Adam Liverpool move back on?

It seems the Luis Suarez transfer deal again has broken down. Liverpool and Ajax has again failed to reach an agreement, and Suarez feels cheated by his club.

- Now I have a very small motivation to play for Ajax, Suarez says.

However talks between the two clubs are said to still be ongoing, and this saga is probably not over just yet.

Rumours elsewhere say Ajax has set a new Saturday deadline, with a @21,5m price tag. Other rumours speculating in that Suarez will become a Liverpool player by Friday - that he will sign friday morning.

When it comes to Charlie Adam, his Anfield dream could still be on thanks to other moves for Chelsea, Fulham and Blackpool.

The player wants to leave, having handed in a transfer request at the start of the week, but the Tangerines and Ian Holloway are staying strong as they hold out for a fee that they believe Adam’s merits warrant - £12m.

According to GiveMeFootball Chelsea’s Gael Kakuta completed his loan switch to Fulham which could pave the way for Zoltan Gera to move north to Blackpool, which in turn could make way for Charlie Adam’s long-awaited transfer to Anfield.

If the Adam transfer fails to happen, Liverpool could make a move for Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Niko Kranjcar.

According to The Daily Mirror, Werder Bremen are interested in the Croatian, but the player himself wants to continue plying his trade in the Premier League.

It is thought that he would like to play for the Reds, who are currently interested in Blackpool midfielder Adam, Goal.com claims.

However, it has been reported that the situation could very well change if they are unable to land the Seasiders' skipper, with Spurs outcast Kranjcar lined up as a backup option.

And, if the Suarez deal does not go through, Liverpool will switch their attention to Bolton's Johan Elmander.

Reds owner John W Henry is refusing to be held to ransom and is busy making contingency plans if the Suarez transfer does not take place.

Elmander has been on the Merseyside club's list after an excellent start to the campaign saw him nine goals for Wanderer's. A downturn in fortunes for Owen Coyle's team that has seen them take just one point from the last 15 available has coincided with the goals drying up for the Sweden international.

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish, though, has seen enough in the 29-year-old's game to convince him that he is of sufficient calibre to perform capably at Anfield, Sportingo claims.

And with his contract at the Reebok Stadium due to expire at the end of the season, Elmander would cost a fraction of his market value – around £2.5m.

A transfer that seems to be likely to happen, is Paul Konchesky to Fulham. It is reported that the two clubs held talks over the full-back last night when the Cottagers visited Anfield.

This may open the door to a return for Aston Villa's Stephen Warnock.

Should Konchesky leave Anfield, Liverpool's interim manager Kenny Dalglish will take Aston Villa defender Stephen Warnock on loan for the rest of the season, The Daily Mail reports.

According to The FootballTransferTavern Wolfsburg manager Steve McClaren has offered £6m for Liverpool flop Milan Jovanovic.

McClaren has targeted Liverpool’s Jovanovic, a player who has failed to make a decent impression at Anfield since joining on a free transfer in the summer.

Serie A sides Fiorentina and Genoa have also been rumoured to have an interest, but Wolfsburg are cash happy and can afford to ‘go for the kill’ on more or less whoever they target.

Looking on to the next transfer window - Sport.co.uk understands that Galatasaray captain Arda Turan looks set to be made available in the summer following a number of enquiries during the January transfer window according to the player’s chief representative.

The Premier League quartet of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur have been perennially linked with the 23-year-old playmaker who has performed well in a poor campaign for Galatasaray thus far which sees the Lions sitting in seventh place in the SPORTTOTO SuperLig.

- Of course there has been a lot of interest, from the Premier League and Spain, but the club do not want to sell Arda at the moment. In six months we will see, Ahmet Bulut told Sport.co.uk.

Turan is an icon in Turkey and one of the most exciting prospects the country has produced, with many Galatasaray fans drawing comparisons with former Gala playmaker and Romanian international Gheorghe Hagi, currently his manager at the Turkish giants.

Liverpool with official winger enquiry

A few eventful days at Anfield today culminated with the unveiling of new manager Kenny Dalglish and new head coach Steve Clarke .

I wish them both good luck with the task they have before them - it is enormous!



Dalglish under today's press conference hinted that there may be no transfer business in January - with tis window being a 'difficult market'. But anyone who knows this business knows he will keep his cards close to the chest...

Today's big buzz was the rumour regarding the possible transfer of Luis Suarez, with tweets saying things like "Luis Suarez has flown in to JLA and will sign for Liverpool tomorrow - Pending medical". But yet nothing has materialized.

Today's most concrete rumour is about Valencia winger Pablo Hernandez.

Liverpool are reportedly set to make a move for the Spaniard,  who is said to be frustrated at the lack of first team opportunities on offer with Los Che and is now looking elsewhere for more regular football.

According to The Mirror, this has alerted Liverpool to his availability and The Transfer Tavern now reports the Anfield club have made on 'official enquiry'.

