Klaas Jan Huntelaar (Schalke)

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Brendan on why we don't need a new striker :-

"It is no good having a goalscorer scoring 30 goals and no-one else scores - I've always been against that theory," said Rodgers.

 "You are going to need upwards of 70-odd goals to be up around the Champions League [places].

 "For me it is a team ethic. Luis Suarez will score goals, Steven Gerrard can score goals, young Fabio Borini will score goals - but we also need goals from our centre-halves.

 "If you can get your centre-halves scoring five goals that will always add and then you are looking at your full-backs doing a bit more.

 "It is a team responsibility, not just one player. You bring in one striker who can score you goals, which is great, but it's not good for the team if the rest don't score.

 "For us it is trying to have players in different areas of the field who can cause a problem.

 "But equally important is that at the other end you are not conceding goals.

 "I think we have shown, apart from last week (in the 3-0 defeat at West Brom) when the game was broken when we went down to ten men, that we have a good mindset and been strong this year."
 

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Brendan on why we don't need a new striker :-

"It is no good having a goalscorer scoring 30 goals and no-one else scores - I've always been against that theory," said Rodgers.

 "You are going to need upwards of 70-odd goals to be up around the Champions League [places].

 "For me it is a team ethic. Luis Suarez will score goals, Steven Gerrard can score goals, young Fabio Borini will score goals - but we also need goals from our centre-halves.

 "If you can get your centre-halves scoring five goals that will always add and then you are looking at your full-backs doing a bit more.

 "It is a team responsibility, not just one player. You bring in one striker who can score you goals, which is great, but it's not good for the team if the rest don't score.

 "For us it is trying to have players in different areas of the field who can cause a problem.

 "But equally important is that at the other end you are not conceding goals.

 "I think we have shown, apart from last week (in the 3-0 defeat at West Brom) when the game was broken when we went down to ten men, that we have a good mindset and been strong this year."
 

A tall centre forward?
He didn't even mentioned carrols name

The fact is, those people aren't scoring enough usually which means we need somebody to lead by example. That's like saying you don't need a top keeper to try and keep clean sheets haha.

Id love you here Hunter la.

Good player, but he is just the same type of player as Carroll, so he'll need the service.

This thread is for sh*t and it's full of kids

Brendan on why we don't need a new striker :-

"It is no good having a goalscorer scoring 30 goals and no-one else scores - I've always been against that theory," said Rodgers.

 "You are going to need upwards of 70-odd goals to be up around the Champions League [places].

 "For me it is a team ethic. Luis Suarez will score goals, Steven Gerrard can score goals, young Fabio Borini will score goals - but we also need goals from our centre-halves.

 "If you can get your centre-halves scoring five goals that will always add and then you are looking at your full-backs doing a bit more.

 "It is a team responsibility, not just one player. You bring in one striker who can score you goals, which is great, but it's not good for the team if the rest don't score.

 "For us it is trying to have players in different areas of the field who can cause a problem.

 "But equally important is that at the other end you are not conceding goals.

 "I think we have shown, apart from last week (in the 3-0 defeat at West Brom) when the game was broken when we went down to ten men, that we have a good mindset and been strong this year."
 

Have to disagree with BR here.

Firstly. The 30+ goal a season striker he talks about. He is the player who scores more or less every match. He is the man who wins the tight games. He is the man who pops up when it looks for all the world that you would not score if you played for a week. If this player scores 30 goals that leaves 40 goals for the rest of the team to score if we want to get to the 70 that BR says we need to get in the top 4.

So, to be honest I am at a loss at the moment to work out how Suarez, Borini, Downing, Lucas, Allen, Gerrard, Johnson, Enrique, Agger and Skrtel are going to score 40 between them. If you take away the 30 goal a season striker that BR talks about...they will have to get 70 between them.

If we do not secure a proven finisher I feel we will be struggling to score enough goals, thus win enough games and secure enough points to get to where we want to be.

We need a striker who can finish, so I disagree with Brendan here. Just my opinion!

Have to disagree with BR here.

Firstly. The 30+ goal a season striker he talks about. He is the player who scores more or less every match. He is the man who wins the tight games. He is the man who pops up when it looks for all the world that you would not score if you played for a week. If this player scores 30 goals that leaves 40 goals for the rest of the team to score if we want to get to the 70 that BR says we need to get in the top 4.


So, to be honest I am at a loss at the moment to work out how Suarez, Borini, Downing, Lucas, Allen, Gerrard, Johnson, Enrique, Agger and Skrtel are going to score 40 between them. If you take away the 30 goal a season striker that BR talks about...they will have to get 70 between them.

If we do not secure a proven finisher I feel we will be struggling to score enough goals, thus win enough games and secure enough points to get to where we want to be.

