Your signings for £30 million (including VAT)

With 30 million to spend and selling off some players to increase purchasing power, I would do the following:

Sell:

Steve Finnan for £6m
Jermaine Pennant £7m
Andryl Voronin for £3m
John A. Riise for £7m
Carson for £9m
 
TOTAL = £32m

Buy:

Rafhina for £8m
Gareth Barry for £12m
Ashley Young for £15m
David Bentley for £15m
Santa Cruz £12m

Total £62m

My Preferred line-up!

                                          Reina

Rafhina/Abreloa   Carragher/Hyypia   Skrtel/Agger    Aurelio/Insua/Barry

                        Mascherano/Barry       Alonso/Plesis

Bentley/Benanyun     Gerrard       Young/Babel

                      Torres/Crouch/Santa Cruz

The areas where we need the main focus right now is in the wings. An additional Striker will further increase our winning options.

Santa Cruz would be a brilliant player to have at liverpool, he has just been overshadowed this season by the performances of torres and ronaldo but of the top of my head hasn't he scored about 12 or 15 in the league which isn't bad for a first season in the premiership.

Santa Cruz would be a brilliant player to have at liverpool, he has just been overshadowed this season by the performances of torres and ronaldo but of the top of my head hasn't he scored about 12 or 15 in the league which isn't bad for a first season in the premiership.

Last i checked, 18 goals and counting.

Sell
Voronin - 3 million
JAR - 6 million
Finnan - 4 million
Itandje - 2 million
Crouch - 10 million
Alonso - 12 million

37 MILLION

Buy
Abidal - 9 Million
Richards - 20 Million
Ireland - 7 Million
Bentley - 15 Million
Barry - 8 Million (Plus Carson)
Santa Cruz - 8 Million

67 MILLION

30 MILLION

Formation

                                              Reina/Martin

Richards/Arbeloa    Carragher/Hypiia          Agger/Skrtel     Aurelio/Abidal


Bentley/Pennant     Gerrard/Lucas     Mascherano/Ireland/Plessis   Barry/Benayoun

                                
                               Torres/Kuyt            Santa Cruz/Babel

More than I thought but the problem is would Mark Hughes sell him to us because last week he said he would rather let bentley rot in the reserves than sell him to us so would he do the same with him

More than I thought but the problem is would Mark Hughes sell him to us because last week he said he would rather let bentley rot in the reserves than sell him to us so would he do the same with him

This might be the beginning of a new positioning by managers of the 'Remaining 16' clubs; The Holding-on-to-our-quality-players mentality. I wont be surprised if he acted like that. They want to grow too.

Fairly sure that around £40 million was promised to Benitez.  Actually before you think the Yanks are being generous that £40 million was extracted from the £350 million loan - you know the one that isn't building a new stadium.

Erm, and we're paying £30 million interest a year.

Anyhows moving on.  We have a lot of players who can be sold for value - just like last summer.  I would imagine we could get at least £25 million for some of the outgoing players such as Crouch, Kuyt, Pennant etc.

Finnan's finished, and it seems like everyone on here accepts that Barry is coming.  If he becomes a red then fair enough, but I really do not see th point in us purchasing yet another player of that ilk.  I'd rather have Bentley than Barry - a position we really require strength in.

Out

Alonso 14 million :'(
carson 6 million
Riise 5 million
Pennant 3 million
Crouch 9 million
Voronin 1 million 
Kewell 4 million
total 42 million + 30 million=

72 million total

In

Barry 6 million
Ashley Young 12 million
Bentley 15 million
Villa 17 million
Silva 7 million
Benzema 8 million
Michael Johnson 7 million

Think it adds up!!!!!!!!!!

KEWELL IS OUT OF A CONTRACT! 

Sounds very good but only two things I think would stop us is prices of Silva and Zambrotta, I couldnt see Silva going for any less than £17-20 million even though valencia are in a terrible position in the league. And zambrotta just seems like he would be valued at more than £6 million. Other than that looks very good would be shocked and delighted to get silva at that price.

Just tried to squeeze him in with the budget He would go for 15 million otherwise.

As for Zambrotta, apparently he will move to AC for 5.5 million pounds. So i was being a tad overwhelming there.

Going by the recent development of Rafa's preference for he Premiership based players, I think we will have a few inclusion into the team in he summer; mainly Gareth Barry, David Bentley and Roque Santa Cruz.

Just tried to squeeze him in with the budget He would go for 15 million otherwise.

As for Zambrotta, apparently he will move to AC for 5.5 million pounds. So I was being a tad overwhelming there.

Hehe would be great if we could get them both, seriously cant wait for this all to be sorted.

You have been playing way too much football manager mate, I'm not accepting any other explanation for suggesting Torje, Saivet & Lulinha (all turn out to be superstars in the game for anyone that doesn't play FM).

: caught.

but i have seen torje for romania he is actually very good and i saw some lulinha vids on youtube along with saivet, but FM is my origianl souce

Ok I'll have a shot at this.