Yesterday it was claimed by Goal.com that Liverpool are set to launch a summer swoop for Sevilla striker Alvaro Negredo.

Now Talksport say Liverpool have been given the green light to make a £17m offer for Sevilla striker Alvaro Negredo.

Negredo, 25, has been attracting interest from a number of top clubs following his impressive displays in La Liga. Liverpool are keen to bolster their forward line and give some much needed support to Fernando Torres who looks well below his best this season.

Kenny Dalglish has just taken charge of first-team affairs but the club have been working hard to bring new faces into the squad.

Reports in Spain suggest that Sevilla would not block a sizeable bid for their star forward and would consider a £17m offer.

Dalglish is set to seal a move for Benfica left back Fabio Coentrao as his first signing in January, according to reports.

The new Reds boss wants to bring in a replacement for Paul Konchesky, one of Roy Hodgson’s high-profile flops, to improve their defence, GiveMeFootball claims.

Alongside Damian Comolli, Dalglish has amended Liverpool’s January transfer wishlist, which now includes Ryan Shawcross and Ricky van Wolfswinkel at the top.

Coentrao is one of the best full backs around and would be a significant coup for Liverpool and possibly signal signs of better things to come for the remainder of the season.

Rumours coming out of Ipswich Town have suggested that Kenny Dalglish’s Liverpool have recently had scouts sniffing around their star striker, Connor Wickham according to the Footballtransfertavern.

Liverpool are said to have had their boys out to watch the 17-year-old starlet in recent matches and a bid of £10million would be enough to secure the striker’s services.

At just 17 he has been tipped to become a real star for the future with interest from Tottenham and Arsenal. However, then manager, Roy Keane, was unwilling to let the youngster go and even announced that should Wickham leave that he would have been ‘lynched’.

Following the termination of Keane’s deal with Ipswich, the door has been left open for the 17-year-old. Offers will now go through the board and a large bid for the player could turn some heads.

Liverpool will face a battle if the club is to win the signature of reported transfer target Johan Elmander.

Corriere dello Sport reports that Italian side Fiorentina are weighing up a January bid for the Sweden international as he continues to stall over new contract with Bolton, GiveMeFootball report.

Elmander is Bolton's record-signing after joining the club from Toulouse for around £10m in 2008, and the 29-year-old has been in magnificent goalscoring form this season.

His performances have led to the Trotters launching a surprise assault on the Champions League places and have also reportedly caught the eye of Liverpool director of football strategy Damien Comolli.

However, Bolton boss Owen Coyle has attempted to ease fears that the Swede would be moving to Anfield, but admitted that Elmander would be crazy not to consider joining a club the size of Liverpool.

- If it was a club of a similar size to Bolton I believe he would stay here. If an elite club came in Johan would be crazy not to think about it, he said.

Dutch sensation already a done deal?

The recent rumors and reports has said that there is only one player who seems to be ready for a Liverpool transfer this January window.  

A Daily Mail article stated that a deal for Rennes winger Sylvain Marveaux allready is in place.

But now it seems another young, talented player is on his way to Anfield in January...

The FootballTransferTavern says that a deal for 21-year-old Dutch sensation, Ricky van Wolfswinkel "is apparently already a done-deal". 

He has already hit 11 goals in 17 starts for FC Utrecht this season and according to the report he will cost around £8m.

The site also makes a statement to the official LFC site from Roy Hodgson to be about the player.

- As I’ve said to the supporters many times, it’s important that we don’t just get bodies and numbers. We need people who are going to be very good for the long-term future of the club, or players who are definitely going to make a big difference to us in terms of what we’re going to do in the beginning of 2011, Hodgson said.

It remains to see just how much time Hodgson has left as manager of Liverpool FC, but it might be that NESV is bypassing him. It might be that director of football strategy Damien Comolli be responsible for the transfers, without Hodgson really knowing he has no long term role...
 
The Transfer Tavern also states that Hodgson has got his Fulham cap back on, and is preparing for a bidding war with his old club for Crystal Palace’s 18-year-old forward, Wilfried Zaha.

The scouts have already been deployed, and Kenny Dalglish is rumoured to have a hand in this deal, too. Palace will demand a fee of £2m for their man.

The transfer widow will certainly be a busy time at Anfield, and Hodgson has clearly made signing a striker his top priority, having also been linked with Chelsea’s Daniel Sturridge and Bolton’s Johan Elmander recently.

Carlton Cole back on the radar

Today we have been familiar with the rumour that Italian club Roma want Liverpool forward Dirk Kuyt - and are happy to give the Reds Philippe Mexes in return.

Roy Hodgson on the other hand insists he is now keen to keep the current squad intact ahead of the January transfer window. 

The Daily Mail today claims Roma have set their sights on Dirk Kuyt and hope to tempt Liverpool with an exchange for Philippe Mexes.

