The January transfer window Rumour Mill is churning a little bit faster today with news that Liverpool may have beaten their Premier League rivals to the most talked about young English midfielder around.
Derby County’s Will Hughes looks set to join Liverpool in January after the Reds agreed to pay the £12million Steve McLaren’s side are looking for for the highly rated 18-year-old.
The Liverpool Echo report that Brendan Rodgers has beaten both Arsene Wenger and David Moyes to the signature of the England Under-21 international.
The Daily Express believe that Liverpool’s loaning of defender Andre Wisdom to the Rams this season helped clinch the deal.
Meanwhile Liverpool have also been linked with a move for Italian international Alessio Cerci, who played in his country’s 2-2 draw with Nigeria at Fulham’s Craven Cottage on Monday night.
talkSPORT suggest Liverpool are amongst a number of clubs interested in signing the 26-year-old from Torino, including Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham and Chelsea. They say:
Valued at £12.5m, Cerci struggled to make an impact during seven years at his first club Roma before joining Fiorentina in 2010. After two years in Florence he moved on to to Torino, where his displays have led to senior international recognition.
This week we’ve been asking you which Liverpool players you believe could learn a lot from being loaned out for the remainder of the season come January. Get involved in the fans’ discussion here.
The January transfer window Rumour Mill is churning a little bit faster today with news that Liverpool may have beaten their Premier League rivals to the most talked about young English midfielder around.
Derby County’s Will Hughes looks set to join Liverpool in January after the Reds agreed to pay the £12million Steve McLaren’s side are looking for for the highly rated 18-year-old.
The Liverpool Echo report that Brendan Rodgers has beaten both Arsene Wenger and David Moyes to the signature of the England Under-21 international.
The Daily Express believe that Liverpool’s loaning of defender Andre Wisdom to the Rams this season helped clinch the deal.
Meanwhile Liverpool have also been linked with a move for Italian international Alessio Cerci, who played in his country’s 2-2 draw with Nigeria at Fulham’s Craven Cottage on Monday night.
talkSPORT suggest Liverpool are amongst a number of clubs interested in signing the 26-year-old from Torino, including Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham and Chelsea. They say:
Valued at £12.5m, Cerci struggled to make an impact during seven years at his first club Roma before joining Fiorentina in 2010. After two years in Florence he moved on to to Torino, where his displays have led to senior international recognition.
This week we’ve been asking you which Liverpool players you believe could learn a lot from being loaned out for the remainder of the season come January. Get involved in the fans’ discussion here.
Luis Suarez has been offered the use of Liverpool owner John Henry’s private jet in order to get him back to Merseyside as quickly as possible following Uruguay’s World Cup qualifier with Jordan on Wednesday.
It is possible that Suarez won’t play in the second leg of the tie, which Uruguay lead 5-0 from the first leg in The Middle East last week.
However, the Guardian report that if he is to return to Liverpool, he won’t reach English shores until Thursday night.
Liverpool face Everton in a crunch Premier League match which would see the Reds go top of the Premier League if they win at 12.45pm on Saturday.
Brendan Rodgers is keen to keep Suarez as rested and ready for the match as possible, and Henry’s offer of his private jet for the 26-year-old striker to use will come as music to his ears.
The Guardian suggest Henry’s plane would pick Suarez up in Montevideo immediately after the game, allowing him to return to Liverpool by Thursday morning.
Meanwhile, Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard and Daniel Sturridge have been named in the England starting line-up to face Germany at Wembley tonight, according to the BBC.
Both are carrying injuries, with Gerrard understood to have had painkilling injections in order to play the friendly.
Sturridge, meanwhile, pulled out of a training session yesterday as he continues to struggle with a thigh injury.
Kick-off at Wembley is 8pm.
Elsewhere, Martin Skrtel’s Slovakia play at home to Gibraltar.
Luis Suarez has been offered the use of Liverpool owner John Henry’s private jet in order to get him back to Merseyside as quickly as possible following Uruguay’s World Cup qualifier with Jordan on Wednesday.
It is possible that Suarez won’t play in the second leg of the tie, which Uruguay lead 5-0 from the first leg in The Middle East last week.
However, the Guardian report that if he is to return to Liverpool, he won’t reach English shores until Thursday night.
Liverpool face Everton in a crunch Premier League match which would see the Reds go top of the Premier League if they win at 12.45pm on Saturday.
