"It would definitely be sad if we can't outbid Southampton's 10.2 million and lose a future star to a lesser team! This shouldn't be happening at Liverpool!"
"Gemboy agree totally, But we keep placing stupid bids for plays of good quality and then have no problems for paying for over the odds for so call British talent, Sturridge being the exception. "
"Don't think Ian Ayre knows what he's doing, like when Kenny was the manager paying a lot of money for flops and when wonder kids like Coutinho comes along he don't want to pay"
"this is a player that might take time to fit into our system and get used to the physicality of the EPL.this would have been a good deal if it was done in the summer.with preseason friendlies,etc.we need someone that will hit the ground running like Sturridge to finish top4"
"another day wasted on haggling with the selling price of 1 player. great! tomorrow they'l say shmpton hav got him n we'd have to hurry to find another alternative."
"Just bid 11million and get it over with, this guy has bags of talent and potential for more and a bargain considering price for allen, also we should loan out/give more games to coates before he decides to leave"
"I am gong to have to agree with a quite a lot of fans about Ayre, I really dont think he should be involved in transfers, always very very slow and then other teams ie southampton/tottenham just step in with an improved offer and off they go... it is very concerning..."
"Who said we have to out bid southampton... even if we offer 10M instead of the 10.2 he will come to us cause he prefers us than the saints... Its Ayer eho is thinking he is buying potatoes in the market and trying to lower prices... :S"
"I hope well, the deal to bring Coutinho to Melwood is going to succeed for me, £8m looks a convincing argument and the guy looks not interested to the saints proposal. We have all the ingredients as the things end well"
"Whatever it is, too much time is being wasted. My wife aould have got pregnant faster than we can get players in from the beginning of this transfer window. At this rate, Ince is pretty "out-of-time" now."
"This new policy of lower wages and transfer fees whilst admirable may come back to haunt us. It looks like another player we will miss out on. One week to go and we have a smaller squad then we did at the beginning of the season. Has the board and BR not listened to SG about the need for quality players to make top 4 or risk losing Suarez"
"as usual Fenway have failed to deliver and as a result we have lost out for the third time to a player due to Southampton. John W Henry, Tom Werner, you need to leave this club"
"Calm down, folks. The boy is unproven. Going up to 10mill for an unproven kid is a risk - better let southampton take that risk. I think BR tries to balance this risk with price, and is ready to walk away once his limit is reached. Transfer policy as it should be without sugar-daddy-monies."
"havent seen much of Coutinho, cant tell how good he is, if we dont get him we should try to go after Juan Cazares the river plate player, only 20 but lots of skills and long range shots the type of AM we need "
"this club going doen a very bad road if we are haggling over players that southampton and stoke can pay more for .wake up fsg and get serious about the quality of player you are bringing to the club .4th place is there for the taking and then the club becomes much more attractive to top players .investment now = big payout with champions league football next season "
"doesnt make a difference who we get. We will lose a place in Champions League this season. We will then lose Suarez to Bayern in the Summer. Gerrard and Carra are at the end of their careers. So whatever potential we buy will remain... potential! Lets brace ourselves for a disaster with these charlatan owners, imbecile managing director, and one season wonder coach!!!!"
"Wow Arye, FSG r misers u got rid of quality and u want to over work Suarez and stretch the team. We ask as funs why shud we pay season tickets and buy lfc stuff if urnt in the team. I bet if it was Redsox u wnt waste anytime"
"butragenio i agree with u this path were on only leeds 1 way disaster . wise up fsg and ian ayre sort this mess out if suarez islet leave in the summer u can kiss premier league goodbye he is the only 1 keeping us up "
"A certain Dutch striker who plays 4 sportin lisbon is available can we make a bid.. Or yeah lets b like arsenal hve a startng 11 & use academy plyrs as our bench. U must invst on team this is nt a top 4 team.please FSG invst in the team. We hve chance dnt waste it."
"Can we just pay what they want? The thing is do WE really want him?
Read today we are 9th in the money league in Europe.
Get him signed please!
This could end up like Dempsey."
"im not saying that i dont like this kid but i think he doesnt ready for epl challenge.. hopefully in summer br will invest on experiance player. we need to listen to what gerrard said. we need top class signing.. we have enough of great potential in the squad. if we fail to get top 4 spot, suarez might be gone.. so please br, do something about it.."
"Me thinks this will get done. He will want to come to Liverpool rather than run the risk of relegation in 4 months time. That would not be improving his situation. If we don't sign him then he stays at Inter. The other option is to work a deal like Holtby's with Spurs. Sugn him and leave him on loan until the end of the season"
"The Mancs are building for the future and now reportedly have Zaha. Lets get the deals for Coutinho and Ince done and show that we mean business as well. Then in the summer we can address our defensive or potential goalkeeping holes!"
