Ian Graham has named the one participant he’d have cherished for Liverpool to signal greater than some other throughout his time with the membership.
The Reds’ former Director of Analysis has simply launched a e book – ‘How one can Win the Premier League’ – which displays on his spell at Anfield between 2012 and 2023.
He gave a wide-ranging interview to The Athletic and appeared again on his ‘greatest remorse’ when it comes to a participant he’d needed to herald however who in the end ended up at a direct Premier League rival.
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In 2013, Liverpool had been in extended talks over a attainable transfer for Diego Costa and tried to activate his £21m launch clause at Atletico Madrid, however the Spain worldwide penned a brand new contract for Diego Simeone’s aspect earlier than becoming a member of Chelsea a 12 months later.
Refelcting on what may have been at Anfield, Graham stated: “Are you able to think about a Liverpool entrance line of Luis Suarez and Diego Costa? It might have been filthy! Because it was, Costa ended up becoming a member of Chelsea the next 12 months.”
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It’s not laborious to see why Graham would’ve cherished to see Costa becoming a member of Liverpool 11 years in the past, with the striker happening to attain 36 targets within the 2013/14 season, even eclipsing the majestic Suarez that 12 months.
The now 35-year-old then had two 20-goal Premier League campaigns at Chelsea, each of which ended within the Blues lifting the title. Throughout 2014/15 particularly, when the Reds struggled up entrance after the Uruguayan’s transfer to Barcelona, a striker of the Spaniard’s prolific nature would’ve been particularly welcome.
His objective file completely speaks for itself, though the previous Blues marksman had some unedifying features to his recreation. Suppose again to his clashes with Emre Can and Martin Skrtel in matches in opposition to LFC, or his skirmish with Laurent Koscielny which enraged Arsenal in a 2015 fixture.
Costa was troublesome to love throughout his time in English soccer, and whereas he might have scored loads of targets had he come to Liverpool, we’d enterprise to recommend that he’d even have sullied the membership’s title by getting concerned in unsavoury incidents.
By the point he’d taken his go away of Chelsea in lower than pleasant circumstances, the Reds had assembled a ahead line of Mo Salah, Bobby Firmino and Sadio Mane, a triumvirate which shortly wrote itself into legend and achieved loads of tangible success at Anfield.
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