2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[algy]

Like summer, fresh rumour  Digne leaving and Acuna on way in

And like last summer it's probably BS

BS?

Bastian Schweinsteiger. He's always talking out of his arse that one.

[Bad English]

Ah cheers!

[Percy McCarthy]

Like summer, fresh rumour  Digne leaving and Acuna on way in

And like last summer it's probably BS

That wasn’t bullshit was it? He got injured. Didn’t his club publicly say they were pissed off with us talking to him?

[VillaTim]

I'd be surprised if we are trying to replace Digne mid-season, he's been absolutely superb this season

[pauliewalnuts]

I'd be surprised if we are trying to replace Digne mid-season, he's been absolutely superb this season

You said it was 'BS' last summer, too, though.

I'm not so sure it was at the time.

[Steve67]

Felipe Anderson on a summer free transfer. SkyLyall? Whoever he is. Lazio player.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Felipe Anderson on a summer free transfer. SkyLyall? Whoever he is. Lazio player.

Brazilian attacking midfielder who West Ham bought for £30m plus a few seasons back. Don’t think he pulled up many trees in this league and they sent him back to Italy.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Fallen out with pretty much every manager he's played for. Avoid.

[brontebilly]

Heard Firmino was looking for a quick return to PL, so I think he could be rather useful for us from the bench for the rest of the season.

Danny Ings type vibes off Firmino. He couldn't do that pressing from the front in his later years at Liverpool so wouldn't be able to remotely replicate what Watkins does. Clever player though that would have his uses in games like Sheff United that we might see more of. Whether we would pay the wages he would be looking for a bit part role is unlikely.

[eamonn]

How motivated is any player after playing in Saudi Arabia?

[Smithy]

Heard Firmino was looking for a quick return to PL, so I think he could be rather useful for us from the bench for the rest of the season.

Danny Ings type vibes off Firmino. He couldn't do that pressing from the front in his later years at Liverpool so wouldn't be able to remotely replicate what Watkins does. Clever player though that would have his uses in games like Sheff United that we might see more of. Whether we would pay the wages he would be looking for a bit part role is unlikely.

I don't see that with Firmino at all.  Especially if it's a short-term deal/loan.  Liverpool didn't let him go because he no longer had the legs - in fact, they didn't want him to leave last summer (Klopp expressed his surprise more than once at his decision).  At his peak, he was probably the only pressing forward who comes close to Ollie's work rate.  Sure, at 32, he probably can't do it at the level he once did. But he doesn't need to, he's not coming here as first choice.  But if the financial elements work - which is no easy feat given where he's currently playing - then I'd be happy to have him for 12/18 months.

And even if his pressing skills aren't what they once were, he has excellent feet so he would also be very useful against teams playing a low-block, against whom we've really struggled in the last month or so.

[Dave]

Heard Firmino was looking for a quick return to PL, so I think he could be rather useful for us from the bench for the rest of the season.

Danny Ings type vibes off Firmino. He couldn't do that pressing from the front in his later years at Liverpool so wouldn't be able to remotely replicate what Watkins does. Clever player though that would have his uses in games like Sheff United that we might see more of. Whether we would pay the wages he would be looking for a bit part role is unlikely.

I'd be getting Heskey vibes I reckon.

He seems to have followed the same career trajectory into "selfless, non-scoring forward". He wasn't actually prolific in his last few years at Liverpool and three in nineteen in Saudi Arabia doesn't suggest he'd be coming in to score goals.

[Somniloquism]

And those three in his very first match and nothing since.

[nigel]

Heard Firmino was looking for a quick return to PL, so I think he could be rather useful for us from the bench for the rest of the season.

Danny Ings type vibes off Firmino. He couldn't do that pressing from the front in his later years at Liverpool so wouldn't be able to remotely replicate what Watkins does. Clever player though that would have his uses in games like Sheff United that we might see more of. Whether we would pay the wages he would be looking for a bit part role is unlikely.

I'd be getting Heskey vibes I reckon.

He seems to have followed the same career trajectory into "selfless, non-scoring forward". He wasn't actually prolific in his last few years at Liverpool and three in nineteen in Saudi Arabia doesn't suggest he'd be coming in to score goals.

Without looking, what were his assists stats like at Liverpool?
Salah and Mane were the goal scorers, so he didn’t need o be prolific.
Was he the one the laid them on a plate?

[Hookeysmith]

Always thought he was overhyped imho and we should be look8ng forward not backwards