Obviously the one(s) we want isn't/aren't available so a loan makes sense
I suspect its more of a token gesture thing, a "look we got a midfielder" , frankly I would rather we went for Tielemans, I honestly think he could do a job for us, I certainly think he would win us more points than Henderson or Milner at least, and he is comparatively cheap. Surprised its not something we've looked at, unless we did look at it and dismissed it for some reason.
I want to cry! You'd rather we buy a midfielder that we don't want to cure a short term problem?? Because that's the alternative. Klopp has never been more open about transfers as he was regarding our hunt for a midfielder in his press-conference on Tuesday. He said we tried to buy a midfielder and he said there are other midfielders that we want that are unavailable.
Like you said in the other thread in regard of feigning injury, theres no point in that conversation because we are just going round in circles, we've already covered many times the differing opinions between signing people/waiting to get Mr Right/how there are only 2 midfielders in the world of football that we want etc. Not much point in rehashing oft covered subjects
I've never said there are only two players, you just seem intent on the club signing somebody they don't want. I find it mad but this is a different point. Why is signing somebody the club doesn't want on a permanent transfer better than signing them on loan? It's quite clear they don't want Tielemans and seemingly no top side does.
Supposedly he isArthur as in the always injured Arthur? Wouldn't be surprised if he's out at the moment
Arthur as in the always injured Arthur? Wouldn't be surprised if he's out at the moment
Short term deal that if is to belived who is injured! So we're getting a player in who is injured so it fixes nothing at all
There's a simple reason we dont want Tielemans and that's because he doesn't even do the off the ball basics we expect of our midfielders. Its a circular argument though, .the usual think we should be signing any old tom, dick or harry without even looking at if they would fit into how we play, its just 'oh, "xyz" is available, why haven't we signed him when we want a midfielder? fsg bad'.
I agree, signing someone the club doesnt want on a permanent transfer is not better than signing someone on loan. The point I make is that I am astonished that there is literally nobody in the entire world of football that we want and results in us having to get a loan instead. I find it hard to accept that on the whole planet, there isnt a midfielder that we would want, that we could have gotten IF we had so wanted. My general point is that I dont believe that we didnt sign a midfielder because we had no way to get one that we would want, I 100% believe that we chose, for financial reasons most likely, to not sign someone we would have wanted. I even feel that Klopp , reading between the lines, alluded to such in his interviews.
Contracts don't have to be 5 years but why has nobody touched Teilemans? I'd guess the reason why is because he/his agent has seen this as his one big chance to get a massive contract. But this is besides the point, who you and me think we should sign isn't relevant, unless you're a scout for Liverpool of course.
Probably does more on the ball than most of our midfielders do though
and Ronaldo sticks the ball in the the back of the net with more regularity than any man u striker, how'd that work out for them?Probably does more on the ball than most of our midfielders do though
And there in lies the problem. You should read the actual lines rather than between the lines re Klopp's comments too. In the embargoed section of his pre-match press conference he opened up about our search for a midfielder. He said that we tried to sign a midfielder (Tchouameni by all accounts) and there are other players we are interested in that simply aren't available. He then went on to discuss the possibility of signing somebody the club aren't fully decided on and most importantly, he pointed out the consequences of doing so. If we signed Teilemans, for example, for £25m and gave him the fat contract he no doubt wants, that is going to make signing a genuine top class target next summer far harder and this is why the club don't like these sorts of deals.
Well I dont know...got them more 3pt matches than they would have gotten without him I guess
