Here’s a crazy notion that I’m sure won’t receive every Liverpool fan’s consent. The Reds have been drastically short of goals this season For a team that set out to be title contenders, 47 Premier League goals really isn’t good enough (especially in comparison to Manchester City’s 93 goals). Of course there’s no real accounting for Andy Carroll’s season long lack of form and Luis Suarez’s surprising wastefulness in front of goal.
But without new additions, Liverpool could well be doomed to repeat these mistakes. Yes Andy Carroll was beginning to find his feet at the end of the season, but there’s no guarantee that he’ll continue to improve next season.
So I’d say that the Reds need a couple of astute forward signings if they’re to fight their way to a top four finish next season. I don’t necessarily feel that Liverpool’s next manager should look to break the bank (look where that got them with Andy Carroll). Whilst spending big may be a good way of bringing class to your club, it’s not the only way.
Which brings me to Norwich City’s Player of the Season, Grant Holt. He surprised just about everybody last week by handing in a transfer request. Yes their chief executive David McNally took to Twitter to play things down, but it’s clear that he’s ready to move on. McNally told the world: We did receive a transfer request from Grant Holt yesterday. It was rejected immediately.”
So Holt is looking for a move elsewhere but Norwich are not willing to sell him. Is it so crazy to suggest that he may be a good transfer target for goal-shy Liverpool?
He has been Norwich City’s Player of the Year for three seasons on the trot and has made the step up to the Premier League effortlessly. Yes he didn’t get into the England squad, but he deserved to. He’s England’s second highest Premier League goalscorer and certainly deserves a place ahead of Jermain Defoe and Andy Carroll. 17 goals speaks for itself – that’s more than 1/3 of Liverpool’s total goal tally. If he can do it for Norwich, surely he can do the same for Liverpool?
Fans mock him because he’s not got the physique commonly associated with professional footballers, but he’s got an uncanny ability for getting himself in goalscoring positions. He’s also capable of scoring goals out of nowhere. Isn’t this exactly the kind of player that the Reds need?
What’s more, he wouldn’t cost a fortune. Norwich won’t want to sell but since it’s clear that Holt’s ready to move on, they wouldn’t have much ground to stand on when it came to negotiations.
If Liverpool bought Holt and another forward that would strike me as a successful summer’s work.
What’s your take? Is Holt the right man for Liverpool or should they be looking for other more expensive targets?
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Not a bad shout, rush, aldridge, hansen and even keegan all made the step up from lower league teams, holt isn’t even in a lower league, he has shown through his career he has a will and hunger to suceed, and won’t be a big time charlie, and would be happy not to play in every single game, everton gambled on jelavic, when we had the chance to sign him, and gambles some times are worth taking, he’s english as well , which is always a benefit, and has u have said, won’t cost a bomb! But some liverpool fans lately, have shown a snobbery, which sometimes disgust me! Y..N..W..A jft96! Have faith in fsg, they had faith in buying liverpool, when there was a load of clubs who would of been cheaper! When did liverpudlians turn so pessimistic!
Get him..
not for me anyway! would much prefer to pay the reported £3.5m asking price for young jordan rhodes of huddersfield! i know he has no premier league experience but 40 goals with a game to go, he certainly knows where the net is. rhodes is only 22 years old so would represent very little risk at all as we would certainly take little or no hit if it didn’t work out!