January 2019 Transfer Thread

[TheHowieLama]

Gone a bit pear shaped for Sane - both club and country.

 

Sheeky bid time

[mattyq]

I'd play the St Lukes, Whiston Under 11 team in full and pay them in conkers 

[Red Hot]

Gone a bit pear shaped for Sane - both club and country.

 

Sheeky bid time

 

I was thinking on similar lines. Jurgen to work his magic, I feel would bring the best out in Sane .

[Joe Strummer]

He clearly has some kind of attitude problem or simply just doesn't care enough and Germany have seen it. Mendy coming back and being a beast hasn't helped him.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Perfect replacement for Adam Lallana

Lallana hasn't beaten a man in about 18 months

[lifetime fan]

Echo rubbishing the Rabiot rumours.

[aRdja]

He clearly has some kind of attitude problem or simply just doesn't care enough and Germany have seen it. Mendy coming back and being a beast hasn't helped him.

I would’ve thought that would help him instead... gives him more opportunities to go in when Mendy’s overlapping.

[Anubis]

Echo rubbishing the Rabiot rumours.

Fucking James Pearce. Like the grim reaper of anti-transfer fun...

[Ne Moe Imya]

Echo rubbishing the Rabiot rumours.

 

The Echo, especially James Pearce, is the club's mouthpiece.

 

And the club is not stupid. They are trying to simultaneously improve the team by bringing in good players, but also not to rock the boat with existing players worrying about being replaced. Which means that behind closed doors they are negotiating for players, but in public they have to say "we're happy with what we have."

 

Alisson was a perfect example - Klopp has admitted we were seriously looking at him going back to February. But knowing that if this came out, it could have a negative impact on Karius (who was playing at the time), they had to deny it. Thus the multiple articles from Pearce saying that we were happy with Karius and we weren't looking at replacements.

 

This will be a similar situation. It is possible that we are talking with Rabiot and his agent. It is also possible that we aren't. Either way, it is in the club's interest to make it public that we are not. If he comes, he won't be coming until next summer (or maybe January) and in the meantime it doesn't help anyone for our interest to be public.

 

So they give the Echo a call and have them shut it down. The same way they did with Alisson, and multiple other transfer targets that we ended up buying. It means precisely nothing, it's just to avoid any potential squad disruption in the meantime.

[Guest]

Alisson playoing against Liverpool in the Champions League must have played some part in his decision to sign over the Summer. PSG are playing against Liverpool soon so if there is any truth in the possibility that there is interest, I would imagine that game could have a similar effect.

 

Give PSG a walloping and he will sitting up, begging for buttermilk.

[lifetime fan]

Fucking James Pearce. Like the grim reaper of anti-transfer fun...

 

This was Doyle.

[Joe Strummer]

Yep Pearce, Doyle, Rimmer and whoever hear what the club wants them to hear. They didn't have a Scooby about Fabinho.

[lifetime fan]

The Echo, especially James Pearce, is the club's mouthpiece.

 

And the club is not stupid. They are trying to simultaneously improve the team by bringing in good players, but also not to rock the boat with existing players worrying about being replaced. Which means that behind closed doors they are negotiating for players, but in public they have to say "we're happy with what we have."

 

Alisson was a perfect example - Klopp has admitted we were seriously looking at him going back to February. But knowing that if this came out, it could have a negative impact on Karius (who was playing at the time), they had to deny it. Thus the multiple articles from Pearce saying that we were happy with Karius and we weren't looking at replacements.

 

This will be a similar situation. It is possible that we are talking with Rabiot and his agent. It is also possible that we aren't. Either way, it is in the club's interest to make it public that we are not. If he comes, he won't be coming until next summer (or maybe January) and in the meantime it doesn't help anyone for our interest to be public.

 

So they give the Echo a call and have them shut it down. The same way they did with Alisson, and multiple other transfer targets that we ended up buying. It means precisely nothing, it's just to avoid any potential squad disruption in the meantime.

 

 

I don't necessarily disagree with your point - but the echo regularly rubbish rumours because they're shite too.

[Grinch]

Telling the world we'd tapped up Rabiot wasn't the smartest of the moves anyway.

[Ne Moe Imya]

I don't necessarily disagree with your point - but the echo regularly rubbish rumours because they're shite too.

 

Right. Like I said, it's entirely possible that we're not interested in Rabiot. I'm just saying that either way, until the deal is done it's in the club's interest to put the story out there that we aren't.

 

Telling the world we'd tapped up Rabiot wasn't the smartest of the moves anyway.

 

I don't think it came from our side. It almost never does any more if the interest is real. Story was broken by a French journo who said that we had spoken to both Rabiot and his agent about a move. Worth noting that Rabiot actually name-dropped Liverpool (without mentioning any other club, and this was unprompted) last fall when talking about how he'd like a move to England. So it's entirely possible he's a fan.

 

Of course, all of this contact could have been before we bought Fabinho and so it's just old news being rehashed by Rabiot or his agent to get a better contract offer. But I think the interest from us was/is genuine - you'd have to look pretty hard to find a better young midfield progressive passer than Rabiot, especially on a free. The analytics types all love him.

[Bad Red Bull]

He also posted on his Instagram an image of anfield on a CL night.

[Elite]

Looks very promising.

[Skrtel Milk]

He also posted on his Instagram an image of anfield on a CL night.

 

 

 

[cloggypop]

Smilies? Get to fuck.

[Russ Atmosphere]

The Echo, especially James Pearce, is the club's mouthpiece.

 

And the club is not stupid. They are trying to simultaneously improve the team by bringing in good players, but also not to rock the boat with existing players worrying about being replaced. Which means that behind closed doors they are negotiating for players, but in public they have to say "we're happy with what we have."

 

Alisson was a perfect example - Klopp has admitted we were seriously looking at him going back to February. But knowing that if this came out, it could have a negative impact on Karius (who was playing at the time), they had to deny it. Thus the multiple articles from Pearce saying that we were happy with Karius and we weren't looking at replacements.

 

This will be a similar situation. It is possible that we are talking with Rabiot and his agent. It is also possible that we aren't. Either way, it is in the club's interest to make it public that we are not. If he comes, he won't be coming until next summer (or maybe January) and in the meantime it doesn't help anyone for our interest to be public.

 

So they give the Echo a call and have them shut it down. The same way they did with Alisson, and multiple other transfer targets that we ended up buying. It means precisely nothing, it's just to avoid any potential squad disruption in the meantime.

I'm not sure those stories had much to do with protecting Karius. The club was just playing negotiation games with Roma. They achieved nowt.

[Boss]

http://www.football-observatory.com/IMG/sites/b5wp/2018/232/en/

 

CIES have just done a study on the best value transfers of the summer window versus the worst. We've got three players in the best value category and two players we sold in the worst. 

[TheHowieLama]

Keita in the list of the worst -- hmmm

[Numero Veinticinco]

They also say we paid 70m for him, when it was around 50.

[Boss]

They also say we paid 70m for him, when it was around 50.

 

Think it's in Euros. 

[A_S]

And the amount 'overpaid' would be around the premium paid to secure him a year early before other clubs came sniffing.