Liverpool enter fray for Cavani Trevor Keane, 27 January 2012 Share Liverpool are reportedly lining up a sensational move to steal Edinson Cavani from under the noses of Manchester City. According to footybunker.com, Kenny Dalglish wants to strengthen his forward line after watching hisstrikers struggle in the absence of the suspended Luiz Suarez. Dalglish has identified fellow Uruguayan Cavani as the man to fire Liverpool back into Champions League contention. http://www.sportsnewsireland.com/soccer_irish/78249/ The 23 year old is currently on the books of Napoli and with 51 goals in 72 games has emerged as one of the deadliest strikers in Europe. His most recent scoring act was a brace against Inter Milan as they knocked Claudio Raneiri’s side out of the Coppa Italia. The 6ft 2” striker has scored 17 goals so far this season in all competitions and has previously been linked with moves to Chelsea and City. Both sides were unwilling to meet Napoli’s 30 million pound asking price, however, allowing Liverpool to enter the equation. It remains to be seen if Liverpool will stump up that rather large sum, especially as 35 million man Andy Carroll has struggled with the price tag. With 10 goals in 36 games for his country alongside Suarez, however, there is no doubt that Cavani would form an exciting all-South American front line for the Reds. I suppose he'd do
Cavani would be my ideal signing , would be unreal with Luis. Dont see it happening, not in Jan anway
According to footybunker.com, we are also signing Gary Cahill, Jan Vertonghen, Seydou Doubmia, Pablo Hernandez, Ezequiel Lavezzi, Fernando Llorente and one other person. All without a single quote or source. And now Trevor Keane is using footbunker as a source,ha. Worst piece of sports journalism I've seen. He actually copied and pasted it from their site the lazy prick. and only added in the above highlighted part himself. He gets paid for that ffs!!!!!!!!!! And people wonder whats wrong with the world.
While I don't think we will get Cavani, I do think that if we want to challenge for the top honours then we need to secure players of that calibre. We will find it very hard to attract players from Europes elite clubs as a result of our current position. For this reason we should consider targeting top players at smaller clubs i.e. cavani (napoli), Hazard (Lille), Hernandez (Valencia), Cazorla (malaga), llorente (Bilbao). IMO Liverpool would be an attractive move for those players
A few got fished again this morning on Twitter. @fcgroningen Texeira missed training the last two days. Officially due to illness, but was seen boarding a flight to Liverpool. Fc Groningen announced that they would be making an announcement this morning. Which got some speculation going. It seems that the announcement was that they have appointed a new financial director. BTW the twitter account is not an official one for Groningen.
I'd do a sex wee all over the living room carpet if we ever signed Cavani. We won't though, when he does move City/Chelsea/Madrid will all swoop in and offer him crazy wages.
Cavani and Suarez work really well together for Uruguay. Maybe even forlan would compliment suarez. Need to be getting a top class striker and soon.We only have 2 out and out front men in andy and luis. bellers is excellent but an out and out striker of the rushie or fowler or aldo mould would be the business.
Would love to see Cavani at liverpool but I don't think we would make his wish list without champions league football to offer! It's going to be a serious impediment to signing top players for us at the minute!
would give my left bolloc ( if, for some reason, somebody wanted it) for this to be true, but unfortunatly i doubt it. have to agree with what others are saying, we are going to have to fight our way in to the top four before we can attract the top players, then again, thats not going to stop me wishing and praying to every God I can think of
Cavani would be an un-real signing but it won't happen till we are back in the champions league or offer a stupid amount of cash and equally high wages too .
