Liverpool to Sign £14m Striker on Loan Deal to Ease Torres Injury Woes

trevthetinkerman - January 18th, 2010 at 10:28 am

We bloody knew last year we had to bring in another top class striker in case Nando got injured…. now feckin look where we are. Jones would be good for us though.

Retryboy - January 18th, 2010 at 10:54 am

Seems strange Ynwa because its a load of crap. Bruce comes out saying he is not interested in letting his quality players leave and you print this rubbish. What possible benefit would Sunderland get from lending us a first team player its just ridiculous.

trav09 - January 18th, 2010 at 11:01 am

Evening retry
Rafa out petition. Not allowed to post the link, but do a google search for ” sack rafa benitz petition.” If it is the fans that made him stay, LET IT BE THE FANS THAT MAKE HIM GO.
There is no point trying to see positives with the season, he needs to go now! Fans who can’t stand to watch the absolute rubbish rafa has us playing, check it out.

Retryboy - January 18th, 2010 at 12:21 pm

Evening? Are you australian trav? Don’t see a petition doing much good mate to be honest. Think he has to be on the brink he has been lucky with the other teams results we aren’t further adrift of fourth when making the promises he guarantees a top four finish he must have been getting pressure from upstairs he has put his head in the noose whether he jumps or is pushed he won’t be here much longer. Have seen his biggest fans on here even losing patience the swing in opinion on this site i am sure is representitive of everywhere. The ex players are coming out in force against rafa now. Said that when whelan braved the wrath of the brigade more would follow. It’s only a matter of time. “With rafa we rust!”

kermit - January 18th, 2010 at 12:28 pm

the original story is from the daily mail

Reds Lewis - January 18th, 2010 at 12:45 pm

As Retry has said…can’t see this happening.
Steve Bruce and numerous other Sunderland AFC officials have stated more than once that they arent going to sell or loan any of their star players..including Jones. He has a formidable partnership with Bent that is working damned well…why would they let him go?

On the other hand, yes…Jones might prove to just be that extra option we need up front…maybe to play alongside Ngog or against the Physical teams like Stoke etc, but not sure he’d play well alongside Nando. Granted he can hold the ball up well but not sure his finishing is that good, anyway…I stand to be corrected.

RAF - January 18th, 2010 at 1:38 pm

Hello all,
Why is it the “in Rafa we trust” brigade are always anonoymous?
Why do they insist that supporting LFC and Rafa are the same?
The Rafa boys need to stop telling people how to support our club, take their blinkers off, enter the 21st century and wake the hell up!!
How can you seriously blame the players? Are you telling me that 20 professionals all suddenly lost the will to play individually?
Take a good long look at our teamsheets, tactics and style of play. Who is responsible for those?
Rafa is of course!!

Donavan Ried - January 18th, 2010 at 2:38 pm

Afternoon kermit, Trav09,Reds Lewis,trevthetinkerman…… Good afternoon and welcome to the site RAF(Rush and Fowler?)

I think that both Retryboy and Reds Lewis sumed this one up quite nicely…….Retryboy – January 18th, 2010 at 10:54 am and Reds Lewis – January 18th, 2010 at 12:45 pm ….. nuff said!

nicklovesliverpool - January 18th, 2010 at 5:12 pm

Afternoon to all usual Retry Donovan Kermit Baggins trav09 Anon at 4:32 will you ever shut up you are the same person going on about Retryboy and Donovan stop hiding behind you ugly Anonymous face and get a life because these guys don’t deserve this bullshit from you.
Now to the Article i agree its better than Heskey but im not sure if Jones will bring what is needed to the club and what we need is goals and you said that he is good at holding the ball? it wont work in my opinion i know it is a Loan but if we do buy 14 million is too over priced and do you really think we can afford that. we would have to sell Babel who i feel is A neglected player who can do much more.

Aldo - January 18th, 2010 at 5:34 pm

Anon: Jan 4:32pm
First and foremost your comments about other subscribers is truly disgraceful. you cant be a Red.
Why dont you do the brave thing and post your full name and your phone number.

...samlfc.... - January 18th, 2010 at 7:22 pm

like i said before in other posts i think Turan would be the ideal buy as he is needed on the left and witht he arrival of Maxi we now have quality on the right…..and even left if you can count Riera.

