"hazard has said he isn'y going to leave his cluib this summer and his club said they don't want to sell so stop with the "hazard please" and "get hazard" posts will you."
"kenny if you buy downing for 19m, i guarentee, u will not break into the top 4 this season, thats 35m carol,20m henderson, and 20m downing thats 75m on bogus players, and kenny u will not last half a season due to these expensive flops and i will be with fenway to get rid of u kenny"
"fenway get rid of kenny bring back RAFA BENITEZ, i also think fenway dont relise that english players is not the way forward more like sinking the ship"
"Thats quite a lot of money. y r we always chargd so high prices? we shud not agree n put our foot down stay firm to 15mil. if they dnt want we get sumonelse. w"
"lfcsuarezlfc - What the hell are you on about, u shud be banned from the site for saying such things! Kenny Dalglish is a legend, and the right man for the job! We havent paid 19m for downing, and i doubt we will, u fool!"
"Lfcsuarezlfc u disgust me. How dare you talk about our Kenny like that. It's people like you that is the reason that managers don't last 5 mins anymore. Wt makes ever1 think we need to buy the world and his wife to get back in the top 4? Last season we came 6th and im sure if we really wanted to 5th. If we had kenny in charge for the start of last season top 4 would have been easy
"
"Plus wt makes evry1 believe we're buyin him or him. Look at tottenham have they bought any1? And they have been linked to every player we have. have faith if we can get mata and or turan then we will kenny aint stupid. My only worry is that we apparently only had 50 mill and 20 gone already but again its just speculation.YNWA"
"mohdhafiz, are you jokin lad, get Luka Modric or David Silva, do you even follow football, really gets me that some supposed 'football fans' come up with really really unrealistic targets, why dont we go for Ronaldo and Messy while wer at it!!"
"This report is ludicrous! 19 mil immediately spells . . . . . b*ll!!! Downing isn't even that good anyway. He's hyped up cos he's English. Anyway anyone can see that 19 mil. discredits this story straight away."
"You're having a laugh! forget it, we need to go for alternative quality prem proven wingers, preferably english. We can't be looking at all these foreign stars you all keep mentioning, remember the rule change the season after next."
"People, don't worry about lfcsuarezlfc. His grammar tells us all we need to know about his intelligence. Skysports generation I guess. Kenny has also spent far too much on John Barnes, Peter Beardsley, Alan Shearer et al. He clearly has no idea how to spend the cash! What flops they were..."
"Is Downing worth £19m? well...its up to the king though...still, liverpool in my heart no matter what...btw, can liverpool come to indonesia pleaasseeeeeee....."
"Villa never want to do business with us. Remember the Gareth Barry incident. We lost Alonso because of that. There are better wingers out there. Villa should take a long walk on a short pier."
"mohdhafiz
would you please stop posting all this get........BS.
Downing isn't worth half that price, teams always seem to hold us to ransom over inflated prices. Maybe it's because he's English, but I think it's more likely that we pursue too hard and make it look obvious that we're desperate.
I would prefer Mata and N'Zogbia over Downing, especially at this price!"
"mohdhafiz..maybe we could also get sunil chettri from india..he too is a talent..:P as for lfcsuarezlfc...you disgust me....if chelsea can spend 50 mil on fernando torres...and manure caan spend 16 mil on ashley young(1 year left on contract), then 19 mil for downing is a bargain"
"NO WAY! 19 mill is way over. Even if we are only paying him 40/50k we only save around half a mill a year against a decent non English player who would cost a lot less. We already have most of the best English talent already no more please."
"lfcsuarezlfc, What an idiot u are!! Of course u are enled to your opinion but if you're gonna slate Kenny at least change your name first....coz it was Kenny who got Suarez for us.Ungrateful !!"
"lfcsuarezlfc you must be a manc with ridiculous comments like tat!! we played more inventive attractive football in the 5 months Kenny Dalglish was in charge than the 5 years of boring defensive football under Benitez!! Why dont you leave the comments to REAL fans!!!!"
