Saudi Pro League club Al-Ittihad are willing to offer a record Premier League fee of £150m to Liverpool for Egypt forward Mohamed Salah, 31. (Telegraph - subscription required)
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That's great. You can have him in June
Yer hoop. Who's going to replace him? By this I mean his goals and assists not some pipe dream that;
1, the owners will actually spend the money on a replacement and;
2. Who will contribute the involvement in goals he has, and finally;
3. Not include some pipe dream that we could spend the money shoreing up the defence which would negate his goals.
I'm not saying that it would never be a sell but the day of the transfer window closing?
If they wanted to spend 150 they could have sold him on the project and got him two months ago.
They can make a deal now to get him in Jan or next year, and then we can figure out who has a release clause so we don't get taken to the cleaners again.
They can make a deal now to get him in Jan or next year, and then we can figure out who has a release clause so we don't get taken to the cleaners again.
I don't have an answer for you but i would cash in now.
Get them to pay 100M upfront in full, like a pre-contracted deal. Salah to play until Dec and then he can go, when the remaining 50M is fully paid. More than enough time to monitor/evaluate/observe/shortlist/scout/analyse/whatevs for his replacement.
He’s not where we should be focusing.
Everyone makes mistakes 😀
You mean mad to accept.
I’d be willing to risk one season for long term success.
We are gonna win a trophy this season, and Salah looks very happy and in great shape. He knows he can take his Saudi payday in 2 years if nothing else
Would be interesting if Salah surprises everyone and choses to follow Messi to the MLS when time comes. He is the only player with comparable media stature; he has a mural here in NYC and his face was on Time magazine. And he might actually enjoy the lifestyle here more.
Why are we writing off this season? We've had a good start against the odds and adding Gravenberch.
We could win something.
The Saudis will knock again next summer for a similar fee.
Yeah but he will certainly not be on the face of Mt Rushmore.
In Saudi they’ll build a sphinx with his face on it.
In Saudi they’ll build a sphinx with his face on it.
Yeah, and it will be tacky and forgettable like most things they choose to spend their oil money on.
That sort of money its hard to turn down especially as we struggle every window to sign players. We have enough attackers not to buy anyone till Jan, but if you want a name, then Gonclaves £70m. Him and Nunez could be am effective partnership
I'd love us to change formation to 4-4-2 and so we're a little more compact and see how that goes.
Now we've sorted the midfield i'm more confident. Another CB and i'd genuinely believe a title charge could happen
Surely for that fee, you’d have to consider selling him….. (in January)
No, the players on the pitch win football matches, not the huge sums of unspent money in the bank.
It's deadline day. As far as I am concerned, we should reject any bid for Salah today.
If any team wants him that badly then they will be back next year.
I know some people like to pretend we have loads of forwards and it doesn't matter, but this guy has been our top scorer for the past 6 seasons. Nunez and Gakpo are still a little patchy, and Jota and Diaz do get injured. The picture isn't especially rosy without Salah.
Just to add, even by Saudi club standards it is a weird way of behaving if they really do want him. Surely better to get the offer in earlier when we actually (in theory) had time to get a replacement. You'd think we would have been more likely to sell last week (I still wouldn't have done, to be clear, but you see what I mean).
If any team wants him that badly then they will be back next year.
I know some people like to pretend we have loads of forwards and it doesn't matter, but this guy has been our top scorer for the past 6 seasons. Nunez and Gakpo are still a little patchy, and Jota and Diaz do get injured. The picture isn't especially rosy without Salah.
Just to add, even by Saudi club standards it is a weird way of behaving if they really do want him. Surely better to get the offer in earlier when we actually (in theory) had time to get a replacement. You'd think we would have been more likely to sell last week (I still wouldn't have done, to be clear, but you see what I mean).
True, the problem with getting £180+ mill, is that EVERY team in the world also knows that you got that money.
So expect this response:
True, the problem with getting £180+ mill, is that EVERY team in the world also knows that you got that money.
So expect this response:
this is where being owned by FSG pays for itself, everyone knows they can be needlessly tight
It's just a big game monopoly for them. They don't care. Also, we pissed them off royally by beating Newcastle.
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