Liverpool CHASE £4m VETERAN who could be a handy signing: January bid on the cards?
by Mr Comfort on October 23rd, 2008
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There is momentum gathering over this potential Rafa move that at first seems impossible to believe, but then after some closer thought, could well be plausible, what do you think?
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THERE’S an old saying in football which is: Never go back.
But it didn’t work out too badly for me when I returned to Anfield, and there’s no reason why Emile Heskey couldn’t be a success if speculation about a possible Anfield comeback proves correct.
At the moment the talk is largely immaterial, because Rafa has made it clear he couldn’t even afford a free transfer signing in January unless he can offload somebody first.
But if he did suddenly find himself in a position to bring in a new face, I think the familiar presence of Emile Heskey would be a good move. (Ian Rush-Liverpool Echo)
The Wigan striker’s contract expires at the end of the season and he has already admitted he would be interested in a return to one of his former sides, Liverpool.
“If he goes to Liverpool or wherever, is he going to play week-in, week-out?” asked the Wigan manager, “The big thing Emile will have on his mind is to be in condition in 18 months to go to the World Cup. Why not stay here and do that?” (goal.com)
One relationship that looks like it might be about to be mended is the love affair between Emile Heskey and Liverpool. According to a MIRROR FOOTBALL SPY EXCLUSIVE – an exclusive slightly undermined by the fact that the same story is splashed all over the back of the Sun – Mr Em is out of contract at Wigan in the summer and could even move to Anfield in January as he’s not cup-tied in Europe. (Guardian)
Emile Heskey wasn’t exactly prolific in his days at Anfield, but he was determined and always gave 100%, but many would doubt if he had what it takes to play for the Merseyside giants and I would be one of those ‘many’. Benitez does need another striker in his pack to ease the burden on Torres, and maybe Heskey could be that man?
Perhaps Rafa should not have offloaded Crouchy, but he had good reasons for doing that, now it’s a question of where the Spaniard moves in the transfer window in terms of filling that gap. Do Liverpool fans agree with Ian Rush that a move for the 30-year-old England man would be a good one?
Red - October 23rd, 2008 at 8:41 pm
“Emile Heskey wasn’t exactly prolific in his days at Anfield”…. neither was peter crouch, voronin, etc etc etc if we’re going to buy a striker , please can we make it someone who will knock in 25-30 goals and help el nino out…someone like aguero or eto’o.
redman - October 23rd, 2008 at 10:55 pm
bring back owen
Redders - October 24th, 2008 at 12:11 am
just use Kuyt
danny pacheco's left nut - October 24th, 2008 at 12:57 am
what we need is an out and out goal-scorer/poacher/finisher/striker (whatever you want to call them) like mickey-o.
i personally wouldn’t worry about bringing owen back - its not like we need to worry about players starting to think about leaving for other big clubs - anyone thinking of moving from liverpool now would need to be locked up.
you’ve just got to look at how a superstar like mickey has struggled since he left - compared to what he could have achieved if he’d stayed.
we already have keane, kuyt, babel, benny-o & stevie-g with pacheco coming through, so its obvious we don’t need a heskey-type. i like the guy a lot and was sad to see him leave, but at 30 yrs of age, i’m not sure.
an option would be to bring in a really quality right winger - an equivalent to riera - and that would free up kuyt to play that more central role as a back-up to either keane or torres (he did score a very large bag full of goals in the dutch league…..
of course - if the yanks p!ss off and we get sheik mo-bin-rash-al-mak in before christmas, then we may be able to get both (what a pressie that would make!)
interestingly - ian rush - someone who til recently coached at the club and would certainly have close ties still, said in his article, “…because Rafa has made it clear he couldn’t even afford a free transfer in January unless he can offload someone first.
But if he could afford to bring someone in in January….”??? Am I just being overly optomistic, or does that possibly sound like he knows something we don’t?
either way, if we are in a similar position come january, and rafa has no funds to boost the squad for that final push towards our first title in nearly TWO DECADES, then we need to ’round up’ the two fellas from over the pond and give them a damn good horse-whipping. the good of the club is way, way, way bigger than the egos of the two of them….
Monstermash - October 24th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Bumnut
redfan - October 24th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
We dont need striker as we have kyut ngog pacheco and babel reiera benaouyn what we need is quality rightback and right winger
robbo - October 24th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
play babel up front where he belongs no heskey please
Ticky - October 25th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Doesn’t anyone remember how relieved we all were when Heskey left the club? Yes he works hard and is a handful for most centre-halves, but he doesn’t score enough goals for a striker and had most of us pulling our hair out with frustration when he was at Anfield.
Cast your minds back a few years. How many times did Emile control the ball on the halfway line, shield it from the defender then lay it off to a team-mate. Then as the move developed and the ball was eventually crossed into the penalty area, where was the big striker? Usually still on the half-way line, walking or trotting towards the goal. It used to drive me up the wall.
Please don’t make us go through all that again Rafa!