Liverpool to Make Intelligent £14m January Signing: Wing Wizard Elia Wanted
by Mr Neutral on November 8th, 2009 22 commentsRafa wants Dutch youngster as soon as possible.
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Liverpool’s owners are preparing to scoop £100m with a new rights issue, and will fund their manager’s transfer-based desires, which include the 22-year-old Dutch midfielder Eljero Elia, who only joined Hamburg in August from FC Twente. So desperate are the Reds to agree the deal, they’ll do all the paperwork in January but let him stay in Germany until the end of the season. But don’t get your hopes up, Liverpool fans: the Anfield legend (well, he played in a good team) Ronnie Whelan reckons that if Rafael Benítez wants him, this Elia’s bound to be abysmal – “his judgment in the transfer market has been awful,” he parped. (Guardian)
There seems to be growing speculation around this potential addition to Rafa’s Anfield Army and there is no doubting that the young Dutchman could well be a good signing and in many ways could well be the player Benitez had hoped that Ryan Babel would have been.
The two players are very similar in style and approach to the game but whereas Ryan has been a big disappointment there is a hope that the Hamburg winger could step up a level from Bundesliga challengers to try to make a name for himself in the Premier League.
The fact that the former FC Twente man has only really just arrived at Hamburg may dictate just how viable such a move from Liverpool may be. The idea that Rafa could buy him and then loan him back to the German side seems a little odd as clearly he could be of great use to the Merseyside outfit as soon as possible so I am not sure that such a deal really suits them.
If they do find the funds for such a move, and as this source suggests the naming rights issue could help provide the underfire Reds boss with some much needed cash, then I am sure they would want Elia to make the move in January and not wait until the end of the season when their chase for a Champions League spot may have already failed.
The £14m rated winger is an adaptable player who is probably more of a threat on the left and could helpfully fit in that position at Liverpool who have tried a number of options without much success. The likes of Babel and Albert Riera haven’t set the world alight and Yossi Benayoun seems to play more effectively when in a floating role.
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anonymous - November 8th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Elia is a very good player, has the potential that Babel had, but hopefully he can actually live up to his reputation, unlike Ryan.
Warren Bloggs - November 8th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
If Ryan Babel does not improve come January then i think a swap deal is on the cards. However, the idea that Ellia would not actually officially arrive until next summer seems incredibly odd. We need players now! In January i would like too see us sign two or three new faces, not all have to be big-names just steady improvements to the squad. Now i have been after Di Maria for some time but it looks as if he is Chelsea bound now along with Napoli star Hamsik. Cassano looks to be wide of the mark im afraid seeing as Rafa has deemed no interest in him. Paper reports that seem very much on the cards:
Ellia (just about everyone)
Huntelaar (news of the world – guardian – sun)
Johnson (guardian)
Koman (numerous websites and papers)
I think we could well sign Ellia and Koman in January and i agree that they would be good additions to our squad although i still feel that we need another striker and Huntelaar is reportedly an interest at £12m although he would not be my perfered option, instead i think i would prefer Pavluchenko on the cheap in January as he looks ready to move.
anonymous - November 8th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
appledave here
he sounds okay but i think adam johnson or milos krasic could be better and more cost effective buys
anonymous - November 8th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
He was just bought for 7 million and you think he will now be sold for 14 million. If true it must be nice to be his agent!
Ryan Babel - November 8th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
i would like this guy.
but we have missed a great oppertunity to get a good st in pandev who has apparently signed a pre contract with inter.
not sure about huntelaar since going to real madrid and milan hes been rubbish maybe he can only score in everdise like kuyt?
Ryan Babel - November 8th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Get Elia he scored today. difference between babel and Elia is that Elia has more natural wing talent and Elia is doing well in Bundesliga aswell.
Reds Lewis - November 8th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
would rather avoid him in all honesty.
If were actually getting 100m I could think of better ways to spend it…
Reds Lewis - November 8th, 2009 at 10:25 pm
hmmm…. IF we had 100 million
Bojan for the future
Mata for now…
Aguero for now…
possibly di maria too
however do we have 100m? no
will we get it? unlikely
if we do get it, will the owners let rafa spend 100m on players?
Nope.
Ryan Babel - November 8th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
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point being…?
Reds Lewis - November 8th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Point being 14 million is alot to spend on a player that alot of people wouldnt of actually heard of if the tabloids hadnt linked us to him a few weeks ago… or scored against the scottish national team who arent exactly the best in the world…
He was bought for 8.5 million euro..thats about 7 million pounds… so now were doublind that?
Also bare in mind that he is playing in the Bundesliga….
probably the 4th or 5th best league in the world?
