Jul
10
2007
3 reasons why Babel for Liverpool is a good move at 13.5m
The price-tag being quoted could make some Liverpool fans cringe and non-Liverpool fans point and laugh, but there are some very good reasons why Rafa’s move for Ryan Babel will be a good one for Liverpool:
- Young, quality player - in earlier years Rafa would have signed a Pennant and been forced to compromise. Babel is a good winger who, if he adapts to the Premiership, will do a lot to bring attacking fluidity to this Liverpool side.
- Not too expensive - Bellamy and Cisse will go for more than 10m - with new owners pledging to spend ‘as much as necessary’, you’d expect Liverpool to spend a bit and 13.5m for a long-term quality investment isn’t a bad deal.
- If Arsenal are truly after Babel and Liverpool pip them to him, it’s a big statement.
Come to think of it, Babel would be a risk at 13.5m, but I’m assuming that Rafa has seen him play more than I have and knows what he’s going for.
Good play for Liverpool all around.
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I disagree. Babel was outshined by Marceo Rigters’ U21 performances this summer - Rigters cost Blackburn in the region of £1m and Babel will cost Liverpool £13.5m? Doesn’t make sense to me…
I’d rather cough up an extra £8.7m and buy Dani Alves from Sevilla, or just pay £4m for a premiership proven player in Yossi Benayoun. A team of Liverpool’s standards should also be looking at Morten Gamst-Pedersen, again, a proven Premiership winger.
I’m not sure Babel’s style will fit the Premiership either…
I agree to some extent with Magor.
In addition, Babel is more a striker who can play wing, rather than an out and out winger. If we are going to pay big for a winger, we should buy specialists. Quaresma and Simao ar proven wingers with champions league experience. It is this experience that we need, and that Rafa was talking about previously. Torres has good experience for his age, but is still a young man and not a leader.
For me Simao would still be a great buy at around £12m because his experience would help Pennant to develop his potential.
You all think Ajax’s players are players without any experience, look at ibrahimovic, vd vaart, sneijder, huntelaar , maduro and of course babel. that are players with champions league experience and, another important thing, they ain’t old at all.
WHY WHY DID SCOUSERS HAVE 2 BLOODY COPY COPY TRANFER TARGETS R U JEALOUS OR SOMETHING BABEL IS AFC ALL THE WAY WENGER SCOUTS TALENTS OTHER TEAMS JUST STEAL THE TALENT OR COPY HES STAYIN AT AJAX AND NXT SUMMER WILL BE AT AFC QURESMA WONT JOIN LIVERPOOL
I think Rafa is also looking to add more flair players, one of the things they lacked causing them to lose the champ league final last year. Babel might not be worldclass, but he ís unpredictable.
Turn off caps arsenalfan.
ps. Your an idiot
Arse-anal Fan.
Could we please have some punctuation. However, I have to say that your observation that Liverpool are ’stealing’ from Arsenal is amusing. He is an Ajax player. If anyone is getting done here it is he dutch league again. Liverpool have an amazing network of scouts in place now; have you seen how many young kids have come in during the last two seasons? And another thing, if Arsenal lose out to Liverpool with Babel it is their own fault for moving too slowly and allowing the Thierry Henry deal to take their eye of the ball.
For the money being spent, (£10m-£13.5m) Liverpool could have gotten Ibrahimovic 2 years ago; Van der Vaart went for around £4m and Ajax only paid around £6.5m for Huntelaar…
My point isn’t that Babel won’t come good, but that Liverpool are getting fleeced at the rumored transfer fee.
I think Babel has great potential, but certainly has not demonstrated as much so far as Zlatan did (he was an established international when Juve took him) or as much as Van Der Vaart did (established international as well) at the time they were sold.
Now I understand that both Zlatan and VDV probably wanted out a bit more than Babel, but still the money being spent on Babel when only a few million pounds more gets you Quaresma seems staggering.
But I suppose the price for top English teams is almost always double the price for everyone else.
Jermaine Pennant might just be the best “compromise” on the planet at the minute. Enough said.
Well, Benitez can buy anyone he wants, but Liverpool won’t win the title. That’s for sure. One, two, three signings won’t make a difference. Well, this may not necessarily be true, but what is certain is that Babel won’t be the saviour. And what’s wrong with Pennant? He was the best player in the CL final. That’s not good enough? For people that had to endure the likes of Cheyrou, Diao and such, you’ve got some fucking high standards.
Every player is a risk when they move countrys. Young kids will find it easier to adopt to new things. Older players (sheva) (morientes) have found it tough.
hes got a lot of potential, but a lot of reds players have had potential, and done NOTHING. that seems to be happening a lot round now…would have preferred morten gamst pedersen, but babel could be great!!.. ope we get quaresma as well…
Fact is, VDV and Zlaten went too cheap. Babel and Sneijder are the last remaining growth gems. Sneijder has almost reached his peak where Babel’s growth curve seems to increase. It’s a risk for both Liverpool aswell as Babel. Only the future will tell if he was worth the money. I do think tho that if Benitez lets him play the way Foppe de Haan let him play in the U21 Babel will provide Torres with alot of ammo. As a single man scoring threat Babel isnt quiet there yet.