Liverpool have failed to lure the likes of Ousmane Dembele and Emre Mor and it looks highly likely that they will not sign Gotze as well.
The Reds are still linked with more than a few attackers this summer and once again the name of Sofiane Boufal is in the lime light.
Liverpool have scouted the Moroccan international a dozen times last season and after getting tired of chasing Bayern Munich playmaker Mario Gotze, the Merseysiders are ready to splash $22.6 million and finally hire the services of the Lille attacker (Foot Mercato).
In other sources (Mirror via BuzzSports), Liverpool are in pole position to hire the services of the 22-year-old star from the Ligue 1 side in the summer transfer window.
Sofiane is a “creative” playmaker (Foot Mercato) who can operate anywhere in the attacking third and such versatility will be fruitful for the Reds.
Last season, Boufal scored 11 goals and provided 4 assists in 29 league games for the French side. In your opinion, should Liverpool sign Sofiane Boufal? (Picture: Getty)
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Well, this guy sounds even less spectacular than most of the other players we’ve been after and who share five things in common. Firstly, I’ve ever heard of them. Secondly, none of them play in decent leagues, Thirdly, nothing ever comes of the rumours, fourthly, their statistics are, generally, far from brilliant and, finally, they will not make our future opponents – you know, the ones about to sign players like Pogba, Griezman, etc. – even slightly apprehensive as the coming season gets closer. When translated into real money this fee is about £15m for a player, in a lousy league, who patently didn’t set that league alight with hugely average figures. He doesn’t look strong, he’s ‘versatile’, which tends to mean he is okay in a number of positions but brilliant in none. Being okay is not going to get us even close to the likes of United, City, etc, when they’ve started trying to out-spend each other to the tune of £100m each by the end of the Summer and NOT, I might add, on ‘okay’ or ‘versatile’ players.
No, we’ll watch the big boys go over the horizon, as far as we are concerned, and hope to nick a Europa League spot at the end of next year . . . if West Ham and several other clubs don’t out-spend us and push us further down the league.
Rumour, after rumour, after rumour, all coming to nothing, hardly one known player in the lot of them and seemingly utter, abject failure, so far, at the end of every rumour as they fade to nothing.
If this is the standard of player we are really aiming for I’m gonna get SERIOUSLY depressed before the big kick-off! We might not have CL football next year but, surely, LFC shouldn’t be concentrating solely on almost unknown players? Have we sunk that low?
Stop moaning when will you be satisfied?.
Brian, more or less when we can do ourselves proud, get a couple of players worthy of wearing the shirt, make the rest of the league worry about us, show some SERIOUS intent and stop looking as if we are going to settle for being in the battle for the last of the Europa spaces. That’s when, more or less!
When you’ve got a fan base like ours, a history like ours and the potential to do so much we shouldn’t be as unadventurous as we currently seem to be, even though most of what we read about are rumours. At the time of scribbling this there are 17 people who agree with me and 3 who don’t!
That implies that there are significantly more people similarly feeling as if our current transfer policy is not going to bring about the improvement we need next year and that patently should not be good enough.
Without CL, beggars can’t be choosers. Just the same, look what Leicester did.
u r absolutely right.problem with LFC is when they hired Buck Bodgers .He was the worst
liverpool manager in the past 60 years.Liverpool should have sacked him after we lost 6-1 to Stoke. we even ended below Everton that year. now we r suffering all because of him.no european for us. we r just an average mid table team. in one word Liverpool r CRAP.i said we will end up 7th or 8th and i was right. this year we will end up 7th or 8th again.the only thing we can pray 4 is that if an Arab guy comes and buy us.
Hossain, over the next few weeks the ambitions of every supposedly top club are going to be put to the test and, seemingly, our ambition is falling somewhat behind the known ambitions of City, United and Arsenal who are set to slug it out for the likes of Pogba and Greizemann. They will shop at the footballing equivalent of Harrods, grabbing the best talent from the Euros, and we’ll be pushing the trolley with the buckled wheel around the Pound Shop!
I just wish the people who ran our club had the same sort of ambitions for the club that we, the fans, have got. Common sense dictates that getting somebody with barely noticeable stats from a club in the middle of a very poor league isn’t going to do much . . . even if Leicester found Kante in a similar club. How often does that happen? We go for players like Hector, the LB, we go for Higuaín and we go for KNOWN top players and we go up the league. We go for supposedly ‘versatile’ or relatively unproven players, from poor leagues, probably no better than what we’ve already got, and we struggle to maintain our eighth place! It ain’t rocket science, folks!
Does this guy sound any better than Milner? I doubt it! If not what’s the point in spending relatively big on him when we have to make every penny count IF we are to compete next year?
A guy has fantastic skill and assist much….if there is opportunity to capture him please take him to Anfield, he will shine much with LFC