Hands up, who has heard of Liverpool's new signing?

Oussama Ossaidi from Heerenveen.

Not me but he's a winger what we need.

Minimal risk involved in a player for that much, I bet his wages are quite small as well. If we get little reward from signing him, whatever, no biggie, but if he does OK then he's an instant winner. Never heard of him and haven't read any opinion on him, which usually doesn't bode well.

Is Rodgers in charge of signings now? He's not made many mistakes in his career so far, but I guess there is a difference between a canny signing for Swansea and Liverpool.

What do we think about this new Under 21 Premier League idea? What are the groupings based on? Random selection, quality of youth players produced or quality of facilities?

Group 1:
Arsenal, Blackburn, Bolton, Everton, Norwich, Reading, West Brom, West Ham

Group 2:
Aston Villa, Man United, Newcastle, Southampton, Stoke, Sunderland, Tottenham

Group 3:
Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Fulham, Liverpool, Man City, Middlesborough, Wolves

Teams play each other home and away then the top 3 from groups 1 and 2 and the top 2 from group 3 go into an Elite League for the second half of the season, the others falling into a qualification group 1 and 2 depending on where they finished. Three semi finalists then come from the Elite League and the final place comes from the winner of a play off between qualification group 2 and 3.

There is then a Grand Final for the Under 21 Premier League.

Interesting, very, very interesting. Is this perhaps a test bed for having a GF in the Premier League?

A quick scurry over the net. Direct, fast, tricky winger who can use both feet and play on the left or the right. Was apparantley all set to join Ajax yesterday but couldn't agree terms. At £3M I'd gladly take him.

Was this you RAWK, LTS? (On signing Oussama Assaidi) (He is) Rapid on FIFA with good dribbling.

There's a world of difference, but we can afford to 'trial' a player for that much. Use him off the bench, if he makes a positive impact, start him a few times, see how he does in training, etc.. There's little to lose when buying a player for £3m when you compare that to some of the recent expenditure over the past few seasons.

I honestly have no clue who is behind signings.

Don't play FIFA, play FM, so no.

Assaidi is a terrific little player. Even better getting him for Aissati money.

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Maybe it's just me, but I'm not a big fan of signing established players. They often lack versatility, they begin to lose their pace (if they have any) and they offer very little in terms of future sales. If you aren't dependent on future sales then it's fine, but I was thinking more the versatility/fitting in part. Fergie obviously has the eye and if he thinks he'll fit then it's great, I'm just not a fan of seeing a team sign an established striker (especially if they already have one) that's thrived at being 'the man' and getting him to fit into a team. Although Rooney is more than capable of playing off RvP, it should be interesting to see how often they play together.

Still think you need a midfielder like.

Gaston Ramirez to Southampton? Safe to say that no-one saw that coming

I thought he was nailed on for Liverpool.

As I said the other day, I think our interest ended after Comolli.