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Transfer Rumours 21/22

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Barcelona will now accept less for Brazil midfielder Philippe Coutinho than they paid Liverpool in add-ons when the 29-year-old joined the La Liga side as his value continues to drop
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/foot...ool-transfer-news-coutinho-barcelona-24458793
At a price around about the £20m mark and with both Mane and Salah away for the African Cup of Nations £20-25m would be a shrewd investment for a player already premier league proven,knows what Klopp expects of him, fits the systemand has the qualities and skill needed to fit back in...
At that price we would be mad not to re-sign him

Yeah but they would want us to pay his wages and I don't think he's worth his wages anymore. I'd rather promote Elliot and give him that game time that Coutinho would take up.
 
Mancs linked to a French midfield talent called Camavinga for 30 million Euros. PSG also interested. He has only one year left on his contract and Rennes wants to sell.

No idea how good he is but he seems to be highly rated and youtube compilations look impressive.
 
I’ve never watched Star Wars or Star Track or whatever this is, so I’ve no idea what you two are blabbering on about.

Anyway, here’s an article about Count Doku and how he turned a chance to join LFC down:
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It is early 2018. Jérémy Doku is about to turn 16, but Liverpool get the big guns out to convince a young, pacy winger from Anderlecht to move to Merseyside. They invite him for an introduction to the club. Doku flies in with his parents, David, a Ghanaian immigrant who moved to Belgium in 1993, and Belinda.
A club representative gives the Antwerp-born kid a tour around Anfield. Their next stop is Melwood. It is there that the stars come out. Jürgen Klopp has a chat with player and parents. Dad David says: “He explained to us that Jérémy could replace Mané in a few years.”

Steven Gerrard, Liverpool Under-19s manager at the time, calls them into his office and shows him some video footage. Mo Salah hands him a shirt. Sadio Mané, Georginio Wijnaldum and Doku’s countryman Simon Mignolet walk by and have a few words with him.

His parents are shown around a school. They visit a house where they could possibly live. They negotiate the salary they have in mind. They are overwhelmed. Everything is in place at Liverpool, from the football project to the financial side. They see their kid as a future Red.

Doku is less impressed. He does not feel a lot for a move to England. Barcelona are the team of his dreams – he still picks them on Fifa21. His eyes only start blinking when his parents announce that it is time to go back home: “I really look forward to train with Anderlecht again tomorrow,” he says.

Anderlecht are convinced they will lose Doku to Liverpool. They have even given them official permission to talk to the player. It is part of the negotiations over a loan move of Lazar Markovic to Anderlecht in January 2018. Anderlecht’s general manager, Herman Van Holsbeeck, bends under the pressure. A deal with Newcastle over Aleksandar Mitrovic has stalled a few hours before the transfer deadline. They make a last-minute attempt for the Serbian winger Markovic, who is no longer in Klopp’s plans. To get Liverpool over the line Van Holsbeeck agrees, with a Doku clause in the loan deal.

It is a risk but Anderlecht have not given up on Doku just yet. Their head of youth development, Jean Kindermans, makes a call to the former Anderlecht player Romelu Lukaku, the first big Belgian star to come through their Purple Talents Project in 2009. Kindermans asks Lukaku if he would like to shoot a short video to persuade Doku to stay.

Lukaku tells Doku that it is better to shine in the Belgian league first before moving to a big club. It is the path Lukaku has followed: he established himself at Anderlecht as a top scorer before he crossed the channel to join Chelsea at the age of 18. The video message takes away the last doubts. Doku signs a professional deal with Anderlecht.

The winger is 16 years and six months old when he makes his debut for the first team, as a substitute against Sint-Truiden in November 2018. The return of Vincent Kompany to Anderlecht as a player-manager in the summer of 2019 accelerates his development. As the club are financially in muddy waters they put all their money on their youth prospects. Doku impresses with his pace and dribbling skills in a pre-season friendly against Benfica. He consequently starts the first league game of the new season.

Doku shows glimpses of his talent but also a lack of efficiency and consistency – typical for young players. His interesting profile also catches the eyes of the national manager, Roberto Martínez, and his scouts. They soon start considering him a potential stand-in for the captain, Eden Hazard, who is struggling with injuries since his move to Real Madrid.

On 5 September 2020, three months after his 18th birthday, Martínez hands Doku his debut for Belgium against Denmark. A few days later he features in the starting XI against Iceland. After a very difficult first half where he fails to impress, he manages to score a late goal that shows all his qualities: pace, skills and unpredictability. The world has seen it too.

The scouts of Rennes have been aware of his abilities for a while and decide to jump the gun. They know about Anderlecht’s financial struggles – a loss of €63m over two years on a budget of €170m. They convince him with the promise of Champions League football. Doku, as Martínez has told him, needs European games to develop. Anderlecht had not qualified for a European competition in two consecutive years and need the money urgently. The €27m transfer fee makes him Rennes’s record signing. He erases Youri Tielemans (€25m to Monaco in 2017) as Anderlecht’s most expensive outgoing transfer.

In his first season in Ligue 1 Doku has established himself as a starter, but there have been ups and downs. His stats are not amazing, but the club see through them. “It was time to make the next step,” Doku told Belgium’s HLN. “You don’t play against a Neymar or an Mbappé in the Belgian league. My stats are what they are. I didn’t score a lot in Belgium either – I’m a not Zlatan.”

