Liverpool FC Forum

[mighty mo]

vidic plays for spartak  moscow and serbia

[andy_g]

more rumours from the Guardian this morning. now we're apparently trying to steal Vidic from the Mancs, blowing half our transfer budget in the process. No mentions of Simao though for the first time in 400 years. And is this a wee glimmer of hope on the Gonzales front?? read on rumour hounds....


"Liverpool are still hopeful of beating Manchester United to the signature of the Spartak Moscow defender Nemanja Vidic, though both Premiership clubs remain at odds with the Russians over a fee for the Serbia and Montenegro international.

United officials met the Spartak president Sergey Shavlo in London earlier this week for negotiations over Vidic's proposed transfer, though agents acting on the player's behalf remain in talks with Liverpool. Spartak are understood to have quoted £11m for the 25-year-old centre-half, though the English clubs are unlikely to offer more than £4.5m.

Vidic has a buy-out in his contract in Moscow at that amount entitling him to move, though the player would have to trigger the clause by asking for a transfer and agreeing to compensation for the remainder of his deal.

Rafael Benítez has drawn up a list of other centre-halves should his pursuit of Vidic falter, with Brondby's Daniel Agger believed to be his principal target. The 21-year-old Denmark international would cost about £4.5m, around half of the money likely to be granted to the Liverpool manager next month. The Argentinian defender Carlo Coloccini, currently at Deportivo la Coruna, will only be considered on loan. Benítez is similarly active in pursuit of a right-sided midfielder. Coloccini's compatriot Luciano Galletti, a fringe player at Atletico Madrid since joining last summer, is being considered only on a temporary basis.

Liverpool are hoping that they will be granted a work permit for the Chilean winger Mark González in the new year now that they have struck a deal with Albacete. The original loan move was delayed by the Home Office after Chile were ranked two places outside Fifa's top 70."

[desperado0831]

vidic plays for spartak  moscow and serbia

Thanks for your information. I really don't think that simao will join us and against his previous club at the pitch.

There is another rumour sayin that owen is returning to us next summer. So, where's cisse going? 

[desperado0831]

I am checking this from a website.

IN :
Simao Sabrosa (Benfica, ?2.2m), Dean Whitehead (Sunderland, ?m), Jonathan Zebina (Juventus, ?m), Razak Boukari (Chateauroux, ?.4m), Riki (Getafe, ?), Daniel Agger (Brondby, ?), Jimmy Bullard (Wigan Athletic, ?), Sylvain Distin (Manchester City, ?), Patrice Evra (Monaco, ?), Luciano Galletti (Atletico Madrid, ?), Jose Goncalves (FC Thun, ?), Ivan Helguera (Real Madrid, Bosman), Salomon Kalou (Feyenoord, ?), Ledley King (Tottenham Hotspur, ?), Ognen Koroman (Terek Grozny, ?), Steed Malbranque (Fulham, ?), Gary O'Neil (Portsmouth, ?), Nedum Onuoha (Manchester City, ?), Gabriel Paletta (Banfield, ?), Jermaine Pennant (Birmingham City, ?), Franck Queudrue (Middlesbrough, ?), Chris Riggott (Middlesbrough, ?), Joaquin Sanchez (Real Betis, ?), Tom Soares (Crystal Palace, ?), Dario Srna (Shakhtar Donetsk, ?), Nemanja Vidic (Spartak Moscow, ?), Ben Watson (Crystal Palace, ?)


OUT :
Josemi (Sevilla, ?00k), Darren Potter (Leeds United, ?50k), Djibril Cisse (Marseille, ?), Jerzy Dudek (Benfica, ?), Harry Kewell (Aston Villa, ?), Neil Mellor (Sheffield United, ?), Florent Sinama-Pongolle (Nice, Loan)

[HacksawJimDuggin]

I have heard that Kompany is a done deal so don't think we will get involved in a bidding war for Vidik.

Mark Gonzales wiull get a work permit but won't be fit to play until summer 06.

[Ace Ventura]

I have heard that Kompany is a done deal so don't think we will get involved in a bidding war for Vidik.

Mark Gonzales wiull get a work permit but won't be fit to play until summer 06.

Where have you heard that ?

[Igor Zidane]

he heard it on this thread ace welsh wizard said ,so its got to be true:D

[A.B.]

Krap Talk say that Cisse is going to Inter Milan for 7 million, but it is Krap Talk.

[stmichael]

Krap Talk say that Cisse is going to Inter Milan for 7 million, but it is Krap Talk.

yeah, 7 million + adriano is what i heard

[metalhead]

no no no st. michael 7m + Adriano and Recoba 

[liamac]

Krap Talk say that Cisse is going to Inter Milan for 7 million, but it is Krap Talk.

yeah, 7 million + adriano is what i heard

Its been on Channel 4 news as well  ( well their website    )

http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/dec23h.html





--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Inter consider Cissé swoop Friday 23 December, 2005

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Inter have been linked with a move for Liverpool striker Djibril Cissé, according to reports in Italy.

