Al Hilal are ready to offer Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah a lucrative contract if he wants to leave Europe and play in Saudi Arabia.
I think this is a non story then.
I think this is a non story then.
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Yeah, unless someone like PSG comes calling and pays stupid money then we have to be the best option for him. PSG have generally shifted away from Galactico bullshit now, so I think that's less likely, but still possible given the market reach Salah can give a club run by the middle east.
Salah is just too competitive and focused on breaking records to play pub football in the desert.
Salah is just too competitive and focused on breaking records to play pub football in the desert.
dont think it will happen. think we'll sign him. hes just keeping us dangling in the wind
Me too.
Goodbye Mo Salah
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork (Like that cunt agent)
And they whispered into your brain (Yeah, like that cunt agent)
They set you on the treadmill (Part of the job as far as I'm aware)
And they made you change your name (From Mohammed)
And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would've liked to known you
But I was just a pleb
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork (Like that cunt agent)
And they whispered into your brain (Yeah, like that cunt agent)
They set you on the treadmill (Part of the job as far as I'm aware)
And they made you change your name (From Mohammed)
And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would've liked to known you
But I was just a pleb
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did
There's probably a "Goodbye Mo Salah" to the tune of James Blunt's "Goodbye my lover" but even James Blunt thinks he deserves to be cockney rhyming slang so I'm not going there.
Meanwhile those 115 boys are doing a pisstake on FFP and PSR by going on a shopping spree again.
And we're considering selling our top players mid season, while chasing a quad.
Gotta love our owners. And this league.
And we're considering selling our top players mid season, while chasing a quad.
Gotta love our owners. And this league.
To be fair to Mancheater City - they’ve built up a bit of credit by selling all their good youngsters and not buying many players over the last few windows.
Are we really considering selling our “top players” - not seen any evidence of that.
Oh would that be because Arsenal (highest 280k), City, RM (MBappe aside no one close) or even PSG (ca. 380k highest) are going to pay him that? That would be a no.
Then maybe it's because he is just chasing the £££ and will go to Saudi? Err that would be another no because Mo. hasn't ever just chased the cash.
To say nothing of a 24 yo vs. a 32 yo.
And the fact that Mo earns 50 million a year from ads already cos he's seen as cool as fuck around the world cos he's a mellow as fuck Muslim playing for a proper team who adore him, and that translates everywhere globally with Liverpool. Haaland looks like jar jar binks and jade goody had a burst tyre that magically came to life and is as charismatic as a cricket bat dipped in shit. Mo knows all this and that he's onto a winner with us, it's why he's given us his best years. Let's hope we get his twilight ones too.
Wasn't there a five year limit to contracts, what happened that?
You can still offer a contract of any length you like, but for FFP reporting you need to write it off over no longer than 5 years. In their published accounts, it'll be written off over 9.5 years, but for FFP and PSR it'll be over 5.
Just to be tech for a minute, the amount written off over 5 / 9.5 years as applicable will be the residual value from the original deal plus any costs on this one (agent fee will be chunky, given the life of the deal).
Now we just need him to turn to shit or be out injured all the time.
I'm sure they'll have some bonus clauses in their sponsorship deals for getting into the Northern Premier League that will compensate.
Haaland is 24 and could still win Golden Boot, which would be 3 seasons in a row. Mo is being offered huge money in Saudi we were never going to compete.
We as fans can't do shit, this is on FSG for not setting this as priority, we have 3 master negotiators in Ward, Edwards and Hughes and we have not had one resign or sold.
As it currently stands in the summer we will need;
A RW, CB, RB, LB (Robbo is shit), CDM and if Darwin and Diaz leave at least another FWD. 6 players in one window and them all gelling is unheard of
I'd like to see a chart of median and max football wage growth over time. I'm sure it's out there on the internet....
I don't know if my memory just fails me these days, but is this different to how things used to happen with expiring contracts, now that we are out the EU?
I mean, from memory, clubs used to completely avoid getting to January and the chance of losing players on a Bosman, yet in this case we are content to still be sorting out a new contract for these three going into the new year. What's changed? The fact we're not in the EU? Sorry if I'm being thick, it's only really occurred to me over the last few days. Beamy?
I mean, from memory, clubs used to completely avoid getting to January and the chance of losing players on a Bosman, yet in this case we are content to still be sorting out a new contract for these three going into the new year. What's changed? The fact we're not in the EU? Sorry if I'm being thick, it's only really occurred to me over the last few days. Beamy?
It won't have been a negotiation for them - they'd have found out what he wanted then figured out how to get 50% of it off the books.
Bosman's original case was taken under EU law, specifically the freedom of movement concept. The ruling in his favour was an EU-law ruling, but rather than leaving it to players / clubs to litigate every time a player went out of contract, and to ensure consistency across territories, FIFA / UEFA changed the transfer rules to adopt the Bosman ruling. They also adopted a variation for younger players which would still require the payment of compensation to allow them to move. Strictly, that's probably contrary to EU law but the amounts generally involved aren't worth the hassle of a legal challenge so no-one has bothered.
So the Bosman principle still applies to us, even though the UK is no longer in the EU, because it's part of the transfer rules we're signed up to, as opposed to an EU principle that we wouldn't be bound by.
Cheers mate that makes more sense. Still don't get the shift in the apparent lack of fear from us, that we could lose these three under the same principle.
FSG are used to baseball, where AFAIK, there's no transfer fees and it's all just contract based. I think they're more accepting of it then some other owners as a result.
Either Mo is a fool for not accepting the contract pre christmas that was on the table or it's way below what he thought he was worth. Or maybe club aren't planning to renew any of them to avoid paying the massive bonuses they will be due for winning the league presuming they have to stick around post that for a few months like most of us for a period in companies. Obviously have no idea but seems less likely by each month not renewed that a deal is likely...
I think the club are calling the bluff on the players. We’ve given them our best and final offers. They’ve not found anyone offering better yet and it’s a case of who blinks first.
I’d imagine the bonuses are paid regardless of staying into the next season.
I’d imagine the bonuses are paid regardless of staying into the next season.
