Fucking stupid transfer rumours...

Honest to God! What the fuck is going on at Anfield?

I know this is silly season and all sorts of fabricated transfer stories come out of the woodwork but the sort of players a club is linked to says an awful lot about the standing of that club. Whereas last summer we were unrealistically being linked with the likes of Tevez and David Silva, this summer we’re being linked with Paul Scharner and James fucking Beattie.

I’ve nothing against Scharner. I just think he’s shit. As for Beattie, the ex-Blue and White Shite can’t even get in Stoke’s team so how the fuck would he enhance what we have at Anfield?

Meanwhile, it seems Insua is holding talks with Fiorentina over a £5m transfer and Lucas is being linked with a move to Palermo, also for £5m.

Selling Insua would be MADNESS! He is a youngster (23 next month) who was thrown in at the deep end last season and used far too much. At times he looked out of his depth but given it was his first full season as a first team player, that is to be expected. At other times, he showed enough to suggest he can be a decent player in the future and even was capped by Argentina (admittedly along with about 83 other players under the manic reign of Diego Maradona). In football there are no guarantees but there is every possibility that this lad could develop into a player worth a lot more than £5m in years to come and wouldn’t we be kicking ourselves for flogging him on the cheap then? Of course, the other ‘kind of’ significant issue is he is our only fucking left-back at the club now that Dossena and Aurelio have gone.

As for Lucas, I dearly hope that is just press speculation. Lucas was one of our better players last season and improved a great deal over the course of the campaign – not that it was noticed by the knob-heads who wrote him off as shit during the previous year and don’t actually watch enough games to form an alternative view. Given we signed him for £5m three years ago, are we seriously expected to believe that this player, who has since been capped by Brazil, has not enhanced his value at all? Surely he must at least be worth £10m now? However, the key issue is that with Mascherano certain to be sold, who will play the role of the holding midfielder if Lucas also goes? Scharner?

Is that Hodgson’s master plan? Sell a 24-year old with excellent potential who is now an established first team player and replace him with a 30-year old journey man whose career highlight was playing for Wigan? Relegation, here we come!

As for Beattie, the report in Metro stated:

"The former Fulham boss has already identified his strikers as an area of concern, with few options behind injury-prone star man Fernando Torres.

"Apart from the largely underwheming David Ngog and new signing Milan Jovanovic, the Reds have only a few youngsters on their books with little or no first-team experience."

Typically this lazy fucking reporter hasn’t checked David Ngog’s age. At 21, Ngog is a youngster but thanks to the large gaps in Rafa’s squad last season, he now has quite a bit of first-team experience that will undoubtedly aid his development. Does he look a world beater? No but neither did Adebayor when he first graced the Arsenal first team while it took Thierry Henry years (and a decent manager) to realise his full potential.

Personally, I would choose Ngog over Beattie any and every day of the week. I don’t know enough about Jovanovic, but I would be seriously concerned if Hodgson considered 32-year old Beattie a better prospect up front than the Serbian. Even Kuyt or Babel would be better up front. What a load of shite!

There’s probably no truth in the story but still, the fact that we’re even being linked with players of this standard (and age) instead of the David Villas and Wesley Schneiders says everything about the shit state Liverpool Football Club finds itself in today.

I already want Hodgson out.