Coach Roberto Mancini confirmed yesterday that the San Siro side were looking for attacking reinforcements in order to cater for the departure of Obafemi Martins, who leaves for African Nations Cup duty next month.

It is thought that Inter President Massimo Moratti has identified the Frenchman, who has fallen out on numerous occasions with Rafa Benitez after failing to hold down a regular first-team place, as the ideal candidate.

Although Cissé would not be eligible to play in the Champions League having represented the Reds in Europe this season, Moratti is said to be prepared to part with between £6m and £7m to secure his arrival in January.

The 24-year-old recently denied that he wanted to leave Anfield and insisted that he was very happy in England. However, a move to Inter would represent a hugely tempting opportunity for Cissé to secure a World Cup place in Raymond Domenech’s France squad.

The Nerazzurri have already confirmed that striker Victor Obinna will be joining them permanently from Chievo next month.

If it is true  has Raffa got someone else  in mind ?   

[liamac]

Might be of interest to all on the forum , an article from the Times 


Benítez sees a window that may still be open
By Oliver Kay



TRANSFER windows can slam shut quickly, as Michael Owen recognised just in time to join Newcastle United in August, but it seems that the figurative door remains open for the England forward to return to Liverpool one day. Rafael Benítez might feel that he was stating the obvious by affirming that he may be willing to bring home a player whom he sold to Real Madrid and failed to re-sign in the space of 12 months, but, with Owen returning to Anfield in a Newcastle shirt on Boxing Day, the Liverpool manager’s comments yesterday were intriguing.
“Why not?” was about the extent of Benítez’s response when asked whether he could imagine Owen playing under him for Liverpool in future.



With a devilish smile, the manager added that “he’s a good player and good players are always interesting for everyone, for every club”. He went on to explain that he would have been delighted if he had been successful in his pursuit of the forward before the August transfer deadline, but that the deal proved unworkable, with Owen instead joining Newcastle for £16.5 million, double the fee Liverpool received 12 months earlier, when the forward was in the last 12 months of his contract.

Benítez did not quite share the level of enthusiasm of the Liverpool board or indeed several of his players when it came to trying to re-sign Owen, but he maintained yesterday that, on the right terms, he would have done it.

“I tried to sign him and he knows I tried to sign him, like he said,” Benítez said. “It even went to the last day of the deadline, but in the end it was impossible for us as another club bid a large amount of money for him. There were three or four different reasons: the price, the timing, Michael’s decision and also the fact that we had very good strikers. All those things together in a short space of time made it difficult.”

It also ensured that the decision, if it could be called a decision, would subsequently be held against Benítez every time Liverpool failed to score. This happened with disturbing regularity in the opening weeks of the season, particularly as Peter Crouch struggled to make his mark in terms of goals, and, even though they have since clicked into gear in the Barclays Premiership, there remain concerns about the lack of a single dependable goalscorer in the team. Crouch, Djibril Cissé and Fernando Morientes have no more than eight league goals between them so far, just one more than Owen has managed in eight appearances for Newcastle.

Benítez made light of that statistic, saying: “Maybe we don’t have a player who can score more than 20 goals a season, but we have a lot who can score more than ten.” While there may have been times when he has rued the absence of a clinical finisher, he can point to the league table and claim that his team, after a relatively modest summer outlay, have made far greater strides this season than a Newcastle side who spent heavily on Scott Parker, Emre Belö zoglu and Alberto Luque, as well as Owen.

This is something appreciated by the Liverpool board. “Michael Owen is a great player and it was pretty obvious that, coming back to this league, he would score goals,” Rick Parry, the chief executive, said. “There’s no great surprise in that. But it wasn’t to be for us and one thing we never do is look back and wonder what might have been.”

Benítez, indeed, is looking firmly forward — and to a future that, while Newcastle may have something to say on the matter, might yet entail a permanent homecoming for one of Anfield’s favourite sons.

[7_Kewell]

we need a Centre back and a right winger...sound familar?

[Dundalk]

Well if Cisse is to go then we will need to bring in someone else....who ?

[A.B.]

MANCS in pole position for Vidic

FROM SSN:

Manchester United are currently the favourites to land in-demand Serbia & Montenegro stopper Nemanja Vidic, according to his club Spartak Moscow.

Vidic is hot property in Russia, and his impressive performances have led to a tussle to obtain his signature in the January transfer window.

The Red Devils are known to be competing with Italian big spenders Fiorentina for the 24-year-old, and Vidic has also revealed that a third club, believed to be Liverpool, are in the running.

However it appears that Sir Alex Ferguson is currently favourite to land the defender, after Spartak chief executive Sergei Shavlo admitted Vidic had his heart set on Old Trafford.

"We were trying to retain Vidic in the squad but he has told me straight that he will leave Spartak," Shavlo told Sport-Express. "The only question is to which club will he move?

"Initially he was going to join Fiorentina but now he is inclined to accept the Manchester United offer.

"We continue to have talks concerning the transfer fee."

United reportedly held talks with the Russian side on Monday, but were unable to clinch an agreement over a fee for the star.