesting to hear views being expressed about the assumed reluctance on the part of Klopp and the club to bring in a 29 year old centre back. They did of course buy a 29 year old CB only last year.
Exactly!
Only now this 29yr old centreback is a World Cup winning German defender and not some Eastern European nobody.
Howedes could genuinely challenge to be first choice.
Great balance to that Gutter line-up! Very funny and loads of sense – more please :-)
After we qualify for Europe… thats when signings will come….
And go