David N'gog (Player Thread)

[lil cisse]

REDS SIGN FRENCH STRIKER NGOG

Liverpool have today signed French hotshot David Ngog from Paris Saint Germain.
The 19-year-old becomes the fourth addition to Rafa Benitez's first-team squad after penning a four-year deal at Anfield
 
Ngog is one of the brightest young talents in French football.
 
His tally of just one goal from 18 league appearances last term was largely down to PSG's disappointing form – a contention backed up by his prolificacy on the international stage.
 
The lightning quick forward has scored goals at every youth level for France, including two absolute corkers against England Under-19s last season.
 
Ngog is the cousin of former Newcastle United defender Jean-Alain Boumsong.
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So he has been officially signed now. Glad we bought him, seems very promising and as we seem like we will leave the 4-2-3-1 behind now as good as it was, im glad we got another striker.
       
                              GS    SB   G   SH   SG   A   FC   FS   YC   RC
14   David Ngog     8   6   1   16   5   1   30   27   0   0   (French Ligue 1)


GS: Games Started, SB: Used as Substitute, G: Goals, A: Assists, SH: Shots, SG: Shots on goal, YC: Yellow Cards, RC: Red Cards, FC: Fouls Committed, FS: Fouls Suffered.

Some stats for him from last season. May explain why the goals tally was quite low, he only got to start 8 games in a bad PSG side. I wont take the goal tally as a bad thing because when taking other things into consideration it seems he cant really be judged based on that. Rafa and the scouts must have seen something they like in him and I have faith in their judgement. Hopefully he does well for us, I think he wont be a week in week out starter but will be used in the same way as lucas was used last season, first teamer getting short runs of games and getting used to playing with his new teammates, cant wait to see him in action.

[Shandaman]

Welcome N'gog,better score plenty goals for us!!!!

[Semple]

I didnt realise it was him that we were signing but I watched him score 2 goals for france u19s against england and I thought to myself "hes going to be amazing when hes older"- iam delighted we got him but I dont expect to see him much in the first team

[The Reaper]

At least we seem to be stabilising the Future, even if the Present is a bit more unsettling!

[adammac]

Maybe if we sell Voronin then he can fill in the void as a sub striker and get a fair number of games with the first team as since he already has experience playing first team football with PSG. It is always better to give younger player this sort of role than a average older player.

[Watt]

Im gonna give my very objective contribution here.... I think by his name it sounds like hes an orc from The Lord of the Rings. Ngog the chief orc.

[dunlop_liddell_shankly]

I'm all for given new signings a chance and after the hype surroundin him I can't wait to see him play, but I personally don't see the point in signin him. Torres first choice, Kuyt back up, Babel third choice, Voronin/Nemeth/Linfield/Pacheco fourth choice back up and Gerrard if absoloute neccessary. Anyone who replies with Nemeth/Linfield/Pacheco are untired, what the F**k is this lad?

Throughout the season we'll hear people bang on about us havin no money. Well 3 million for a keeper, 8 million for a left back, 17 for a central midfielder if he comes and around 3 million for a forward. 30 odd million down the swanny on players who weren't essential yet we've left the right wing go another year without findin a top class player to play there. Like I say, we have money, what we do is sign the wrong players.

I hope the lad is a world beater in the makin and I look forward to seein him at Anfield.

[redkenny]

Im gonna give my very objective contribution here.... I think by his name it sounds like hes an orc from The Lord of the Rings. Ngog the chief orc.

  Let's hope he's lord of the goals then!

Fourth addition of the summer then. Is he a replacement for Crouch or Voronin?............

Hope he does well for us. Obviously another 'potential' player with some pace. If we sign Keane though, I can't see him getting many games.

[Diego LFC]

Maybe if we sell Voronin then he can fill in the void as a sub striker and get a fair number of games with the first team as since he already has experience playing first team football with PSG. It is always better to give younger player this sort of role than a average older player.

totally agree with that!

welcome David Ngog

[Shandaman]

I'm all for given new signings a chance and after the hype surroundin him I can't wait to see him play, but I personally don't see the point in signin him. Torres first choice, Kuyt back up, Babel third choice, Voronin/Nemeth/Linfield/Pacheco fourth choice back up and Gerrard if absoloute neccessary. Anyone who replies with Nemeth/Linfield/Pacheco are untired, what the F**k is this lad?

