The ‘Buy Nabil Fekir’ Campaign

[Anubis]

I've had enough of waiting. Cancel the deal unless he signs in the next 5 minutes.

 

[Captain Turdseye]

3 Stacks is in the house, bitches.

[3 Stacks]

3 Stacks is in the house, bitches.

 

Yeah, wassup, mothafuckers. 

[Guest]

The hold up in the Fekir move seems to one related to financial planning. After benefitting hugely from the sales of Lacazette and Tolisso last summer, Lyon want Fekir's sale to be included in their 2018/19 figures and so are holding out until at least Saturday.(RMC)

Too much noise for it not to happen, absolutely it's to do with financials. 

[Charles Penrose]

It’s all going wrong again. Bascombe and Hunter running with stories about us delaying it due to the medical issue. We are apparently stalling.

[YNWAViking]

Holding out for a hero.

[Captain Turdseye]

Chris Bascombe

8 JUNE 2018 • 10:30PM

 

Liverpool’s £53 million move for Lyon midfielder Nabil Fekir is in doubt after the club hesitated on concluding the deal after his medical.

 

Fekir was due to be confirmed as Liverpool’s latest signing on Friday. A deal was agreed between the clubs, as were personal terms with the player, and members of the Anfield medical department have spent the last two days in France to oversee what were presumed the final formalities.

 

Instead of the anticipated arrival of a club statement confirming the latest transfer coup, enough concerns have materialised over the last 24 hours to ensure the signing has not gone ahead as planned.

 

Liverpool are offering no indication as to the nature of the problem.

 

It is unclear at this stage if Liverpool’s caution is in any way related to this past injury problem.

 

Nabil Fekir sustained a serious injury to his right knee when playing for France three years ago. The club hoped to conclude the transfer before the World Cup, where Fekir is representing France. Negotiations had intensified in the last few days leading to an agreement, although Lyon’s president Jean-Michel Aulas gave a hint the move was not as clear-cut as suggested when stating claims Fekir had already left were premature.

 

France play their final warm-up game against USA on Saturday ahead of travelling to Russia. Now Liverpool must ponder if the late hitch means the deal is merely shelved pending further discussions.

 

Fekir was expected to be the latest exciting arrival from France following Fabinho’s £40m switch from Monaco. Liverpool’s midfield would have a fresh new look with Naby Keita already signed from RB Leipzig.

 

Now manager Jurgen Klopp will be assessing if the Fekir deal can proceed or Liverpool must switch to alternative targets as they continue the hunt for a new No 10. Fekir seemed to fit the bill.

 

One midfielder leaving Liverpool is Emre Can after the club confirmed the end of his Anfield career. The midfielder is preparing to join Juventus on a free transfer.

 

The German was unable to agree a new deal and departs after a four year stay on Merseyside. Liverpool have already replaced him with Fabinho.

[Shitty Arse]

As Clay Davis would say. Shiiiit

[sir roger]

It is unclear at this stage if Liverpool’s caution is in any way related to this past injury problem.

 

So, guessing, basically is Basco.

[The Guest]

Not to defend Funnneeeee like, but I recall you were completely convinced that Salah should've been playing left wing. which was so ridiculously wrong. So maybe don't bash opinions so harshly when yours are also pretty shite.

I was completely convinced that in games where we were struggling to break teams down that switching our wingers would have been beneficial and stopped us drawing so many games. If you didn’t notice we scraped to fourth with far too many draws against sides we struggled to break down. Anyway that’s what you call an opinion and people can either agree or disagree. However ridiculous you think it is.

 

Listing a load of players that had no major injuries before they came here and saying that the club should have learned lessons from signing these players as some of them subsequently got chronically injured and some of them didn’t isn’t an opinion. It’s a load of misinformed bollocks which I pointed out in the post.

 

It’s literally a car crash of a post where he names some players that didn’t even become injury prone here and others that did but literally hardly cost the club anything never mind not actually showing signs that they would be injury prone beforehand.

 

All of this was to make a point that the club shouldn’t sign Fekir because we’ve made the mistake so many times before of signing players with as bad an injury as a cruciate for loads of money and it’s blown up in our faces. It simply hasn’t. It’s just complete nonsense.

[Red House]

From Hunter:
 

The deal was so far advanced that Fekir had not only undergone a Liverpool medical in Paris and agreed personal terms on a five-year contract but conducted an introductory interview with LFCTV, the club’s in-house television channel.

An issue with the Lyon captain’s fitness, however, delayed the announcement and placed the transfer in doubt.

[M_B]

[dockers_strike]

 

From Hunter:

 

The deal was so far advanced that Fekir had not only undergone a Liverpool medical in Paris and agreed personal terms on a five-year contract but conducted an introductory interview with LFCTV, the club’s in-house television channel.

An issue with the Lyon captain’s fitness, however, delayed the announcement and placed the transfer in doubt.

 

 

I think that is bollocks. They would not have had the LFCtv interview done if there was still doubts about his knee.

[Heinze]

Basco chatting shit.

[Charles Penrose]

Absolute denial in here. A gluttony of journalists running similar stories and absolute silence from the two at the top. At best there is an issue we are hoping to resolve and at worst it’ll be off entirely.

[dockers_strike]

I do not know about denial but bascombe says this

 

Liverpool are offering no indication as to the nature of the problem.

Liverpool are not even saying there is a problem but there is a problem according to bascombe.

[chrisbonnie]

I'm not saying this will go through.

 

But there's no bloody way they'd have the lad do interviews if he had failed a medical. Not a fucking hope.

 

So if he has failed a medical, then he didn't do the interviews, and if he did do the interviews, then he's signing.

[The Golden Eel]

I do not know about denial but bascombe says this

 

Liverpool are not even saying there is a problem but there is a problem according to bascombe.

 

You don't need to have a problem for there to be a problem but there is a problem

[Captain Turdseye]

If there’s enough doubt about his knee after scans and a second opinion then I’m happy for us to pull out of the deal. That’s just smart business. As was pointed out earlier in the thread, he’ll never have played at the intensity levels that Klopp demands either.

 

Also, Jurgen’s ‘second choices’ haven’t worked out badly. Could end up being a blessing in disguise. Let’s move on and we can all get stiffies over someone else.

[dockers_strike]

You don't need to have a problem for there to be a problem but there is a problem

 

In Bascombes world yes.

[Russ Atmosphere]

Never watched his youtube *fistpump*

[ZonkoVille77]

Fekir is just a smokescreen for James McClean

[VladimirIlyich]

He's better than most crippled players.

Daniel Sturridge gave this a thumbs down,before proceeding to fall over and break his arm.

[Grinch]

It’s all going wrong again. Bascombe and Hunter running with stories about us delaying it due to the medical issue. We are apparently stalling.

Which will actually be ok if A) we've genuine concerns and B) don't claim that Fekir is the only quality player who could possible improve our limited attacking options.

[3 Stacks]

The medical thing makes no sense. They wouldn't go as far as doing an interview only to then pussy out of it because he tore his knee like 3 years ago. Total crap and it just can't be the real reason.