Villa or Keane: Who do Liverpool fans REALLY want?
by Jon on July 9th, 2008
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Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez has finally admitted what we all knew anyway: Valencia player David Villa is on his list of potential striker recruits after Peter Crouch’s impending departure to Portsmouth.
But is David Villa the right man to play alongside Torres next season?
“We have Torres, Voronin, Kuyt, Babel and Steven Gerrard, who can play as a second striker,” Benitez told Liverpool FC website. “But we will try to bring in another option.
“Villa we know all about. He is on our list. But maybe it will be difficult.”
Villa, 26, impressed at Euro 2008, scoring four times as Spain won their first major trophy in 44 years, although he missed out on the final through injury.
With Spurs striker Robbie Keane, 27, also a target, who do Liverpool fans want to see partner Fernando Torres up front next season?
Would David Villa thrive at Liverpool against Bolton on a wet and windy Sunday afternoon in November? Can the mercurial Spaniard withstand the weekly kickings that Premier league defenders regularly dish out?
Or should Rafa try and persuade Spurs to sell Keane, a proven Premier League goalscorer, who bagged 23 goals last season in 54 appearances in all competitions?
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Tagged Under: david villa, Liverpool FC, robbie keane
Stevo - July 9th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Neither, Scouse / yank hybrid pillocks cant afford either…….can imagine Fat Tom Jones offering Pennant, Voronin and some other c**p to Valencia……waaaaaaaaah
ktz1992 - July 9th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
well…barry wood add more surport and vertisileness keane woulden really be worth 20m…babel better anyway plus more vertisile so barry as he only gna cost about 17m
Anonymous - July 9th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
I think Keane would be the better partner for Torres. So that would be my first choice!
I wouldnt say no to Villa either..maybe Alonso + £8 million for David Villa!!!
Kop yourselves on - July 9th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
YOU CANNOT AFFORD VILLA YOU ARE BROKE>>>>>>>> who will you sell to get him? JUST THINK IF you pay over the odds for barry in 12 months time you will have to finance 20m for torres (still owe this much to banks for this deal), 18m for mash (Still owe this to banks for this deal). and 9m for barry…all at the same time and try and finance a new stadium…and you currently loose £2m a WEEK!…check out your last accounts..Muppets the lot of you.
Kop yourselves on - July 9th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Anon….”I wouldnt say no to Villa either..maybe Alonso + £8 million for David Villa!!!”
You liverpox fans just cant help yourselves can you, How does alonso +£8 million come close to the £30 Villa will cost. You are all in dreamland 1st Class pricks on the rob again.
Kop yourselves on - July 9th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
you bunch off muppets we had the buy of the season last year we are going to this year manc scum probably 5 times to your s**t 3 times we are the legends you follow always will and if u r Chelsea or arsenal i don’t even have to comment. Peter Holywell
WHatwhat - July 9th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Kop yourselves on …..What are you on? (Apart from the dole, you clearly cant gain employment anywhere judging by your spelling and grammar). Why do read stories about Liverpool anyway? Oh yes, I remember you’re unemployed and have nothing to do with your time. Hope you have fun anyway dolemonkey
Alex - July 9th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Yeah keane is a bit too much money which will be a problem and id prefer podolski anyway he is more versatile and can play on the left wing plus hes a lot cheaper. this is what i would like to happen
sell:
- Scott Carson - £5 million
- Jon Arne Riise - £4 million
- Jermaine Pennant - £5 million
- Xabi Alonso - £16 million
- Charles Itandje - £2 million
- Peter Crouch - £11 million
total of 43 million
buy:
- Andrea Dossena - £7 million
- Gareth Barry - £16 million plus Steve Finnan
- Lukas Podolski - £15 million
- Diego Cavalieri - £3 million
- Nikola Saric - £1 million
- Vincent Weijl - £1 million
this is a total of 43 million
then the money from hicks and gillett which should be 20million i would spend on a class winger:
- David Silva - £20 million
then the line up would be:
—————-Riena—————–
Degen-Carragher-Skrtel-Dossena
———–Masherano—————
Babel–Gerrard–Barry–Silva
– ———–Torres——————
Subs: Cavalieri, Arbeloa, Agger, Kuyt, Benayoun, Lucas, Podolski
Podolski can also play on the left wing with david silva playing on the right
Or:
—————-Riena—————–
Degen-Carragher-Skrtel-Dossena
Babel–Gerrard–Barry–Silva–
– ——Torres–podolski———-
Subs: Cavalieri, Arbeloa, Agger, Kuyt, Benayoun, Lucas, Masherano
Kop yourselves on - July 9th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
What what…..cant take the truth so go after the messanger…you all know that Liverpox FC are pretty much fcuked under the current owners and manager.
