Part 1 Special Feature: What’s next for January’s big spenders Liverpool?
Liverpool net spending in the January transfer window comes down to a mere 1.8 million pounds but this is one of the cases where statistics can be quite misleading. Liverpool parted ways with their Spanish heartthrob, Fernando
Torres who might become a head-throb for them at the weekend when he lines up against the Reds in a blue http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 shirt.
The transfer fee for Torres amounted to around about 50 million pounds, a majority of which was spent on Andy Carroll’s arrival from Newcastle United for around 35 million pounds.
Liverpool also spent considerable cash on securing the services of Luis Suarez from Ajax Amsterdam for a staggering 23 million pounds. Kenny Dalglish’s team also parted ways with their Dutch winger, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ryan-Babel-c31971 as he sold to Hoffenheim
for 6 million pounds.
Now Liverpool have a massive restructuring job at their hand, not only have they got to deal with the failure to hold on Fernando Torres, they have to change their tactical system around to incorporate the arrival of Luis Suarez
and Andy Carroll. For the time being it looks as if in the long run, Liverpool are quite secured as far as their striking department is concerned.
Both their new arrivals are younger than Torres, thus depending on their performances for the Merseyside giants, Suarez and Carroll can both be the next superstars of the English Premier League.
However, Andy Carroll is currently injured for the Reds thus one can expect Suarez to start as a lone striker or maybe as a supporting front man alongside David N’Gog.
Regardless of all the hype surrounding Andy Carroll’s 35 million arrival, the Englishman does not possess the goal scoring instincts which can even be compared to Fernando Torres.
The Spanish striker led the line superbly for http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809 throughout his years at Anfield and will be greatly missed. Of course, the other new man on the block, Luis Suarez is a true goal scorer within his own right as he has time
and again proven with Ajax and the Uruguayan national team. But he will take time to acclimatize to the English Premier League.
In some quarters, questions are already being raised regarding Andy Carroll’s ability to live up to the task of filling Fernando Torres’s shoes. In all honesty, such comparisons are laughable at present moment in time.
Carroll has played a few selected number of English Premier League games and is a player which benefits from his physique rather than his technique, something which actually reflects the English league.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fernando-Torres-c13707 on the other hand was a true football fan’s striker. With feet that can put the late Michael Jackson to shame, Torres is another breed altogether. Torres’s technical superiority however does not imply that Carroll
will fail as a player for Liverpool.
That judgement must be reserved for later on in the season if not the Englishman’s career. For the time being, Carroll must focus upon what needs to be done in order to please the KOP. The only way to do that is to pay back their
hospitality with goals.
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