Summer 2018 Transfer Thread

[Pidge]

Keeping our powder dry.

[Ranxerox]

"It's tough to get your targets with no CL"

[General Dryness]

I reckon it's going to be a big one.

 

Not the summer, Johnny H's new yacht.

[Billy Big Twat]

By my calculations we must have about £1.5bn to spend this summer, such is the paucity of our recent net investment.

 

No more fucking around Reds. No more 'we'll get him in 6/12 months'. Football is moving too fast now. Incremental improvements and planning for some long distant dream of future success is useless now.

 

Get Keita in, Get Tommy Lemar in, get Pulisic in, and get Allison in. All this summer. Win the fucking league you tossers.

[Boss]

It's amazing that Klopp has us 3rd currently with a net spend of -£5m. Man United have spent £291m net in the last two seasons.

[Barnesey]

Allison got the Roma record for saves in a match in the first half alone last week. The Huddersfield game was the first for 4 when a shot on target didn't go in our net.

[El Rojo]

[aws]

Did we buy anyone yet?

[Horus]

Did we buy anyone yet?

 

 

Not yet, but this time next year....

 

 

 

 

[Anubis]

Fuck off Angry.

[dockers_strike]

Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool stayed “cool” in the January transfer window because it would have taken “completely crazy money” to land one of his attacking targets.

The Reds have come under fire for failing to replace Philippe Coutinho, who was sold to Barcelona in a £142million deal.

Liverpool shattered their transfer record with a £75million swoop for Virgil van Dijk, but with Coutinho departing and Daniel Sturridge joining West Brom on loan concerns have been raised about the depth of the squad.

A move for Thomas Lemar was considered but Monaco’s £90million valuation put the Reds off. Liverpool also tried and failed to convince RB Leipzig to bring forward Naby Keita’s summer switch to Anfield.

Adam Lallana’s latest injury setback didn’t alter the club’s plans and Klopp insists with the options available it was the right decision to wait until the summer to make further signings.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp in his office at Melwood.

“Unfortunately our business is only from the outside that easy. You miss a player for a week and you think ‘okay, we need another player’,” Klopp said.

“Yes, we could have done something. But we need really the right thing. The right thing now, you don’t get. The 100% right thing, only for completely crazy money that really makes no sense. I’m not even sure that would work. And in the summer it looks different.

“That’s how it is. To do something just to have any solution that makes no real sense, to be honest.

“People obviously ask ‘bring him in’ because someone is injured and you need somebody else, but then the other one is coming again and you weaken both or the third one, it makes no sense.

Adam Lallana of Liverpool during a training session at Melwood Training Ground on January 10, 2018 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

“In this situation, you really need to stay cool. It’s more difficult when you’ve lost two games but you need to be serious still.”

Klopp has previously cited the return of Lallana, who missed the first half of the season with a thigh injury, as one reason why there was no panic to replace Coutinho.

However, the England international recently suffered a fresh setback against Swansea and has missed the past two matches with a groin problem.

Lallana is also a doubt for Sunday’s crucial Premier League clash with Tottenham at Anfield but Klopp still believes he will have a big part to play over the coming months.

“It’s really unlucky,” Klopp added.

“It was a really serious injury in the summer. Because of Adam’s quality and attitude in training it looks immediately like we can put him in, (but) physical-wise he’s not fit.

Liverpool's Adam Lallana (Image: Martin Rickett/PA Wire)

 

“The two things that happened after his big injury were in the 10 or 15 minutes after he came on. From nil to 100 in a second, and that’s maybe what caused the problem.

“We really tried to be sensible with it, to do the right thing. But it didn’t work, twice. It’s really not a big thing (the latest injury), three games is like not being injured.

“He’s maybe available for Tottenham, and if not then he’ll have missed three games. That’s really okay but of course it’s not cool. The body needs to adapt again to the intensity.”

[TheHowieLama]

A Lah - A Lah

 

Don't dream its over 

 

A Lah A Lah 

 

When no bid comes in

 

Don't come Don't come

 

To build a wall between us

 

We know we won't win

[Grinch]

desperate times when crying out for Lallana.   He's done fuck all more often than not but even he is straight into the team sheet with this midfield.  Hopefully Kieta and another changes that in the summer.

[TheHowieLama]

Kei tah Kei tah

 

Don't dream its over ...

[aRdja]

Pjanic to replace Can would be superb. He’d be our best passer of the ball since Gerrard retired.

[Numero Veinticinco]

Red Alert, Red Alert it’s a catastrophe. Don’t worry, it’s Pjanic.

