Joao Carlos Teixara in on loan

[martin tyler]

Most talented based on what? He is 21 and hasn't hardly kicked a ball for the first team yet.. We picked up two Chelsea players who were 20 recently.

Worth a read. Ill make it clear i have no idea how this will pan out but lets give him a chance. The match Gerrard makes ref to Liverpool's team sheet that night contained Suso Wisdom Sterling Kelly to name a few.

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has said that 21 year-old Joao Carlos Teixeira's first-team debut was merely a 'matter of time'.

The academy starlet came on as a late substitute for Raheem Sterling and played his part in the Reds' stirring comeback victory at Fulham on Wednesday night.

And Gerrard has revealed that it was obvious the young Portuguese midfielder was hugely talented the first time he set eyes on him.

'I watched this kid a couple of years ago playing for Sporting Lisbon against Liverpool at Anfield in a youth game; I could see straight away he was the best player on the pitch,' Gerrard told Liverpool's official website.

Teixeira has been beset by a serious back injury and saw a loan spell at Brentford earlier this season cut short, but has worked his way into the first-team squad recently.

'Credit to him, he has kept working hard. He has been invited to train with the first team. He is competing, he is trying to improve and learn.


'He listens - I've just been speaking to him in the dressing room and you can see he wants to learn and listen.

'He has got respect for the other players in the dressing room. This is the start for him now; I've just told him that he needs to push on, keep learning and building on what he has just achieved.

'He deserved his debut and he made a special tackle which helped us get over the line.'

Prior to the Fulham match, the Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers had been impressed by Teixeira's application in training.

'I have contact with [U21s manager] Alex Inglethorpe on a daily basis and Joao has been one of the outstanding performers for the reserves,' Rodgers told the Liverpool Echo.

'When he has stepped up to the first team before it has been difficult for him. But I've seen a big difference in him. He is a talent.

'I always observe in training and see where players are at and Joao has looked very good. His insensity, the speed of his game - he has undoubted quality and has showed up very well.'

 

[dazzer6666]

He's Portugese. JOW

Kind of 'jhowow' according to my Brazilian colleague (jh/soft J)

Anyway, looks like a good addition to me, pacy and creative.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Portuguese Carl will do.

 

[The Grockle]

Most talented based on what? He is 21 and hasn't hardly kicked a ball for the first team yet.. We picked up two Chelsea players who were 20 recently.

Forgive me if this comes across as condescending but surely you understand what it means when someone says 'one of...' ??

He is very highly rated at one of the biggest clubs in the country if not the world, I'll conceed I knew nothing of him an hour ago but have read enough in the last 15 that suggests he's a very decent addition.

 

[Seagull kimchi]

Don't we say FLAIR name anymore?

 

[Notters]

Yow?

 

[Deadly Danson]

He is very much a gamble. I would have taking him up until Jan when the window opens again.

If they'd done that you'd have been straight on here moaning that it wasn't ambitious enough and risked someone else coming in for him. And every signing is a gamble. How about, just for a change, we give him the benefit of the doubt and give him some support?

 

[BrickTamland]

Whatever happens the same old people will moan. The club can't win.

 

[London Irish]

I wouldn't mind signing him permanently but I'd rather not sign him at all than sign him on loan. All that means is that we won't get another player in his position and if he's any good, he'll be here for a season then gone. Frustrated that Bozza said so confidently that it was permanent only for us to find out it's not!

No definitely should be a loan, totally unproven player

 

[dazzer6666]

'One man who will be disappointed with the move is BBC Sussex Sport’s Warren Aspinall. Just how many different ways will he pronounce his name?'

LOL

 

[maltaseagull]

Surely not a first teamer,

Pretty crazy goings on if he is !

Not sure at this point but why shouldn't he be?

Could be a big improvement on Kemy/JFC?

Played at u21 level?

 

[cjd]

Love the way Sami says;....."It is something we have been working on for a SHORT time, and I am pleased to be able to welcome Joao to the club".

Translated;...."We were f*****g desperate to get anyone and Burke is f*****g useless, so I made a phonecall....5 minutes later...he is here. What is so f*****g difficult ?"

 

[Deadly Danson]

it is an utterly pointless signing,

Great. I honestly give up on this place sometimes. Perhaps let's see how this one turns out first?

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

Lets face it, he will be an improvement on JFC.

 

[dazzer6666]

http://youtu.be/jAXoVzlHtiQ

Looks like an upgrade on Lingard on this evidence. Let's see.....

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

How about signing someone with more than 3 first team appearances (at the age of 22) to replace one of

Buckley
Orlandi
Ulloa
Lopez
Lingard

 

[BrickTamland]

It's reasonable to assume that a 21 year old (22 this year) who has made just 3 professional appearances, and couldn't get into a league one team last season, is unlikely to set the world on fire.

Perhaps you're just a blind optimist, eh? - Something tells me you're going to be disappointed.

Is it not more reasonable just to see how he actually plays for us before writing him off?

 

[GoingUp]

I was happy at first, he sounded like a good signing.......

Then I hear hes a loanee, slightly less happy......

Now I see he couldnt get in the Brentford squad, not very happy......

 

[algie]

If they'd done that you'd have been straight on here moaning that it wasn't ambitious enough and risked someone else coming in for him. And every signing is a gamble. How about, just for a change, we give him the benefit of the doubt and give him some support?

We have threadbare squad and are desperate for some much needed quality and so we should setting our standards much higher than players who have hardly kicked a ball to date. We are scratching about signing unproven kids while teams in our league are signings players like Clayton,Thorne,Callum Wilson etc. Quite frankly it's appalling.

 

[GoingUp]

I don't consider this a gamble, because he is presumably on low wages even by Championship standards.

However , it is an utterly pointless signing, it oozes desperation. Why are we blooding other teams youngsters for them? We should really be aspiring higher than that now.

I feel this is just to make fans feel as if there is some kind of progress going on.

Yeah this is why I dont get loanee's on FM haha

I only think its worth us loaning players like say Wayne Bridge, players who are gonna give us experience and an advantage.

Jesse Lingard I was excited about last year because he was touted as being one of England's most exciting and promising players, I actually saw Lingard play a few times in United's reserves and thought then he looked wicked.