Liverpool have agreed a fee with Porto for midfielder Raul Meireles.I think Meireles is a great player. He's a box-to-box midfielder and can disrupt play as well as start - or finish - it. What's odd, and it's the same problems I had with the Joe Cole signing, is that Liverpool keep strengthening the areas of the team in which they are already deep, or already have quality. I mean, if there's one player already in the Liverpool squad to whom I'd compare Miereles... it would be Steven Gerrard! Certainly he's much more of a player than Mascherano. And besides, they've already bought Poulsen to play in the midfield destroyer, "Makelele" role.
The combative Portugal international is seen as a natural replacement for Javier Mascherano, who is poised to complete a move to Barcelona.
A statement on Liverpool's website said Meireles was on Merseyside to "undergo a medical and discuss personal terms".
So kudos to Liverpool for the addition, but we'll have to wait and see how they fit Miereles into the side.
Ben Arfa in for Newcastle...
ReplyDeletemaybe gerrard can be pushed back to supporting forward again?
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@FUNG, then where does Joe Cole play?
ReplyDeleteWow I'm actually second in Beat The Bloggers 1 just behind blah blah [AM blog] who is the first in the whole game so far. 11th in Fans of ManU and 1st in Beat The Bloggers 8. Best ever start for me since the past 5 seasons I've been playing YFF.
ReplyDeleteWhy are u taking up space in 2 of the blog groups? Just thinking out loud :S
ReplyDeleteAnon is right about Merv taking up space in groups. Not cool since some of us didn't even get one space.
ReplyDeleteYou said it... and less recent than Joe Cole, the Keane signing. That was dead-in-the-water from day one. If some guy in Georgia, USA, without any business sense (well, running a FC at least) can see this, how can the LFC boardroom not see it?
ReplyDeletewell that one's easy: gerrard in the hole, cole in the training room. (bound to happen sooner or later anyway, right?)
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