Jones would be a good back-up striker but i just can’t see it happening as Bruce like Retryboy said doesn;t want to sell their top players which i believe Jones is included. we could try and get Zaki as apparently he wants a prem return or Adriano but that is unlikely to happen.

last note Evening The Don,Retry,Nicklovesliverpool and the rest and welcome to the Site RAF.

spota - January 18th, 2010 at 8:34 pm

does it really matter when rafa will play 9 defenders and pepe reina behind him . i guarentee ya he will play this guy up front on his own till torres is back . and thats if its true . cant see why bruce would do a loan deal when he could cash in on this guy big style for cash now . i also read bruce put a ridiculos price tag on him 40 ,000,000 or something to that effect . hes defenatly not even worth the 14 been banded about here . if thats true wot is carlton cole gonna cost . why are the board even considering letting raffa bring in more players until he offloads a lot more ov the tat he has already baught . mind who would take most ov em . i would let the tat go for free just to cut the wage bill . is this not a better way ov servicing the debt . instead ov dragging us further into it . its not as if prize money is gonna help us under raffa is it ? YNWA SORRY 4THE RANT

spota - January 18th, 2010 at 8:39 pm

anon 8:00 villa and silva could be free why would they come to us now ? also where skint and these are both mega million deals witch hicks and gillette will never part with ? also if we could beg the money from somewhere rafa would only wreck both ov them anyway . and make them very average with his wonderfull man management skills hahahaha nar it really is not funny sack the fat waiter and now !

nicklovesliverpool - January 18th, 2010 at 9:24 pm

hello to all thank you for the Avatar site sam worked Perfectly. Im not sure about this with Jones form going down for Sunderland im not sure he will work at Liverpool and even he was in Good form Jones will regret joining club once he realizes what Benitez does in The Tactics leaving him up there with 7 defenders playing outfield.
*FACEPALM* i have so much to say about Rafa yet it could go on forever and i have made my point clear about it Before he has had his time now it is his time to go.

Aquilani4goals - January 18th, 2010 at 9:39 pm

rafa just have to go…when an organisation is not performing the HEAD of the organisation is the first to goooo AO IT IS TIME 4 RAFA TO GO AND HE SHOULD DO THAT QUICKLY

RaNE - January 18th, 2010 at 10:48 pm

Graeme Souness?? Yeh lets not get him because well he didnt do any better tha rafa

baggins09 - January 18th, 2010 at 11:14 pm

zaki’s signed for hull on loan samlfc i was saying the other day that i thought he’d be a good signing for us and theres a few of us been shouting for adriano too but it’ll never happen as it would make sense!
jones would be good if played with torres i think but we’ve not really got anyone else who he would complement in my opinion and i doubt he’d do a job up on his own, if he signs i hope i’m wrong but as someone else mentioned earlier who’s he gonna hold the ball up for? all our real attacking threats are injured maybe him and babel could form some sort of partnership but i think babel is going, i would be really pleased if raffa could pull off a vdv loan deal and swap babel for turan, but again i cant see it happening.
as for who ever keeps mentioning villa and silva forget it by next season villa is gonna be nearly 30 and would probably have a 40m pricetag if we had 40m to spend on 1 forward i’d rather go for aguero.
personally i hope the following happens but i doubt it-

jones-loan
vdv- loan
adriano a few mil
turan swap for babel

baggins09 - January 18th, 2010 at 11:16 pm

i’d prefere rush and hansen

Aldo - January 18th, 2010 at 11:32 pm

This wont happen steve Bruce wont do liverpool any favours not now not ever.

I think we are all losing sight of who the real culprits are at LFC David Moores and Rick Parry thats were it all started.
Having them two yanks in charge of our club is sole destroying. The club is going downhill fast THESE TWO ARE JUST LIARS
We are all calling for Rafa’s head and whilst i sit on the fence about Rafa it can be so justified if he goes.
Most on hear make some very good points about Rafa E.G Retry, Donavan,samlfc, the choosen one etc Ok dont agree with them all but respect their opinion.
What also puzzles me is the lies our top players must have been told who are tied into long term contracts. They must have been informed that New Investment was coming in or that Rafa was going to be able to sign three world class players. Thats why there is disruption in the camp.
Why would Rafa contnue to operate on no budget this season ? even he knows the kids are quite ready. To have Ngog as your scecond choice stricker is turning out to be bizzare.
It also seems with the players that Rafa cant sign them and Rafa cant get shut of them yes i know what you are all going to say yes we can list his bad points and list his good points and at the moment is not looking good
We all know which players are not fit to wear the shirt Rafa does, Sammy Lee Does and most of all King Kenny its seems that he is trapped however, he signed them he has to deal with them whether they were his 1st choice 4th choice thats down to him.