"I thought KK would buy the french winger payet for 13.5m and then buy roux for 6.5 and wickham,then get aly or enrique for left back, then add carzola or zapata and the other lyon defender.nobody wants to buy downing but we wont him. what a joke"
"somehow i wish benitez would make the signings then dalglish would be the manager. i cant imagine downing playing champions league.. lol . this is a joke. my heart haha.. "
"WHAT A DOWNER!! This is really bizarre move by the club. Seems like another Konchesky to me. I respect Kenny even if i was too young to see him play or manage the club in the past but this so disappointing!"
"lfcsuarezlfc you are enled to your opinion like everyone else. but no matter what a TRUE LFC fan will back his team and the manager come what may. I don't like some of the signings but I do not put the team or manager down for it. He is the manager and is paid to make that decision not us. we follow he leads."
"NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
Downing is not worth £19m. add another 2 or 3 million and get Eden Hazard.. then we need to get Alexis Sanchez. Barcelona cant really afford him and their other targets. and get Arda Turan. wings sorted out for years.
"
" OF NAZARETH! Just read the comments by lfcsaurez...Did u watch the game at Fulham when we ripped them apart with scintillating pass and move football, just like we used to play in the 70'S & 80'S but now with more zip. Playing like that we would have given Barca a better game than the Mancs! Kenny has brought that back - nuff said!"
"lfcsuarezlfc get KK out! what, are you mad, im afraid british talent is going to come at a price now, ok £19 is steep, but if you ranting on about kenny out an rafa in because of these potential buys, you need to remember aquilani and robbie keane lad not to mention a few others. Just remember what KK has done with our young british talent in 6 months, or log off this site please, KK all the way."
"and if we want a new world class central midfielder instead of Charlie Adam then go for Pastore.. offer Aquilani plus £15m-£20m and we should get him.. and start shipping out the crap like Jovanovic, Cole, Poulsen and Konchesky... ASAP."
"I must be the only idiot who realises exactly what kenny can get out of players!! Spearing, Lucas, kuyt, maxi, all players who have been knock and criticised immensely over the last few seasons and who all improved and performed amazingly in the last 5 months!! I say get downing and watch he make the left wing his position "
"have you all noticed how the British teams (England, Scotland, Wales and N.I.) always seem to take Football by storm every world cup and and European championships??? NO, thats because the players are NOT good enough. so why does Kenny want to sign so many of them poor quality players when we could get better foriegn players???"
"finally bring some creative players who will be able to make a difference on the ground. I can not believe
how many failed transfers were done in the past few years. When Rafa sold Alonso instead of bringing
wesley sneijder or van der vaart which Real wanted to get rid of at any cost, he bring Aqua who was injured
for couple of months."
"Look what wesley did it in Inter! And Ibrahim Affelay, Barca bought him for 3m... He is
young, good technician, creative, and that cheap. And about 20 million for Downing, not need to waste words...
I don't like the current speculation and I hope so that Kenny knows what he is doing..."
"£19m hmmm.. when will be getting the likes of AUGERO, MATA, TURAN, AND ADAM JOHNSON.. why are we not looking for people in this caliber? we got the money to bring in quality players.."
"I don't rate ashley young. I don't think he would be as good as he is if it wasn't for Downing. Because Downing tracks back and if Downing wasn't in the team Young doesn't track back which mean Villa would of conceded alot more goals."
" Downing also has a better cross than Young, and delieversit in early when the defence don't expect it. But Young is to selfish which would be to welcome at Liverpool, where as Downing is a team player."
"I agree with "Jezero" that they could bring better foreign players, but I do not agree that "thats
because the players are NOT good enough" Simple thing is - Premier league does not have winter break like
other leagues, and players are so tired after the season that they can not play at the best level at world
cup and European championships."
"I would back Kenny all the way usually...Hendo and Carrol were too much but under his tutorage they may come good...but 20m for a 26 year old with no proven top 4 potential is over the odds..this guy is 13m tops..which is ahuge figure still. we set the bar too high with hendo..get payet!!!"
"seriously ppl stop goin on about signin all these other players that were not even linked with, and as for complainin about that were payin too much for these players, look at it this way, at least we have owners who are prepared to spend the money to bring these players to anfield"
"Jezero... just how many foreigners do u want? Do u not know about the squad changes the season after next? Anyway, British players are good enough, the only reason we are useless at the world cup etc. is because the way we are coached to play the game."
