Summer 2018 Transfer Thread

[Grinch]

Young centre backs in general are too error prone to be at a big club.  

[Boss]

This Portuguese defender is a guaranteed failure. It'll be another Coates / Illori. As Grinch says, you can't rely on a 19 year old centre back... not in the Premier League. They'll get bullied to fuck. Look at Lindelof at United. He looks utter shit because he can't handle the intensity of the league. 

[TheHowieLama]

THE BENCH!!!

[Harry Squatter]

Says that he will go out on loan if we do buy him. Just don't loan him to Leganes, Granada Reports or Reading because he'll learn fuck all and get worse.

[El Rojo]

Nothing gets my pulse racing like a youthful defender bought and then immediately loaned out again.

 

Only third choice goalkeeping signings come close.

[Thoth]

The timescale varies but, rather curiously, the figure remains the same. “There cannot be any messing about,” implored John Aldridge earlier this week. “We need four quality players, players worth £50million each. That’s £200m on new talent. We need the best we can get.”

 

In February 2016 it was Alan Hansen dreaming of a summer budget “more like £200m”, this time to be used on “five major signings”. Four months earlier, a single week after Jurgen Klopp had been appointed Liverpool manager, Robbie Savage noted that “the money spent is ridiculous”, the only remedy to which was apparently “to spend £200-300m”.

As Ian Doyle of the Liverpool Echo would attest, there is a unique allure on Merseyside surrounding such an arbitrarily large figure. The reporter sated the appetite of supporters as early as April last year, promising a summer investment ‘nearer £200m’. With Champions League qualification not even in their own hands at the time, it was a bold statement.

 

Yet it was followed by a comparative whisper. That the outlay reached just under £80m by the window’s close was treated as a personal affront by certain fans demanding a certain level of financial sacrifice. To watch Everton spend almost twice as much on exactly twice as many first-team players was seen a sign of standing still, not moving forward. It was no way to prepare for only a second season in the Champions League since 2010.

 

A year later, everything has changed for the better on the field, while little has altered off it. Liverpool stand on the precipice, their hard work over the last nine months to be viewed only through the prism of the next few days: in three, a home game with Brighton; in 16, a Champions League final with Real Madrid; in seven, the transfer window re-opens. Aldridge is just one of many already focusing on the latter.

 

As Klopp prepares for a season-defining final, discussion already surrounds what Liverpool “need” in the summer, how “there cannot be any messing about” when they look to improve a squad that could yet be crowned European champions. Both manager and players are justifiably refusing to look beyond the end of this month and their noses, but there is a growing number of fans and pundits looking to cut theirs off, impatient at the mere idea of Liverpool failing to build on such solid foundations.

 

The desperation to capitalise on an unexpected peak to avoid a depressing trough is nothing new, yet it is still disheartening. Antonio Conte spent his Premier League title-winning celebrations informing the Chelsea board of the need to keep funnelling money back into the squad, despite his coaching and tactics having been arguably the most important factor in their initial success.

 

In the eagerness to stay at the front of the race, it is easy to forget what got you there in the first place. Choosing to save your lottery winnings instead of spending it all in one go is undeniably the least sexy option, but it is often the necessary one. The renewal of Roberto Firmino’s contract suggests Liverpool will sensibly look after their family and friends first before looking to reinvest elsewhere.

 

It is a refreshing change of pace. The summer after they agonisingly finished second in 2014/15, Liverpool signed nine players for £117m: a level of upheaval Klopp would never consider. “If you always change four or five positions, it’s wrong,” he said in March. “You don’t make the team better.”

 

This is only the second campaign in which Liverpool have spent more than £100m, and the first culminated in a sixth-place finish, an ignominious Champions League group-stage exit, and Brendan Rodgers losing his job five months later. For a man who once rather shrewdly compared assembling a squad to “trying to build an aircraft while it is flying”, it was a risk to try and stay airborne while replacing the fuel tank, propeller and cabin crew at the same time.

 

Klopp will ignore the noise and avoid that mistake. This is his 16th full campaign as a manager, and only the sixth time he has spent more than £10m. He is European management’s most consistent overachiever for a reason. Believe him when he says he will only sign “a couple more players” to improve squad depth, and also when he insists that is enough to assure continued progress.

