Masterful understatement. How would Harry Kane, for example, justify a move from Spurs to Liverpool?
He wants to win things? Play in the CL? Always dreamed of playing in the same team as Firmino and Lucas?
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Masterful understatement. How would Harry Kane, for example, justify a move from Spurs to Liverpool?
He wants to win things? Play in the CL? Always dreamed of playing in the same team as Firmino and Lucas?
Lukaku wouldn't suit the way we play imo.
He need to have the team set up to feed him.
Kane would suit us, but he's 30. I don't see buying a 30 year old striker at an inevitably big price on big wages as a clever way of spending cash.
Sanchez would cost more, but I could see him slotting into the side perfectly.
Kane is 23
I'm guessing he meant Vardy. And I'd be crushed if we signed him because as good as he's been for Leicester, he'll be absolute shit for us. I'm tired of signing average Prem players for inflated fees. No thank you.
As for the likes of Sanchez, Lukaku, Kane et al, we have absolutely no hope of signing these guys.
Yeah, had a senior moment there!
For some reason I was thinking vardy & kept typing kane!
I meant Vardy in my first post. That would be a mistake.
I doubt we'd get Harry Kane even if we offered 70m TBH, spurs have a ridiculous amount of cash.
For some reason I was thinking vardy & kept typing kane!
I meant Vardy in my first post. That would be a mistake.
I doubt we'd get Harry Kane even if we offered 70m TBH, spurs have a ridiculous amount of cash.
Kane leaving Spurs to join Liverpool would be an absurd move anyway
So, we can't realistically sign Kane, Sanchez, Lukaku etc, & we don't want the Premiership players we likely could afford.
I'd love dembele, but I can't see him going anywhere but Chelsea & we can't win a bidding war with them.
So who we left with? German league players on the cusp?
If we're in the CL we must do better than that.
I'd love dembele, but I can't see him going anywhere but Chelsea & we can't win a bidding war with them.
So who we left with? German league players on the cusp?
If we're in the CL we must do better than that.
"You can come back to London with the other players shopping once a week"
"Our manager is a much nicer fella than your manager"
"You get hugs ALL the time"
"Erm, don't you get bored of wearing white?"
I agree on spending big money on a 30 year old - which is why i was surprised when you said in another thread you'd sign Suarez.
300k a week is about the only way.
Unless we keep Lucas
Make it two out of Three. I don't care which two.
Perhaps this is born from blind optimism, but Klopp knows he has to get recruitment spot on this summer, so I am confident that he will get a striker, CB, goalkeeper, DM and possibly another attacking wide player. Maybe even a LB.
Not every signing will be a success, that's almost impossible, but if we bring in 5 or 6 players, I think we'll see maybe 4 top quality first team additions.
I'm not a sheep-like, In Klopp We Trust, type of supporter, but I'm pretty confident he will get funds and use them well. He has to.
Not every signing will be a success, that's almost impossible, but if we bring in 5 or 6 players, I think we'll see maybe 4 top quality first team additions.
I'm not a sheep-like, In Klopp We Trust, type of supporter, but I'm pretty confident he will get funds and use them well. He has to.
Harry Kane isn't the type to be solely motivated by money, so it wouldn't matter. He wants to win trophies, and would only move to a team that he thinks will do so, consistently. If we spent £70m on him and gave him £300,000 a week, it would eat a huge hole in our funds, and won't fix the rest of the problems in the team. So he'd be no more likely to win the title with us; he's already playing with the likes of Dembele, Eriksen, Dele Alli in a better team that is built entirely around him.
If we suddenly had £300m to spend on the playing squad that might be a different matter - similar to what Chelsea and City did as an obvious statement of immediate intent to win titles, and attract top players to "the project" - but that won't happen under FSG.
difficult? impossible.
Hahaha. Touche Sir.
Suarez is an obvious exception, because he's the best player in the world. To get two years out of him would be worth the fee plus 300k a week.