"No disrepect but we could have bought a lot better with the 55m we spent on Carroll and Henderson.'course when u spend that on those type of players what do u expect other clubs to charge us? If u wanna spend that kinda money, go in for the world class players. We already have great youth coming through so plz Mr Comoli stop making us look silly by paying ludicrous amounts for average players."
"do you not think if kk could get hazard mata turan etc for the club he would'nt get them. their must be a reason so if he is after downing it's because he's the best their is at the moment!."
"Dimitri Payet is a better player and alot cheaper.
We need to get out of the fashion of paying whatever is demanded or we will waste money hand over fist.
Talent is talent always, but unwisely spending is to be cautioned or we will end up stuck in the second tier always."
"EssexRed4EVA, u disgust me for not realizing kenny is making lfc go downhill, buy buying carol 35m, henderson 20m, and posobly 10m wikham, downing 20m, wat a joke 85m"
"Bistry, i do agree with u its early stages but if kenny goes along with downing and wikham then were doomed, it seems like kennys mentality is to buy british talent which is not the way was in the 70s but know, times have changed along with the style of football which has improved tremendously"
"well, 19m is too much.... he's really at best, mediocre.... if Turan is available for 19m, that would b a better deal. somemore, to pay Villa 19m and they replace him with N'zogbia, which in my humbled opinion is a better player than Downing, why not we save the money and get N'zogbia instead. well, in KD we trust....
YnWa...."
"ron23, u must be stupid to think that john barnes, beardsly, shearer, players of that calibar can be compared to the likes of carol, downing, wikham,henderson, carry on dreaming (rom2) lolzz wat an idiot lolzzzz and thats 85m down the drain, british players is not the way forward"
"KopsAllDAway, u must be an idiot not to realise roy hodgeson was on the verge of sighning suarez, so it was hodgsons idea in the first place so suarez would have come to liverpool even if kenny wasnt here so get ur facts right b4 u type, u fool, kopsalldaway"
"lfcsuarezlfc, u have ur point but coming in here shouting this and that is not the way to go. do u really think that FSG or KD really hears u? even if they were to listen to us fans, i definitely dont think they care what a troll like have in mind. somemore, who r u to say that Carroll, Henderson and Wickham wont b as good as the older trio? a bit judgemental eh? like i said, in KD we trust."
"blacky99, fair enough kenny did ok with the 5months but his transfers are ridiculos,and if benites had 85m at his diposal he would have got much better talent than carol35m,henderson20m possobly wikham10m, and downing20m =85m, benetez would have bought players like, torres,mascherano,riera,babel,benyoun,mata,laveez,sisokho,adam,glen johnson,alonso, so ur the idiot for not realising fool"
"Why he's had one good season ok hes prety good but i would never pay more than 12 plus he's 27 payet is more talented bigger and 24 and much cheeper for me its a no brainer or if were realy splashing the cash buy mata for 22 although i dont see why he woul;d move tou us atm because of the lack of euro fotie"
"Jezero I agree with you but to a point. The English team is crap because its full of English players when you mix English players up with quality foreign players they improve and it's a different ball game, it's about getting the right balance which I think we have now reached and we do not need any more English players"
"sully85, i agree benetez messed up with aqualani and keen but that was because he didnt have the funds, so he was under pressure to sell and buy situation, wat pressure do u have when u have 85m and the whole of thteam aswell at ur disposal, im only saying if benetez had 85m we all know the players he would have bought, with no pressure"
"returnoftheking, i agrre we ripped fulham apart, but some of those players are going and with the likes of carol,hendrson,downing,wikham, i dont think were gona rip anything apart except our own team, but i wish the best for liverpool"
"I like Downing alot and rate him highly...but 19 million please???? For me that's 5-7 million way over the mark.I agree with the idea of buying the best of British,but at hugely inflated prices being asked for these guys,i would look abroad for better AND cheaper quality players."
"lfcsuarezlfc - you are a either a WUM trying to fight against being banned, or a muppet.If ua the latter-please get a life. ALL players are disgustingly overpriced these days-it's called MARKET FORCES.What do you want KK to do-sit back and let our compeors get on and buy quality at market prices?Or just try and buy bargain basements like Konchesky, Voronin etc - you know where that got us."