Elad - July 9th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
both Valencia and villa have already hinted that they will retreat from a deal - Villa doesn’t want to leave spain (maybe he’s playing hard to get though, maybe we should buy his some flowers) and Valencia don’t want and don’t need (financially) to lose him.
i don’t understand why all this fuss is about. we got babel, kuyt, torres, voronin and some great promising players at the youth (nemeth, saric, el zhar, etc.).
rafa say he want’s to enforce and strengthen the wide sides - why try to go for Valencia’s Joaquín (which is for sale i think) and Silva, Spur’s Aaron Lennon, Espanyol’s Albert Reira or even Blackburn’s Bentley if rafa still working on the one striker formation?
kop yourselves a bottom 10 finish - July 9th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Villa fans crack me up you keep on talking about who liverpool can and who liverpool can’t afford, but lets face it who are you buying this summer, hhhhmmmmmmmmm steve sidwell for 5million wow plz dont scare the rest of the league with this quailty addition to your squad, oh wait a minute 1st team as your squad is full of crap, lets face it, you all have sore bums finishing 6th in league this year was a fluke and barry knew it, next year you will finish below man utd chelsea liverpool arsenal man city tottenham everton portsmouth blackburn sunderland thats the way the league will finish, i dont even support liverpool, but i know that they will always be a far better team than villa, villa are an average team full of average players supported by an even worse squad players, all summer long villa fans have had a major case of sour grapes going on, face it your team is simply a feeder team to the top teams in the league,next up to leave is ashley young to arsenal, because lets face it you are going nowhere but hovering around 10th place if you are lucky,
get over yourselves, move on, barry doesn’t love you any more,
ring the samaritanes on 0800 444 555 if you need a shoulder to cry on
long live the sir fergie
Kop yourselves on - July 9th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Alex
By posting the same crap time and time again does not mean it will happen….your valuations are so far off the mark it is embarrassing…You over value you palyers by 10-15 million and undervalue your targetsd by 10-15 million. and as for monet from the yanks…behave it wont happen. Liveerpool lost £2 a WEEK last year. YOU HAVE NO MONEY!!!!!
Alex - July 9th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
WHatwhat i believe you also need to address your spelling and grammar. Firstly ‘what’ (even if at the start of a sentence) does not have a capital ‘h’. Secondly in your ignorant rant you failed to make sence;
“Why do read stories about Liverpool anyway?”
‘Why do read’ - since when was that grammatically correct? Surely it should be either ‘Why do YOU read’, or, simply ‘Why read’. On the subject of reading, perhaps you should consider reading more often, you never know, you might even grow a second braincell to keep the other one company.
TheSwede - July 9th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Kop yourselves on your the only prick here!!!
Alex - July 9th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
just so you know, the Alex who wrote the transfer suggestions and the Alex who wrote the message to the erudite ‘WHatwhat’ are indeed, two different people.
Kop yourselves on - July 9th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Alex
You should realise that you cannot concatenate brain cell to form a single word…tut tut and 2 black marks
Kop yourselves on - July 9th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
TheSwede 07.09.08 at 7:18 pm Kop yourselves on your the only prick here!!!
