Via Guardian: Brendan Rodgers has claimed the deadline day signings of Mamadou Sakho and Tiago Ilori can protect Liverpool in central defence for the next decade. "I wanted to try and protect the present and the future of the club," said Rodgers, who will be without the injured Glen Johnson at Swansea. "Good centre-halves are so hard to find. You look at some teams and they have ageing centre-halves because it is a struggle to get a really good one. "We were fortunate in that two became available. One we had been tracking for a year in Tiago Ilori, a young talent who can be a big talent. He is 6ft 3in, super quick, powerful, can jump. He just needs to adapt to the pace and physicality of the Premier League. He is one for the future but he can be a really big talent. "Sakho is 23 but he is an experienced player, he has senior international caps and looks an absolute monster in training. He is one who is ready for now and that is what we want. We had a chance to protect the club for maybe the next 10 years and that is what we have done." kz..
Posted on: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 07:34:51 +0000
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