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Virgiling on the vandijkulous

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I've thought all along if City or Chelsea come in for him he's off.

He's said it's about Europe and trophies.

In that list we come in a distant 3rd in terms of potential to compete year on year.

He's also made it clear he specifically wants to join us. In your desperation to talk us down you seem to think you know what he wants better than he does himself.
 
To be fair to Pat, the LFC press briefings said he wanted to join us. His own statement (understandably) doesn't say that.

And it comes on the heels of a rumoured Chelsea bid
 
But it also says "should such interest still excist". That sounds like us after this summers cock up and public apology.

I doubt he would have needed a transfer request to move to Chelsea. Soton would have sold him without one, and Chelsea would have moved sooner.

That he favours us I have no doubt, but our ability to get this deal done gives me much bigger doubt.
 
Of course, tiers and order of suitability are set in stone, in Pat land. It's a good job United aren't interested, he'd be tripping himself up all over the show.
 
I wonder where Southampton would be if they still had Bale, Walcott, Ox, Lallana, Mane, Clyne, Wanyama etc.
 
"sources" close to Southampton claim they'd rather leave VVD in the stands all season than sell him to us. Hopefully not true.
 
"sources" close to Southampton claim they'd rather leave VVD in the stands all season than sell him to us. Hopefully not true.
So they'd rather see an asset depreciate by 60 million quid than sell him to Liverpool Football Club who have done nothing different than any other team, and who have bankrolled them for the last 3-4 years? Leave it out.
 
I can see them rejecting our offer if Chelsea offer the same. We are very much responsible for his current state of mind.
If we've offered the same then they have to offer both options to the player rather than accept just one.

For all the scoffing over the 'slavery' comments, there are regulations in place to stop clubs having complete control over a players future & that is one of them.

If they did accept Chelsea's offer & not ours & they were found to be the same the could be charged.

That said, we'd probably offer to pay it over fifteen years in the form of bags full of cans to be recycled or something, making the argument null & void.
 
As if a club like Soton would leave a 60 mill player sit in the stands for a season.
I dont get the hatred in regards to selling to us either, we've paid them some hefty fees these last few years. 20 mill for Lovren being the top of the cherry.

For 60 mill £ they could strengthen 3 positions, not look weak and secure a top 8-10 league spot.

Their fans are up there with the Blueshite now in terms of bitternes.
 
If we've offered the same then they have to offer both options to the player rather than accept just one.

For all the scoffing over the 'slavery' comments, there are regulations in place to stop clubs having complete control over a players future & that is one of them.

If they did accept Chelsea's offer & not ours & they were found to be the same the could be charged.

That said, we'd probably offer to pay it over fifteen years in the form of bags full of cans to be recycled or something, making the argument null & void.

I'm not sure the regulations cover that situation.
 
If we've offered the same then they have to offer both options to the player rather than accept just one.

For all the scoffing over the 'slavery' comments, there are regulations in place to stop clubs having complete control over a players future & that is one of them.

If they did accept Chelsea's offer & not ours & they were found to be the same the could be charged.

That said, we'd probably offer to pay it over fifteen years in the form of bags full of cans to be recycled or something, making the argument null & void.

The fear is that they make some compromise with the player close to deadline day. You can leave but only to this and this club, but not Liverpool. It wouldnt surprise me if they despise us that much by now.
All comes down to VVD I guess, and how much more we offer then the other clubs.
The cock up from earlier this summer might cost us an extra 10 mill £ to get this done.
 
"sources" close to Southampton claim they'd rather leave VVD in the stands all season than sell him to us. Hopefully not true.

That kind of stuff is laughable. And so is all the 'Southampton will sell him to another club to spite LFC' guff. Maybe we should have sold Sterling to Norwich for a couple of million, just to spite City, or Suarez for £10m to Tenerife, just to show Barca. Clubs can't force players to sign with other clubs if they don't want to play for those clubs. If VVD wants to sign for us he'll sign for us and not some other team. He's not a slave. He'll go where he wants to go, and the club will have to concentrate on getting as much money as possible.
 
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