Brendan Rodgers is keen to keep Suarez as rested and ready for the match as possible, and Henry’s offer of his private jet for the 26-year-old striker to use will come as music to his ears.
The Guardian suggest Henry’s plane would pick Suarez up in Montevideo immediately after the game, allowing him to return to Liverpool by Thursday morning.
Meanwhile, Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard and Daniel Sturridge have been named in the England starting line-up to face Germany at Wembley tonight, according to the BBC.
Both are carrying injuries, with Gerrard understood to have had painkilling injections in order to play the friendly.
Sturridge, meanwhile, pulled out of a training session yesterday as he continues to struggle with a thigh injury.
Kick-off at Wembley is 8pm.
Elsewhere, Martin Skrtel’s Slovakia play at home to Gibraltar.
Liverpool will go top if they beat Everton this Saturday, but many still won’t count the Reds in on the title race. Rebecca Parry explains when and why that should all change.
The phrase ‘title contenders’ is thrown around a lot in the footballing world of today – for most of us Liverpool fans, it’s usually followed with a depressive or pessimistic opinion of why we are so far off the pace.
But when is it socially acceptable to be labelled title contenders?
For what is one of the most open league’s in many a season, following a Summer filled with managerial merry-go-rounds, some would say that this is the chance to break back into the top few.
Unlike the last few seasons, there is no cert of who is going to make it up there. But is this the time where we can show what we’re made of?
Looking at our position in the table now, the majority of fans would take it at the beginning of the season. We can no longer use the infamous excuse of being “in transition”; after years of it being a fall-back for not performing, surely last year was the final time to hear it.
We’ve got no European commitments, and since recently, no League Cup commitments. Of course, this is by no means all it takes to get closer to winning the title, but it’s surely got to help.
Even if there are important games to come, when would be the right time, if it came, to finally admit that we’re title contenders?
Lying second at the point of the November International break is a sign of progress, yet the prospect of holding on to it is something that we haven’t been used to in the last few years.
However, this year has been a pleasant surprise. By the run up to Christmas, it’s usually a game of catch-up already, but with only two points off leaders Arsenal, it’s essential to hold off the likes of Spurs and Chelsea through the Christmas period.
It’s only then that we could make a serious target and assessment of what we can achieve this year.
A lot of the reasons why we haven’t stood a chance in recent years is the depth of our squad, and whether our second string can handle what should be the relatively easy fixtures, i.e. qualifying rounds of Europa League fixtures.
However, with the focus being primarily on the League this year, are there really any major excuses why we shouldn’t be right up there?
Although our squad can still be worked on, is depth now such a big issue now that we’ve only got one game a week to focus on? Unlike those around us who are still in other competitions, this is definitely something that can work to our advantage.
The start of the season has been stuttering in terms of getting the required consistency and points on the board; international break after international break does not help the team to gel.
This all comes into perspective when Luis Suarez is to travel 7,000 miles just to make it back in time for the Merseyside Derby – not the ideal preparation we were hoping for.
Although we’ve got a lot of players in international travel troubles, we’re not the only ones.
It’s this type of situation where we get to see whether we can handle what it’s going to take to maintain our place towards the top of the table.
Arsenal had European fixtures coming left, right and centre, and although one of our ultimate goals is to get back there, it’s something we’ve got to take advantage of for now.
So far, it’s not disrupted their league form, but that can’t go on forever, and there comes to a point where we’re going to have to capitalise on us not being involved.
Will Christmas this year bring us festive hope?
The last few years have shown that we can perform and string a good amount of performances together in the second half of the season, and it was certainly where we grew into Brendan Rodgers’ system last season.
If we are there or there abouts at the halfway point, what’s stopping us from going on?
Liverpool will go top if they beat Everton this Saturday, but many still won’t count the Reds in on the title race. Rebecca Parry explains when and why that should all change.
The phrase ‘title contenders’ is thrown around a lot in the footballing world of today – for most of us Liverpool fans, it’s usually followed with a depressive or pessimistic opinion of why we are so far off the pace.
But when is it socially acceptable to be labelled title contenders?
For what is one of the most open league’s in many a season, following a Summer filled with managerial merry-go-rounds, some would say that this is the chance to break back into the top few.