"If other clubs are coming in for our transfer interests, maybe more could be done to keep negotiations under wraps. Maybe these teams are offering their players to all and sundry once the deals start? Southampton need this player more than us, so maybe we can't match their valuation of him."
"I will be furious if he joins Southampton! Is Ian Ayre that bad at negotiating meaning we will be beaten by Southampton for the 3rd player running in Forren Rodrigez in previous deals, pull your finger out of your'e a** Ayre and sign some players or leave. "
"another player with L plates on.we have no game time for these players.SUSO, STERLING, HENDERSON, ALLEN, SHELVEY, BORINO.FULLY EXPERIENCED AND GOOD ENOUGH FOR A PLACE IN THE SIDE. IF HE IS THAT GOOD THEN SIGN HIM, AT 8MIL. ITS CHEAPER THAN ALLEN FOR 15MIL."
"Bang out of order posting stuff that are lies, only to kick the supporters down, is this what lfc is about today? If we don't buy any more players during this window I will not be renewing my season ticket for next season, sick an tired of FSG and Ian Ayre letting the fans down, just like the last window this, pathetic."
"Can we please get someone at the club who knows about buying FOOTBALL PLAYERS. Since FSG took over every deal seems to be run by Arthur Daley, trying to save a few quid here and there and make a tidy profit. If the guy is that good then buy him if not just walk away. Whats with all the haggling. "
"Our negotiations are like a scene from the Life of Brian. Got to haggle.I wouldnt even mind if we were trying to sign world class pros but for 20 yr olds who will come and learn their trade at LFC just to be sold for a profit is ridulous. "
"Ian Ayre is ok at selling the brand name of Liverpool but can we please get someone who knows how to buy. Whats the point of offering stupid sums of money just to alert other clubs and involve them in a bidding war. We should've paid the 10 mill and signed him. Surely we already know wat he's worth if we are interested in the first place."
"Become a joke our beloved Liverpool and they have made us look a joke the last 2 windows, FSG havnt got the clubs best interests at heart, players on loan and not many coming in means FSG are about making money, like I said I wont be renewing my season ticket, not until Ayre and FSG are gone."
"im sure fred karno could do better than ayre in negotiating transferes we thin on the ground before jan now we got less players than before window opened and we are definitely short on experienced players
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"Ayre and FSG are turning Liverpool into transfer windows laughing stock. Before they claim they would pay over the odds for players over 28. Hence we didn't buy Dempsey. Now there is an emerging Brazilian talent who is very skilful and young but they are still haggling on price. Bunch of utter !!!!!"
"Just found out we are the 7th richest club in Europe with 192 million pound revenue....and we sign ONE player so far...whats going on with our purse strings????? If we ant success unfortunately we must pay for it...i am sad to say the 70's 80's of players wanting to bleed here have gone."
"192 million revenue and we only buy one player, pretty sure we was told we would have 30+ million to spend in January but only spent 12, someone isn't doing there job properly, yet we keep getting told rubbish week after week, but im guessing that's what you get paid for to feed us crap, isn't that right FSG?"
"It will be an embarrasment if we lose the kid to Southampton, we will be the Reds as aver but the red will stand for the colour of all the fans faces,,,,, unreal,,, YNWA as always but just go and sign him,,,"
"Looks like we're leaving it till the last minute yet again. We came into this window with a very depleted team, we have sold 3 and 1 being a main summer buy in Sahin. Only Sturridge has come in, if atleast 1 more doesn't join us we will look an absolute joke. I really hope we have learnt something from August. "
"How embarrassing, Inter have accepted Saints bid. What is wrong with our board do they want top 4 or mid table? Newcastle have signed their fourth player today no fuss no drama. Looks like another transfer window of let downs with more players leaving then being signed."
"Our first offer was a reported 6.7m. Do our board really think we're going to get a 20 year old Brazilian international for that. Then they about for nearly a full week to increase by 1m or so. . . . I had it wrong we are already a joke in the eyes of many! "
"Rodgers wanted Courtinho, but FSG'S new transfer policy ment he couldn't have him cos they didn't want to spend over 10 million for him, what ever happened to if we wanted a player we did everything we could to buy him? it was simple as that really, prefer the old Liverpool not this new American rubbish."
"I personally don't think this is Ayre or Fsg fault I think BR has a lot to say in transfers despite needing experience for that coveted 4th spot we keep going for kids and that has to be down to BR we lose out to Schneider over wages they guy signs for gala on 100k after tax is the club seriously saying they couldn't afford that total bs. BR is making us the next Leeds :("
"Im not concerned I think our club have learnt a few lessons(I hope). Ramirez for me would have been a terrible signing, you only have to look at how he plays for s/hampton, slow not much style and struggles to get past players, if this lad is good enough we should pull uot the stops, I think he is, lets hope LFC do as well."