Manchester City reject Liverpool's Andy Carroll for Carlos Tevez offer http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jan/28/liverpool-andy-carroll-carlos-tevez Liverpool offered City a straight swap of the strikers Liverpool offered Andy Carroll to Manchester City in a straight swap for Carlos Tevez. Photograph: John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images Liverpool have made a remarkable bid to swap Andy Carroll with Carlos Tevez and move on their club-record £35m signing not even a year after signing him from Newcastle United. The Anfield club contacted City on Thursday to ask how much they want for Tevez and whether they would be willing to contemplate a straight exchange with Carroll. Brian Marwood, the City football administrator, rebuffed the idea immediately, even though Carroll is a player Roberto Mancini has admitted admiring when he was at Newcastle. The move demonstrates how Liverpool are now openly looking at offloading Carroll despite the insistence behind the scenes at Anfield that he can still play a prominent part and Kenny Dalglish's praise for the player after the 2-1 FA Cup defeat of Manchester United. Carroll has scored only six goals in 35 appearances since becoming the eighth most expensive footballer in history and has not even been able to establish himself as a regular starter this season. His problems adapting on Merseyside have also left Liverpool willing to take a £10m hit on the player, with Tevez valued at £25m, though that revelation is hardly surprising considering his difficulties at Anfield, added to the sense that he has not always been fully focused. Fabio Capello, the England manager, has already expressed misgivings about the lifestyle of a player who has managed only two league goals this season in 20 appearances. Those remarks went down badly at Anfield, with Dalglish defending Carroll, but the questions will probably not go away until he becomes a regular scorer. Carroll's longest run of starts this season is three games and Marwood's decision was made on the basis that he could no longer improve their team even though Mancini has a shortage of front players at a time when Tevez's strike is in its 11th week and Mario Balotelli is now serving a four-match suspension. Tevez is planning to return to Manchester next week now it has become apparent that Milan are not able to meet City's asking price and, unless anything changes before Tuesday's transfer deadline, his adviser, Kia Joorabchian, says the Argentinian wants to re-establish himself in the team. Whether that is possible remains to be seen, with Mancini not prepared to entertain the idea unless there is an apology from Tevez for walking out on the club and the string of other offences that have already led to him being found guilty of gross misconduct and losing almost £10m in wages, fines and lost bonuses since the start of the season. Tevez is still a formidable striker and finished as the league's joint-top scorer last season, but he will be returning to England with a severely damaged reputation and Liverpool's attempt to take him along the M62 will surprise many people given his propensity for causing dressing-room problems and an apparent dislike of living in England. There is also the fact that, approaching his 28th birthday, he would not have fitted into Liverpool's usual policy of buying players at a young age who will keep a resale value over the course of their contract. Liverpool, however, were willing to make an exception and City would have been glad to arrange a deal after unsuccessful talks not just with Milan but also Juventus, Internazionale and Paris St-Germain. They remain open to offers for the Argentinian but will not change their mind about Carroll.
Complete BS! Was following the fallout over this on twitter last night! The chief writer for the guardian who wrote the article is a Manc, and started banning Liverpool fans/journo's when they asked what the source was!!! Apparently City don't know who made the offer on behalf of the club but were taking it seriously!
This story is doing my head in, but has grown some legs ... I think The Guardian, were first to publish it, quickly followed by Sky Sports, ESPN and The Mirror, but there's no way in hell I can beleive it's true .... Who in their right minds would sway Andy for Tevez ???? A) Sell Andy, sure that could be beleived B) Make an enquiry about Tevez (would have to be on loan, imho ...), OK I can beleive that .. but swap Andy for Tevez, would be absolute madness. Despite Andy's poor form since he moved to LFC, we could still sell him for £12m - £15m I'd guess. Would you spend that amount of dosh on Tevez, given his history ? ... I for one, wouldn't pay a penny to sign Tevez, best I'd do is take him on loan with some very strict conditions attaching to him. The story is complete bullsh1t .... I've been posting on threads on Facebook when this story pops up, calling for the source to be revealed but no suprise to hear that my requests are falling on deaf ears.
Sounds suspiciously like someone is taking recent history, pulling some "facts" out of the clouds, adding a bit of rainbow juice and coming up with a "story" to me. Some "journalist" looks at Liverpool in recent transfer windows, we seem to do big business right at the end of the window. (Torres, Andy, Meireles, Suarez, Bellamy) with 80% of the business being done without anyone knowing its going on. Its no secret the Liverpool fans have been hoping to see another striker brought in, and thats not all down to Andy Carrolls form. Luis had his ban, Dirk was looking more and more like he needed to be moved on and Bellers, am I the only one that includes his knees in my prayers at night?? In the main, Liverpool fans are quite willing to back Carroll to come good, as long as we can see him work at it. the media on the other hand, are demanding him to become the new Alan Shearer, and demanding it now. That 35 million price tag was a millstone from day one, and has been used as a stick to beat him with since. (oooh a sticks and stones metaphor). He hasnt looked a 35 mill player, partially because he never was one. I find it a bit bizarre that the "story" comes out the day after one of his best performances in a red shirt. I find it fuppin amazing that its a swop for Tevez. Why in the name of all that is holy would we want to sign the greatest whingebag since...well ever, and bring him into a dressing room that is on a total high after a fantastic week is completely beyond me. Seriously hope, regardless of Andy, staying/going that Tevez doesnt darken our door.
it's just a bit of speculative journalism, I've been saying for ages that Tevez would be a cracking loan signing until the Summer. Personally I'd be amazed if Liverpool were willing to swop Carroll for Tevez. But could we get him on loan, who knows ? Barca/Real don't want him. The 2 Milans were sniffing and no go. They won't loan to Utd/Spurs so basically who is left. It would actually make business sense for Citah to loan him to Liverpool. Aree they going to leave him in Argentina until the Summer, seems mad to me.