Things might be differemt over here….look a babel
baggins09 - November 8th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
reds lewis sorry mate but
mata 15-20m
bojan 20-25m
aguero-40m+
di maria 45m buyout clause
thats 120-130 atleast so wheres it coming from mate? it’s not gona happen and if it does i’d want more than 4 players for that sort of money mate
anonymous - November 8th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
if we sell the hobbit 3 mill, kuyt 9 mill, vorinon 2 mill, degan 1 milll, dossens 3 mill, riera 7mill, thats 25 mill. Surely we could get a decent striker and winger with that. MInd you if rafa rates him, he is probably sh*t
baggins09 - November 8th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
so sell 6 players buy 2? that will really strengthen us, i’d keep kuyt and dossena, aurelio is always injured i know when he’s fit he’s good but its not very often so i’d rather let him go and give dossena a proper crack at it like he has lucas
Retryboy - November 9th, 2009 at 12:34 am
I think we should expect rafa to sell the players that aren’t good enough we have a huge squad with 5/6 not good enough and better youngsters to take their places. Don’t know where this £100m is coming from know they were talking about the naming rights for the new stadium but that would be spread over 20 years and mainly to fund the stadium getting off the ground. I can see him getting £10/15m on top of sales wouldn’t expect any more.
anonymous - November 9th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Lets be honest Liverpool will not be doing any business in the January window and not many clubs will either with the World Cup coming up. Babel is lazy and selfish so why would you want to get rid of him now when you could probably add anther 5 million on to him if he has a good World Cup. We are not after Elia it’s just paper talk, I bet you Rafa doesn’t even know who is targets are yet. It’s all well and good targeting Mata or somebody then he does alright in the WC and his price shoots up from 12m – 15m to 18m – 20m and there are a good few teams out there similar to Valencia who need money coming into the club but are prepared to get the bidding wars started!
Retryboy - November 9th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Thing is though players that aren’t getting games at their clubs push for moves like dossena is doing they are all worrying about their world cup spots.
Warren Bloggs - November 9th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Well the best possible option in my eyes is to give Babel up to January to prove himself, if he does not then do this swap deal for Elia (who should be called Babel Mrk2). Elia is a carbon copy of Babel, pacy, skilfull with good feet, which is why unlike Ryan he will do the business trust me. Babel was a striker who Rafa turned (un-wisely) into a left winger, unfortunately Babel does not have a left foot unlike Elia who is a natural winger……snap him up. Yes we would all love the Di Maria’s, Villa’s and Aguero’s of this world but come on people this is not going to happen we need players in January and so we should be realistic! Hamburg have reported interest in Babel and Voronin (i know i can’t beleive it myself!), Dossena has widespread admirers in Italy and he looks set to leave with all of Napoli, Milan, Genoa etc interested in him. I think Degen will stay as i cannot see him leaving. Honestly, the only players i can definetly say are leaving are Voronin and Dossena (obv Itandje as well), and Babel has as i said until Jan to prove himself.
Sell:
Voronin and Babel to Hamburg in exchange for cash and Elia
Dossena to Napoli/Genoa/Milan
Reportedly we could have up to £10m or £15m if we are lucky with that i would snap up Koman for £4m from Sampdoria as extra cover for the likes of Aqua and Stevie. And then put the remaining £10-12m or so on a striker with good pedegree such as Pandev, Pavluchenko, Huntelaar etc.
So:
Out would be Babel, Dossena and Voronin
In would be Elia (part exchange), Koman and any of Huntelaar, Pavluchenko, Pandev etc.
PS. The players i have mentioned are only those we have reportedly taken interest in and not my personall choices.
anonymous - November 9th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
nooo
in silva 20m
in pablo aimar 10m
in huntelaar 11m
in lassana diarra 12m
in upson/hangeland/ bruno alves 12m
in pandev free (rejected a contract)
in alan hutton 5m backup for johnson)
out degen 3m
out voronin 3m
out dossena 5m
out babel 9m
out kyrgiakos 2m
no point selling lucas cos he’s playin really good now. he’s been quite good against man u and lyon. he set up ngog and babels goals.
for less than 50m we can have a good team and bench.
reina
johnson carra agger aurelio
masch
aquilani aimar gerrard silva
torres
on the bench u cud hav
cavelieri
hutton
skrtel
alves
insua
diarra this wud also be a really gud second team as well
kuyt
riera
benayoun
pandev
huntelaar
and you’ll still have spearing
lucas
ngog
elzhar
ayala
and so on left .
anonymous - November 12th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
in
adriano 5.5m
aimar 9.5m
silva 13.5m+ babel
upson 9m
richards 7m
milner/ lennon 10.5m = 45m
pavlychenko loan
out
VORONIN 4m
degen 3.5m
dossena 6m
out babel p/x
out kyrgiakos 2.5m
out riera 15m
+20m funds
reina
johnson carragher agger richards
mascherano
milner/lennon aquilani gerrard silva
torres
subs
adriano
aimar
benayoun
kuyt
upson
richards
pavlychenko
insua
aurelio
cavelieri
anonymous - November 19th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
We (liverpool) defo need to get money for january…look how bad we’re doing losing to fulham, aston villa, chelsea, tottenham, sunderland, lyon and fiorentina… we need a backup striker to play with torres and i say elia wud fit just perfectly but i also thing babel isnt getting a chance , does anyone remember the champions league a few years ago babel against arsenal and then his wonder goal against chelsea? look at his goal against lyon!! babel is GOOD
IN:
Elia
Nilmar
Robinho
OUT:
Dossena
Lucas
Spearing
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we have been reported for all of the above
i say if we get these players and keep All of our players fit WE WILL WIN THE LEAGUE!
anonymous - November 22nd, 2009 at 2:23 pm
your right liverpool do need a forward
liverpool should sign
dzeko 15m
mata 3m+ babel
dossena 5m
voronin 4m
anonymous - January 26th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
when we had 30 million from alonso’s sale.. we should have gotten diego straight away for 23 million. then have 7 million left to spend over.