".....lfcsuarez, it's YOU who's living in the past. 19m for Downing is today's market price. Check all the other transfer fees going round. Downing is a perfect LFC player-great team man,enough pace,great delivery,good finisher, England international,free kicks,the works.Can't wait for him to ram your crppy negative words back down your throat this season.Get back to football manager son"
"lfcsuarezlfc, do you not relaise that Rafa spent more than everyone apart from chelski and manure in his reign so saying he had no funds is not true, I agree 19m 4 downing is not good business and yes Carrol and Hendo were overpriced, but saying get rid of kenny after 6 months you are a muppet mate sorry."
"ZAGMAN, are stupid or plain dumb, only top players are over priced which seems sesible if ur world class then the price should be top, but if ur average the buyer whos is paying high price is most likley desperate and thats when mistates happen but then its too late, well if u make 1 or 2 mistakes fair enough its ok but 4 or 5 and then im sorry to say theres the exit"
"Downing won't be bought for more than 16m. That's still obscene but it's the market, you guys.
lfcsuarez...it's official - whenever I see your name from now on, I will ignore every single one of your comments. you're clearly a manc troll. if not - KK needs supporters like you like he needs a hole in the head. "
"lfcsuarezlfc why don't you read my comment before barking like a dog, I never said we keep spending on English players I said we now have enough of a balance. One thing you also have to realise is English players wages are generally a lot cheaper. "
"ZAGMAN, u muppet nobody is ganna pay 19m for downing except liverpool, so keep ur crummy crappy words to urself, and ur saying downing has great pace, good finisher, u make me laugh, maybe in ur football manager game he has pace and good finisher but in reality his average, so carry on worshipping him on ur ps3 muppet"
"19mil for downing!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! do we have MUGS!!!! written across are face!!!! 75 million on carrol, henderson and downing!!!! do u know the kind of players we could of got with that money!!!!!!! SMH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"people say we wont pay that much for him!!!! but if we can buy henderson for 20 mill, im sure they will spend that on downing!!! downing is a much better player than henderson!!!! but i don't thing any of them are good enough for a team that wants to win the league!!!! with these kind of players it gonna be a long time before we see CL football again!!! "
"trust me!!! the top team will leave us behind!!!!! sad to say but it's true!!!!!!! we need quality badly!!! suarez is the only skillfull player we got!!!!! "
"lolzzdan26 sounds like my comments about u have wynded u up big time, lolzzz ur stress case, ur name actually resembles a dog so carry on barking muppet, im stating my opinion and i do hope kenny does good for us but looks bleek but will see, and i totlay agree with smithy 101, we could have got better with 75m"
"zigman it dont make any difference to me on ur comments, by the looks of things u judge ur football by ur ps3 so u carry on fantasizing about downing every night lollz muppet and like wise ur ignored"
"how about we make a move for Messi...i just got him on football manager for 85m..swap ngog..jovanovic..poulsen...agger..plus 40m..good deal i think ;)"
"It defies logic and better still... the WORLDLY WISDOM associated with KK. The deal is NOT DONE YET PEOPLE!! I believe Stuart's going to be 26 or 27. It's IMPOSSIBLE ..TOTAL INSANITY..FINANCIAL SUICIDE to buy him at 19 million!!"
"Also..we have enough British talent in our reserves..why buy ANY MORE?? It's a bit suious that ON THE SAME DAY we agree on the Henderson deal..Utd agree a deal with Jones. "
"It's ONLY THE MEDIA that have been leading us in the direction of EXPENSIVE BRITISH PLAYERS STILL TO come..fuelled by JUST ONE NEW DEAL!!! There's a cat & mouse - covert war - going on between us & United. Our FRUSTRATIONS & the MEDIA may be leading us off track. YNWA."
"IMO...I feel Rafa deserves a little more respect..even though things may have 'bombed out' for him in the end. He was the man that brought us 1) players like Alonso, Garcia, Kuyt and the highly effective, yet treacherous, Torres.2) The CL crown and(3) what about the prepared retaliation against Fergie in the media..it was like a kick in the jewels (for Fergie)!!IMO."
