50 for Raheem
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I imagine that we'll probably get given some headline figure but the reality will be that we got less.
It doesn't look like Sterling is going to stay but as I've been saying for months now, I think a lot of people are letting this whole affair cloud how good he is.
It doesn't look like Sterling is going to stay but as I've been saying for months now, I think a lot of people are letting this whole affair cloud how good he is.
Second year in a row that our transfer budget is helped massively by players sales. Unless the club sticks to it's word about not selling him this summer but there's pobably 50 million reasons why they'll change their mind.
No wonder the yanks didn't fire Brendan when champions league qualification doesn't have to bring in the cash , he just has to find 1 player each year who we make a massive profit on and there's the money for incoming players.
It'll probably be Coutinho next year and Ibe the year after that.
No wonder the yanks didn't fire Brendan when champions league qualification doesn't have to bring in the cash , he just has to find 1 player each year who we make a massive profit on and there's the money for incoming players.
It'll probably be Coutinho next year and Ibe the year after that.
I think we actually lost money this last year.
.... what is your price luv?
I dunno. I'm not sure I have one.
I'd just prefer we kept our great young players really. We're not a big club anymore, which is sad really.
Do you mean on transfers or the clubs overall losses?
You posted 1-2 weeks ago about Ibe and his approach to us ... I think great young players that want to stay we must keep and pay/nurture accordingly. Unfortunately, Raheem wants out (for whatever reason - be it $, or trophies, or his agent). That's not a healthy situation for our club. He's a very talented player - but if we get what we think his value is, we should move and hopefully spend our money wisely. We can be a better team that way ... Odds aren't great but hey, miracles happen.
We'll win fuck all by having players that are happy to stay and play for us for 80K-odd a week.
Overall, which I'd say is related to the transfer (re)investment.
I don't think we'd win (with our means) keeping kids who are unhappy to play for 100k per week.
Don't forget we were prepared to offer even more to a kid who's achieved fuck all in the game until his agent came out with his bollocks.
We should have said 60 from the start.
Whatever you think yourself. If you can't see the difference I won't point it out to you
Not on my iPhone. It's actually on another screen altogether. Like I said over here the standard symbol is $ next to it is & and )
But just to show I was lazy I'll flick to the other screen £€¥ 🙂
£50m is a great deal.
We can profit hugely from that. Maybe we won't, but we can.
We can profit hugely from that. Maybe we won't, but we can.
How dare you be a lazy cunt when all other works their arse off and put in a decent shift here???
As things stand, we have zero chance of signing any of the above type of player, so would prefer to keep what we have.
If by some miracle we were able to pull a Frimmo/Lacazette out the bag this summer then by all means makes sense to sell,
Does anyone have faith we can pull that off after last summer and the players signed so far.
[article]Liverpool should continue to play hard ball with Raheem Sterling, whose attempts to get away from Anfield represent a tawdry and sad tale of our times.
His agent Aidy Ward should have been fired the moment he publicly insulted club legend Jamie Carragher, calling him a "knob".
Ward, who is paid to further the interests of his client, has instead exposed Sterling to hatred, ridicule and contempt.
But let's not waste too much more time on him. Sadly, hard-nosed economics will almost certainly dictate that Manchester City will get their man in the end, probably for close to the £50 million asking price. Should that happen, we should all shed a tear for the modern game.
Of course, received wisdom is that clubs cannot keep players who no longer want to play for them, especially when their value is likely to fall in the future. But remember Liverpool sat tight two years ago when Luis Suarez was doing everything in his power to engineer a move away. That stance paid off. Suarez stayed and, the moment the deadline passed, buckled down to his job and ended up as Footballer of the Year, all but bringing the title to Anfield amid an avalanche of goals.
Could manager Brendan Rodgers and owner John W. Henry do the same again with Sterling, whose contract still has two years to run? Probably not. The winger's relationship with the club and its fans is surely broken beyond repair. He has shown Liverpool no loyalty and bridges have been burned.
Here is a 20-year-old who is turning down £100,000-a-week to play football for a famous club that has won 18 titles and five European Cups. His ego has allowed him to believe he has already outgrown a footballing citadel where he got his big break in the game (notwithstanding the work done by Queens Park Rangers when he was a schoolboy).
Who exactly does Sterling think he is? Perhaps he has started to believe his own hype. Sure, he is a top young talent whose pace and trickery make him a menace to any defence. He is rightly seen as a key man for Liverpool and England. But so far he has done next to nothing. Won nothing. His club had a mediocre season. His country flopped at the World Cup with him in the team.
And since the transfer saga started, he has mostly played like a drain. Who says he would be an automatic starter every week at Manchester City?