Throughout the season we'll hear people bang on about us havin no money. Well 3 million for a keeper, 8 million for a left back, 17 for a central midfielder if he comes and around 3 million for a forward. 30 odd million down the swanny on players who weren't essential yet we've left the right wing go another year without findin a top class player to play there. Like I say, we have money, what we do is sign the wrong players.

I hope the lad is a world beater in the makin and I look forward to seein him at Anfield.

100% on the mark there DLS,its a surprise to me to that we havent signed a decent winger.The spine of the team is top class,our defense is top class.If we get Kean,then our attackers are top class.We got 2 strikers playing on the wings.Dont get me wrong they are good but not Top class.Why try and pursue Barry if we dont need him.We need wingers.Many of you wont agree with me on this one but Quaresma is looking on leaving Porto.His believed to be about the 20-25 mill mark.I think he is great and defiantly a top class winger!

But leaving that subject alone,I hope Ngog does well here at liverpool.Dont expect to see him in the 1st team this year but an exciting prospect for the future. 

[h31p]

100% on the mark there DLS,its a surprise to me to that we havent signed a decent winger.The spine of the team is top class,our defense is top class.If we get Kean,then our attackers are top class.We got 2 strikers playing on the wings.Dont get me wrong they are good but not Top class.Why try and pursue Barry if we dont need him.We need wingers.Many of you wont agree with me on this one but Quaresma is looking on leaving Porto.His believed to be about the 20-25 mill mark.I think he is great and defiantly a top class winger!

But leaving that subject alone,I hope Ngog does well here at liverpool.Dont expect to see him in the 1st team this year but an exciting prospect for the future. 

I'm with you and DLS on this one. Totally agree. 100%

Ngog? Hope he does better than Le Tallec and Pongolle, both of whom were supposed to be superstars too...

[Billy1]

I'm with you and DLS on this one. Totally agree. 100%

Ngog? Hope he does better than Le Tallec and Pongolle, both of whom were supposed to be superstars too...

I think the words Houllier used when we bought those 2 was little gems.I do agree with the general opinion we could do with a good left winger and if possible a good right winger as well.

[REDMAN]

Why?are we buying youngsters for the sake of it?I would have thought Nemeth or the yound Spanish lad whos name I can't spell would be given a chance?

[crouchinho]

There must be another reason along with building for the future. It is very strange to see I think 5 or 6 youngsters come in already and only Degen, Cavalieri and Dossena come in for the first team.

[IB]

I'm not the kind of fan that likes to judge players before seeing them play, if anything I hate it when players are judged before they are in action but 1 goal in 18 league appearances as he scored for Paris as a striker does look a bit dodgy (found this on http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N160632080724-1149.htm) , I dont know whether he was played out of position or if his oppertunities on the pitch were only 20 or 10 minutes at the end of a game but still the ratio of goals are a bit thin. I mean hey Voronin scored more than that last season. If he can only score one in France how will he compete in a much tougher physical league? It's a bit worrying for as one of our first team players a player with such low amounts of goals has been bought. It also worries me that Rafa has time to sign players that we have hardly heard of when we're still waiting to sign Barry and Keane.

But still like I said I wont judge him until I've seen him play for a few game, I hope he does much better than he did for Paris and as some people have commented I'm hoping to see the talent in him.

[lil cisse]

I'm not the kind of fan that likes to judge players before seeing them play, if anything I hate it when players are judged before they are in action but 1 goal in 18 league appearances as he scored for Paris as a striker does look a bit dodgy (found this on http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N160632080724-1149.htm) , I dont know whether he was played out of position or if his oppertunities on the pitch were only 20 or 10 minutes at the end of a game but still the ratio of goals are a bit thin. I mean hey Voronin scored more than that last season. If he can only score one in France how will he compete in a much tougher physical league? It's a bit worrying for as one of our first team players a player with such low amounts of goals has been bought. It also worries me that Rafa has time to sign players that we have hardly heard of when we're still waiting to sign Barry and Keane.

But still like I said I wont judge him until I've seen him play for a few game, I hope he does much better than he did for Paris and as some people have commented I'm hoping to see the talent in him.

His tally of just one goal from 18 league appearances in 2007-08 was largely down to PSG's disappointing form - a contention backed up by his prolificacy on the international stage.