Locked: Summer 2007 ins and outs

Whatever happened to the rumor that had Liam going to Reading for Ingimarsson and Seol Ki-Hyeon? That looks a lot better now with Mac and Bouazza out long term.

 

i saw this at the end of a football 365 article:

...Watford star Jay DeMerit has demanded £10,000 a-week or he will leave the Championship club...

could be good news for fulham

 

I'm with Don. Papa leaves, no tears.

Liam leaves, in fact already with Liam nowhere in sight, I'm like Bill the Cat. *pfffft* *aackk*

 

Liam may be loaned to Bolton. He has no future at Fulham though. Not Sanchez's kind of fullback.

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Sto ... 82,00.html

 

In that he's, what, not Northern Irish?

 

According to some on T-F-I.com, Stuutgart striker Daniel Lluboja has been loaned out to Fulham. I do not know much about this guy. I have read that Bolton was after him last season and I have also read he is a bit of a hot head.

Someone mentioned that he scored two goals for the reserves last night, but as is the case with everything in the first paragraph, I cannot officially confirm this to be true.

 

I'm disappointed that we're offloading Liam. Although his passing could be better, he's an outstanding young back and can only get better. Baird better turn out to be a stud is all i can say

 

No... he apparently wants/likes "stay-at-home" fullbacks. Liam is an attack minded fullback. Neither Baird or Konchesky go too far forward often and join the attack.

 

Ljuboja would be a real gamble. He has talent but he is apparently a head case who can't get along with anybody. Doesn't seem like Lawrie's kind of player.

 

Is Liam really that attack minded? 78 games for Fulham, zero goals.

 

I definitely remember seeing Baird and Konchesky get forward at least some in the games that have been televised, though I couldn't say whether it's quantitatively *as much* as Liam does so. Baird doesn't pass the ball any better than Liam does, from what I've seen.

The fact that Liam hasn't scored any goals doesn't prove that he's not attack minded, I don't think.

All I know about Ljuboja I know from having signed him for FFC during a game of Championship Manager. Big forward, even taller than McBride. One poster on TFI included a Youtube clip showing him scoring a nice goal from outside the box with his left foot.

 

No comment on Liam's potential loan deal, although I'd like to see him stay to keep depth in the back.

If you look at post #2 of this thread (from many moons ago) by Petty, it has proven to be eerily clairvoyant.

 

I totally understand where you're coming from, Don, but just to play devil's advocate, I'll say this: we don't know what's going on behind the scenes, how Liam is acting, what their relationship is, etc. I'm not saying Liam's attitude is a problem, because obviously I have no idea. But without knowing that, I think it's hard to really blame Sanchez.

 

Actually, I think Baird is a really good passer. He's crossed in from deep a couple of Fulham's scoring opportunities thus far.

McBride's goal in the QPR game was started by Baird who perfectly deeped crossed to Healy's head while Healy was running forwards and then to McBride. Dempsey's almost assist on Saturday to Healy was another deep cross from Baird that was headed very nicely to Healy. Both were just about the same play.

About them getting forward, of course Baird and Konchesky get forward some... but that is not what they're looking to do. Liam ran way up the pitch sometimes looking to get involved offensively like with the Dempsey Liverpool goal. Baird and Konchesky mostly get involved by crossing in balls from deeper parts of the pitch.

He may also just come down to the fact that Baird is Lawrie's guy and Liam isn't. So if he isn't going to play him, Liam needs to go somewhere else so he can get more opportunities.

 

Anyone interested in Thomas Gravesen? I guess Fulham is. I always like what this guy brought to the center of midfield when at Everton. He is 31 and his best years are probably behind him though. What does everyone think? Yay or Nay?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/footbal ... 961068.stm

 

Nay,

I am not big on what TG would bring to Fulham at this time. His time of bossing the midfield is over IMO. Don't think he would be a huge improvement over our current CM's. Though he would add depth.

 

TG may do for this season. Fulham sort of needs an enforcer to allow Smertin to focus more on the attack.

 

Yay. He's not an every match player, but now and again he shows up and makes his presence felt, like a hattrick for Celtic last season. He also didn't play that poorly against AC Milan in Champions League (not that Fulham will have to worry about that). Real is not a bad pedigree.

One more bit of info, girlfriend (wife?) is a porn star.
Yay, Yay, Yay.