On top of that, he's the type of player who has so wide a skillet that he'll be capable of playing at the top level for a bit longer than average imo.
And can help pan fry any oversized fish we catch
Offer him 300k a week, will he bite?
Ah. The difference on letter makes to a word.
Yes, I did miss out that 'e' on purpose that time.
Between Suarez with his extra wide skillet, & Lucas with his infamous barbecue grill, the players would be set for meals.
Diego Costa would be the closest thing I can think of to a perfect striker for our system, only worry i'd have about him is whether or not he's a grafter in terms of starting off the press like Firmino does. Outside of that there's Sanchez, but i'm not sure his hold up play is that good, and for all his ills, that is something Firmino is decent at. Carlos Tevez of 2007 would be absolutely superb in our team.
Plus he has a long contract so wouldn't be cheap.
He never got a fair shake at Spurs and always seems to play well whenever I see Swansea. He'd be a very good punt as a squad player. Still fairly young too I think.
His first touch and close control is pretty neat actually? Yeah he obviously loses the ball from time to time and he has got a lot to learn but many of the goals he scored and/or created himself is very much down to his awareness and wonderful touch. There's a reason he's been likened to Bergkamp whom had like the most refined close control.
Without knowing how much you've seen him play I can assure it's not going to be an issue.
My main worry with him is injuries, not because he's been injured a lot actually but simply because that can really ruin most young players developments. Viktor Fischer, whom I really rated highly, and still do though he's got it all to prove, got sidelined for almost a year and is still struggling to rediscover his form from his younger years.
If we look empirically at what have actually worked for us over the past ten-fifteen years, when it comes to buying proper talents, we should probably look to buy more players from the following teams (and/or their likes).
Ajax (Dolberg, Kluivert, Klaasen)
Atletico Madrid (Griezmann)
Brøndby (no-one from the Danish league would improve us at the moment, but there are as always a few good youngsters (Duelund/Ingvartsen/Cornelius) to keep an eye out for and maybe there are some in Norway or Sweden too, though Isak, who seemed the most coveted recently went to Dortmund)
Real Sociedad (no idea but we will be linked with players from clubs at their level in Spain like left back Durmisi [Betis])
Inter [Espanyol] Icardi maybe Kondogbia
Southampton (van Dijk, Bertrand, Redmond) and from the same shelf perhaps a Schmeichel at Leicester and maybe even Drinkwater (what is the general opinion of him on here)?
Hoffenheim (Sule) and from about their tier (Forsberg, Keita, Werner) all at RB Leipzig)
Newcastle (there are as always a few potential stars in the Championship at the moment, we just need to single them out)
I know there are tons more to pick from and that this is flawed but those are players from the top of my head that I know off that we could pick up in clubs (levels) we've done so with great success before.
Does this even make sense as a marker or guideline? No idea..
Ajax (Dolberg, Kluivert, Klaasen)
Atletico Madrid (Griezmann)
Brøndby (no-one from the Danish league would improve us at the moment, but there are as always a few good youngsters (Duelund/Ingvartsen/Cornelius) to keep an eye out for and maybe there are some in Norway or Sweden too, though Isak, who seemed the most coveted recently went to Dortmund)
Real Sociedad (no idea but we will be linked with players from clubs at their level in Spain like left back Durmisi [Betis])
Inter [Espanyol] Icardi maybe Kondogbia
Southampton (van Dijk, Bertrand, Redmond) and from the same shelf perhaps a Schmeichel at Leicester and maybe even Drinkwater (what is the general opinion of him on here)?
Hoffenheim (Sule) and from about their tier (Forsberg, Keita, Werner) all at RB Leipzig)
Newcastle (there are as always a few potential stars in the Championship at the moment, we just need to single them out)
I know there are tons more to pick from and that this is flawed but those are players from the top of my head that I know off that we could pick up in clubs (levels) we've done so with great success before.
Does this even make sense as a marker or guideline? No idea..
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