OUT:                                                               IN:
Kewell (free)                                                     Rafinha      8mil
Crouch-sorry to sell but 13mil                               Degen      (free)
Voronin- 2mil                                                     Henry        6mil
JAR- 6mil                                                           Cole        14mil                                   
Pennant- 8mil                                                    David Villa 25mil                     
Carson- 8mil                                                       Bentley    14mil
Finnan- 3mil                                                       
Lucas- 8mil

Total 40mil +30mil= 70mil                                  Total 67mil.

Leaving our Formation..
                                         Reina/Itandje
Rafinha               Carra/Skrtel                   Agger/Hypia         Aurelio/Degen
                                             Masch
Bentley/Benayoun               Gerrard/Alonso                     Cole/Babel
                          Torres/Henry                    David Villa/Kuyt

Ok. Obviously you're not going to be able to sign that amount of players and sell that amount of players without financial backing from Mr. Hicks and Gillette/DIC. But Assuming we did this is what I would do.
I've brought in a few players who are already proven such as Henry, Cole, bentley in the Premie League.
And other players of quality- rafinha, and Villa.
I've not really gone out and bought back-up players, because I feel LFC needs quality players now to make a serious challenge for the league.

hey fletch_rox, i disagree with u, whats wrong with lucas, he is a good young player and why the hell would u buy henry, leave him at barca he can stay there for a while, let someone else win the top scorer

i think we should get rid of Crouch and buy Silva as well as Villa and also get rid of Kuyt

There is my opinion and fletch_rox you gotta kick a goal tomorow

Haydzrox I agree about getting rid of Kuyt, but Rafa likes him tactically, while I don't.
Henry would add experience to our team, and if he won top scorer that would mean we had won the league.
Are you injured? Did you do something to your leg mate? I heard you were in a wheel chair? True or not?

i think we should also get rid of Benayoun cause i hate him........

Yeh i did get a wheelchair from the function center to the nurse place, it was awesome!!! ollie was giving me monos!

Benayoun is a good player. (at times)

yeh but i still hate apart from when he gets hat tricks (which was once) i liked him after that game

Ok I'll have a shot at this.

OUT:                                                               IN:
Kewell (free)                                                     Rafinha      8mil
Crouch-sorry to sell but 13mil                               Degen      (free)
Voronin- 2mil                                                     Henry        6mil
JAR- 6mil                                                           Cole        14mil                                   
Pennant- 8mil                                                    David Villa 25mil                    
Carson- 8mil                                                       Bentley    14mil
Finnan- 3mil                                                      
Lucas- 8mil

Total 40mil +30mil= 70mil                                  Total 67mil.

I have to disagree with some things here. I dont think that Finnan will be sold and if he is 3mill is alot for a player of his age IMO. Also if theirry Henry arrives for 6million then penguins will fly if you know what i mean.  i think you just ran out of funds also i dont really like j.cole but i supose thats your opinion. Also the signing of Degan means that Rafinha would be uncalled for IMO. But other than that i agree with you

yeh but i still hate apart from when he gets hat tricks (which was once) i liked him after that game

Ah, here's the typical glory hunter, very apparent in lots of football fans nowadays. I think Benayoun is an intelligent player although he has his shortcomings overall quality. But throughout season he has played as a backup to the 3 attacking midfielders in the squad and he has been a good backup. The hattrick goes to justify what he is capable of. I have yet to see him play an absolute horror of a performance this season he scores goals, he assists so I am very surprised that someone would come out to say they HATE him. That's an incredible injustice to players who worked hard for the team. Be more reasonable please.

Ah, here's the typical glory hunter, very apparent in lots of football fans nowadays. I think Benayoun is an intelligent player although he has his shortcomings overall quality. But throughout season he has played as a backup to the 3 attacking midfielders in the squad and he has been a good backup. The hattrick goes to justify what he is capable of. I have yet to see him play an absolute horror of a performance this season he scores goals, he assists so I am very surprised that someone would come out to say they HATE him. That's an incredible injustice to players who worked hard for the team. Be more reasonable please.

Totally agree, great post. Was thinking that myself when i read his post.

Ah, here's the typical glory hunter, very apparent in lots of football fans nowadays. I think Benayoun is an intelligent player although he has his shortcomings overall quality. But throughout season he has played as a backup to the 3 attacking midfielders in the squad and he has been a good backup. The hattrick goes to justify what he is capable of. I have yet to see him play an absolute horror of a performance this season he scores goals, he assists so I am very surprised that someone would come out to say they HATE him. That's an incredible injustice to players who worked hard for the team. Be more reasonable please.

Exactly.. totally agree too.. Benayoun is a good squad player to have esp when we need that little magic to unlock stubborn defences..

I think we should also get rid of Benayoun cause I hate him........

Yeh I did get a wheelchair from the function center to the nurse place, it was awesome!!! ollie was giving me monos!

How can you possibly say "you hate Benayoun" as others have said he's a good squad player, not the best I agree, but has done his bit when called upon by Rafa, works hard and doesn't shirk his responsibilities  and he is a very nifty player.

A bit more loyalty wouldn't go amiss to a player who has worked hard for the team this season.