 

If those players arrive for £5m instead of £50m, there should be no uproar or surprise. Liverpool’s likely starting line-up for the Champions League final will feature as many cheap parts – Loris Karius (£4.7m), Andrew Robertson (£8m), Trent Alexander-Arnold (free), James Milner (free) – as it will expensive components in Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Firmino. Klopp has proven himself adept at spotting both a summer bargain and a designer label in the same market.

 

Three Premier League clubs spent more than Liverpool this season, but no club has managed to strike a better balance between domestic and European progress. To demand a greater investment is to ask Klopp to rip up a successful blueprint before renovations are even complete. Every club needs to invest and improve year on year, but the last thing Liverpool “need” is £200m to do so.

[Funkasy]

The last thing we need is huge investement, so here you go Klopp, sell before you buy once again. 

sad.

[Arnaud]

Fekir is an amazing player. He used to be a winger but had a bad injury two years ago and he’s been playing like a Coutinho, but on the right and a bit higher on the pitch.

 

You never know but many in France believe it’s a deal done. It seems he’s a Liverpool fan.

 

He’s a hard working lad and very skillful and pretty quick. I would say he’s a kloppo player.

[Jairzinho]

The timescale varies but, rather curiously, the figure remains the same. “There cannot be any messing about,” implored John Aldridge earlier this week. “We need four quality players, players worth £50million each. That’s £200m on new talent. We need the best we can get.”

 

In February 2016 it was Alan Hansen dreaming of a summer budget “more like £200m”, this time to be used on “five major signings”. Four months earlier, a single week after Jurgen Klopp had been appointed Liverpool manager, Robbie Savage noted that “the money spent is ridiculous”, the only remedy to which was apparently “to spend £200-300m”.

As Ian Doyle of the Liverpool Echo would attest, there is a unique allure on Merseyside surrounding such an arbitrarily large figure. The reporter sated the appetite of supporters as early as April last year, promising a summer investment ‘nearer £200m’. With Champions League qualification not even in their own hands at the time, it was a bold statement.

 

Yet it was followed by a comparative whisper. That the outlay reached just under £80m by the window’s close was treated as a personal affront by certain fans demanding a certain level of financial sacrifice. To watch Everton spend almost twice as much on exactly twice as many first-team players was seen a sign of standing still, not moving forward. It was no way to prepare for only a second season in the Champions League since 2010.

 

A year later, everything has changed for the better on the field, while little has altered off it. Liverpool stand on the precipice, their hard work over the last nine months to be viewed only through the prism of the next few days: in three, a home game with Brighton; in 16, a Champions League final with Real Madrid; in seven, the transfer window re-opens. Aldridge is just one of many already focusing on the latter.

 

As Klopp prepares for a season-defining final, discussion already surrounds what Liverpool “need” in the summer, how “there cannot be any messing about” when they look to improve a squad that could yet be crowned European champions. Both manager and players are justifiably refusing to look beyond the end of this month and their noses, but there is a growing number of fans and pundits looking to cut theirs off, impatient at the mere idea of Liverpool failing to build on such solid foundations.

 

The desperation to capitalise on an unexpected peak to avoid a depressing trough is nothing new, yet it is still disheartening. Antonio Conte spent his Premier League title-winning celebrations informing the Chelsea board of the need to keep funnelling money back into the squad, despite his coaching and tactics having been arguably the most important factor in their initial success.

 

In the eagerness to stay at the front of the race, it is easy to forget what got you there in the first place. Choosing to save your lottery winnings instead of spending it all in one go is undeniably the least sexy option, but it is often the necessary one. The renewal of Roberto Firmino’s contract suggests Liverpool will sensibly look after their family and friends first before looking to reinvest elsewhere.

 

It is a refreshing change of pace. The summer after they agonisingly finished second in 2014/15, Liverpool signed nine players for £117m: a level of upheaval Klopp would never consider. “If you always change four or five positions, it’s wrong,” he said in March. “You don’t make the team better.”

 

This is only the second campaign in which Liverpool have spent more than £100m, and the first culminated in a sixth-place finish, an ignominious Champions League group-stage exit, and Brendan Rodgers losing his job five months later. For a man who once rather shrewdly compared assembling a squad to “trying to build an aircraft while it is flying”, it was a risk to try and stay airborne while replacing the fuel tank, propeller and cabin crew at the same time.

