
Liverpool Fan Predicts 'Ultimate Rodgers Player' Roberto Firmino Signing in 2013
It's easy to make silly predictions on social media, but one Liverpool fan will have been sitting very smugly when he heard the news that Liverpool had signed Roberto Firmino.
Twitter user @SimeonLFC wrote almost two years ago that the deal would eventually happen—and at that stage of his career Firmino had yet to fully develop at Hoffenheim.
"Roberto Firmino will join LFC. How do i know? I just do...
— Simeon Alcantara (@SimeonLFC) August 25, 2013"
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Asked about the player, he gave an assessment of Firmino as "the ultimate Brendan Rodgers player":
"@LFC_Soldier So dude for Hoffeinheim. He's the ultimate Brendan Rodgers player...
— Simeon Alcantara (@SimeonLFC) August 25, 2013"
Watch his timeline closely this summer to see who Liverpool will be adding to the ranks in 2017.
Alternatively, perhaps it was this fan, who tweeted the Liverpool chairman directly in January 2014 to suggest the Reds buy the Brazilian:
"Hello @John_W_Henry . There's a young brazilian lad who plays for Hoffenheim called 'Roberto Firmino' please buy him. Thank you.
— . (@Coppin_LFC) January 23, 2014"
"Cheers m8 @John_W_Henry
— . (@Coppin_LFC) June 24, 2015"
[H/T 101 Great Goals]



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