Didn't Mowbray say he wanted two centre halves?So could be in addition to the city lad

Is it a surprise we are not spending money?.Most championship clubs ain't spending money,we along with the rest of them have had minuscule income the past 18 months and we don't sell players at least up until last week and now they are saying a bit of money for a permanent signing . And I'm not buying we never spend money Mowbray has had plenty of money and we only have to look at how much we spend on wages compared to what we bring in

With the money wasted on long term deals ,Mulgrew, Bennett, Evans etc etc and the failed signings do we really want Mowbray being given more money.Get enough in to keep us up and clean sweep in the dugout next season. The young loan signings last couple of years , Elliot, Bellis, Tosin, Reed before them have been amongst our better players.This window more than any you will see clubs in the championship using loans from premier League acadamies

And all will want two year deals and nice wages, all injury prone and ageing.We can't give out contracts to our own assets because we over spent on giving out expensive deals to ageing,injury prone and past it players and have done whenever the owners have decided to spend some money.. Murphy,Best ,Etuthu,all the foreign lads, Giving Mulgrew that contract, Evans money for nothing never fit ,Holtby a baller on his day but a luxury the club couldn't afford

The majority of thd I could argue Elliots assists helped keep us in the league.And Bellis improved the defence

Chapman isn't as good as Elliot,far from it. You think it is realistic to expect as many as eight to step up from our academy this season?We have lost 12 players and are reliant on the loan market and personally I would prefer a TOP young prospect than say A Trybull whose club are so desperate to get rid of they loaned him to a championship rival for a 2k a week contribution to his wage?

Anyone decent will want money we don't pay.All the better ones that we had a chance of affording were snapped up when we had an embargo. Nixon saying at least one permanent signing and crooke and Sharpe been saying it too

So we should have got all of Elliots assists and goals for nothing?Bellis helped win us matches. We ain't unique in using the loan market

Didn't say I was happy but I'm accepting of the situation we are in.We are not spending much on permanent signings if anything, and to be fair I don't want Mowbray being given too much to bring in another Johnson or Holtby and give out big contracts, I want him out the door asap. The majority of clubs will be using loans from the premier league acadamies, and by all accounts Clarkson is considered one of the better ones available so yes I am happy in that regard. We have lost 12 players ,logic tells us that not all of those 12 can be replaced by our own academy.3 or 4 of them being capable yes but any more than that is stretching it and they would be better served going down to league one and playing every week for a season

Sam Hart he will be on about

No I didn't.I said criticising the club for something you don't know to be true is ridiculous. Plenty of legitimate reasons to call the club out on. You hadnt even heard of Clarkson last week and now you know the club made a ricket in not signing him up as a youngster.We have no idea what went on. Even if he was at the club although the official Liverpool site says he joined their academy at 6, it's hardly just cause to stick the boot in for the club not recognising he would make it by the age of 9.And as for the club losing out on many local top talents, name some from the last 30 years.Every club in the country has let a talent slip through their fingers every now and again

Who said that? It's fine to criticise the club, just extremely odd to criticise when you don't have any idea what's gone on. Going off your posting history you get enjoyment out of it which is extremely odd

The official Liverpool site has him down as joining the academy at 6

We don't know what happened.Unless you know for a fact that Rovers turned him away and said he wasn't good enough then we can't really criticise the club for it can we.

If you have the money to pay experienced players their wage then fair enough we don't. And going off Mowbrays spell in charge the younger loans have worked out and improved the team Armstrong, Tosin, Elliot, Harrison Reed,Harwood Bellis. Experienced men like Trybull and Douglas were poor

I don't know Jim.Maybe he trained with them at that age but no reason to stick the boot into the club when he signed for Liverpool at 6 years of age

Look no disrespect to the lads we already have but Clarkson has been with the senior team at Liverpool a good 12 months,has played 90 minutes in the Champions League and is tied down to a long term contract.Been spoke about by the management there as one who will make it for them.He will be better quality than what we have

They won't all be fit throughout the season.If we signed no midfielder we would be in trouble. Every single club in the championship is making moves in the loan market.

Have no idea just know he joined Liverpool at 6

He joined Liverpool at the age of 6 https://www.liverpoolfc.com/team/academy/player/leighton-clarkson

I get where you are coming from but last season , Douglas , Trybull, Elliot, Braintwaithe and Harwood Bellis all had spells out of the team. Trybull when not injured spent a good bit of time on the bench,Douglas had time spent on the bench.Elliot when standards dropped put on the bench.Bellis had to wait a little to get in but once Braintwaithe was showing poor form then Braintwaithe was dropped and Bellis replaced him. Both Elliot and Bellis were in the team on merit. We have lost 12 players and one would hope we have 3 or 4 coming through that will be ready to play a part this season but anymore than that and it will be unprecedented.Some of our younger ones will be better getting regular game time in league one or two, which will benefit both them and us in the longer term

He been with Liverpool since the age of 6.

Clarkson and Travis in front of the back four with Rothwell more advanced.Its a long season Buckley, Rothwell, Travis Clarkson , Davenport won't play every game. Elliot didn't start every match last season

I think Clarkson is similar on the ball but more defensive minded and sits more in front of the back 4.

Ha true but Wayne Rooney, Darren Ferguson and Carlos Corberan are hardly managerial heavyweights