Emre Can vs. Frankfurt: Video and Flexing Our Muscles

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If nothing else, were continually making approaches for all the right players. With everyone eerily quiet on Liverpool’s £20mil bid for Southampton captain Adam Lallana, a new option has emerged to re-enforce the center of the park and it’s one that seems to fall more closely in-line with the Reds plan to develop young, promising players.

Over the past few weeks we’ve been linked with Bayern Leverkusen’s versatile midfield maestro Emre Can and today the deal appears to be coming to a head with reports suggesting that despite a complicated contract situation, Liverpool will complete the capture of the 20-year old within the next fortnight. Although a lot can change in that time frame, the Reds hierarchy aren’t leaving things to chance this summer after missing out on a number of high profile targets last year. We have the allure of the Champions League and we have the cash to spend; let’s get down to business.

Video by the ever so talented @MostarLFC

It’s hard to say whether the move for Can comes as an alternative to the higher priced Lallana, or if he was always a stand-alone target. Unlike the Southampton man, Can better fits the Liverpool model. We know he’s young and promising, but he’s also versatile without picking up the stigma of being a “utility man”. His ability to play all across the midfield is something that will have surely peaked Brendan Rodger’s interest and being able to slot in to the back-line if called upon comes as an added bonus.

Although Bayern Leverkusen Sporting Director Rudi Voeller seemed to suggest that Bayern Munich — who have a buy-back option on the youngster — will ultimately dictate proceedings, it all rings a bit hollow when he makes no mystery of how badly the North-Rhine club wants to hang onto him. With a suspected £10mil buy-out clause confirmed to be an actual, tangible thing by the German legend, it would appear that Liverpool just have to pull the trigger on a concrete bid in order to move proceedings forward. This, of course, is something we haven’t had a problem doing in the past; it hasn’t always worked out for us though.

Bids for the likes of Willian, Henrikh Mkhitaryan Diego Costa and Mohamed Salah and the subsequent rejections that came along with them are still a bit fresh in the memory to just shuttle off to one side. Nothing is quite as easy as it might seem on paper, but one thing is for certain: Liverpool is hardly the same beast they were last summer. With a return to the Champions League secured and the very real prospect of another title tilt on offer — not to mention the prospect of sharing the field with England’s most deadly strike force and a host of world class, household names — we’ve redeveloped the metaphorical muscles that need to be flexed in order to attract top drawer talented.

It’s quite obviously that even at this early stage that there’s a very real plan in place on Merseyside and bids for the likes of Lallana and now Can shows that we’ve got our priorities straight. Now that we’ve got those muscles, what better to do with them than show them off?

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Steven McMillan

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8 thoughts on “Emre Can vs. Frankfurt: Video and Flexing Our Muscles

  • May 24, 2014 at 5:52 am
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    Liverpool need a strong midfield, I’m glad Rodgers is going after midfielders now. But really, he should’ve been going after midfielders last summer like every Liverpool fan thought at the time instead of wasting money and a summer market on Aspas, Alberto, Sakho, Moses. Benitez showed with a strong midfield the defenders get protected better and Skrtel + Agger was a solid combination.

  • May 24, 2014 at 11:06 am
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    I realy hopes that Emre Can will become good signing player next season. I think LFC needed atleast 2 more players for position Winger.New winger should able can operate as attacker either left or right winger.Pedro,Cristian Tello,Sherdan Shaqiri and Juan Manuel Iturbe will be the best answer to solve foward issue.

    New CDM player must be type tough,faster,briliant,and genius player.Mohammad Diame and Moussa Sissoko maybe can fullfill our hopes and expectation

  • May 24, 2014 at 3:51 pm
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    He will play where ever he is asked to play but when you take a closer look at his stats, it seems that he can play the deep lying playmaker role and LB well and he can do a job if needed every where else. I really can not see us getting a better player then this guy to replace the captin long term and in the short term add quality to our LB position.

    This guy is a much better player for us then Lellana.

  • May 24, 2014 at 4:19 pm
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    From this video, I don’t he is the kind we need. Of course I am assaidi plays better than he does.. so what’s so special in this player. Nothing. lalana is very much better in every way.

  • May 24, 2014 at 6:42 pm
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    lalana is an attacking player Can is a defensive player.

    Think about it lalana his best position is of the St when for Can is best position is of the CB

    We need Can more because the captin needs a long term replacement and Enrique can not be depended on considering he has not played for a whole season. And as for Flanno at LB that is not good either because Jonno needs both rest and competition to get his performances back to where they were.

    And There are other videos that show more clearly what Can does. In this video he seems to be all over the pitch doing every thing… (Maybe he was told to do the Box t Box role that day) But there are other videos that show him in the DM role where he has consistently played better.

    Although I see him doing his best in the long term in the DM role I can see why others would tip him to be the next big box to Box player like Yaya Toure or Ballack.

  • May 25, 2014 at 3:29 am
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    Liverpool and question what they’ve done is great, the legs and everything I really do idol. Always loved them.

  • May 27, 2014 at 4:52 pm
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    I think we targeted a lot of the right players last summer, we just couldn’t sign them up. Either way, we’re certainly looking in the right direction. Can would be a coup.

  • May 27, 2014 at 4:54 pm
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    Can definately proves better value for money; he’s young, extremely promising and can be developed to play in the Liverpool model.

    Not sure how this will effect our interest in Lallana. To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if we were still in for him regardless.

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