He's off work for the next few weeks so Pearce is probably your man. We're obviously interested though.
Can we find the Lavia?
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He's off work for the next few weeks so Pearce is probably your man. We're obviously interested though.
The tall lazy cunt. Get back to work.
If we're prepared to pay it then you could say that.....depends what measure you go by for someone to warrant that "x value increase", I guess it helps with how we would now value our players and see Bajcetic is worth round about that too.
I think it's pretty naive on our part even if he works out pretty well because throwing that kind of money on a kid with a years experience in senior football doesn't slapstick of Liverpool FC.
I hear Christian Purslow's looking for a job......talk about unfinished business an' all!!!!
You reckon the Sotons are thinking we have gotten our cabinet swelling from their sweat in the past, so adding the extra they think we ought to have paid on Lavia? Or
They know that once Klopp has placed his crosshairs on a player, its normally him or nothing, he usually doesn't settle for second choice, and knowing our desperation for a new DM, they know we will grudgingly meet their valuation. They are already in the championship, I would think, there don't have an urgent need for the money......and they are expecting 40m from City next summer. It seems they are prepared to go all the way with us.
We should just pay the 50m get the player, and get on with our preseason.
Klingon given the length of time this is taking
There's nothing stopping City buying him for 40m now really if they think he's worth it.....if he stays at Soton and they don't get promoted, Soton are fucked and will regret knocking back our initial bid.
It doesn't look like we value him at 50m hence the 2 bids which are short in which case we'd be a lot better off moving on, we've wasted enough time on this......Lavia isn't the best we can do.
It doesn't look like we value him at 50m hence the 2 bids which are short in which case we'd be a lot better off moving on, we've wasted enough time on this......Lavia isn't the best we can do.
I think their buyback clause kicks in next summer.
Surely if City bought him for £40m the sell on clause wouldn’t count - and us buying him for £50m nets So’ton about the same?
They paid what, £10m rising to £14 for him with a 20% on sale - so if it follows the standard practice and they sell for £50m they’d bank about £42-43m.
At £45m, they’d be making just under the £40m City have on buy back.
That’s how I read it - they want to clear more than the £40m they might be guaranteed next summer.
We’re clearly trying to haggle them down a bit - I’d be pretty sure we’d be willing to wait till the end of the window or even January if we thought we could save £5m.
It’s also likely about the payment structure and add-ons - we’ve been know to pay more to extend payment (Jota), but I’d So’ton are wanting more upfront, that’s likely why we’re piss farting around.
For 40M. They can offer 50M now and buy him no probs presumably.
I can understand Southampton feeling like they don't have to accept a discount offer (assuming they're not desperate for cash now). Pretty much any half decent player is worth 40M these days. As long as Lavia doesn't have a terrible season, he'll still be worth 40M+ again next summer to a big club.
Fuck me we are so desperate right now. This whole thing just stinks
Yep - even if they get less than £40m next season and he stays this season and gets them promoted - he’s worth even more.
At 19, even in the Championship - if he shines, he’ll be in demand and I’m pretty sure if this deal stalls, he’ll want to make sure he excels and gets his move.
Spending another year there wouldn’t necessarily be the worst thing for his career.
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But that doesn't prevent them from doing a deal sooner in spite of the clause, they can just work around that and say "Yo Jason, we'll offer you £40m up front for Lavia and in the process you don't need to worry about negotiating any sell on clause our way and get it done in 1 clean sweep" They'd probably be more inclined to accept that than our £5m up front, £5m next year, £10m by 2048, and the rest when Lavia will 3 ballon d'ors back to back to back.
Are you saying that things around Lavia stink?
Right now it might..... to some, but what if the breakdown in this deal means we sign Andre (for half the price) and ends up being twice as good?
Certainly something fishy about it all right
Welcome to the world of Elon Musk. Next we'll be seeing noughts whenever someone uploads a story on Insta,
But So’ton be netting less about £5m less than £40m then?
Why would they do that?
That’s why they’re looking for £50m - they’ll likely have a tipping point of around £45m guaranteed plus add-ons that’ll get them over the line.
That is true, but that is the moneyball signing we should have made last season while Fabinho was here. If we are that desperate then get Thuram and Andre, forget Lavia.
Don't think he really gives much of a fuck tbh, he knows he's out the door in about 4 weeks anyway.
SCM: "omg I can't believe we paid big wages to secure our big first team players in Henderson, Salah, Fabinho and Milner, we aren't made of money"
Also SCM: "ffs we're such tight cunts, why are we haggling over close to ten million quid for a kid who's barely played a dozen premier league games and shares a name with fanny flaps"
Also SCM: "ffs we're such tight cunts, why are we haggling over close to ten million quid for a kid who's barely played a dozen premier league games and shares a name with fanny flaps"
So far he’d gotten 12 + 40 for Hendo and Fabs with very favourable payment terms.
Signed Szobo.
Disaster is a bit much.
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