Loic Remy vs. Cardiff City: Video and a Chance at the Champions League
If you can believe the increasing number of reports in the media today, it looks like QPR striker Loic Remy will be a Liverpool player in the coming days after both Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur dropped out of the race to sign the talented Frenchman.
Those his wage demands may be a bit of a concern, his price-tag certainly isn’t; with the Reds on the cusp of selling Fabio Borini and Oussama Assaidi for a combined fee somewhere in the region of £21mil, the 27-year old is available for less than half of that with his buy-out clause for clubs who finished in the top four set at a mere £8.5mil – a figure, in all fairness, we shouldn’t have a problem shelling out.
Video courtesy of @LFCTikiTaka
With Reds boss Brendan Rodgers looking to bring in offensive re-enforcements following Luis Suarez’s departure to Catalan giants Barcelona, you’d be hard pressed to find too many who’d complain about the powerful Frenchman. Fleet of a foot and with an eye for a goal, Remy looks to be a player built to play the Reds brand of football, and if all goes well, he’ll be doing it on a stage befitting his talents.
“I think he really wants to play Champions League football next year somewhere,” QPR boss Harry Redknapp said when asked about the striker’s future at Loftus Road. “We gave him time off after the World Cup but I think he’s really looking to move. I would be surprised if he was at QPR at the start of the year.”
With Liverpool able to offer the Frenchman a chance to shine in Europe’s most prestigious club competition, a move to Merseyside is probably looking just as attractive to him as he is to us. With 14-leage goals and 3-assists for an underperforming Newcastle United side last year, one has to wonder exactly what he’ll be able to do with the far richer resources of a team like the Reds supporting him.
Although it’s still early in the transfer window and the Anfield outfit have been linked with a number of big names, Remy is looking like a solid option to pick up where Suarez left off. Although there are very few players that can be seen as a direct replacement for the Uruguayan – and rest assured that the QPR striker isn’t one of them – it’s important to bring in players that are both tactically aware and compliment the players around them and system in place. He might not be quite as magical as the Barcelona bound goal-machine, but he certainly knows how to find the net.
At this point in time, that’s exactly what we need.
–Steven
The term ‘no brainer’ has been banded around surrounding the vacant striker role at LFC. Looks as though there might be three vacant striker roles at LFC. Aspas, Borini and Suarez out of the picture does invite top strikers to the fold given there is more to play for with added Champions league fixtures.
However being linked with Bony, Lukaku and Remy is awesome and you’d think that LFC would sign at least one of those names with Remy looking increasingly likely though these forwards befit a more target man type profile and not clinical fox-in-the-box type role that Suarez specialised.
This begs the question where will the extra creativity be catered for. Lallana does give LFC an option as does Marcovic. Both on the field of play will affect LFC’s shape and neither are of the ilk of Suarez. So a clinical dribbler/goal poacher general creativity maestro is missing. Good news is a funds are a plenty.
I think Remy is a direct replacement for Suarez… He is the Poor man’s Suarez, so not as good but Similar type of player, bother are strong quick and tricky. But obviously to maintain the level of the team we are going to have to get better in other areas of the pitch.