The paper says reports in Rome claim Kuyt is open to a move to Italy.

Rafa Benitez remains keen to take Kuyt to Inter Milan, but Liverpool put off the European champions by demanding a prohibitive £20m in the summer.

Roma can’t even offer half that and a straight swap for France centre half Mexes looks far from value for money as the 28-year-old is out of contract at the end of the season.

Kuyt is under contract at Anfield till 2012 and Roma fear Liverpool will ask for Montenegro striker Mirko Vucinic in exchange.

Vucinic has many admirers in England, including Manchester United, though coach Claudio Ranieri wants him to stay at the Olympic Stadium.

I can never ever understand how Hodgson would want to sell Kuyt to Rome to get Mexes back. Kuyt is a real quality player that brings a lot to the team. Mexes is going to turn 29 next year. The rest you can figure out yourself.

But now on to anther more likely rumour.

Carlton Cole was a reported Liverpool tranfer target this summer. And he will leave West Ham for Liverpool in January, according to Metro.

The Hammers striker was publicly critical of boss Avram Grant after they slumped to 3-0 defeat at Anfield last Saturday and the east London club remain rooted to the bottom of the Premier League.

This has led to speculation that the 27-year-old wants out of Upton Park, with Liverpool reportedly the frontrunners for his signature.

Cole said after the Liverpool loss:

- We can come here and talk a good game and say we are going to do this to them and come with a game plan, but we didn’t even turn up for this game.

- In the first 10 minutes we had lost the game, psychologically anyway. I’m lost for words now, I can’t speak too much because I get emotional with these things and it gets on my nerves and I don’t want to talk about certain things, he said.

The £9m rated England forward was linked with a switch to Anfield during the summer and Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson has recently admitted he was monitoring Cole.

Hodgson has made no secret of his desire to add more potency to his Anfield attack after admitting that Liverpool rely too heavily on Kop heroes Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard.

Bolton striker Johan Elmander and Aston Villa winger Ashley Young have both been linked with moves to Anfield as the January transfer window draws closer.

In-form Bolton ace Johan Elmander has been linked with a number of Premier League clubs as his future at the Reebok hangs in the balance.

According to the Mirror, Liverpool, Newcastle and Stoke all have the talented Swede in their sights after it was revealed he could leave Bolton for nothing in the summer when his contract expires.

Elmander is Bolton's record-signing after joining the club from Toulouse for around £10 million in 2008, and the 29-year-old has been in magnificent goalscoring form of late.

His performances have led to Bolton launching a surprise assault on the Champions League places and have also reportedly caught the eye of Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson.

Hodgson has made no secret of his desire to add more potency to his Anfield attack after admitting that Liverpool rely too heavily on Kop heroes Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard.

And, with Torres' chequered injury history, Hodgson is keen to strengthen his striking ranks and is thought to be interested in bringing Elmander to Liverpool.

However, Bolton boss Owen Coyle has attempted to ease fears that the Sweden international would be moving to Anfield, but admitted that Elmander would be crazy not to consider joining a club the size of Liverpool.

- If players are playing well it is only natural bigger clubs will cast an eye on them. That is the nature of football and I am relaxed about it, Cole said.

- Until those bids come in, it is all hypothetical. When they do we will give them respect and make a decision. I do not get caught up in it too much and beat myself up. Johan knows that.

- If it was a club of a similar size to Bolton I believe he would stay here. If an elite club came in Johan would be crazy not to think about it.

- I have no problems with that. Johan is well within his rights to do what is right for himself and his family. What I will do game by game is try to get the best out of him.

Coyle added: - Phil [Gartside] has had talks with Johan's representative and that will be on-going.

- Johan has been terrific from day one and if they decide they want it to run its course into January, then so be it.

Yet another Lille player supposedly is on Liverpools transfer radar.

Liverpool are now being linked with a January transfer move for French international Adil Rami, GiveMeFootball reports

The Lille defender is the latest Ligue 1 player to be targeted by the Anfield club, with Liverpool boss Roy Hodgson thought to have his eye on a string of Les Dogues players.

Rami, Gervinho and Eden Hazard are all thought to be potential transfer targets for the Merseyside outfit.

A towering defender of Moroccan decent, Rami joined Lille from Frejus in 2007, and has gone on to be an integral part of the team at the Stadium Lille-Metropole.

Experience at European club and international level makes the player a viable target, and the Liverpool boss was thought to have been impressed by Rami's performance in the recent 2-1 victory for France over England at Wembley.

The Reds boss is thought to have targeted 'five or six' players for the opening month of 2011, and new owners NESV look set to offer the Liverpool chief a transfer war chest in the region of £35 million.

Whilst a striking foil for Fernando Torres is thought to be the priority, the former Fulham boss is keen to strengthen in the core areas. Central defence is one of those positions, leading to speculation that Liverpool will make a move for Rami at the first opportunity.