Emile Heskey - Wigan + Liverpool = Good?
by Dexter on October 17th, 2008
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The S*n, everyone’s favourite chip paper, has outdone itself. Not content with the “World Exclusive” stunna story that Posh gangster wannabe Guy Richie and Detroit’s Brit-wannabe Madonna have split, they are bringing us another, even more seismic, tale….
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…Wigan & England’s Emile Heskey could be boomeranging his bulky frame alll the way back to Anfield!
“Striker Heskey, 30, is out of contract after this season. But Kop boss Rafa Benitez may even bid around £3m to get him in January.
The player is not cup-tied for Europe. And after spearheading England’s 3-1 win in Belarus, Heskey admitted his ambition was to play for one of the big four”
…The S*n’s journos mused.
As for the man himself, Emile muttered:
“I hope there will be a few managers taking notice of me. Everyone wants to be playing on the big stages — for their country and for their club in the Champions League.
“But I’m still a Wigan player and want to do my best for them.”
Liverpool fans, fancy a bit of Heskey at Anfield once more? Wigan fans, will it be a tearful farewell?
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Tagged Under: cos maths, emile heskey, England National Team, liverpool fc, Premier League, wigan athletic
mark - October 17th, 2008 at 11:21 am
the chip paper line was a corker. not really sure about heskey, why sell crouch and buy heskey who’s alot older when basically they do the same thing, can’t see it happening.
Billy - October 17th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Heskey is as good in the air as Crouch, not a good with his feet as Peter “good touch for a big man” Crouch, but heskey has one thing which Peter will never have Speed.
Rudi - October 17th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
For 3-5m it would be a good signing. He could be an impact player and decent cover for Torres and Keane. Forget about big names, its horses for courses and Heskey is a good premiership player. I also think his style would suit both Keane and Torres.
I think a lack of confidence held him back at Liverpool the first time. Second time around, a bit older and wiser, I think he would handle it better.
I wouldn’t spend big money on him but a few million should get him as his contract is up at the end of the year. If he gave us three years it would be a good deal.
He’d give Benitez a total different tactical option for relatively little money, so who cares if he is 30.
And he is a lot better in the air than crouch who was rubbish at headers given his height.
Donavan Ried - October 17th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Sorry, I was for getting owen, but after a re-think I now believe any new striker would be a waste of money unless we sold Keane or Babel… We have Kuyt to fill the gap we need A R/winger and L/R/ Backs
Georgiie - October 17th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Rubbish. He’s 30. Rafa should sign a young gun. Someone like Aguero to partner Torres like at Atl Madrid. He sold a rubbish player crouch nd now we want 2 buy another rubbish one in heskey. Rafa think of the future of the club.
We hav strikers in Torres, Keane, N’gog, Kuyt, Babel(sumtyms)
Donavan Ried - October 17th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Remember guys “In Rafa we Trust” ….. By the way I was being sarcastic
Rudi - October 18th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Gerogie, how old are yo? 6! Kun Aguero will cost around £40m. Heskey around £4m. Signing Heskey isn’t going to affect signing Aguero (which would be impossible for us anyway). Heskey would be a good addittion to the squad.
Donovan, just fuck off with your tiresome snipes at rafa. It’s getting really boring.
Donavan Ried - October 18th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Every million you spend on an unnecessary player is a million less that you have to spend on a quality player. Given his transfer dealings if Rafa do not know this by now maybe he should F**k off ……Unlike you I know Rafa doesn’t walk on water. Winning the Premier League Should be his number one goal, but he thinks more of the Champions League. You and your ilk are the kind of people who vote Labour even when they are shit because you are labour supports …. Ok Rafa maybe and I stress maybe better than Gerard Houllier but at least he took us to second in the Premier League in 00/01 season and we won the Uefa Cup, FA and League cup all in one season Plus the Charity Shield and Super Cup …. Our stumbling blocks have been the smaller teams so any bollocks about Chelsea and their money does not apply. In his reign as manager I have seen little to correct this so yes in your words I will continue with the “tiresome snipes at Rafa.” Until he proves me wrong (Which I dearly hope he can, But from what I see I doubt that)
Donavan Ried - October 18th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Rudi - What I am trying to get at here is this:…. Everybody seems to say Rafa has no money to spend. ….. If that is so why not with both Torres and Babel injured , play El Zhar on the right and Kuyt up front or, leave Kuyt on the right and play Daniel Pacheco up front ? …… Why waste the little we have on someone we don’t reallly need ….. How can these young guns prove themseleves if they never get the chance?….. Heskey may cost £4m or we might get him on a free, but he will still cost wages and even at £40 gs a week that is still £2.08M per season. Now times that by five players and thats £10.4 M. it all adds up. …. At times Rafa seems to buy for the sake of buying …. What I would like to see from him is to bring in one quiality players a year only . We need not spend on 3/4 players a year.Bring some of the youth through Get rid of the dead wood and make a concerted effort the win the Premier League title every year is all I am looking for in Rafa
Rudi - October 18th, 2008 at 9:24 am
But Heskey is a quality player, and is proven in the premiership. If he wasn’t out of contract he would be £12m at least. We are trying to win the title. We have no other player who plays like Heskey, a big physical centreforward. We haven’t had one of them since he left and he is a better player now than he was then. Crouch for his height, was not physical.
