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19 Aug 12
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The Times - Liverpool tell Charlie Adam and Joe Cole they can leave.Charlie Adam has been informed that he can leave Liverpool for offers of more than £5 million as the need for Brendan Rodgers to shake up his squad was made more urgent by a 3-0 defeat at the hands of West Bromwich Albion.
Adam, signed by Kenny Dalglish for £5.5 million last summer, was an unused substitute at The Hawthorns and has found himself out of favour since Rodgers’s arrival. Rodgers has been working with a limited budget since taking over from Dalglish and after signing Joe Allen and Fabio Borini for a combined cost of £26 million, he now needs to sell players if he is to make more incursions in the transfer budget.
The Liverpool manager would also be willing to offload Joe Cole but is aware that there is little interest in a player earning around £100,000 per week who lasted only nine minutes after going on as a substitute against West Brom before succumbing to a hamstring injury that could keep him out for a month.
“We still needed to bring in one or two players, but we need to work with the players that are here,” Rodgers said after Saturday’s defeat. “You know what the limitations are in terms of budget, and the reality was the team finished eighth last year and there are reasons behind that.”
Tellingly, Rodgers could offer up only that there are “no easy solutions” to the situation he inherited with Cole and Liverpool could now look to subsidise the midfield player’s wages should any club show a willingness to take him on loan.
Tony Barrett
Adam, signed by Kenny Dalglish for £5.5 million last summer, was an unused substitute at The Hawthorns and has found himself out of favour since Rodgers’s arrival. Rodgers has been working with a limited budget since taking over from Dalglish and after signing Joe Allen and Fabio Borini for a combined cost of £26 million, he now needs to sell players if he is to make more incursions in the transfer budget.
The Liverpool manager would also be willing to offload Joe Cole but is aware that there is little interest in a player earning around £100,000 per week who lasted only nine minutes after going on as a substitute against West Brom before succumbing to a hamstring injury that could keep him out for a month.
“We still needed to bring in one or two players, but we need to work with the players that are here,” Rodgers said after Saturday’s defeat. “You know what the limitations are in terms of budget, and the reality was the team finished eighth last year and there are reasons behind that.”
Tellingly, Rodgers could offer up only that there are “no easy solutions” to the situation he inherited with Cole and Liverpool could now look to subsidise the midfield player’s wages should any club show a willingness to take him on loan.
Tony Barrett
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they will have to pay someone to take them
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5 million for Adam?!
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Surprised someone isnt in for Adam tbh. As awful as I think he is for us, he proved he could do it in the Prem for Blackpool and surely one of the bottom 5 or 6 teams think he'd be worth a chnace for £5m or so.
Cole is obviously here until next summer. |
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Cole cant be on 100 a week?
That MUST be a miss print. |
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CCM - Cole 100 a week?
That cant be right? |
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He certainly is Mr E. Came on a free didnt he.... which always means ludicrous wages. Last year if his deal fortunately
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Please keep all this to the Let's All Laugh At Liverpool Thread
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Joe Cole isnt going anywhere unless we pay half his wages to the next club
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FFS That must be a kick in the bollocks....
He should feel embarrassed picking that kind of money up. |
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In theory, when he signed, it should have been an excellent signing.
Gerrard (still in his pomp), Torres and Cole had the makings of an outstanding attacking threat imo. It's strange how some players just can't deliver at a club, having been successful everywhere else. Duff at our place was another good example. As for Adam, never under-estimate the stupidity of people like Big Fat Sam. He'd pay £5m, albeit it would be comical watching him and Nolan getting ran around the park together. |
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Adam can definitely do a job for someone in the PL surely, he isn't that bad.
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Yep I was happy at the Cole signing at the time. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and all that.
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the mess has come from too many players like that with us solano over the past 20 plus years
the trouble is as we slipped further and further down the pecking order we've found it really hard to get decent players and have payed outrageous money for players that wouldn't get a sniff at our main rivals. |
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He's proved he can do it already cob. Fingers crossed someone looks at his time then instead of with us!
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i always thought downing was over inflated considering his goal record but thought he would at least assist in goals, that hasn't happened with us either!
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Joke hole has been a disater from Day 1 when he got sent off, just dosent inspire me with any confidence, get him out of the squad altogether, let him pick up his wedge every week and then let him fook all the way off! He actually seems like a decent geezer when I see him speak so have real hard feelings towards him but still it just hurts the amount of money that has been pizzed up against the wall.
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They are out there s/e - the trick is finding them.
 I'm not going to go over old ground, but I will say this - KD has set you back a good few years. Not only were his signings atrocious, but he has set a benchmark whereby clubs will think they can pull your pants down every time you enquire about a player. |
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i think the 5o mill from torres was spent like a hungry fat kid in a sweet shop.
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*disaster
*no hard feelings |
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yes solano
but i also remember the stick benitez was given by many and in reality as CCm will back up his record was very good in the transfer market. |
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Rafa. Could be be keeping himself free from Christmas onwards as we speak!
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Benitez got the majority of his big signings right mate (save for Robbie Keane).
He'd have done well with the Torres cash, albeit the reality is that had he not left Torres would most probably be still with you. |
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Benitez got the majority of everything right
 How he isnt back in a job completely baffles me. |
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I've said this before - the Liverpool team that nearly won the league a few years ago were a truly great team. A peak Torres and Gerrard....
They should have won the league that year they really should. Since then it's been a pretty disturbing downward spiral. |
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liverpool are a complete laughing stock of a football club.. shambles!
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Adam needs the entire team built round his slow ass
He is capable of looking good for a bottom half side as they steal the odd draw and win.... makes me wonder why Liverpool dont keep him actually  I'm just fkin with you liverpool fans, chill out, dont go hurling yourself off the nearest fjord |
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Nah me neither cob. Only joking mate.
Fingers crossed Rodgers is given the time he needs. He cant be blsmed for the mess he has arrived at. Being realistic, it will probably be the start of next seaosn until we can start judging him fairly. A btilliant side Mr E. Not many said it at the time mind! |
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i'm off
can't talk with clowns like 0ver 2.5, roy keane and bbc will be here soon too. gn all |
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united ground them down that year
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Joe Cole
was finished at Chelsea why they gave him to Liverpool he never completly got over an injury he sustained imo |
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liverpool could ruin messi....... they are that bad
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Both of them need a WeightWatchers course.
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While they're at it they should tell swinez to back his fukking bags.
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This guy will be pleased
::: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkb7-W_Wa6Q |
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I like the fact that Rodgers has spent £30 million on tat and is still described as working on a limited budget. If I was an agent looking for a pay out I'd be sending DVD's to Liverpool as a living.
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Joe Cole is a joke, just a bag of tricks really, can't influence games and can't stay fit. get Rid, same with Adam, a very ordinary player at best, Wigan might want hime, but that's about all
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