TUT TUT AGAIN.. you must mean YOU ARE or even you’re…
nice one! - July 9th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Kop yourselves on - your an idiot, how has alex over valued his players in his text? we sold:
Riise for 4m - FACT
Crouch for 11m - FACT
The pennant, alonso and Itandje prices are exactly what LFC said they would let them go for, FACT.
We bought dossena for 7m - FACT
Podolski is valued at 10m anyway, so thats 5m over estimate, so he’s even saved money.
David Silva is valued at 20m + add ons, FACT.
The ‘you have no money’ comment is clearly stupid, people say we dont, but if we dont how come we could fork out 11 for babel, 18 for mascherano, and 23 (+garcia) for torres last season, AND we’ve already signed dossena this season for 7, and we’re signing barry this season for 16m. Your the stupid one, Alex was spot on, except Perhaps instead of Podolski, Van der Vaart might be a better addition, but we’ll see!
King_James(i run Boston) - July 9th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
i would prefer keane than villa.keane has experience in PREMiership and the reds want to win now.Villa would be a project and they want el nino to be the main strike.put keane on the leftwing it would be great.liverpool will kop this year if ‘now what i mean!
gareth barry - July 9th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
i wanna go to liverpool
Bill - July 9th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Dear Kop yourselves on.
You appear to dislike Liverpool with a great deal venom and I wonder why, it would seem from your barely legible ravings that you do not support ManU, Chelski or the Gooners, we would all be interested in discovering your allegiances if any, thereby allowing us to make a sensible and balanced review of your frankly uneducated rantings, and for your information (if your brain has the spare capacity to retain it) Merseyside has one of the lowest crime rate statistics in Europe unlike Manchester or London, Ah! Would you by any chance be a Bluenose.
Elad - July 9th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Alex on Board. Both Teams shown nice to me. But Do we have to sell Alonso. I don’t think Barry can fill he’s boots.
Ubermensch - July 9th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
personally from all the factual news we have i dont think we’re going to sell Alonso, and we’re buying barry which means our dearest Rafa is looking for a 4-2-3-1 ala the oranje at euros…or a 4-1-4-1 with masch playing defensive mid, barry/alonso playing mid with 1 providing class injury cover/sub impact and stevie G playing the 2nd striker like the end of last season or playing the schneider role for the dutch…this also means that we wont require class upfront,just some good proven cover for crouch,maybe darren bent-i know he’s shite but we might nick him cheaper than any of the lads we’ll get at that price…the foreign lads might cost less but torres is a once in a lifetime player guys and that means that any foreign guy who comes in isnt going to start bangin goals for fun anytime soon which will prevent us a substitute to play 442 when chasing games, or an able backup if torres gets injured…ok so we go proven,cheap and young for the striker…and now we come to the problematic part of this formation-the wings…kuyt and babel are ok but not upto standards to win us the league unless babel can finally kick his boots and start playing like the guy we paid for…i dont rate pennant at all so better to get the cash for him…now this is the thing now that we got barry-sell pennant,carson and any suker we can offload…cover 1 class winger with that…and go beg the yanks for another 20mil…silva is ok as long as we get another proven winger with him-if silva is our only ‘class’ winger buy of the season then its 1 more year i think…cuz the guy aint gonna settle fast enough and by december the titles gone
Kop yourselves on - July 9th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Kop yourselves on - your an idiot, how has alex over valued his players in his text? we sold:
Riise for 4m - FACT - Wrong it was actually £3.75
Crouch for 11m - FACT - Wrong £8.75m + conditional 2 mill.
The pennant, alonso and Itandje prices are exactly what LFC said they would let them go for, FACT. WRONG alonso ~ £14-15m, Pennant £4m, Intanje £1m max
We bought dossena for 7m - FACT Wrong . fee is undisclosed
Podolski is valued at 10m anyway, so thats 5m over estimate, so he’s even saved money. WRONG - Podolski is valued at £13-15 and Bayern do not want to sell so no price drop here
David Silva is valued at 20m + add ons, FACT. WRONG Valued at £25-30m plus add ons
The ‘you have no money’ comment is clearly stupid, people say we dont, but if we dont how come we could fork out 11 for babel, 18 for mascherano, and 23 (+garcia) for torres last season, AND we’ve already signed dossena this season for 7, and we’re signing barry this season for 16m. Your the stupid one, Alex was spot on, except Perhaps instead of Podolski, Van der Vaart might be a better addition, but we’ll see!