 

Klopp will ignore the noise and avoid that mistake. This is his 16th full campaign as a manager, and only the sixth time he has spent more than £10m. He is European management’s most consistent overachiever for a reason. Believe him when he says he will only sign “a couple more players” to improve squad depth, and also when he insists that is enough to assure continued progress.

 

If those players arrive for £5m instead of £50m, there should be no uproar or surprise. Liverpool’s likely starting line-up for the Champions League final will feature as many cheap parts – Loris Karius (£4.7m), Andrew Robertson (£8m), Trent Alexander-Arnold (free), James Milner (free) – as it will expensive components in Virgil van Dijk, Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Firmino. Klopp has proven himself adept at spotting both a summer bargain and a designer label in the same market.

 

Three Premier League clubs spent more than Liverpool this season, but no club has managed to strike a better balance between domestic and European progress. To demand a greater investment is to ask Klopp to rip up a successful blueprint before renovations are even complete. Every club needs to invest and improve year on year, but the last thing Liverpool “need” is £200m to do so.

 

Who wrote this? John or Tom?

[Thoth]

Who wrote this? John or Tom?

Brendon

[TheHowieLama]

[Harry Squatter]

We’ve scouted all the players

We’re never gonna stop

Goretzka to Dani Alves

We’ve signed the fucking lot

Grizz Khan and Indykaila

Riley and The Firm

ITK bullshitters

They really know fuck all

 

ALLEZ ALLEZ ALLEZ

[Captain Turdseye]

All around the boards of The Liverpool Way

Where once we read what Paulie had to say

(And could he say)

Now El Rojo’s in the swing

He knows Don and everything

Solid info around the boards of The Liverpool Way

[WhiskeyJar]

Nabil Fekir appears to be edging closer to a move to Liverpool this summer with reports in France claiming the Lyon star has a verbal agreement with Jurgen Klopp.

 

The France international’s future at Lyon has been thrown into doubt after rumours surfaced that a £65million deal had been agreed.

 

Fekir was coy when asked about the speculation in a recent interview, and rumours of an imminent move to Anfield have continued to gather momentum.

 

And, according to France-Football, a deal for Fekir is only a matter of ‘when’, not ‘if’, as there is a ‘verbal agreement’ between the player and Reds boss Klopp.

 

The German laughed off rumours of a move for Fekir over the weekend, but there are suggestions the pair met earlier this year to talk about the possibility of a switch to Anfield.

 

These latest claims are only going to add fuel to fire as the summer transfer window approaches.

 

 

Read more at https://talksport.com/football/liverpool-transfer-report-lyon-star-nabil-fekir-has-verbal-agreement-jurgen-klopp-join-reds#YyqgRvTIc0O2mV7B.99

[Red74]

Hope we get someone who can hit the target with a free kick. We’ve been chronic in this department since coutinho spewed it

[Heggemony]

Hope we get someone who can hit the target with a free kick. We’ve been chronic in this department since coutinho spewed it

TAA has potential on his right. Mo strikes it cleanly within 25 yards on the left. As for the Riise-like piledriver, yeah you're right we aren't blessed at the moment.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Hope we get someone who can hit the target with a free kick. We’ve been chronic in this department since coutinho spewed it

Not being greedy but Fekir AND Neves would do.

[Johnlj]

Fekirn Neves. Sign up the Alonso wannabe.

[TheHowieLama]

Some Fekir is edging---yes!!!

[Remmie]

What an uncool Fekir

[J-V]

Just watched some Youtube footage he's a skilfull Fekir, sign him up.

[sir roger]

Jurgen having talks with him before we have spoken to his club , sounds vaguely familiar , I'm sure it'll come back to me. Have to go, my turn on the donkeys.

[dockers_strike]

Not us but Juve set to offer Chelsea £15m for Morata who cost Chelsea £58m at the beginning of the season. If you believe the gossip that is. Surely taking the piss if true.

[Remmie]

Whenever you see Juve linked with anyone, it's always a complete mingebag deal on the table. I get they want a bargain but be real Old lady.

[Dr Nowt]

To be fair old ladies often try to pay in coupons, coppers and buttons they’ve confused with currency, so at least the stingey cunts’ nickname suits them.