Soccer

A team of Koncheskys

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From: "Bill Thomas" <anfield@me.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 1:33 PM
To: "LFC List" <lfc@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [lfc] Huh!!??

> "I'm prepared to accept that a number of players we're looking to sign do
> make five or six - but I don't wish to specify positions other than one is
> obviously a front player.
> "In January we should be really looking to solve one or two situations. We
> are desperately short of players. Front players.
> "Having three front players at the club, and that's if you include Ryan
> Babel, is nowhere near good enough.
> "If Fernando (Torres) isn't playing one week, you have got to get someone
> in who has got the same level of quality."
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> The figure of £20 lillion has been bandied around for the January window.
> For 5 or 6 players that would be £4 and under per player....what the hell
> are we getting with that? Let alone "someone in who has got the same level
> of quality." as Fernando Torres. If £20 mil is the budget, we should be
> looking for 2 players at most.
> We were doing fine when we were adding the likes of Torres and Mascherano
> for big money and then when the money dried up it all went pear shaped. We
> need to get to the point where we have a very good at least first eleven
> and then be able each year to bring in at least one top class player while
> bringing on our own youngsters. The trouble is that we could use nearly
> £100 million to bring us to that first eleven and I don't see these owners
> producing that. And even if they did, would you want to trust Roy Hodgson
> to use it wisely??? In deed would Hodgson even have any real knowledge of
> top emerging players outside of the home nations?
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