I think we should just get behing the club and players till the end of the season and see where we are.
Yep you could put king kenny in short term and would do a good job but if Rafa does go thats were the problems lie especially with these two muppets. They will probably bring in Mike basset
Forget about Rafa your never going to figure him out You need to anger your frustrations at the OWNERS

Donavan Ried - January 19th, 2010 at 1:26 am

Donavan Ried - January 19th, 2010 at 2:30 am

anonymous – January 19th, 2010 at 1:59 am Thank you mate

Retryboy - January 19th, 2010 at 2:40 am

Shut up with your false supporters crap. ‘True reds always have hope in their hearts’ we have hope then we see the team sheet and we know exactly what problems we will have in the game before it starts. You aren’t even arguing that rafa is the best man for the job yet you still can’t seperate manager/team. Don’t you see that because of ‘true fans’ like you souness and houllier were allowed to carry no doing damage that has taken years to reverse if we miss fourth because of not putting the club before rafa with the spending power of city it could be a long way back to the top. Don’t mind you having a different opinion but don’t try and claim some moral highground how can you have one rule for rafa one rule for the owners? Follow blindly and show trust to someone we can see isn’t doing his job properly but hang H&g without trial when they have supported the manager all the way, given him the total control he wanted and have started to catch up on the £100m income we lose out on per year to united. Despite all Rafa’s failures this year and massive loss of revenue they have only told him to sell before he buys. Know who i think is doing a better job based on the evidence not the media. Then again i am actually being fair and affording them a tiny percentage of the patience that has been given to rafa. The owners aren’t to blame that rafa can’t beat a team facing relegation from the championship with a multi-million pound team with some of the worlds best players in it. Will reserve judgement on hicks and gillett till there is more evidence about what is going on behind the scenes on rafa after 30 games this season i have seen enough of his shite and heard enough out of his mouth

Retryboy - January 19th, 2010 at 2:55 am

Anon 1.59-he is just getting ignored so is going for shock value has been for weeks a very sad, lonely individual who craves a bit of attention. Lets not give him what he wants.

Retryboy - January 19th, 2010 at 3:43 am

Well we all complained about the moderation when it was in so think they have pretty much done away with it although when it was in anons seemed to get away with sick comments like this twisted excuse for a human has thrown. Unfortunately if you start arguing with them it just ruins any debate for everyone which i think is the intention as no views about the club are ever offered. In the end its only them that look pathetic would be quite hard to implement an automated moderation system i would imagine

saif - January 19th, 2010 at 8:38 am

i’m back after a good 5 months

this is wha we should do swap bable and about 4 mill for turan sell riera to barca for 10 mill and bojan and buy adriano on free transfer

summer

the yanks have promised that this will be big for us so lets say they give us 50 mill then sell mascherano for 40 mill or 30 and a couple of there youths or 20 and alves

sell degan buy aguero and silva then buy honda and kjaer and thats it for us

nicklovesliverpool - January 19th, 2010 at 9:06 am

saif

do you really think Aquero and silva will join the club first we dont have the wages to match people like Chelsea and City plus don’t count on this money being given over the owners can be tricky guys. I can only see Degen being sold which is guess it the right thing.

Aquilani4goals - January 19th, 2010 at 10:52 am

Tuesday January 19 2010

RAFAEL BENITEZ must raise cash to fund a £10m move for Sunderland forward Kenwyne Jones after the Wearside club made it clear that they would not agree to the player signing a loan deal with Liverpool.

Benitez has identified the Trinidad and Tobago international as his prime target in the remaining two weeks of the transfer window following the loss of Fernando Torres for up to six weeks with a knee injury.

Jones, a £6m buy from Southampton in August 2007, has scored just six goals for Sunderland this season, but manager Steve Bruce is under no pressure to sell to raise transfer funds.

Bruce is understood to be willing to part with Jones, but only on a permanent basis, forcing Benitez to hope that funds can be raised by the possible sale of winger Ryan Babel.

Sunderland are monitoring Paraguayan forward Salvador Cabanas after failing to lure Schalk’s Kevin Kuranyi.

Meanwhile, former Liverpool striker Robbie Keane faces the axe against his former club when Tottenham visit Anfield for their crucial Premier League clash tomorrow night.

The Irish captain and record goalscorer is likely to be one of the fall-guys as Harry Redknapp seeks to end a sequence of poor results against the ‘big four’ teams. Tottenham visit Liverpool tomorrow attempting to win at the home of one of the ‘big four’ for the first time in 66 attempts.

The Tottenham manager said: “I am not being disrespectful to Robbie but when Crouch came on (against Hull in Saturday’s 0-0 draw) we suddenly looked more dangerous.” Redknapp is also considering giving a rare start to Jermaine Jenas.

