Liverpool star in £3m exit: Good player with a bright future!

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   Darren - July 11th, 2008 at 5:56 pm

   Totally agree, good points. Good luck Danny, hope you do well at Newcastle.

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   Ubermensch - July 11th, 2008 at 6:03 pm

   it wont lead newcastle to sell milner…theyre just building depth in there midfield with a young prospect…i dont know if keegan will play him much though-might be one for next season

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   Dunc - July 11th, 2008 at 6:12 pm

   Good player but Jay Spearing is better and two years younger and he’s still in the reserves.

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   Rafa The Gaffer - July 11th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

   For once I agree. He has a good future, but wouldn’t get in the Liverpool side regularly enough.

   Good move for him, but I hope Milner doesn’t come the other way. He’s no better than Pennant, and we want rid of him!

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   Lemitris - July 11th, 2008 at 6:36 pm

   did rafa manage to get 3mils for guthrie?the man knows bargaining!good sell.
   (hope he gets even more with itandje and pennant, then we can move for a quality left winger,that’s all we need)

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   Lemitris - July 11th, 2008 at 6:51 pm

   (and carson)

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   Drew Vader - July 11th, 2008 at 8:26 pm

   He was the only thing close to quality in the bolton side last year. Good move for him, hope it works out well. Surely he can replace the dinosaurs newcastle had in the middle of the park last year like nicky butt??

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   shadda2002 - July 11th, 2008 at 8:41 pm

   Good business that £3m for a reserve, we can buy him back for £10 in 3 years.

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   Lemitris - July 12th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

   in 3 yrs masch will be 26 and lucas 24(and plessis 22) you really think we’ll need guthrie?(not to mention spearing and even younger lads)

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    barre, silvy & keana - July 12th, 2008 at 1:27 pm

    While hoping (actually praying!) that we get Barry, Keane & Silva as our next three players – I’ve recently been looking at possible formations for next season.

    If we are fortunate enough to get these three, then it struck me that if we were to play (in my opinion) all of our highest quality players at once, how could it work, who would have to be left out and what possible formation would allow as many of these top class guys to play at the same time?

    I took these 11 as what I’d consider our highest quality or UEFA Champions or Premier League winning level players:
    Reina, Carra, Skrtel, Agger, Masch, Barry, Gerrard, Silva, Babel, Keane & Torres.
    Of course, I’m hoping Degen & Dossena prove to be at close to the same level as the above mentioned, because that would make picking a standard back 4 much more easy. Alonso may end up staying, but I’ve left him out for now, however, when I put those 11 into their most effective positions on the pitch, it quickly became obvious that the 1 formation that would allow us to get all our very best players on the field at once, is a 3-3-2-2!

    Now I know that sounds daft and it did to me at first, too, but when I looked closely at it, I started to think that it could work extremely well providing Barry & Masch were prepared to drop back into fullback positions when we were faced with counter-attacks or periods of opposition possession.

    Just think about it. Rafa has now assembled (especially if those three targets come in) an extremely flexible & intelligent squad. Agger could be an extremely adept left-back in defence, and we all know that Carra could perform the same job on the right. Although both Barry & Masch are unproven in fullback roles, I’d bet my bottom dollar that Barry could do a very tidy leftback job, whereas Masch, if he played there all the time, would be a phenomenal rightback. One is naturally left-footed, the other right. In addition, with Stevie playing an attacking midfield position, he can still drop back into a more othordox central midfield role - and we know he’s amongst the very best in the world in that position – again, should we be driven back.

    Torres & Keane could be a great front two – or Robbie could drop off and be the ‘Kenny Daglish’ to Fernando’s ‘Ian Rush’. Also, Silva, Gerrard & Babel can each play very effectively on the right, the left or in an attacking central midfield role – and I’d expect all 3, if they were to ever play together, to switch continuously and be an absolute nightmare for opposition defences.

    Rafa is always stating how the best teams have the intelligence to be able to change formations DURING games, reacting to the ebb & flow of matches, both at home & in Europe. Look at how this ‘dream formation’:

    torres-keane
    babel -silva
    barry-gerrard -masch
    agger-skrtel-carra
    reina

    ….could change to a:

    torres
    babel-keane-silva
    barry-gerrard
    agger-skrtel-carra-masch
    reina

    ….or:

    torres
    babel-keane-silva
    gerrard-masch
    barry-agger-skrtel-carra
    reina

    ….or:

    torres-keane
    babel- gerrard-masch-silva
    barry-agger-skrtel-carra
    reina

    ….or:

    torres-keane
    babel-barry-gerrard -silva
    agger-skrtel-carra-masch
    reina

    ….or:

    torres
    babel-keane-silva
    gerrard
    masch-barry
    agger-skrtel-carra
    reina

    you get my drift………

    with subs/squad players like degen, dossena, hyypia, aurelio, finnan, arbeloa, alonso (?),benayoun, kuyt, as well as young potential like lucas, plessis, nemeth, el zhar, pacheco, insua, plus others, then things look very interesting for next season!

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    pat - July 12th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    a pretty gud sale.. lfc would be able to raise more funds and hopefully would be able to buy world class players like robbie keane, david silva, david bentley, albert riera amongst others..

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