Virgil Van Dijk

[aRdja]

I blame Lucas, and Rafa.

 

and Dirk Kuyt.

[Dr Nowt]

Every player they've ever bought has been overpriced. Bit late to start making a stand about it now.

 

Steady on.  What about when we wanted £50M for Sterling and they showed us who was boss by only paying £49M.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Southampton just getting arsey. Fuck the cunts, they just want a bidding war and are hoping other clubs will go up against us. We should make an official approach now and offer 30 million. 

[Sputnik1]

£30 million and 1p

[G Richards]

It seems an obvious situation. Southampton wanted a three way bidding war and probably expected the fee to climb above £60M. Now that Van Dijk has said he wants to come to us there will be no bidding war, and if the previously mooted fee of £44M + £8M add ons, heavily weighted to winning the title, is true, then they will feel that's short by about £10M or so of what they expected.

 

I suspect the whole thing is just Southampton trying to get us to go a little higher to make the complaint go away. Maybe we will and maybe we won't. It's the murky old world of football, but I suspect it will be something like £47M + £8M add ons that will see a deal struck. They will save face and tell their fans the deal was a world record for a defender, close to the £60M they wanted; while we will save face to our own fans because the manager will have been backed in getting the player he wants.

 

It's all posturing.

 

Negotiation 101 methinks.

[KopOut]

And a fucking waste of money. At 26, that's a career changing injury he's got there.

[El Dangerous]

Don't worry, he'll have a medical.

[stringvest]

and Dirk Kuyt.

 

 

you forgot Aquilani.

[Einch]

I see the Mirror are saying that Klopp met with the lad and has been messaging him regularly.

[Alan Sex]

Van Dijk? I think we should all be excited about the prospect of getting Big Dick.

 

Last year we were teased with Matip, but now we could get the real thing.

 

Just think how great it would be to have Big Dick going in hard, then sliding out of our rear end - dribbling down and getting in the faces of the other team.

 

Come on Big Dick, I say!

[Chip Butty]

[Cardie]

Is that Matt Lucas in the grey coat?

[Sputnik1]

Kim Jong far right too

[Vincent Vega]

I see the Mirror are saying that Klopp met with the lad and has been messaging him regularly.

How the fuck would they know that? Been tapping his phone?

[jimmycase]

How the fuck would they know that? Been tapping his phone?

 

And they flew him to blackpool where they no doubt had a ride on The Big One.

[Harry Squatter]

They just went to one of those shit pubs by the front and did karaoke watched by fellas with earrings and British bulldog tattoos.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

.

[aRdja]

To answer the thread question:

 

Not really. The quoted £60m is excessive. But if it serves as a statement of intent, and we get our primary targets this window (as is looking more likely than previous summers) then I'll be happy about that aspect of it.

Wrong thread.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Wrong thread.

 

Whoops

[PestiRed]

So have we buggered this one up or what?

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Hopefully

[dylstar]

I see the Mirror are saying that Klopp met with the lad and has been messaging him regularly.

Glad you said messaging there and not massaging.

[Sputnik1]

Stolen:

 

He's big, he's dutch

He cost too fucking much

van Dijk, van Dijk

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

The real question is, why isn't Klopp getting Stevie to do his texting for him?

[Biscao]

Agree, poor utilisation of employees from Klopp there.