James McCarthy (Wigan)

Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish continues to keep tabs on Wigan's James McCarthy

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1383595/Liverpool-boss-Kenny-Dalglish-continues-tabs-Wigans-James-McCarthy.html

Liverpool are continuing to monitor Wigan midfielder James McCarthy.

The Republic of Ireland international turned down Liverpool to join Wigan from Hamilton Academical for £1million in 2009.

But manager Kenny Dalglish rates him highly as he looks to bring in young talent to bolster his squad.

Dalglish sent his assistant Sammy Lee to watch the 20-year-old during the Latic's 1-1 draw with Everton last weekend.

Liverpool are also watching St Etienne's Idris Saadi, 18.

Very good player, young and bags of potential.

Would love this - boys a talent

There are a ton of links for this guy, all of them saying the same thing. I would love to bring him here, especially over Adam since McCarthy is a young talent coming through with bags of potential.

100% for buying James. Quality youngster.
Only wish we had signes him 2 years ago and loaned him out when we were first linked to him.
Hugely talented in my opinion.

I love reading all of these players we are linked with. Under H&G we would pick up players nearing the end of their prime or old turds on the downside of their careers. Now we are linked to all these young and upcoming players with great potential. What a difference in ownership my god.

Would love this signing to happen. With no disrespect to Shelvey, McCarthy is leaps and bounds ahead of him and has the potential in my opinion to be Gerrards long term successor. Really hope we sign him.

Disagree that he is leaps and bounds ahead of Shelvey. Very good player but Shelvey has a big big future here.

Would love to see the Irish man here,super little player.

Shamed we cannot get him during Rafa in-charge as I read somewhere Rafa want to sign him from Hamilton (imo our club didn't try enough to get him before he join Wigan). Now it's much higher price to get him, and if he's really good as some posts above then we have to beat other teams too.

I remember Brian78 and myself saying during the whole season how good it would be to have him, my opinion haven't changed, I guess he would say the same

Very talented young player, would be a terrific option in the squad at first, with potential to be a long term success as well

an excellent prospect and would also come in very handy right now. snap him up. maybe 6m might get him, less if wigan go down.

Disagree that he is leaps and bounds ahead of Shelvey. Very good player but Shelvey has a big big future here.

i agree, shelvey definitely has future here. in no way ready for regular 11 just now but will be in the future.

Disagree that he is leaps and bounds ahead of Shelvey. Very good player but Shelvey has a big big future here.

Why not have them both. With Gerrard and Meireles getting on with age, we would have McCarthy and Shelvey (not to mention spearing and Lucas) to step in for them.

I would love to bring in McCarthy.

Yea, McCarthy certainly looks the part if we're looking for talent, potential and quality.

I'd love to see him here.

I think he'd be a fantastic adition to our squad, his potential has shone through this season in the face of the clubs adversity

I remember Brian78 and myself saying during the whole season how good it would be to have him, my opinion haven't changed, I guess he would say the same

Still 100% with ye mate. Would be a top signing. Still learning but already at a good level and will get better and better and better

Well we all seem pretty unanimous in our opinions of him, quite rare.

Well we all seem pretty unanimous in our opinions of him, quite rare.

Nail on the head comes too mind...

Rumours on the ever reliable twitter are that we had Mel Johnson, one of our scouts, watching him at Villa Park today.

Will be watching MOTD with interest...

I hope Wigan go down anyway.

Does he have the ability to add anything to our squad,or our Ressies?

Chelsea and Liverpool told to cough up £20m for Wigan midfielder James McCarthy

Wigan are set to stun Chelsea and Liverpool by asking around £20million for 20-year old James McCarthy, whom they signed from Hamilton two years ago for £1.2m.

The Scotland-born Republic of Ireland midfielder is a top summer target for both clubs after being watched repeatedly this season.

Should Wigan be relegated on Sunday, manager Roberto Martinez accepts that both may come in for McCarthy.

From the Daily Mail

No quotes and not much information but I just thought I'd post it.