Unlike the last few seasons, there is no cert of who is going to make it up there. But is this the time where we can show what we’re made of?
Looking at our position in the table now, the majority of fans would take it at the beginning of the season. We can no longer use the infamous excuse of being “in transition”; after years of it being a fall-back for not performing, surely last year was the final time to hear it.
We’ve got no European commitments, and since recently, no League Cup commitments. Of course, this is by no means all it takes to get closer to winning the title, but it’s surely got to help.
Even if there are important games to come, when would be the right time, if it came, to finally admit that we’re title contenders?
Lying second at the point of the November International break is a sign of progress, yet the prospect of holding on to it is something that we haven’t been used to in the last few years.
However, this year has been a pleasant surprise. By the run up to Christmas, it’s usually a game of catch-up already, but with only two points off leaders Arsenal, it’s essential to hold off the likes of Spurs and Chelsea through the Christmas period.
It’s only then that we could make a serious target and assessment of what we can achieve this year.
A lot of the reasons why we haven’t stood a chance in recent years is the depth of our squad, and whether our second string can handle what should be the relatively easy fixtures, i.e. qualifying rounds of Europa League fixtures.
However, with the focus being primarily on the League this year, are there really any major excuses why we shouldn’t be right up there?
Although our squad can still be worked on, is depth now such a big issue now that we’ve only got one game a week to focus on? Unlike those around us who are still in other competitions, this is definitely something that can work to our advantage.
The start of the season has been stuttering in terms of getting the required consistency and points on the board; international break after international break does not help the team to gel.
This all comes into perspective when Luis Suarez is to travel 7,000 miles just to make it back in time for the Merseyside Derby – not the ideal preparation we were hoping for.
Although we’ve got a lot of players in international travel troubles, we’re not the only ones.
It’s this type of situation where we get to see whether we can handle what it’s going to take to maintain our place towards the top of the table.
Arsenal had European fixtures coming left, right and centre, and although one of our ultimate goals is to get back there, it’s something we’ve got to take advantage of for now.
So far, it’s not disrupted their league form, but that can’t go on forever, and there comes to a point where we’re going to have to capitalise on us not being involved.
Will Christmas this year bring us festive hope?
The last few years have shown that we can perform and string a good amount of performances together in the second half of the season, and it was certainly where we grew into Brendan Rodgers’ system last season.
If we are there or there abouts at the halfway point, what’s stopping us from going on?
Liverpool youngster Adam Morgan has been told he can leave the club on a free transfer, according to reports on Monday and the weekend.
The 19 year-old academy graduate has, according to The Daily Mail and Mirror, been attracting interest from Championship side Blackburn Rovers.
Morgan was part of the Reds’ pre-season squad that toured USA last summer and made three appearances in the Europa League, although mostly due to the lack of other forwards at Brendan Rodgers‘ disposal at the time.
He made headlines earlier this season when he scored a superb strike from 45 yards for the Under 21s against Manchester City.
However, with German youngster Samed Yesil recently having returned from long-term injury, and Michael Ngoo back from his loan spell at Yeovil early, the club appear to have decided to allow Morgan to leave in order to continue his development.
The Reds also have 17 year-old forward Jerome Sinclair, who became the club’s youngest ever player when he made a sub appearance against West Brom in the League Cup last season. Sinclair has been in fine form the Under 18s this season and is likely to profit from Morgan’s departure.
Liverpool youngster Adam Morgan has been told he can leave the club on a free transfer, according to reports on Monday and the weekend.
The 19 year-old academy graduate has, according to The Daily Mail and Mirror, been attracting interest from Championship side Blackburn Rovers.
Morgan was part of the Reds’ pre-season squad that toured USA last summer and made three appearances in the Europa League, although mostly due to the lack of other forwards at Brendan Rodgers‘ disposal at the time.
He made headlines earlier this season when he scored a superb strike from 45 yards for the Under 21s against Manchester City.
However, with German youngster Samed Yesil recently having returned from long-term injury, and Michael Ngoo back from his loan spell at Yeovil early, the club appear to have decided to allow Morgan to leave in order to continue his development.
The Reds also have 17 year-old forward Jerome Sinclair, who became the club’s youngest ever player when he made a sub appearance against West Brom in the League Cup last season. Sinclair has been in fine form the Under 18s this season and is likely to profit from Morgan’s departure.
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