Aquilani4goals - January 19th, 2010 at 10:56 am

Perhaps save is the wrong word, cause let’s face it, no matter what happens between now and the end of May, this season will no doubt be seen as a failure for Liverpool fans.

Anyway, Rafa Benitez’ search for a striker continues and a new name entered the frame today. Sunderland’s Kenwyne Jones is now understood to be on Liverpool’s radar with several leading newspapers claiming a six-month loan deal may be on the cards.

Jones, 25, was recently valued at £40 million by Sunderland boss Steve Bruce following claims that Stoke City were interested in signing the former Southampton man.

Names like Ruud Van Nistelrooy, Roman Pavlyuchenko, Emile Heskey, Marouane Chamakh have all been linked with moves to Anfield in recent weeks, but for whatever reasons, nothing has materialised on any of those fronts.

Sunderland have today done their best to rule out the possibility of Jones moving to Liverpool, however I have a feeling we haven’t heard the end of this. With all due respect to Sunderland, I would love to see Jones make the move to Merseyside. It would be fascinating to see Jones partner Fernando Torres in a Liverpool front two. I personally think it would work wonders, but whether the move goes ahead, we’ll have to wait and see.

Retryboy - January 19th, 2010 at 11:53 am

Aquilani4pasting can you please if you insist on giving us the newspaper gossip or articles from different blogs like football fancast rather than your own views can you name the source so we can tell if it is worth the paper it is written on. Would much rather you just gave us your opinion personally as i have newsnow and can get all the gossip by pressing one button.

KJT_19 - January 19th, 2010 at 12:07 pm

looks like the jones deal is happening i for one am not happy about this, 10 million there saying 10 mill he aint worth that he hardly scores. there are better strikers out there who you could get for the same price, well done rafa

RAF - January 19th, 2010 at 1:02 pm

Is there anyone else out there would love to shove that clipboard up Pelligrino’s arse?

baggins09 - January 19th, 2010 at 1:13 pm

i’d rather we got adriano if we’re gonna have to spend 10m for him, the loan thing was good buisness but 10m i’d rather not, we’ve got no one to play him with i’d rather get adriano for a few mil and put the rest towards vdv or turan for the left

Ash T - January 19th, 2010 at 4:12 pm

i would prefer cole, as he is english and we know he can play as a lone striker as he did for westham and he set up most of his owngoals. but he is out our reach then jones would be a good back up signing.

nicklovesliverpool - January 19th, 2010 at 4:27 pm

well with Van nisterlooy apparently heading for Tottenham Jones will probably be the only option i don’t see Cole coming now that Gold and Sullivan have practrically bought west ham. and have you heard what Benitez has said. ‘ we are not bad a bad team’ FOR GOD FUCKING SAKE RAFA COME OUT AND ADMIT WE ARE SHIT sorry for that had to be done. oh well like Kermit said ‘I dream about waking up and Looking at my Newspaper and seeing Rafa has been Sacked.

Aldo - January 19th, 2010 at 5:24 pm

Retryboy
Leaving Rafa to one side
Thats very interesting what you are saying about the owners
And i note your comment
“Will reserve judgement on hicks and gillett till there is more evidence about what is going on behind the scenes”

So i take it you dont agree with the spirit of shankly group take on the owners ?

Scouse Magic - January 19th, 2010 at 5:31 pm

With Rafa’s defensive tactics I’m losing the will to watch. We look pathetic, for E.G Reading made us look like a Blue Square Premier team, Stoke at times made us look ordinary. I was always under the impression that Attack is the best form of defence, therefore lets go 4-3-3.
GK: Reina, LB: Insua, RB: Degen, CB’s: Carra & Agger
DM: Masch LCM: Aqualani RCM: Gerrard
LST/W: Maxi, ST: Kuyt, RST/W: Babel

Bench: GK: Cavalieri, LB: Aurelio, RB: Darby, CB: Skrtel, CM: Lucas, ST/W: Pacheco, ST: Ngog.

Let’s really have a go and if we lose, let’s make it so that we gave it our all, instead of moaning at each other.

...samlfc.... - January 19th, 2010 at 6:15 pm

Baggins – its a shame because i generally think he would of been good for us. i do predict us to have a new striker by the end of Jan but who knows who it might be.

spota - January 19th, 2010 at 6:21 pm

TO NICKLOVESLIVERPOOL fair play son someone with sence villa or silva will NOT come to us = wages = europa league = shit manager = bad board ov directors = shit tight wad owners = small revenue = should we go on let the divs DREAM . if we are lucky we might just service the debt this year . unfortunatly one ov are best players will have to go IE masscarano . there talkin villa and silva and we are talking loan deals 4 kenwyn jones lets all grow up a bit man city would find it hard to get them 2 together even if they won the prem . HAHAHA this site gets worse like our team .