YOU STILL OWE BANKS £40million in fees for Mash. and Torres due in 12 months.
Northwest development agency has refused to release any funds for the new stadium because there is no visability of any money for the project from LFC. Last published accounts show a loss of £2m a WEEK …..I say again….You are broke and self delusional
John - July 9th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Kop yourselves on
You still won’t divulge your allegiances, are you ashamed of your team?
Kop yourselves on - July 9th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
John…I am a strange beast in that I Hate Liverpox with the greatest of passion…..because you are worth it
Peter Holywell - July 9th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
What the f**k are you manc scum doin on here you need to get yourselves together and discuss keeping slime ball Ronaldo LOL
Peter Holywell - July 9th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Didn’t we here all these story’s about the Glazers 2 years ago only we were not sad enough to go and make another team and turn our backs in our case on the most successfull English team in history.
Richard - July 9th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Kop yourselves on
I’m afraid there is only one description for you.
(WANKER)
noke - July 9th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
kop yourself on
what can i say knob jockey of the highest order
RSP - July 9th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Keane, has the experience.
More captain or ex-captain in the squad will create a better positive vibes and mentality to the squad.
More fighting spirit players like Masherano , Gerrard , Torres who will fight till the dying minutes.
hopefully two strong leadership will join in.
captain Barry
captain Keane
henke - July 9th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
there´s no doubt in my mind that Villa would be the the best for us and more important for Fernando, but if he won´t, or the money isn´t there, Keane would be a good alternative, he has proven himself very well in the PL
2D - July 9th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
liverpools debts will be payed by revenue that we earn from winning something, we will take the window of opertunity given to us by the other three members of the top for having problems (not being able to keep hold of their best players) ronaldo, adebayor, hleb, lampard, drogba wonder where these guys will be next season.
RafaThe Red - July 9th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Riise to Roma £4m SOLD
Finnan to Villa £2m (lol)
Charles Itandje to Galatasaray £2m SOLD
Crouch £11m Portsmouth SOLD
Kewell to Galatasaray FREE
Guthrie to Bolton £1.5m
Carson to (anywhere but Villa) £5m
Alonso to Juventus £15m
Pennant to ???? £7m
Voronin to Stuttgart £2m
That’s £49.5m plus £20m transfer budget????
That’s £69.5m
There’s enough money! Start talking about your own team!!!
Barry is only one player! Big clubs buy the best players from little clubs! Villa is a little nice family club….Its the way football has been since…well…. Get over it!
LFC For Life - July 9th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
No offence Kop yourselves on but although I agree in freedom of speech I feel your comments are in bad taste and irrelevant. Unless you are the accountant of Liverpool or close friends of Hicks or Gillet I do not feel you are (or any of us) aware of all the financial facts of OUR club.
Unless you have something constructive to say either go to your own teams website and annoy them with you poor English and grasp of reality or be nice.
There is no need to attack Liverpool if you really hate us so much go somewhere else! Surely reading our comments must be upsetting you.
On a final note I believe we all have the right to dream if we feel the need to visit these sites to read comments about Liverpool that is because we are true supporters who want the best for our team. If you can not understand that than I doubt you are a supporter at all. If all supporters were like you football violence would rein triumphant and im sure no one here want’s that!!
P.S One final point grow up and stop playing childish mind games if you want to do that go to facebook…
West Derby Red - July 9th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Kop yourselves on, leave the footie chat to the grown ups. If you fancy a wind up sunshine, pop into the Sefton Arms in West Derby, and ask for Sean. we then can discuss it face to face, rather than getting a stiffy trying to wind people up.
