Agree? "He is not our marquee signing" Jan Molby: Mamadou Sakho not marquee signing LFC wanted. When you kick off the season with three successive clean sheets, it’s a little bit surprising to see two centre-backs added to the squad on transfer deadline day! But Mamadou Sakho and Thiago Ilori can be excellent acquisitions for the club – even if they do pose questions about the long-term prospects of Martin Skrtel and Kolo Toure. Sakho might have cost £15m – but he isn’t the marquee signing we’ve chased all summer. With all due respect, there weren’t any queues outside the club shop on Tuesday morning to buy shirts with his name on the back. A marquee signing is someone who gets you out of your seat like Mesut Ozil, Willian or Henrik Mkrtchyan. But given the size of his transfer fee Sakho has clearly been bought with the first team in mind. Quite where that leaves Skrtel we’ll have to wait and see. Martin didn’t put a foot wrong against Manchester United – although that’s a great fixture for a player to come back into after a spell out of the team. You can’t fail to be switched on and focused for 90 minutes in a game of that intensity. But while he looked pleased to have come through that match, it’s clear Brendan Rodgers likes Kolo Toure’s aggression, while not many clubs spend £15m on a substitute defender. If Sakho can get back to the player he was when he first broke into senior football he will do well for us. Something obviously went wrong when you look at where he was at the age of 17, but he is still only 23 and if he can recapture that early form will flourish. He is big, strong, quick – all the attributes needed to succeed in the Premier League – and was a captain of PSG at just 17. He’s one for the future. Whether Skrtel still has a future at Anfield only time will tell. JE
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 15:26:36 +0000
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