I’ll bet his agent makes 8 figures out of this too.
The Mo Contract Saga
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Probably yeah. There should be caps for those cunts
But we didn't have FSG (Fuckin Skinflint Gezzers) as owners back then
If he’s not signing then nothing will get announced, it will just run and run till end of May 2023. I don’t see him being sold before then…
£20m annual salary - why do we perpetuate this "working man's wage" bollocks. I doubt any top flight European club runs their payroll 52 times a fucking year. If they do, I'm out of contract next week and will happily contract to them to save a fortune 🙂
My rates are entirely unreasonable but I doubt they'll care!
Pay the man. It's outrageous but that's where wages and revenues have gone. Make it happen.
Think of the transfer fee a quality wing forward would cost (along with the going rate for wages), and the amount we’ve saved for the last 4 or 5 years through his current contract, which is lower than pretty much all the top strikers in the world, except for maybe Harland.
It’s definitely not an unreasonable amount being asked by the highest rated wing forward in the world. As long as we’re not comparing that amount to us normal people.
"Less trying to increase your coffers, more of the shelling out to pay astronomical wages."
We're not owned by sport washing owners with bottomless pockets.
Amen.
There's no one in the squad who comes close to Salah, not Van Dijk, Allison, Fabinho, Trent. No one.
We should break the bank for him. It'll be a relatively short term deal anyway. If we don't we are fucking idiots. Unless Klopp and co can spend the money from a sale wisely, which is possible but not a given.
We should break the bank for him. It'll be a relatively short term deal anyway. If we don't we are fucking idiots. Unless Klopp and co can spend the money from a sale wisely, which is possible but not a given.
There is that, however, there will be massive knock on effects.
What will he want in 2 years time? £600k? £800k? He’ll be 32 by then.
Should we move on Mané and Firmino what wage bracket will their replacements want and how will that poss of Trent?
What if there is that massive decline when he hits 30? That is a massive unknown. I know it’s a gamble and a decline could happen to anyone but the risk is greater with a 30+ player. Imagine the state of this place if he’s 32, not producing and we are stuck giving he £20 million basic pay.
Selling the best player in the World in his prime will haunt us for years. Fuck that.
If its £400k a week, for one of the best players in the world. We should bite the bullet and pay it on a 3 year contract with an option to extend for a year.
I know he's coming up to 30, but he's playing at the peak right now.
Mane should be the first one moved on. Firmino's return is diminishing all the time, but he offers something different.
Ha! Take that!
They should be capped all right.
To be completely honest. If I was playing football manager, I wouldn't have thought twice about it.
From a logical stand point it makes sense.
If you were playing Football Manager you could start a new save if it didnt work out. Selling Salah isnt the right answer in any way or form.
Those are all different issues and to my mind unrelated.
- He is the best player in the world at the moment, he's not going to drop off a cliff. I can't think of a world Top 3 player that went into that steep a decline. He is irreplaceable because we are not in the market to pay £150m for a player (plus wages). For what he's done for us, for where he stands now ... we paid peanuts. Yes hindsight but reality.
2. Where are we going to get his 30-40 goals a season from ? Bluebell says buy a midfielder and a replacement striker - so easy to say and do but I could bet you the world they won't be scoring his goals. Far far easier to just find a midfielder and a back up striker than trying to replace the world's best wing forward.
3. With his fitness levels and the way sports medicine has advanced he'll still be at his peak for a couple more years and likely still worth a starting spot for another two years after that.
It is if you are offered one... billion... dollars... mwahaha...
It is if you are offered one... billion... dollars... mwahaha...
In that case, take it! 🙂
We know Salah’s worth to the team but what’s he worth commercially to LFC?
I don’t know the answer to that but when we account cost of his wages, it’s only fair his commercial marketing worth gets factored. I bet it’s a few million a year for raising club’s worth being the most famous player in Arab world. It works both ways and he is a very marketable clean profile for us to market as we have been doing for the last 5yrs.
I don’t know the answer to that but when we account cost of his wages, it’s only fair his commercial marketing worth gets factored. I bet it’s a few million a year for raising club’s worth being the most famous player in Arab world. It works both ways and he is a very marketable clean profile for us to market as we have been doing for the last 5yrs.
His contract renewal has come at a bad time for us. Firmino has become a bit of an irrelevance and Mane's output has suffered a dramatic decline. For the last 18 months our attack has been propped up by Salah - at times almost single-handedly. The whole "is he the best in the world right now" chat hasn't helped.
He's our best player and one of the best in the world. 400k is the going rate.
If that's what he asked for then he's right, it's not crazy stuff. But who knows really.
If we can't afford it, we should just sell... as painful as it might be. It'll spell the end of this teams cycle but I think we're not far off that anyways without serious investment in the next transfer window.
The worst move we could make is to give Salah mad money and then continue to spend nothing.
He's our best player and one of the best in the world. 400k is the going rate.
If that's what he asked for then he's right, it's not crazy stuff. But who knows really.
If we can't afford it, we should just sell... as painful as it might be. It'll spell the end of this teams cycle but I think we're not far off that anyways without serious investment in the next transfer window.
The worst move we could make is to give Salah mad money and then continue to spend nothing.
The club was valued at over 4 billion dollars last year. FSG capitalised on this by getting over 700 million dollars for 10% of us and the Red Sox last year, which is double what they paid for us in total. All this bullshit that we don't make a profit or we can't afford top players is complete bollocks. The asset is bought and paid for and worth billions, and they only acquired it for peanuts due to the fans losing their shit with the other cowboys.
It's not like we're asking for hundreds of millions for new players (we should be) but this delusion that we can't even keep who we've got because of financial constraints is clearly ridiculous.
It's not like we're asking for hundreds of millions for new players (we should be) but this delusion that we can't even keep who we've got because of financial constraints is clearly ridiculous.
What would PSG pay us to bring him in as an Mbappe galactico type replacement, £150m maybe?
Mo is fantastic but he might have to be the next Coutinho. I just worry this is the path to becoming a dortmund or a red bull club where the players are out the door way too soon.
Mo is fantastic but he might have to be the next Coutinho. I just worry this is the path to becoming a dortmund or a red bull club where the players are out the door way too soon.
Salah is the the exception to the rule, IMO. Doesn't drink, doesn't smoke, fitness fanatic and just a goal machine. He'll be worth the top wages until he's 33/34, and possibly even longer. Plus the money he must bring into the club in terms of exposure is off the charts. Half the Muslim world idolise the man.
Especially when we've been told the reason we're not signing players is because we have to keep the players we've got. We've already won the financial lottery with Salah already by signing a £150 player for £35M and paying him half of what City are paying KDB, and currently 250k a week less then Utd are paying a 36 year old Ronaldo. FSG are just minge bags of the highest order.
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