Trent, Salah and VVD
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Can we borrow that presentation Sociedad gave to Zubimendi to convince him to stay and use it on the three?
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Nearing? Vvd has 4 children. He isn't chill, he's dead inside.
Considering the owners want a self sustaining club, selling players would be a good route to generate much needed revenue. Salah last summer was worth £200m, he still has value. I have no problem letting him walk for free in 2-3 years time. The same with VVD. Both right now would fetch I imagine £120m+.
Selling academee grads is only getting £20m here and there. If I did not know better, I would say FSG are committing acts of self harm
In general we are just behind, constantly, and have been since covid. You want to anticipate your needs. We went from that to allowing them to become problems, then reacting to them. There's always going to be some inefficiency with a new manager and new needs, but in our case every issue we are dealing with is one we had regardless.
And these are just needs. Players who are getting old, missing spots in the squad. We aren't even getting into improving and pushing existing players.
And, we've made some truly embarrassing stop gap solutions in service of our thrift.
And these are just needs. Players who are getting old, missing spots in the squad. We aren't even getting into improving and pushing existing players.
And, we've made some truly embarrassing stop gap solutions in service of our thrift.
Can we stop this nonsense about Salah being worth £200m last year - that’s not true.
It’s been clear for ages he’s going to be allowed to leave on a free - it’s fine, make your peace with it, he’s been and still is essential to us.
Virgil will likely sign a 1-2 year extension and leave on a free.
Trent will sign a 5 year deal.
If you want to apply the “we should have sold” metric - we should be selling Alisson right about now.
It’s been clear for ages he’s going to be allowed to leave on a free - it’s fine, make your peace with it, he’s been and still is essential to us.
Virgil will likely sign a 1-2 year extension and leave on a free.
Trent will sign a 5 year deal.
If you want to apply the “we should have sold” metric - we should be selling Alisson right about now.
We shouldn't continue to hold the opinion that he should have been sold because he wasn't? Are we in a temporal anomaly?
He was worth 100-150m as we rejected a 100m+50m from the Saudi's. It was a mistake not to accept and it's an even bigger mistake to keep him on because the longer he's here the longer we go without replacing the fucker. We can't even sign a fucking understudy.
You make it sound like we'll never sell a big asset again, actually you make it sound like we're not permitted to.
I think the plan was for Darwin to rise up and pull us through while we transit out of Salah at some point. That clearly did not worked out.
Now we are left with the conundrum of potentially replacing 3 forwards next season.
It looks like we are now trying to push Diaz out and bring Gordon in so that we can have 1 less problem next season.
Unfortunately, I don't think that's going to happen unless we pay an absolute fortune for Gordon.
If Diaz and Darwin managed to pull off a miraculous mini revival of form this season, we should be fine. A top 4 should be the bare minimum.
If we fall short of the top 4 because of our "we cannot find anyone better to buy" policy, we are in for alot of pain next season.
Now we are left with the conundrum of potentially replacing 3 forwards next season.
It looks like we are now trying to push Diaz out and bring Gordon in so that we can have 1 less problem next season.
Unfortunately, I don't think that's going to happen unless we pay an absolute fortune for Gordon.
If Diaz and Darwin managed to pull off a miraculous mini revival of form this season, we should be fine. A top 4 should be the bare minimum.
If we fall short of the top 4 because of our "we cannot find anyone better to buy" policy, we are in for alot of pain next season.
That's great and all but what has this got to do with this thread?
The point I was making was not that we were offered the chance to sell him - but that no-one offered the 200m quoted in the original post.
We might have been offered 100m+ add ons - but without knowing what those add ons were it would be hard to call it a good deal.
It was also late on in the window with little chance of recruiting a replacement at a decent price and given his goals/assists in the first half of the season, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to suggest we might have struggled to get back into the CL (not saying we wouldn’t) so there would have been a risk of negating whatever fee we got by reduced income.
You’re perfectly welcome to hold the opinion he should have been sold, but you’d be an idiot for believing fantasy made up figures.
I mean… if we want to also pretend that we were crazy not to offload Nunez for the £120m that was never offered by anyone.. we can if you want.
Tribalism is fans in other sports is nowhere near the levels of football imo. Regardless if he wants an autograph I wouldn’t advise him to ask the star to sign a rival clubs shirt.
I'm sorry I forgot who played for the club or that their contract was expiring, but I was busy failing to sign someone.
Yes he is, and so is most of his family, in a former life I worked with his stunning looking cousin, she would give all the info on Liverpool. I find it amazing that so many bluenoses make their main living from LFC related stuff.
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He did preface it by saying, “I think …”
If you ask me, he seems to be like most journalists these days who spend their time trawling fan sites, such as this one, channels such as Anfield Agenda and then make postings such the one above. Sometimes a club employee or agent will slip in a bit of “inside” info but the guys rarely dig deeper to find and verify facts.
It isn't that easy. Not all of them are going to want to sign up, especially if the pitch is, "fresh talent to play with you? Nah, we will definitely perform better with this coach than we did with the vastly more experienced, better one."
Jeez…incredible..
