LFC #1 wrote:10 million may sound like it a lot (well it is a lot), but unfortunately that's the way of the football world these days. Top-drawer youngsters from South America cost a lot of money. Add to the fact that Europe's biggest and best clubs are after Aguero and that just adds to the fee. Kaka cost over £5m, Robinho was around £17m, Tevez was over £10m and Aimar cost Valencia £13.7m from River. Even a fella like Cavenaghi cost £6.5 million, when Spartak Moscow bought him from River, and he hasn't had as much hype as Aguero, that’s for sure. Arsenal had to pay £12m for Walcott, and Rooney cost £30m.
It's risky paying big fees for young players though. Kaka has been a huge success at Milan, and he looks like the bargain of the century at a little over £5m, he's world class. Cavenaghi has only scored 10 goals in around 40 games for Spartak. TBH I'm surprised he didn’t go to Spain or Italy. Then there is the biggest flop out of Argentina in many years IMO, Andres D'Alessandro. Another one who was hyped as the “next Maradona”. To be fair, he was excellent at River, and when Wolfsburg paid £7.5 million for him, I thought it was great business, especially as top European clubs were also chasing him. However, he did very little of note in Germany, and now he’s on loan at Pompey (of all places), a fall from grace that’s for sure. He could still revive his career though because he’s young. Who knows if Pompey stay up, and he stays on he may do really well for them and a top club like Arsenal, Chelsea, ManU or ourselves will buy him.
Lionel Messi is the one to me who looks to be the best of the “next Maradona” bunch. He’s only 19 and he’s already world class, and a key player in an excellent Barcelona team. However he just signed a new contract with Barca I believe, with a huge buyout clause so he won’t be leaving Barca anytime soon (if ever), and why would he?
So back to Aguero. He’s clearly very talented, especially for a 17yr old and he wants to come to Liverpool ahead of anyone else. If we aren’t taking a serious look at him then I would be absolutely stunned. The fee is the issue, do we shell out £10m plus and hope to Fowler that he does the business and turns out to be the player he’s hyped as. However if he flops ala D’Alessandro, or even worse suffers a serious injury after some jailhouse defender like David Weir decides he’s sick of this young Argentinean kid making him look like a tw@t after he’s gone round nonchalantly to score his 5th goal of the day.
As someone else said in the thread, what happens if we decide the fee is too big and he goes to another big club in Europe and absolutely dominates? We’ll look foolish, when Liverpool was in fact his first preference.
If it were up to me I’d take the risk on Aguero (assuming we could afford the fee) and work really hard with him, so he can adapt to England. I think a young kid like him would do well under Rafa, who would probably be like a father figure to him for his first few seasons. Top drawer young kids like him are the sort of players that turn into the Ronaldinho’s, Riquelme’s, Ronaldo’s etc of this world. A club has to take a risk on these players at some pint, so why can’t it be us for a change, rather than the usual suspects like Inter, Milan, Real Madrid and Barca.
Aguero wants to play at Liverpool, and with all the Spaniards in the squad he’d adapt quite well hopefully and turn into the world-class player we would want him to be. It’s a yes for me, do your best to get him here Rafa.
Agreed. He looks talented from the videos we have seen and he wants to play for Liverpool because he is a big fan of Liverpool.
I think Rafa is interested in buying him. He said a while ago that he is scouting South America and just brought in a potential star, Gabriel Paletta. Maybe Aguero is on his way to Liverpool, who knows?
The investment(hopefully we will get) will help Rafa alot! it will make it very easier for him to buy him.
" it's not like he plies his trade in luxumburg or somother sub standard league.
