Summer 2022 Transfer Thread

[Axl Rose]

A 1-in-3 striker currently. We need some pace. If Bailey comes good next season (a big IF, in my view), the 2 could be interchangeable, both adding pace.

A really top class striker would be nice, don't seem to have one since Yorke. Just talking this morning about the prolific strikers Liverpool have had over the years, Aldridge, Rush, Fowler, Owen, Torres, Suarez, Salah. 

Benteke? Incredible on his day. In an appalling team, too!

[Risso]

John Carew too. Slightly held back by inuries but what a player. His goals to games started ratio was pretty well 1 in 2 for a couple of years.

[Percy McCarthy]

A 1-in-3 striker currently. We need some pace. If Bailey comes good next season (a big IF, in my view), the 2 could be interchangeable, both adding pace.

A really top class striker would be nice, don't seem to have one since Yorke. Just talking this morning about the prolific strikers Liverpool have had over the years, Aldridge, Rush, Fowler, Owen, Torres, Suarez, Salah. 

Just for a game which one would you take in the prime of the list above
Think it would be fowler for me best finisher it I’ve ever seen

Rush without a doubt. Watkins’ work rate, combined with erm… Rush’s finishing ability.

[Axl Rose]

John Carew too. Slightly held back by inuries but what a player. His goals to games started ratio was pretty well 1 in 2 for a couple of years.

Agreed. Loved Big John, and that team.

[PaulWinch again]

John Carew too. Slightly held back by inuries but what a player. His goals to games started ratio was pretty well 1 in 2 for a couple of years.

Yep agreed Benteke and Carew were great.

I still find Benteke’s career so strange. He was bloody brilliant for us, how he ended up as a bit of an also ram is bizarre.

[danno]

John Carew too. Slightly held back by inuries but what a player. His goals to games started ratio was pretty well 1 in 2 for a couple of years.

Yep agreed Benteke and Carew were great.

I still find Benteke’s career so strange. He was bloody brilliant for us, how he ended up as a bit of an also ram is bizarre.

Sam Allardyce of all people, in 2017 got him back looking closer to the player we had, but left Palace at the end of that season. Roy Hodgson for whatever reason just didn't seem too keen on him, and he's been average ever since.

[Ian.]

A player like Benteke in his prime for us would thrive in our team now. He was incredible for us and probably the only ray of sunshine we had for many years.

[Eckybloke]

What about Lewandowski up front?  He’d do a job would he not?
🤣

[Mellin]

John Carew too. Slightly held back by inuries but what a player. His goals to games started ratio was pretty well 1 in 2 for a couple of years.

Yep agreed Benteke and Carew were great.

I still find Benteke’s career so strange. He was bloody brilliant for us, how he ended up as a bit of an also ram is bizarre.

He's lost confidence. Looks sheepish.

[N'ZMAV]

John Carew too. Slightly held back by inuries but what a player. His goals to games started ratio was pretty well 1 in 2 for a couple of years.

Yep agreed Benteke and Carew were great.

I still find Benteke’s career so strange. He was bloody brilliant for us, how he ended up as a bit of an also ram is bizarre.

He's lost confidence. Looks sheepish.

most managers Benteke has had since leaving Villa, only Allardyce at Palace has played to his strengths. The rest haven't and he's looked totally lost.

[cdbearsfan]

If people could avoid slagging Benteke off until at least 4pm tomorrow, that would be nice.

[LeonW]

Loved John Carew. That was a great bit of business swapping Baros for him. That was a time when teams hated conceding set pieces around their own box against us.

Benteke’s first season...I thought we had the next Didier Drogba. He was awesome.

[Mellin]

Loved John Carew. That was a great bit of business swapping Baros for him. That was a time when teams hated conceding set pieces around their own box against us.

Benteke’s first season...I thought we had the next Didier Drogba. He was awesome.

Yep. Ashley Young delivery and if you shackled Carew, you'd have Martin Laursen leaping above you like a deranged gazelle.

[LeonW]

Loved John Carew. That was a great bit of business swapping Baros for him. That was a time when teams hated conceding set pieces around their own box against us.

Benteke’s first season...I thought we had the next Didier Drogba. He was awesome.

Yep. Ashley Young delivery and if you shackled Carew, you'd have Martin Laursen leaping above you like a deranged gazelle.

Haha a deranged gazelle is an excellent description.

[nigel]

Loved John Carew. That was a great bit of business swapping Baros for him. That was a time when teams hated conceding set pieces around their own box against us.

Benteke’s first season...I thought we had the next Didier Drogba. He was awesome.

Benteke would have been a perfect replacement for Drogba.
Although they had Lukaku, at the time Benteke was better.