We need a striker who can finish, so I disagree with Brendan here. Just my opinion!

I agree with you here pal.

What BR said, does not make sense tbh:L

Good player, but he is just the same type of player as Carroll, so he'll need the service.

Far better finisher though. Only needed 97 shots last season to get to his 29 goals. To compare, Van Persie needed 179 shots to get to his 30 goals. Ofcourse the Bundesliga isn't as tough as the EPL, but still.

How is this thread still open?

no real link just pure unadulterated mindless balls

Far better finisher though. Only needed 97 shots last season to get to his 29 goals. To compare, Van Persie needed 179 shots to get to his 30 goals. Ofcourse the Bundesliga isn't as tough as the EPL, but still.

Good point, but still...every striker needs his service, especially prolific goalscorers.

Good point, but still...every striker needs his service, especially prolific goalscorers.

Huntelaar is known to connect well with Suarez though. I imagine Suarez would be far more at ease too, some pressure off of him. And although Huntelaar is mostly just a finisher, it's not like he can't do anything else, 13 assists last season too. Carrol even attempted almost the same amount of shots as Huntelaar. Although probably from worse positions, he played far less too. There's no doubt for me that Huntelaar with his better positioning and finishing would get plenty chances here to get to score goals.

I just cannot see this deal happening. Too good to be true and all that.

Don't think this is as far from the realms of possibility as some seem to suggest, would of course all depend on Carroll leaving. Without doubt if Carroll leaves we'll bring in someone and Huntelaar is a decent guess in my opinion.

Have to disagree with BR here.

Firstly. The 30+ goal a season striker he talks about. He is the player who scores more or less every match. He is the man who wins the tight games. He is the man who pops up when it looks for all the world that you would not score if you played for a week. If this player scores 30 goals that leaves 40 goals for the rest of the team to score if we want to get to the 70 that BR says we need to get in the top 4.

So, to be honest I am at a loss at the moment to work out how Suarez, Borini, Downing, Lucas, Allen, Gerrard, Johnson, Enrique, Agger and Skrtel are going to score 40 between them. If you take away the 30 goal a season striker that BR talks about...they will have to get 70 between them.

If we do not secure a proven finisher I feel we will be struggling to score enough goals, thus win enough games and secure enough points to get to where we want to be.

We need a striker who can finish, so I disagree with Brendan here. Just my opinion!

thats what I was thinking ...it easy to say we gonna score from midfield bt in terms of reality its really tough task specially for us , again its like we are starting with blank sheet ,lots of new players ,will take time to settle..
all in all we are not barca who creates goal scoring chance every min..we have to look for goal scoring striker or winger otherwise it could be same story with bit improvement..

Huntelaar is known to connect well with Suarez though. I imagine Suarez would be far more at ease too, some pressure off of him. And although Huntelaar is mostly just a finisher, it's not like he can't do anything else, 13 assists last season too. Carrol even attempted almost the same amount of shots as Huntelaar. Although probably from worse positions, he played far less too. There's no doubt for me that Huntelaar with his better positioning and finishing would get plenty chances here to get to score goals.

No doubt he'd be a great addition to the squad and no doubt he can score and obviously has a good record of goalscoring, but say we got him...I honestly think we will need a winger just to give him more opportunities, because I don't think Downing is good enough really.

Let's be serious here - We will not be buying Huntelaar.

We have no money left so any deal the club makes from now will be a loan deal for someone

And locked.

Another thread here http://www.lfcreds.com/reds/index.php/topic,43567.msg1335038.html#msg1335038 so can be reopened and merged.

Liverpool boss Rodgers switches his attention to unsettled striker Huntelaar

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2221730/Liverpool-target-Klaas-Jan-Huntelaar.html#ixzz2A8J7ZnSP

Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers is ready to make a January raid for Schalke striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar.

The Reds boss is on alert after the 29-year-old Holland international postponed talks on a new contract with the German side.

Huntelaar will be free to sign a pre-contract agreement with another club in January, as his current deal is due to expire at the end of the season.

But Rodgers is keen on a cut-price deal in January for the former Real Madrid star in order to solve his present lack of firepower, reports the Daily Star.

Liverpool are currently struggling to cope with Luis Suarez as their only fit striker.

Huntelaar has also been linked with Manchester United, Arsenal and Tottenham.

Can't see us offering the wages for him and can see him only wanting CL football.

Would be a great signing, he's not a complete striker but then again very few are; he's a great and intelligent finisher though.

29and has an atitude problem, he would deffo be a name in the envelope at the end of he season.

Quite a few media sources running with it.

https://www.google.com/news?ncl=daqyVkutTOKAsTMrn9Xq1hcyZJomM&q=brendan+rodgers&lr=English&hl=en

Probably bollocks then.