We need someone like that desperately. Look at what drogba offers chelsea. For under 5m it would be great business.
Heskey would cost very little money and would give Rafa a whole new range of options that could make the difference in certain games, i.e Stoke at home.
Rafa never complains he doesn’t have enough money, just when they tell him how to spend what he has and when they don’t give what they promised.
Rudi - October 18th, 2008 at 9:33 am
What are you going on about politics for you pratt. ‘You and all your ilk’. What do you mean by that you conceited southern twat? How the fuck would you know or be interested in who I my political leanings.
You constantly attack Rafa with shit arguments, even when it isn’t particularly relevent you will have a stab at him. I don’t think he walks on water but I do see that he has done a great job, has turned us into one of the top teams in europe and a much better premiership outfit.
You seem to castigate him because he hasn’t been able to beat Man Utd or Chelsea. Me and my ilk however realise that this is mainly becasue he has been vastly outspent by both of these clubs during he tenure. They are the two best teams in Europe, it’s hardly a criem to be unable to beat them over 38 games on a smaller budget. We are improving year on year. What more do you want from him?
Donavan Ried - October 18th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Rudi - October 18th, 2008 at 9:33 am ………..Rudi I’m Sorry for the “you and your ilk” It was an unfortunate phase to use and what I should have said was “you and people like you” meaning Rafa’s harden supports …. I really meant nothing by this and was just being lazy in typing out what I really meant…. I could only offer my apologies again
Politics…. What I meant here was that people complain about things, the Labour party, The Phone bill, Gas bill,etc but do nothing to change it, Vote the same part back in , carry on with the same phone company, gas company and then continue to moan… I am a Liverpool supporter but that doesn’t mean I will sit quitely if I feel that the manager is not doing the best he can do for the club…
Rudi - October 18th, 2008 at 9:24 am ……. I take up board the points you have made here
Rudi - October 18th, 2008 at 9:33 am …….. “You seem to castigate him because he hasn’t been able to beat Man Utd or Chelsea.” Rudi the must important thing to me is that he tries …. By this I mean that he puts out a team of his best eveln to try and win a game,NOT to try not to drop points If he did this week by week win ,lose or draw he would be a winner in my books… Look at the stoke game….How my defenders were there on the bench ……. do you see my point ….. The Man utd game was what he should be doing week in week out….. Not the winning albeit great but fielding a postive and attacking side. If we play postive attacking football a lose so be it. That football …. I love Liverpool to win, But I would rather they play postive and lose than play negitve and do the same.
“you pratt”…. Think I desreved that one ….. Sorry again Mate
Rudi - October 18th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
no worries
looperevil - October 18th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Jesus h christ girls, chill. (D Reid@ Rudi) As a pool fan i respect your thoughts and feelings towards the club, but the subject matter was Heskey rejoining and nothing else. Now both of you bring valid points to the table, however bringing Heskey back IS a step back. Just watch the game today and tell me its not. I’m siding on The Dons side today as he is right.. Keep the 3-5million for the summer. Stop signing shite just for the sake of it. Let the youth play in some of these games(Wigan,Stoke ect). Rafa got rid of STEVEN FINNAN and for what? a pile of shite if you ask me. and now he might sign another pile.
ronnie's shagging ronald! - October 18th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
I’m with whoever suggested that we should save our money cause it all adds up, but I don’t think that we are strapped for cash, if you look at our spending you’ll see that we spent near enough 40mil this summer (which includes the younger players). I have to agree with Donavan with respect to Rafa’s spending. It is somewhat erratic. How could anyone justify the purchase of Dossena? It’s just heartbreaking to see 9 mil go down the drain. He’s gonna take forever to adjust to the premiership/Liverpool. I’d rather just have saved that 9mil and used any further funds gained in January to make a real aggressive assault to sign either Phillip Lahm or that Brazilian right back we were after Rafinha. These are proven quality players who would make instant impact and have dealt with the pressures of playing for a big team in major competitions. The likes of Degen and Dossena (dumb and dumber) will take forever to adjust that’s if they do and then we will simply sell them to a mid-table team somewhere and make either a small loss or small profit.
I think that if we went in for Lahm with 15-17mil he would never have said no. Alternatively, although i think that even though Keane will improve the team when he forms a partnership with Torres; (where Keane doesn’t constantly find himself in the way of Torres; by either going for the same balls or blocking Torres’ shots) we should have saved the 20mil we spent, waited till January got another 15mil and put in a bid of 35mil for David Villa. We know that partnership works. The impact would have been instant. Instead Rafa takes unnecessary risks in purchasing dead wood in the first team far too often. By all means take risks but I’d rather he took all of them with the youth squad and try to perfect the first team.
