Would be really funny to sell all these players and not even buy anyone else
Transfer Rumours 21/22
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I think we're keeping tabs on multiple players as potential replacements for every player in our front 3. I agree with @dmishra that Rafinha seems like a Salah replacement – doesn't make much sense to buy someone like him and play him out of position when so much of his game is based on cutting in from the right. If we manage to resign Salah, I don't think Rafinha is on the cards.
Luis Diaz and Danjuma could be Mane replacements, but actually Sadio can play anywhere across the front 3, so I could see those purchases being made without selling him (I'm talking from purely football perspective, not financial). I think Firmino is the most likely one to leave in the summer – he's been almost a non-factor this season; a striking drop-off for someone who was considered essential to our system only a season or two ago. It's interesting that we seem to have stopped trying to pursue any kind of like-for-like replacement or competition for Firmino since the failed Fekir deal; it seems far more likely the next attacking purchase will be a younger version of Mane to play on the wing while one of Jota-Salah-Mane will be permanently moved to the middle. We don't seem to be linked with any "proper" #9's either, as I noted in the "Strikers: who needs them?" thread.
If Origi is sold in January, a dream scenario would be signing Adeyemi as replacement.
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Nice insightful discussion above. But wait, are folks genuinely thinking we have a shot at buying those players in January? Even indy kaila has realized the futility of LFC transfer links. His latest tweet:
Or we just playing along to keep our spirits high?
Yeah, I think so as well. Decision tomorrow appaz. Two clubs in the running. Villa and maybe Arsenal?
I wonder if Coutinho is in shape to even make a difference in the league these days. His fitness has been very questionable for a few years now.
"The negotiation to buy Luis Díaz is close to being closed. Liverpool would be at € 71.7 million (£ 60 million) beating a millionaire offer from Newcastle who also want him. Klopp's team has the urgency for the departure of Salah and Mane to the African Cup"
He has a million followers on Twitter.
Who was that Portugal (I think) based attacking player we were reportedly close to signing about 2-3 seasons ago? Firm etc “reported” that we made multiple big-money bids and the transfer was “almost done” at one point. His name really dropped off the radar so much that for the life of me I can’t remember who it was.
Anyway, I think Luiz is an interesting player, but this feels similar at this point.
Anyway, I think Luiz is an interesting player, but this feels similar at this point.
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I am so excited about this transfer window, its gonna be torture like all our transfer windows since we won the european cup. We know we will sign no one but just the talk of us being linked to these 60M players when we know we are never gonna actually buy...its like window shopping and just dreaming.
Pedro Goncalves?
I don't buy the AFCON urgency line - by the time we get anyone in, introduce him to his team mates, get one or two training sessions under his belt, the lads will be back.
That and most of our new players are shit for at least 3 - 4 months before they become any good
I want us to sign him this month mainly so James Pearce will be wrong.
Fernandes rings a bell....
Even I think they're digging even bigger hole. Real Madrid stopped spending, slashed wages.
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Erling Braut Haaland: Barcelona could sign Borussia Dortmund striker in summer, says Guillem Balague
Last updated on6 January 20226 January 2022.From the sectionEuropean FootballBBC Radio 5 Live's Euro Leagues podcast.
Barcelona, despite the promise from the new president Joan Laporta to keep him, had to let Argentina forward Lionel Messi leave on a free transfer last summer because of La Liga's financial fair play rules, but also because they did not fully believe Messi was the future of the club.
But they did sign 21-year-old Spain forward Ferran Torres from Manchester City in a £46.3m deal last month, with Laporta saying Barca were "back as big players" in the transfer market.
However, they have not yet been able to register Torres because of financial reasons.
"Laporta is selling a hopeful future," added Balague, who said Barcelona are finalising a loan from American investment bank Goldman Sachs of 1.5bn euros to rebuild the stadium and its surroundings, which has to be added to the 595m euros they already got from the bank. Some of the loan money will cover the 1.3bn euros debt that Laporta has admitted the club has to face.
"He's trying to imply they are up for getting any of the big players and Haaland is possible, very possible.
"How do they get Haaland? They get rid of a bunch of players and Philippe Coutinho, Samuel Umtiti, Sergino Dest, Clement Lenglet, Frenkie de Jong, Martin Braithwaite, Oscar Mingueza, Luuk de Jong are for sale and then they're able to bring in someone. It's complicated, but not impossible."
Balague explained that Barcelona might retract from their rejection of a private investors CVC loan La Liga has got for its clubs, and that might help raise the wage cap.
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Erling Braut Haaland: Barcelona could sign Borussia Dortmund striker in summer, says Guillem Balague
Last updated on6 January 20226 January 2022.From the sectionEuropean FootballBBC Radio 5 Live's Euro Leagues podcast.
Barcelona, despite the promise from the new president Joan Laporta to keep him, had to let Argentina forward Lionel Messi leave on a free transfer last summer because of La Liga's financial fair play rules, but also because they did not fully believe Messi was the future of the club.
But they did sign 21-year-old Spain forward Ferran Torres from Manchester City in a £46.3m deal last month, with Laporta saying Barca were "back as big players" in the transfer market.
However, they have not yet been able to register Torres because of financial reasons.
"Laporta is selling a hopeful future," added Balague, who said Barcelona are finalising a loan from American investment bank Goldman Sachs of 1.5bn euros to rebuild the stadium and its surroundings, which has to be added to the 595m euros they already got from the bank. Some of the loan money will cover the 1.3bn euros debt that Laporta has admitted the club has to face.
"He's trying to imply they are up for getting any of the big players and Haaland is possible, very possible.
"How do they get Haaland? They get rid of a bunch of players and Philippe Coutinho, Samuel Umtiti, Sergino Dest, Clement Lenglet, Frenkie de Jong, Martin Braithwaite, Oscar Mingueza, Luuk de Jong are for sale and then they're able to bring in someone. It's complicated, but not impossible."
Balague explained that Barcelona might retract from their rejection of a private investors CVC loan La Liga has got for its clubs, and that might help raise the wage cap.
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Happy for Coutinho. No ill feeling towards him - his transfer fee was a major part of us winning all the trophies we have recently.
He's had a tough time of it since leaving us, and we've all taken some pleasure from that; but I can definitely get behind a Coutinho playing for Gerrard. Hope to see some of those long range worldies from him soon, preferably against all our rivals.
He's had a tough time of it since leaving us, and we've all taken some pleasure from that; but I can definitely get behind a Coutinho playing for Gerrard. Hope to see some of those long range worldies from him soon, preferably against all our rivals.
Oh, finally remembered - Anderson Talisca! According to Portuguese press, we were supposedly “finalizing” a £40M deal for him from Benfica. He is now 27 and playing in Saudi Arabia.
Not a fair comparison to Diaz who’s actually good, just remembering how “sure” some ITK’s seemed about this despite probably not a smidgen of actual interest from us.
EDIT: From Talisca’s wiki:
Wow, must be some player we missed out on, a combination of Yaya Toure, Neymar and Rivaldo!
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If we get Luis Diaz, we win the league or the CL. He’s absolutely ace.
You're all better people than me. I'm going to enjoy being able to watch Coutinho's decline up close, knowing that him and his wife, who always dreamed of living in Barcelona, are now stuck in Solihull, listening to the god awful Brummie dialect for eighteen long months.
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