Brew's ready?
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The only reason I can see Brewster going, is that he's not as versatile as origi, and we need to change our system to get the best out of him. He's not a false 9, and playing him wide surely negates his abilities.
I think it would be a mistake, but if he does go, hopefully it's more ibe/Sinclair than sterling.
I think it would be a mistake, but if he does go, hopefully it's more ibe/Sinclair than sterling.
Depends on Brewster too I guess? If we sell him I think it would be down to Brewster getting fed up at the lack of opportunities and wanting to cement himself as a starter somewhere.
He was already thinking in that way two years ago, after he got his injury. Borussia turned his head so much we had to block them and do a full-on charm offensive on Brewster, making all kinds of exceptionally strong assurances to him. Which now seem to have been empty promises. One of the things FSG were supposed to have done is move the club on from the kind of reputation for lies and untrustworthiness that so soured the relationship with the likes of Torres, Mascherano and Alonso. This sends out a shite message to players both inside and out.
Is there actually anything in this? Or is it likely just some daft rumour?
I can't remember us selling a promising young player ever, tbh. Normally Brewster would get at least a shot at another loan to prove himself.
Weird.
I can't remember us selling a promising young player ever, tbh. Normally Brewster would get at least a shot at another loan to prove himself.
Weird.
How tight are we ran fiscally that the most promising developed forward we've had in ages who looks more than capable to be a squad player and possibly even a ready made Origi replacement is being considered to be available for sale ?
Has Origi been told he's part of the squad for the new season or is he on a fat wedge and refusing to budge?
Shaqiri, Origi, Wilson that's what, conservatively £60m the club could make if the Brewster thing is financially driven
Has Origi been told he's part of the squad for the new season or is he on a fat wedge and refusing to budge?
Shaqiri, Origi, Wilson that's what, conservatively £60m the club could make if the Brewster thing is financially driven
Selling Brewster now would be a massive gamble considering we would only have Origi as back up for the forwards and how out of form Bobby has been since Christmas. Minamino strikes me as more of an attacking midfielder and doesn't have the pace to play in the Salah or Mane positions or the strength to play at centre forward.
No idea if Brewster is pushing for a move but nothing he's said in pre season indicates that, all I've seen him say is that he's looking forward to playing with Liverpool. Give the lad a chance I say, at least from the bench.
No idea if Brewster is pushing for a move but nothing he's said in pre season indicates that, all I've seen him say is that he's looking forward to playing with Liverpool. Give the lad a chance I say, at least from the bench.
I'm almost positive this is all complete bollocks. It make no sense on any competitive or financial level at all.
The only reason I can see for this to even be a rumour is that he's quite a saleable asset at the moment and if there's been no interest in the other players we are looking to sell (at the prices we're asking anyway) then the yanks are being ruthless regarding getting money in. As other posters have said it makes no sense otherwise.
I think selling Brewster to eg Sheff Utd with a buyback clause is essentially a loan with better accounting, allowing us to sign someone who would add more value this season.
Madrid have done this for years, often to good effect
Madrid have done this for years, often to good effect
Brewster would be crazy to agree to something like that especially after he's been told previously that he would have opportunities here and then they didn't happen.
Maybe they should just show him all the Twitter posts of all the angry top reds who want us to sign Mbappe, it should convince him
Our front line in 2023 will be Brewster, Mbappe and Elliott.
Just because you don't think something is true doesn't mean you can't get angry about it!!
They always seem to do it with players that are desperate to go back to Real though.
By the sounds of it, Brewster doesn't have any great love for Liverpool so if we do sell, I can't imagine he'd want to come back if he does well enough to attract other decent clubs.
It'd be a buy back and sell for the profit at best (which I think Real and Juve have done in the past too).
That's how things happen.
His dad is an LFC fan. Brewster himself spent long enough as a kid at Chelski - six years I think - to develop a soft spot for them. But buy back clauses, unlike sell on clauses, are silly. Imagine if we now decided we wanted Coady back, and we'd inserted a buy back option. What would that do? It would still be down to the normal, non buy-back stuff: does he want to move, does he want to move to us, and can we meet the fee? I just don't see what a buy back clause is for other than PR.
The best you can hope for is negotiating a large chunk of cash when and if they go elsewhere.
Sounds like mischief making to me.
If you use a buy back clause like Madrid does... at any sniff that someone wants to buy him especially if he has appreciated in value you buy him first and then decide whether to sell for profit or give him a chance. Thats what they did with Morata.
But, man do I think he is ready to contribute now.
It's incredibly difficult to get that kind of buy back arrangement. They almost always simply give you the first chance to make a bid to buy back the player, they don't give you the power to take the player back like that hand tool you gave to a neighbour, and you can't just go to the player with a bright shiny thing and say: 'Look into my eyes, look into my eyes, the eyes, the eyes, not around the eyes, don't look around my eyes, look into my eyes, you're under'. It's no good 'deciding' to buy back a player if you're likely to be asked far more than you sold him for - look at the Michael Owen saga. They either don't want to come back, or you don't want to pay enough to bring them back. Unless it's an Ian Rush/LFC type of relationship, it's pretty much hopeless.
But theoretically also a free loan that offers liquidity.
At the same time, we should just be doing this with Wilson at a lower cost than we originally wanted, I feel
He looks to be an incredibly instinctive and gifted finisher, we would be foolish not to keep that around the squad. I think i'd rather go a season without a top CM addition (Thiago) if it meant avoiding a panic sale of one of our most promising youngsters.
Hope it’s not true because it wouldn’t make any financial sense.
Sell a potentially valuable asset rather borrow for squad investment, risk falling out of top 4 and potentially lose half a billion at a guess of the current 2.2 billion asset. I would have thought with FSG with their fast access to cash would just speculate a little by borrowing 100m
For transfers than risk potentially have an depreciating asset.
Sell a potentially valuable asset rather borrow for squad investment, risk falling out of top 4 and potentially lose half a billion at a guess of the current 2.2 billion asset. I would have thought with FSG with their fast access to cash would just speculate a little by borrowing 100m
For transfers than risk potentially have an depreciating asset.
A free loan controlled effectively by the player you've abandoned. So basically a permanent transfer at a fee that will probably look like a joke in a few years time (and if FSG are sincere about how unpredictable the financial future is then any buy back fee will also be seriously compromised by that uncertainty). Owen was an established player for us who always hoped to come back. Brewster is a kid who was told LFC believed in him 'passionately' and would fast track him to the first team but then sold him instead. There's not a hope in hell he'd come back regardless of any buy back fee. It's pure PR.
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