Julien Stéphane, sacked as Rennes manager in March, agrees. “I was immediately charmed by his positive attitude. He is very eager to learn. He listens to a manager. He adapted very well. That’s why I kept playing him. He only struggled for a while because he couldn’t score.”

Martínez knows and is a fan: “Doku has something special.” At Liverpool, the scouts had seen it too.





Great read! Sounds like this Doku kid has his head screwed on. I only watched him once but he had the Italian defenders backtracking and they defitaly knew within a few minutes that he was going to be a handful. As I said I only watched him when he came on as a substitute but he looked Mane-like in the way he played.
 
Mancs linked to a French midfield talent called Camavinga for 30 million Euros. PSG also interested. He has only one year left on his contract and Rennes wants to sell.

No idea how good he is but he seems to be highly rated and youtube compilations look impressive.

I will be very disappointed if we do not sign one of Camavinga, Gravenberch or Bellingham within the next two years...
 
Who is Pedro Almeida?

Anyway, this will be interesting if true.

Renato is represented by Gestifute, which is Jorge Mendes' agency, and we seem to have developed a very profitable relationship with them. Fabinho and Jota both represented by them, and we closed those deals very quickly, almost completely out of the blue.
 
The usual club mouthpieces saying we aren't in Sanches this summer only for the club to sign him within days of their claims would be very LFC
 
Who is Pedro Almeida?

Anyway, this will be interesting if true.

Renato is represented by Gestifute, which is Jorge Mendes' agency, and we seem to have developed a very profitable relationship with them. Fabinho and Jota both represented by them, and we closed those deals very quickly, almost completely out of the blue.

If the 18 mill € is true, I’d take that deal.
 
Quick look at this Almeida chap's timeline, and you know he's a totall bullshiter. He's announced Renato to Liverpool and Bayern already in the last year. Also announced Bissouma and Buendia to Arsenal.
 
Yeah but they would want us to pay his wages and I don't think he's worth his wages anymore. I'd rather promote Elliot and give him that game time that Coutinho would take up.

How I understand it is that Barca do not want to loan him out, but rather sell him for that amount, and I believe that he is so desperate to play at Liverpool again that he would give his very best for us, and to get him back for that price is a steal...

And to rid ourselves of The Ox,Shaqiri and Origi to boot would be great, we could still promote Elliot (I don't see what all the fuss is about himpersonally, He will end up going the way of Jonjo Shelvey,Harry Willson, and Rhian Brewster)
 
Sancho, Varane (is that still on) and Camavinga or a player like him would be a great window for Utd and should mean that they're in contention next season.
 
How I understand it is that Barca do not want to loan him out, but rather sell him for that amount, and I believe that he is so desperate to play at Liverpool again that he would give his very best for us, and to get him back for that price is a steal...

And to rid ourselves of The Ox,Shaqiri and Origi to boot would be great, we could still promote Elliot (I don't see what all the fuss is about himpersonally, He will end up going the way of Jonjo Shelvey,Harry Willson, and Rhian Brewster)
They can't sell him because he's injured. He won't pass a medical in the condition he's in right now. Their only option right now is a loan which is why they're hawking him around every club left right and centre. We need to drop the whole Coutinho to us routine.
 
Saul Niguez is the latest midfielder we are linked with according to every paper under The Lying Rag. I don't think it will happen but I think he's an excellent player.
 
Saul Niguez is the latest midfielder we are linked with according to every paper under The Lying Rag. I don't think it will happen but I think he's an excellent player.

Only way we get him is 30 million + keita.
Otherwise, no chance... hell got for 50-60 mill or stay
 
On a sidenote, not that we're linked with him, but how would the prospect of Lukaku signing sound to peeps on here?
He doesn't suit our game at all.

The centre forward in our system needs to be more of a creative type, good at drifting deeper, finding space. working the channels to support the main goal threats - the wide forwards. Lukaku would be a disaster in our system.
 
On a sidenote, not that we're linked with him, but how would the prospect of Lukaku signing sound to peeps on here?

Someone that’s played at both Man Utd and Everton joining Liverpool!!!!

That’s end of days stuff.
 
Letting them surpass us given how far behind they were a year ago is criminal.

As much as i would like us to be in the mix when players like Sancho are available (ie very expensive), I can accept the policy of signing players before they become top class; however, this should mean we are right at the front of the queue for the likes of Camavinga. We don't actually seem to have any approach now other than trying to find some overlooked player to take a punt on.
 
I don’t know what people are expecting - the plan has always been to only spend after we’ve sold a “star player” for a massive profit.

We’re buying no-one until that happens - so take your pick - Salah, Mane or Van Dijk.

No-one else is worth enough to sell to fund decent quality replacements.

It appears we can’t shop in the market Leicester operate in or the market City & Utd operate in - don’t know where that leaves us, other than on a downward spiral.
 
Ings is refusing to sign his new Southampton deal

Honestly, I'd be interested. He's a goalscorer, popular figure in the dressing room, and already has connections here.
 
Ings is refusing to sign his new Southampton deal

Honestly, I'd be interested. He's a goalscorer, popular figure in the dressing room, and already has connections here.

He's not gonna come back to sit on the bench again surely plus he'd be another very expensive 29 year old.

We need to go for youth now unless it's a cheap option.
 
He wouldn't sit in the bench because Firmino is fucking shite.

Yes... he’d be lying on a nice comfy table in the treatment room alongside Shaqiri, Matip, Gomez and Kieta.
 
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