With Torres and Babel out for today’s game we don’t have world class up front to replace them. David Villa would have easily sorted the problem. The only problem last years were the 12 draws with teams which we should have beat the team performances were there but we lacked cutting edge even with Torres/Gerrard it was simply too much to ask for him to single-handily win every game.
We missed out on Villa, we missed out on Quaresma, we missed out on Lahm, we missed out on Rafinha and we missed out in generally all of the best players. Liverpool FC was rated by UEFA last year as the best team in Europe simply because of the consistency of the past 4 seasons. These players would come to Liverpool simply because we are LIVERPOOL FC. We have the best fan base for any club in the world. Anfield as a superpower wins matches. The fans win matches. All we need to do is pay the reasonable cash and we would never need to convince any quality player to come to us.
We are Liverpool football club. Not recently rich Manchester City or Chelsea. Even Arsenal don’t have what we have. History. Pedigree. On paper we are the best team in those qualities in the UK.
I like Rafa and I think he has taken us forward; but from the position we are now in the table (joint second place) now he should show he is capable of being crowned as the manager who brought back the league after 19 years of drought. If he doesn’t succeed in either making us competitive for the crown or winning us the champions league this season I think his time will be running out.
There are others waiting for jobs; of the likes of Jose Mourinho and Frank Rijkard who would gladly take your place. Show us otherwise.
YNWA
Alex - October 18th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I wish we’d signed van der vaart, he’s the complete midfield package. Get rid of pennant, kuyt (sadly), alonso (sadly), benayoun (sadly), aurelio, dossena, degen, itandje, voronin (out on loan currently).
That would leave us with around 48ish million,
Kuyt - 10m
Alonso - 15m
Pennant - 5m
Benayoun - 4m
Itandje - 1m
Aurelio + Degen - 5m
Dossena - 5m
Voronin - 3m
Then I think we should make aggressive bids for gareth bale, micah richards, and a free-scoring winger such as robben (unlikely), ashley young (hmmm difficult) or get some investment from the board and mount a huge bid for someone like diego ribas or karim benzema (hugely versatile on the flanks or up front).
This is where we should be heading, cut out all the players who are not good enough for a premiership winning team and bring in bale and richards who are the two best young british defenders around, and then someone who is near to his peak who will drive our team forward and will be around for the next 7-8 seasons. We have the experience and foundations, we just need the extra push. And with a smaller squad it will enable us to play the youngsters much more, in alonso’s absence for example we could play plessis or lucas, with kuyt and pennant dossena and aurelio gone then insua could feature, or pacheco could get a run out upfront with nemeth.
Donavan Ried - October 19th, 2008 at 10:11 am
ronnie’s shagging ronald! - October 18th, 2008 at 1:46 pm …….. ” If he doesn’t succeed in either making us competitive for the crown or winning us the champions league this season I think his time will be running out.” ….. In Rafa’s defence ( That a first from Me,defending Rafa) …But in his defence winning the Champions League/FA Cup/League Cup has more to do with luck of the draw…. Now The Premier League is about consistency ….. now with this ( The Premier League) I agree when you say “If he doesn’t succeed in either making us competitive for the crown or winning us the champions league this season I think his time will be running out. “
Rudi - October 19th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
This is all about opinions and I respect everyones here, as long as they don’t insult other people.
All I’ll say is not every signing has to be building for the future. For 3-5m Heskey would be a solution fo the next 2-3 seasons. I think for that money he would be worth a punt. He would effectively replace Crouch with a net gain of around £8m. Don;t forget, Crouch did have his uses, although I think we got a good deal for him.
We won’t get Villa. Forget the bundeslige plaeyrs like Lahm and Podolski. That league is rubbish at present and they won’t make the grade over here.
A swap deal for Valencia with Pennant going the other way would be an excellent start in January.
Donavan Ried - October 19th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Rudi - October 19th, 2008 at 12:30 pm ……. I taking what you say about Heskey and although I Disagree you make a valid point …… But you can not say because the bundeslige is rubbish at present that means the players are There world class players in the bundeslige as in every League in western Europe ….. “We won’t get Villa” …. Think your right on this one ….. Don’t think Torres likes playing with him as a stike partner anyways judging by his manner in the Euros
“This is all about opinions and I respect everyones here, as long as they don’t insult other people” …. I am right with you here also …. Sorry once again mate
Anonymous - January 1st, 2009 at 11:39 am
I think having Heskey rejoin Liverpool would be an ideal addition to the team. His ability in the air and to hold the ball up is what we need to partner with the skill and speed of Torres or Keane. If we were unable to sign Heskey, I believe we should attempt to sign Kevin Davies from Bolton given that he is a similar player to Heskey.