"Its August all over again for me, players going out and not many coming in and to think the club thinks we would be happy with some player from the lower leagues, Tom Ince wouldn't make me happy, yet again another let down in a window from the club, its becoming a regular thing this :("
"I am praying that i will put the lap top on to bbc sport on friday morning and the headlines are that we have signed this guy!!!!If we can not get another high class first rate player in this window then we need to start asking questions of FSG!!!!!!"
"Inter will not let him join us for 8M when Southampton have offered 10M. Inter need the money, so by the looks of it if we do not match Southamptons bid he won't be moving to Anfield. We have become a bit of a joke when it comes to transfers. We overpay for crap and under value quality. Sturridge the only exception."
"Exactly, we pay 15 million for Joe Allen but were not prepared to match Southamptons 10.2 million for a Brazilian International and no doubt be a big name in the future, thought we was doing ok in January and a top 4 was realistic, I doubt that now though."
"Rushie2013 To me, Rodgers doesn't have the balls to stand up to FSG. It's shocking that he's ready to pursue that moron Ashley Williams from his old club and would happily pay up 12 million, too, but he won't up the ante to sign a world-class young Brazilian talent."
"We are to slow when it comes to transfers, especially when the media knows. Unless of course this is a piece of publicity by FSG to pretend to have ambition. If this transfer fails I will have lost all faith in FSG. YNWA..fun in kop talk FSG we all know if it was REdsox..you wont waste anytime why not liverpool"
"FSG should know point blank we dont want Arsenal mentality spend and build on the team..192 million in Merchandise even Ugandans support liverpool..Every fun is watching this transfer window and if u think the backlash of the last was bad..watch this space.YNWA"
"LOL ..LOSE THIS GUY TO SOUTHAMPTON ..ian ayre says BIG PLAYERS ARE COMING IN JANUARY/SUMMER..but no one comes that wasnt already coming (sturridge was done along time ago)..BASEBALL IS THE PRIORITY LIKE HE SID 260 MIL ON 1 GUY ...ONE ..AND CANT EVEN SPEND FOR ANY PLAYERS..OUTBID BY STHAMPTON 3 TIMES HAHAHA.. THIS IS STUPID"
"NO MORE SWANSEA JUNK..WILLIAMS HAS A OUTBURST WITH THE MEDIA AGAINST SUAREZ AND YOU WANT TO PAY UR JUNK TEAM MORE.. THOUGHT UD LEARNED FROM ALLEN..NOPE CLEARLY NOT"
"What is this all about? Reports say that Southampton has outbid us with 10.2m. Since when are lesser teams able to rival liverpool fc financially? Seems like people at Shampton are thinking further than Ian here. Coutinho is a real talent. We have bought C##p for more money!"
"I would also like to add that we are very slow when it comes to transfers. The Sturrdige deal had long been done else he would have been able to join us in January! Outbid by Shampton? Actually this is shameful. Either the communication is not good or we do not want to spend money on great talent."
"Don't mean to add fuel to the fire but here is an official site which shows Red Sox Payroll for 2012...the figures shown are what players get in a year. Divide by 12 and then again by 4 to calculate how much they get per week... espn.go.com/mlb/team/salaries/_/name/bos/boston-red-sox"
"yeah sky sports says southampton have put in a higher bid and we wont go any higher we cant be outbidded by southampton come on reds do something. if these are players you want to get then get them even tho our captain said we need experience and you still going for youngsters"
"Slowly I lose my trust in Ayre.
if I am convinced of a player I must try everything to get him.
But we do not take the last step. again The same like Buttland, Ince ...
I hope we get one or two players in the last 6 days"
"I AM SICK TO DEATH OF THE SO CALLED DIRECTORS AND ADMIN OF THIS CLUB!!
WE ARE THE ONLY CLUB THAT TAKES YEARS TO SIGN A PLAYER! NEWCASTLE GETS LINKED TO A PLAYER ON MONDAY AND SIGN HIM ON WEDNESDAY. ZAHA WAS LINKED TO S UTD LAST WEEK, SIGNS TODAY. COUTINHO HASBEEN LINKED WITH LFC FOR 8 WEEKS AND WE ARE STILL TALKING!!! WHAT KIND OF TALK IS THAT??"
"Easy torresflu, remember we always get our pants pulled down. Think the club are just being more shrewd. Lost out to saints with gaston. Lets not make the same mistake with coutinho! "
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