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fingers crossed, although my justification for 53 was: 12 - Long 15 - Pelle 20 - Midfield 6 - Defence Which I am sure we can achieve. We can ship less than 40 if we keep Boruc and sign a decent CB.

Get the most we can for him and the same for JRod, as he'll be pulling this stunt as soon as he's match fit.

His goal scoring and assist total for last season equals that of Shane Long.

I understand your point that we will be bent over for buying domestic players, I think the management team at SFC are a little more skeptical about the coming season than I am. They are playing safe with this transfer and buying 10 goals. I think we will get 53 goals with Long on board which is close to last season. I would have preferred to see us push for 60. Meh, we are where we are and if we don't play Gazza or Jos we shouldn't ship so many, hopefully conceed less than 40.

Yes, seen that damn unfortunate as his folks live in my hometown as well. Damn shame our agents don't have the nouse to use Google and see who the best performing strikers in Europe are.

I cannot believe we have gone through a list like below and the best we can get was Mr Long. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1987174-ranking-the-50-best-forwards-in-europe-by-goals-and-productivity-this-season Josip Drmic (7th in Europe) is surely affordable and worthy of a £12m punt. There are so many others before you get to Shane Long, one wonders if we even have scouts at all.

Its a marketing ruse to increase the sales of Apples's soon to be launched phablet device.

I'll be in Lugano, drinking a Merlot

Me thinks Jeff doesn't understand what has happened this summer. I will leave it to your Maths teacher to explain, it may take a while.

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Our list of candidates must have been several pages long to get to the point of paying £12m for Long. That's an awful lot of rejection for Les to take, probably reminded him of Disco's in his adolescence, where last minute, expensive, panic driven solutions were also sought by those who left it too late.

Jason Puncheon £1.2m Shane Long £12m Both moved for family reasons.... have an equal rating: http://www.myfootballfacts.com/Premier_League_Combined_2013-14.html

wow! considering it was his family not liking the grim north as the driver behind the move (ie he was going south no matter what) how do we end up paying so much? there are far better players available for £12m.

Josip Drmić is where I'd spend my money.

Who is cover for Clyne now Chambers has gone?

Christ, i'd forgot about him, and there was Forren as well.

At that price i'd suggest our much celebrated scouting network has unearthed another rough diamond. I'd worry if he was around the £12-15m mark.

Its only players signed from 2014/15 season whose salaries will be paid from transfer receipts, or I hope thats what Ralph said!

Plus: 3 years of Pelle's wages 4 years of Forster's wages 4 years of Tadic's wages 1 year of Bertrand wages 1 year of Taider wages

It's sweet that you defend Fonte with such overt passion, but he's no leader just as you are no judge of defenders. http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/168047-carra-lovren-is-a-leader http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/497821/Dejan-Lovren-proves-real-Reds-leader-as-Liverpool-rout-Dortmund-at-Anfield http://hereisthecity.com/en-gb/2014/08/06/hes-a-leader-brendan-rodgers-talks-about-new-liverpool-signing/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2714635/Dejan-Lovren-natural-leader-one-day-replace-Steven-Gerrard-Liverpool-captain-according-Jamie-Carragher.html

Anyone know if he's turned up for work today?

Fonte is a nice bloke, and he was one of our most improved players of last season, but it was Lovren's leadership of the defence that made it one of the best in Europe (for a short while).

The thought of a long term injury to Fonte should put the heebie-jeebies in the coaching staff enough to ensure a starting CB comes in before the window closes.

Koeman says in this interview that we will continue to play a pressing game, yet reports from those at the match say we didn't against Bayer. Did we not attempt it or did we try and fail?