Retryboy - January 19th, 2010 at 6:42 pm

Evening Aldo-i agree with sos that the americans don’t care about the club but i really don’t think that is important in an owner. They see us as an investment and the best way to make good on that investment is to make us as successful as possible. They get nothing from watching us go down the pan. I also think that everything we have heard from them recently has shown how hard they are working behind the scenes. It was the previous establishment that failed to capitalise on our popularity while utd were tapping into the massive markets in asia we stood still. They have a £100m a year better income which deals like Purslow has started striking will go a long way to rectifying. Also think they have been unlucky in that its common to borrow to buy a club its just they did it in a credit crunch so they have been stung with interest. The media have done good jobs painting them as the devils incarnate, i think they have made mistakes the Klinsmann fiasco i think they have rectified in showing the support they have done to rafa since, they gave him the total control he wanted. Now people want them to put their hands in their pockets for players when we have lost 10’s of millions getting knocked out of europe, fa, carling cups and facing the prospect of no champions league football next year costing us who knows how much and all they have said is sell to buy and with a squad the size of ours with players who haven’t made the grade still here you can see why. It is in the owners best interests to do things like getting the stadium built and having managed to convince the fa they would manage it i am prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt. Seems to me the naming rights deal is massive and would pay a huge chunk but to get the best deal we have to secure champions league football. I also think hicks is a lot more commited than gillett. I just don’t think we know enough of what is going on to condemn them.

Retryboy - January 19th, 2010 at 6:56 pm

On spirit of shankly think for a group who think they are the voice of all fans they aren’t in the least bit democratic. There was no vote on blocking the owners access to Anfield from its members just a couple of powerful individuals ruling it. They had to eventually change their yanks out terminology after refusing to for ages we all have prejudices when we see someone being associated with football that looks like they have just left a star trek convention and talks with an american accent think this makes their job even harder and sos have had a total smear campaign like the media with to my mind very little to back it up and the positive things skated over if even mentioned. Like hicks junior responded to one curious e-mail in that way! It was obvious he had been hounded and stupidly snapped like i said i am not fans of the owners just prepared to give them a chance and when i have enough evidence to make an informed decision i will.

Aquaman - January 19th, 2010 at 8:28 pm

Retryboy: I know I sound like a broken record, but please give “Liverpool, Texas” a watch. It should be available online or on youtube. It’s really worth it.

dibbler - January 19th, 2010 at 10:25 pm

Evening all
Aquaman i watched liverpool texas on youtube mate with tears in my eyes for some of it.
To be honest it just made me feel like we are more fucked than i thought
it also backs my opinion that we should not sack rafa!!

Aldo - January 19th, 2010 at 10:51 pm

Retryboy
All tho weighted if you havent been on SOS site you should do the lies from Gillette is there to be heard and seen no question.
Your so right on one thing we are and still so commercially behind its untrue yes they have seen a gap in the market that Rick Parry never really exploited. But for me having this in place and naming rights will only leverage the value of the Club for there own means.
The SOS are due to meet with Christian Purslow this week so lets see what that brings.
In parts your post is flawed there protests are peaceful and civilised as simple as that you can either join SOS or participate in there marches or forums.
The e-mail to Tom junior was asking legitamate questions of how the club is run.
The two owners dont speak and dont hold board meetings.
When the owners are taking cover behind each others lies they hide behind theirs managers worst signings. when Rafa isnt hiding behind lack of funds he hide behind injuries. And then theirs the players who were involved in a shameful capitulation to reading when most of this side were sitting at the top of the EPL last year. Of course Rafa has to take the lion share of responsibilty he buys, he picks the team he has to take the Rap.
Ok i dont think there his first choice signings However,…………….
At the end of the day internationl players have to take responsibility.
I feel our youth policy is improving with some very good kids who could break into the first team given the opportunity.
But we miss the trick last year not signing three world class players and not keeping hold of one.
Now who do you put that down to ?

Liverpool FC Danny - January 19th, 2010 at 11:12 pm

We should sign-
Kenwyne Jones(10 million) or Milan Jovacovic (7 million)
Arda Turan (13 million)
Nedum Onuahua (loan or 5 million) or Finnan (500k)

Liverpool FC Danny - January 19th, 2010 at 11:13 pm

or Hiddink