"redsoldiers, its true its only media it might not happen , (redsoldier) ur spot on we do have lots of young british talent in reserves which should be given a chance rather than wasting money, and rafa does deserve credit he did do a lot for us and his heart was in liverpool especialy the way he cried on the remberence day those were true tears for lfc"
"Turan and Mata are better and they won't cost as much. Why are we buying players that aren't good enough just because they're english. These stupid homegrown rules are going to ruin the Premier League."
""thats 35m carol,20m henderson, and maybe 20m downing, 10m wickham = 85m" i must admit that this scares me too, carol still have to improve a lot...Skill, quality and creativity that are what we need "
"vicemans!!!!!!! british players don't play well at competition, because we don't have winter break! looooooooooooool i never heard so much sh*t in my life!!!!!!!!! so how come it don't affect the foreign players then, the epl has mostly foreign players!!! u know!!!! they don't play well coz they not as good!! simple! when will people realise this! SMH!!!!!!!!"
"Are some of you fu-ing joking when you say Kenny should be sacked? You should also know(if you are a true football fan) that Stuart Downing is a quality player. Maybe not worth 19 mill. 15 plus Jova.
"
"" Forget that at £19 million it is stupid money, much as he is a class player and could be a world beater with proper coaching by the king and Steve clark!!!""
"Why don't we just buy N'Zogbia, he single handedly saved wigan last year and is a miles better player, plus we can get him for a much more reasonable price"
"Its unfair of people to attack Benitez over his spending, when you add what he spent and what he sold he cost the club about £5mill a season(that's fact).
Parry ruined many deals Rafa had worked on to bring quality players in(that's fact)and he most likely bought Keane.
"
"We here do not call for people to be sacked, we are LFC and respect the leadership which has brought us glory far beyond any in the land.
Concerned we can be, but in this club, in this badge and our history we trust till our red blood returns to ground from where it came. RED FOREVER. "
"why we dont sing niko kranjcar,he is top midlefer who cost much little than downinig and he is better sure+tottenham will let him 100% and he want to join us "
"extreemly expensive but i can see where villa are coming from considering the price we paid for henderson. hes not exactly an exciting winger tho is he ??? thats what we want!! plenty out there for £20 million"
"lfcsuarezlfc ur a nutjob benitez bought alot of s...e over his time here and why alonso left in the end with him trying to get garet barry kk is going to turn this club around but he needs time kk is a ledgend to the fans we need to get behind him and give him our full backing ynwa... "
"NO! He does not stand out that much in a poor Aston Villa side. As much as it hurts to say Ashley Young would have been better and from different reports cost less than £19million!"
"5BigEars, go fly away with ur masive ears u muppet, hope kenny does good for us, i didnt mean he should get sacked he needs at least a full season, but kk is sending the wrong messages with players like, carrol 35m, henderson 20m possibly downing 20m and wikham 10m plus thats like 85m plus, rafa didnt spend no where near that,"
"and we all know if rafa had 85m at his disposal he would have bought players in similar calibar as kuyt,torres,babel,mascherano,riera,alonso,glen johnson,reina,agger, skrtle and so on and he would probably pusueded mata and carzola with his spanish links"
"No way not for 19 million pounds but knowing us we will end up paying a stupid fee of something like that but yet when a better player is ranked at that we dont go for him cause they think it is to expensive. aka Eden Hazard.
YNWA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"lfcsuarezlfc
I agree with you totally.
If Kenny keeps signing these flops he will be sacked and so he should be cause we all have our heads in the clouds and think he will do it but without the signings he will not do anything.
YNWA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"KOPDEFENDER101
Stop having a go at lfcsuarezlfc for having an opinion and I agree with him on some of the things which are that he will be sacked if he does not bring in quality with the money he is spending.
Who are you to tell him he should be banned from the site.
YNWA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"
"Battousai
I agree with you that this fighting should stop.
I do see lfcsuarezlfc point.
He is saying he should be sacked if he goes out and buys flops for a lot of money and then they are crap during the season.
He has said he hopes Kenny does well and so do I cause I love Kenny but I hope he does not turn out like Roy.
YNWA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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