Report: Nunes on the radar of Liverpool

I thought this was an old article until it got to the wolves part. It could be the dumbest shit I've ever seen to be incredibly desperate for a midfielder and watch one you are seriously interested in fuck off to a smaller premier league club for relative peanuts while you scramble for an injury prone loan player on the last day of the window. Its speculation but if we then buy Nunes for a much larger fee it feels like some incredibly poor decision making at the club. There's being risk averse and then there's just being stupid. Waiting to see how he'd adapt to the Premier league first... how many players have we bought not from the Premier league first or given premier league debuts too.

3 hours ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

I thought this was an old article until it got to the wolves part. It could be the dumbest shit I've ever seen to be incredibly desperate for a midfielder and watch one you are seriously interested in fuck off to a smaller premier league club for relative peanuts while you scramble for an injury prone loan player on the last day of the window. Its speculation but if we then buy Nunes for a much larger fee it feels like some incredibly poor decision making at the club. There's being risk averse and then there's just being stupid. Waiting to see how he'd adapt to the Premier league first... how many players have we bought not from the Premier league first or given premier league debuts too.

Depends what grade we gave him, how they see him as part of the overall team and whether there was sufficient concern about his ability to adapt that, like lots of top clubs, they were willing to see the player make an intermediate move first.

Not seen any Wolves games this season so don't know how Nunes has played but given the lack of talk about him I'd guess he's been solid but no more?

So if there are other options to Bellingham, one of which is Nunes, are we now meant to believe that none of them were available/suitable  during the summer? 

Funny how when the window was open and we could make transfers and he wasn't available we were supposedly completely fixated on Bellingham.

Now though, of course (because our scouting department is back to being supposedly brilliant) he is just one of a number of options. 

It's almost like the scouting department made a list of recommendations during the summer, some of those were considered too expensive and so we were fed the Bellingham line. Now, we will be fed the cheaper option line. 

Just feels like this article is just starting the club trying to soften the fans up so they now don't get too much grief when it's someone cheaper than Bellingham (while they gloss over that said player was probably available this summer). 

Because they want Bellingham?

Shirley, it would have been easier and cheaper to buy him from Sporting than Wolves.

Hope he has a great game tomorrow though. 

This is utterly pathetic, if true.

It's bullshit from an Italian clickbait site (Arthur), it's like tattooing a players name on yourself because ClubCall or Calcio Mercato said you were going to sign him and now everyone's getting annoyed at it.

With Nunes, as I said above, it will depend on how he performs and depending on the clubs assessment of him in Portugal it's fairly standard practice.

conjecture.

Of course it's conjecture it's a football forum. We are just talking about what's in the article posted.

Smokescreen for Pogba

We should play some 4D chess and just buy whoever Sporting signed to replace this fella, save ourselves two years and £40m. 

2 hours ago, stringvest said:

conjecture.

Overruled! I'll not have you ruining my courtroom, Mr Vest. And stop muttering under your breath about Henderson, whoever he is. 

29 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Of course it's conjecture it's a football forum. We are just talking about what's in the article posted.

Continue, Mr Hundreds. 

1 hour ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Of course it's conjecture it's a football forum. We are just talking about what's in the article posted.

I meant the article was pure conjecture.

6 hours ago, HBenn said:

So if there are other options to Bellingham, one of which is Nunes, are we now meant to believe that none of them were available/suitable  during the summer? 

Funny how when the window was open and we could make transfers and he wasn't available we were supposedly completely fixated on Bellingham.

Now though, of course (because our scouting department is back to being supposedly brilliant) he is just one of a number of options. 

It's almost like the scouting department made a list of recommendations during the summer, some of those were considered too expensive and so we were fed the Bellingham line. Now, we will be fed the cheaper option line. 

Just feels like this article is just starting the club trying to soften the fans up so they now don't get too much grief when it's someone cheaper than Bellingham (while they gloss over that said player was probably available this summer). 

 

 

 

 

Nunes was available in the summer!

4 hours ago, Barrington Womble said:

Nunes was available in the summer!

I know. 

I just meant the narrative was it was Bellingham or no one and now its moving to him being just one or a number of options. 

Ok, the sources aren't too reputable at this point but let's face it, it's consistent with FSG's modus operandi isn't it?

Suggest we will go massive for one player and no one else will do and then put out the whole "better value for money" and hope no one notices that one of those players we are now being linked with would have been probably at least £20-30m cheaper had we bought him in the summer. 

Idiotic if we didn't go for him this summer over a few million then decide to spend double next summer to buy him. 

We've become pretty stupid in making decisions for a while now, so would make sense

Should have bought Van Dijk from Celtic, Jota from Atletico and Bellingham from Birmingham.

We'll ignore the different rates of development, public perception, expectation and the part regular game time plays in the development of players.

Who'd have thought losing out on Salah to Chelsea would have been a blessing.

We're clearly not interested in this guy. Enzo Fernandez, maybe.

1 minute ago, TD_LFC said:

Should have bought Van Dijk from Celtic, Jota from Atletico and Bellingham from Birmingham.

 

We'll ignore the different rates of development, public perception, expectation and the part regular game time plays in the development of players.

 

Who'd have thought losing out on Salah to Chelsea would have been a blessing.

We absolutely should have signed Van Dijk from Celtic. We had Dejan Lovren, Martin Skrtel and Kolo Toure starting games the season he went to Southampton. He was comfortably better than them even back then.

6 minutes ago, joe_fishfish said:

We absolutely should have signed Van Dijk from Celtic. We had Dejan Lovren, Martin Skrtel and Kolo Toure starting games the season he went to Southampton. He was comfortably better than them even back then.

Doubt that would have been the prevailing opinion at the time though.

11 hours ago, TD_LFC said:

Doubt that would have been the prevailing opinion at the time though.

Have you forgotten the love for the 3 mentioned? 

1 hour ago, Barrington Womble said:

Have you forgotten the love for the 3 mentioned? 

You reckon that would have mattered?

People would have rightly wanted them replaced but the debate still would have been why are we signing a player from the Scottish league, it's easy to look good in the Scottish league, the signing show's no ambition, why aren't we going for [insert flavour of the month defenders here].

'Just sign anyone' quickly becomes 'anyone but him'.

2 hours ago, Barrington Womble said:

Have you forgotten the love for the 3 mentioned? 

Erm, are you forgetting Kolo’s heroic performance in the valiant b team defeat against Real Madrid? His marauding tank like runs? His cheeky little smile?!

34 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

You reckon that would have mattered?

 

People would have rightly wanted them replaced but the debate still would have been why are we signing a player from the Scottish league, it's easy to look good in the Scottish league, the signing show's no ambition, why aren't we going for [insert flavour of the month defenders here].

 

'Just sign anyone' quickly becomes 'anyone but him'.

 

Considering the only other centre back we brought in that window was a 17 year old Joe Gomez, I reckon people could have been won over. There will always be someone who doesn't want to sign any given player, it doesn't mean the club shouldn't do it or he won't be a success. 

12 minutes ago, El Dangerous said:

Erm, are you forgetting Kolo’s heroic performance in the valiant b team defeat against Real Madrid? His marauding tank like runs? His cheeky little smile?!

They were heady days indeed.