Cuttsy - July 9th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
GET POLDISKI
AND VILLA
VORININ IS SHIT BUT WE HAVE 25 -30MILL ON TOP OF THE
SALES
REDHED - July 9th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
kopyourselfon….. your’e a villa fan(nee), you bitches are spewing we’ve got your top bloke,get over it or dont , we dont give a toss about you or villa so go cry on your on site and leave the grown ups to discuss our beautiful Liverpool on our own! now where were we…..?
lfc4life - July 10th, 2008 at 12:16 am
when did barry sign his last contract, as some of you may know about andy webster and his move from hearts to wigan, when he broke his contract and had to pay 625,000 to cover his wages and potential earns,
Under Article 17 of Fifa’s transfer regulations, players who sign contracts when aged under 28 are able to unilaterally break those contracts after three years. If the player is 28 or over, he can break his contract after two years. Compensation is payable,
Just a thought,
crouchie did us a favour as he could of did this himself and left us with close to sweet FA so big thanks to the big guy all the best down south lad.
Robbie Keane - July 10th, 2008 at 2:45 am
Selll Torres and buy me!! I’ll score 2 goals per game for liverpool I guarantee that!
mark - July 10th, 2008 at 3:33 am
dear Mrs kop yourselves on you are a total twat and know nothing about Liverpool, or for that matter football, just by repeating ‘you lost 2m a week’ doesn’t mean everyone will give you a medal and praise you for your great detective work, am pretty sure Chelsea loose alot more than us, especially when Abromovich leaves them. still just because you hate liverpool doesn’t mean you can come our forum and wind everyone up, go to your own teams forum, oh no i forgot your teams SHIT and not worth talking about
LIVER FANC - July 10th, 2008 at 8:44 am
MY FAVOURITE TO PLAY TOGETHER TORRES IS DAVID VILLA AND FORMATION E NEW SEASON DEAL IS
_____________REINA______________
DEGEN__CHARAHER__AGGER__DOSSENA
BABEL__BARRY__GERRARD__SILVA
_______TORRES__VILLA
E PERFECT FORMATION FOR LIVERPOOL
LiverpoolFC - July 10th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Kop yourself on, i’m guessing you are either another bitter bluenose wanker or you are a sour prick from Villa. Either way your assumptions are based on newspaper reports, who lets face it know fuck all, so before you start raving about Liverpools finances have some hard evidence like the actual accounts you knob which everyone knows aren’t made public.
Liverpool for the title this year anyone?
David Silva - July 10th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Please buy me. I guarantee to dribble from own penalty box to oppose opponent to score for fun
The Light - July 10th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
LISTEN kop yourselves on is an idiot, or else he’s a sarcastic person who is delighting in watching all you get wound up, so just dont indulge him and he’ll go away cos all this bickering makes me very sad
(he is a loser, all the same)
Anton Barnett - July 10th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Listen Rafa buy David Silva and and if got a bout barry and buyEato
Jermain Pennant - July 10th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Robbie Keane? David Silva? Why doesnt anyone want me anymore?!
Kop yourselves on - July 10th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
I am sorree for being such a KNOB. I actually love Liverpool FC with a passion and wish to say: I take back all those things i have said. They are sure to win the league this season. And btw. I f*cked my mum last night and i am proud
Banksy - July 10th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
Strange lad !
scouse92 - July 10th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
kop yourselves on is blatantly a villa fan who is bitter about barry coming to liverpool. who villa obviously over rate for £18 mill, sign keane he is proven quality and i think we should forget about silva and choose more players who will definitly cut it in the prem for example shaun wright phillips or aaron lennon
L.F.C - July 10th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Could Kop Yourselves on please tell us what team he supports. That’s of course if his pea-sized knows the meaning of SUPPORT and TEAM.
Kop Yourselves on is clearly on a tiny one-track mind!
Charles Itandje - July 10th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I could be so good for you!!
John arne Riise - July 10th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
The weathers lovely over here!! Kop yerself on yer a ball bag of the highest order!!
I’ll send a postcard soon, wish you were here
John
LFC FAN - July 19th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
all we need is David Silva and Robbie Keane……………..