EPL News: Liverpool looking to bring in in-form striker, Johan Elmander
Liverpool’s manager Roy Hodgson, who has in the past gone on to identify Liverpool’s lack of strikers as one of the team’s main reasons for performing so poorly, thinks he has finally found a solution to the problem.
The manager has gone ahead and identified Bolton’s in form striker Johan Elmander as the player who can help partner Fernando Torres up front. The team will however have to part with as much as five million pounds if they wish to sign the player.
The manager, Hodgson and his assistant Sammy Lee were present in the Bolton match, to closely watch their potential target in action and they weren’t disappointed with what they saw. Elmander was the architect for the very late equalizer that Bolton scored
and as a result he managed to grow his reputation as one of the best strikers in the league even further.
Elmander also went ahead to turn down a one year extension that he was offered at the club. The player stated that he did not wish to commit to the club as he was looking to keep his options open. Elmander’s current contract is due to run out in the summers,
which means that if Liverpool were to move in for the player in January, then Bolton would be quite tempted to let go of their star player in hopes of making a profit off of his sale.
Hodgson has also been a long term admirer of the player as in the past he has tried to move in for the player on two occasions while he was in charge at Fulham. However as it stands he wasn’t very successful in either of those attempts.
However things could prove to be very different this time around. With the manager now in charge of Liverpool and not Fulham it appears like the difference in the size of the clubs, might just end up turning Elmander’s head away from Bolton at long last.
His presence at Anfield could also prove to be rather good for the team. This is because at the current moment in time Liverpool are very strongly reliant on the performances of Fernando Torres up front and when the Spaniard doesn’t have his match form at
its best, the team drastically suffers.
Along with that the backup striker that the Reds have is David N’Gog who by no means a world class player. Therefore Elmander despite not being one of the most well known names in the footballing world has managed to go ahead and prove just what he is capable
of this season, that along with his huge physical presence is something that every team could use, especially a team like Liverpool.
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