Fekir: There were excuses made over failed Liverpool transfer

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Hmm. Sounds like we dodged a bullet with this one.

'If' he was fit, I would have loved him here. Completely different set of tools to what we already have on the books to work with. Disappointed it ended in these circumstances.

It was a shitty situation for him and he's not too bitter given the circumstances. I agree with him that our decision to pull out undoubtedly had an effect on other clubs' interest. Would have loved him here if he'd passed the medical. Anyway, hope Spain all works out for him and that he scores winning goals against Real and Barcelona.

The 'pseudo representatives' were probably a big problem more than anything else. We've seen it recently with Bobby Duncan so fair play to LFC for telling him to do one.

He seems alright I think.  I hope it works out for him at Betis.

Bunch of pseudophiles.

I hope they find out he has a peanut allergy.

I hope he lives Nabily ever after.

The French Frank Worthington

On 11/09/2019 at 10:31, El Rojo said:

It was a shitty situation for him and he's not too bitter given the circumstances. I agree with him that our decision to pull out undoubtedly had an effect on other clubs' interest. Would have loved him here if he'd passed the medical. Anyway, hope Spain all works out for him and that he scores winning goals against Real and Barcelona.

He did score against Barcelona. Sadly, they lost 5-2.

If the deal was called off because some new faces turned up wanting a slice of the pie after all agreements had been made already, then Liverpool were well within their rights to do so. I'd imagine that the club has looked at the amounts shelled out in agent fees and decided that latecomers who've had no input up to then should not be trying to fleece the club out of more money.

It was all down to Numero's pseudo-campaign anyway.

Stupid Fekir!

It’s funny how everyone takes the clubs side. I know people don’t like it but the club is a well oiled PR machine and will happily sacrifice players reputations to protect themselves. With Duncan it was all the agents telling lies, with Fekir we all now believe the agent?

The thing is, it's hard to see what the club really had to gain by pulling out, if they didn't have to. We wanted Fekir, we had money earmarked to pay for him, we spent (wasted) time scouting him and negotiating, rather than pursuing other players. That's why I'm inclined to believe the deal was scuppered by something done on the Fakir's side.

6 hours ago, Reckoner said:

It’s funny how everyone takes the clubs side. I know people don’t like it but the club is a well oiled PR machine and will happily sacrifice players reputations to protect themselves. With Duncan it was all the agents telling lies, with Fekir we all now believe the agent?

Well,based on the efficient way we've done business in recent years I'd say the club knew how the deal should have been conducted and obviously smelled a rat. Unusual in recent transfer deals.

On 12/09/2019 at 16:00, SasaS said:

The thing is, it's hard to see what the club really had to gain by pulling out, if they didn't have to. We wanted Fekir, we had money earmarked to pay for him, we spent (wasted) time scouting him and negotiating, rather than pursuing other players. That's why I'm inclined to believe the deal was scuppered by something done on the Fakir's side.

Possibly the club were alerted to Alison’s availability and pulled out of the fekir deal for that reason. 

On 12/09/2019 at 13:28, Reckoner said:

It’s funny how everyone takes the clubs side. I know people don’t like it but the club is a well oiled PR machine and will happily sacrifice players reputations to protect themselves. With Duncan it was all the agents telling lies, with Fekir we all now believe the agent?

Apart from the manager and the players I rarely take the club's side, however in this case it's clear from Fekir's own comments that he has no ill will towards LFC, quite the opposite, and that it was the people behind him that were the problem. 

https://www.goal.com/en/news/i-was-ashamed-fekirs-former-agent-blames-players-entourage/1llqo6rq23phd1uwltpb4qbkgz

What a dickhead.

Still disappointed that he's not here since he's a proper talent but if he's bringing extra baggage then we can do without. Not to be racist but - racist statement obviously incoming - French players of an Algerian background do tend to cause a bit of aggro.

6 minutes ago, Baltar said:

Still disappointed that he's not here since he's a proper talent but if he's bringing extra baggage then we can do without. Not to be racist but - racist statement obviously incoming - French players of an Algerian background do tend to cause a bit of aggro.

Like Zidane or Mahrez?

It’s over between us Nabil. It’s not me, it’s you. I’ve moved on. It would never have worked between us. Farewell.

Never heard of the cunt.

6 hours ago, Baltar said:

Still disappointed that he's not here since he's a proper talent but if he's bringing extra baggage then we can do without. Not to be racist but - racist statement obviously incoming - French players of an Algerian background do tend to cause a bit of aggro.

Using Fekir and the arrogant twat who plays for Real Madrid as examples of all French/North African footballers during transfers is a bit of a sweeping generalisation. Lots of French players of North African heritage have moved clubs without any bother.

Edit: I mean Benzema as well as Fekir.