Sterling says his desire to move is nothing to do with money and that is it all about "winning trophies". In a quiet moment does it ever cross his mind that he owes Liverpool a little love in return for all the care and attention they have given him?
Does he really think he would be a millionaire England player without the help he has had from Rodgers and everyone else at Anfield?
Trophies? Certainly Liverpool are not the force they were, but that will never change if their top players keep wanting to find the exit. Sterling's stance is attracting widespread revulsion, symbolising a "me, me, me" culture.
So here's my advice to Raheem Sterling. Stay at Liverpool. Lead from the front as a top player. Get rid of your embarrassing agent and do another TV interview saying sorry to the fans. Then write another letter to Anfield. Not a transfer request this time, but a note containing a message of just two words.
"Thank You".
Ian Darke, who called games for the network during the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, is ESPN's lead soccer voice in the U.S. [/article]
His agent Aidy Ward should have been fired the moment he publicly insulted club legend Jamie Carragher, calling him a "knob".
Ward, who is paid to further the interests of his client, has instead exposed Sterling to hatred, ridicule and contempt.
But let's not waste too much more time on him. Sadly, hard-nosed economics will almost certainly dictate that Manchester City will get their man in the end, probably for close to the £50 million asking price. Should that happen, we should all shed a tear for the modern game.
Of course, received wisdom is that clubs cannot keep players who no longer want to play for them, especially when their value is likely to fall in the future. But remember Liverpool sat tight two years ago when Luis Suarez was doing everything in his power to engineer a move away. That stance paid off. Suarez stayed and, the moment the deadline passed, buckled down to his job and ended up as Footballer of the Year, all but bringing the title to Anfield amid an avalanche of goals.
Could manager Brendan Rodgers and owner John W. Henry do the same again with Sterling, whose contract still has two years to run? Probably not. The winger's relationship with the club and its fans is surely broken beyond repair. He has shown Liverpool no loyalty and bridges have been burned.
Here is a 20-year-old who is turning down £100,000-a-week to play football for a famous club that has won 18 titles and five European Cups. His ego has allowed him to believe he has already outgrown a footballing citadel where he got his big break in the game (notwithstanding the work done by Queens Park Rangers when he was a schoolboy).
Who exactly does Sterling think he is? Perhaps he has started to believe his own hype. Sure, he is a top young talent whose pace and trickery make him a menace to any defence. He is rightly seen as a key man for Liverpool and England. But so far he has done next to nothing. Won nothing. His club had a mediocre season. His country flopped at the World Cup with him in the team.
And since the transfer saga started, he has mostly played like a drain. Who says he would be an automatic starter every week at Manchester City?
Sterling says his desire to move is nothing to do with money and that is it all about "winning trophies". In a quiet moment does it ever cross his mind that he owes Liverpool a little love in return for all the care and attention they have given him?
Does he really think he would be a millionaire England player without the help he has had from Rodgers and everyone else at Anfield?
Trophies? Certainly Liverpool are not the force they were, but that will never change if their top players keep wanting to find the exit. Sterling's stance is attracting widespread revulsion, symbolising a "me, me, me" culture.
So here's my advice to Raheem Sterling. Stay at Liverpool. Lead from the front as a top player. Get rid of your embarrassing agent and do another TV interview saying sorry to the fans. Then write another letter to Anfield. Not a transfer request this time, but a note containing a message of just two words.
"Thank You".
Ian Darke, who called games for the network during the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, is ESPN's lead soccer voice in the U.S. [/article]
Ah c'mon, Dreamy - you can even be more lazy by not typing a symbol and everyone will assume you're talking in GBP!
Yep - it does all hinge on the replacements. £50M gives us an opportunity to improve the squad beyond its current state. We didn't successfully manage it with Suarez, but we've pulled off brilliant signings in the past - Torres, Suarez, etc, so I don't have a complete lack of faith in the clubs ability to sign attacking talent.
I'm really pissed off we've put the 50m figure out there.
We could have gotten way more out of city.
We could have gotten way more out of city.
Did we though?
It was almost certainly leaked by the club due to the way it hit & what reporters had it.
Should not have stated a figure at, city are desperate and loaded so should have stretched this out more.
I dunno. £50m feels like his value. I find it hard to believe we could get much more.
Me neither, but I think £50m shows that in alot of ways that we hold all the cards, even if Sterling has pretty much forced the issue. I don't believe we've put a figure out there, but £50m does feel like the ceiling figure we could hold out for. As said in that article, he's pretty much burnt his bridges so there's not much chance of going back.
The big question is whether we will invest it well, I hope we don't spend for the sake of spending like we did last Summer with the likes of Mario.
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