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Summer 2017 Transfer Thread

Anubis

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Never has a player done so little to earn so much acclaim.   I had a look at about a dozen different "team of the season" lists from last summer and couldn't find a single one that included him. Nor

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Liverpool target Naby Keita wants to leave RB Leipzig but Bundesliga club will hold firm on £70m asking price

 

The Guinean midfielder believes he can become one of the Premier League's best

 

Naby Keita wants to join Liverpool, but the Premier League side may be priced out of a move for one of Jurgen Klopp's top targets.

 

The Guinean international had a stand-out debut season in the Bundesliga after signing for RB Leipzig last summer, but is already keen to move amid interest from the Merseyside club.

 

His dream move to Anfield, however, is being obstructed by Leipzig's demands of a £70m fee.

 

22-year-old Keita is seen by Klopp as the all-action midfielder his team needs, combining power, energy and passing ability. But having qualified for the Champions League for the first time in their history and keen to mount a title challenge this year, the Bundesliga upstarts are in no mood to sell - even if the Reds' proposed £45m deal would represent a huge profit on a player who first entered the Red Bull ecosystem three years ago for just £1.5m.

 

Keita was plucked from the French lower leagues - Istres, to be exact - by RB Salzburg in 2014, where he played for two years before graduating to the Austrian club's bigger brother in Germany. Their investment has already paid itself off many times over but what the Bundesliga runners-up are holding out for is Keita's market value.

 

Even with the immense wealth of the Premier League, £70m feels like an excessive valuation but Liverpool would be buying potential - with Keita just 22 - and a player who has been personally requested by Jurgen Klopp. That seal of approval is driving Keita to turn down all offers of a new contract and attempt to seal a move to Anfield. Leipzig, however, know that Liverpool have plenty to spend this summer and need to secure their top targets if they are to keep Klopp happy.

 

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/liverpool-transfer-target-naby-keita-rb-leipzig-bundesliga-club-70m-news-live-a7809111.html

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While I'd generally swing more towards the '70m is ridiculous' line of thinking, there's a middle ground that suggests that the club is incapable of going about its business in a professional manner. That's what I'm most irritated about - the van Dijk humiliation and the constant leaks of interest that only drive up prices and make potentially selling clubs hostile towards us.

I think it's easy for us to sit on the sidelines and poke holes, without really knowing what's going on. I believe we did fuck up with the Van Dijk thing, the rest - specifically Kieta - seems like it was coming from there end. Even then, after the cat is out of the bag, a little 'nah, they want too much' is turned into full articles. I think we get a little over sensitive sometimes. We hark back to the good old days. The media wasn't the same then.

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Plenty of conflicting reports on that one. Reddy saying that we have not made any approach and that he's expected to commit to Arsenal, while Pearce is saying that he has no intention of agreeing to their current terms but that no imminent bid is expected from us as we have more urgent priorities. Waiting on Paulie to clear up all confusion.

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Guess who we have signed today.

 

Guess who we have signed today.

 

Fuck all

 

Where's the fucking Suarez Money John? On Linda's tits I bet.

If John snorted £60 million worth of coke off of Linda's tits, I demand to see a video of this. Outrageous but thrilling.

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