[SlugTrail]

Pjanic to replace Can would be superb. He’d be our best passer of the ball since Gerrard retired.

Herr Klopp has already said he won't Pjanic, so I can't see that one happening.

[KevieG]

Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool stayed “cool” in the January transfer window because it would have taken “completely crazy money” to land one of his attacking targets.

The Reds have come under fire for failing to replace Philippe Coutinho, who was sold to Barcelona in a £142million deal.

Liverpool shattered their transfer record with a £75million swoop for Virgil van Dijk, but with Coutinho departing and Daniel Sturridge joining West Brom on loan concerns have been raised about the depth of the squad.

A move for Thomas Lemar was considered but Monaco’s £90million valuation put the Reds off. Liverpool also tried and failed to convince RB Leipzig to bring forward Naby Keita’s summer switch to Anfield.

Adam Lallana’s latest injury setback didn’t alter the club’s plans and Klopp insists with the options available it was the right decision to wait until the summer to make further signings.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp in his office at Melwood.

“Unfortunately our business is only from the outside that easy. You miss a player for a week and you think ‘okay, we need another player’,” Klopp said.

“Yes, we could have done something. But we need really the right thing. The right thing now, you don’t get. The 100% right thing, only for completely crazy money that really makes no sense. I’m not even sure that would work. And in the summer it looks different.

“That’s how it is. To do something just to have any solution that makes no real sense, to be honest.

“People obviously ask ‘bring him in’ because someone is injured and you need somebody else, but then the other one is coming again and you weaken both or the third one, it makes no sense.

Adam Lallana of Liverpool during a training session at Melwood Training Ground on January 10, 2018 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

“In this situation, you really need to stay cool. It’s more difficult when you’ve lost two games but you need to be serious still.”

Klopp has previously cited the return of Lallana, who missed the first half of the season with a thigh injury, as one reason why there was no panic to replace Coutinho.

However, the England international recently suffered a fresh setback against Swansea and has missed the past two matches with a groin problem.

Lallana is also a doubt for Sunday’s crucial Premier League clash with Tottenham at Anfield but Klopp still believes he will have a big part to play over the coming months.

“It’s really unlucky,” Klopp added.

“It was a really serious injury in the summer. Because of Adam’s quality and attitude in training it looks immediately like we can put him in, (but) physical-wise he’s not fit.

Liverpool's Adam Lallana (Image: Martin Rickett/PA Wire)

 

“The two things that happened after his big injury were in the 10 or 15 minutes after he came on. From nil to 100 in a second, and that’s maybe what caused the problem.

“We really tried to be sensible with it, to do the right thing. But it didn’t work, twice. It’s really not a big thing (the latest injury), three games is like not being injured.

“He’s maybe available for Tottenham, and if not then he’ll have missed three games. That’s really okay but of course it’s not cool. The body needs to adapt again to the intensity.”

 

 

Well good job we didn't buy then before the great summer transfer fees dip.

 

Assuming the Lemar fee will drop back to a more manageable 60 million now. Just like the VVD bargain.

[El Rojo]

Adam Lallana of Liverpool during a training session at Melwood Training Ground on January 10, 2018 i

 

With a bit of luck Adam will be walking again by the start of next season.

[Captain]

Did you show him your text message?

[El Rojo]

Did you show him your text message?

 

Can't say much about it now Captain. Let's just say all my information has been valid and we could be in for a very, very interesting summer.

 

Anyway, should I hear anything new in the coming months from any of my various contacts in world football (in at least three continents), I'll sprinkle them in here like precious, golden dandruff. 

[General Dryness]

By my calculations we must have about £1.5bn to spend this summer, such is the paucity of our recent net investment.

 

No more fucking around Reds. No more 'we'll get him in 6/12 months'. Football is moving too fast now. Incremental improvements and planning for some long distant dream of future success is useless now.

 

Get Keita in, Get Tommy Lemar in, get Pulisic in, and get Allison in. All this summer. Win the fucking league you tossers.

Win the fucking European cup as well you cunts, and the domestic cups you wankers. Jessica Alba, sit on my face you fucking shitgargling prickbobbin.

 

I'm with Billy, abuse our way to success. It's worth a go bastards.

[Anubis]

I'm bumping this because this transfer thread has fights, arguments, and general cuntery. AoT's transfer thread is full of puppies, girl's dolls, fairies, and noncing.  Stick with this transfer thread. You know it makes sense.

[Bjornebye]

Lallana is one of our better players when fit. I'm happy we have him even if he does look like he has just met his boyfriend at woodstock. 

[General Dryness]

There'll be no gratuitous female nudity allowed in the other one.