Summer 2020 Transfer Thread

[sir roger]

1 hour ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

Alaba is on €10m per year.

He is the same age as Maguire who went for £80m and is on £190k per week  ie £130m over a 5 year contract.

 

Alaba would cost £50m over the same period .

[Harry Squatter]

27 minutes ago, The Gaul said:

That sounds about the only type of business we're interested in these days. 

Yep. Ridiculously cheap options, get loaned out 2/3 times then flogged at a profit to fund transfers. Oh wait...

[johnsusername]

21 hours ago, lifetime fan said:

Traore can fuck off. He’s just a modern day Tony Daley on steds. 

I mean that sounds pretty good to me. 

[TheHowieLama]

1 hour ago, sir roger said:

He is the same age as Maguire who went for £80m and is on £190k per week  ie £130m over a 5 year contract.

 

Alaba would cost £50m over the same period .

I am not sure comparing Alaba to one of the worst bits of business in recent memory is helping.

[Pidge]

7 hours ago, TheHowieLama said:

                                             high.

 

 

 

On a free his wages would be 

He would be

 

 

 

 

 

                   worth it.

[Trumo]

The more I think about it, the more it seems that Alaba is exactly the sort of player who would appeal to Klopp. He has mostly played at left back for Bayern but more recently played at centre back. For Austria he usually plays in midfield. He quick, versatile and familiar with playing high-tempo football in teams that usually come up against opponents who sit deep.

 

Bayern have got a bit of pedigree with excellent and versatile left-sided players. Breitner, Brehme, Ziege and Ze Roberto could all do it, and guys like Lahm could play equally well on the left and right.

[3 Stacks]

Alaba is a world class player and is good to great in multiple positions. If there's a chance to sign him and the financials make sense, you do it. 

[Remmie]

I know there are 100 reasons why it shouldn't and won't happen, but the thought of signing Koulibaly, Marone. 

 

What a defence that'd be. 

[J-V]

1 hour ago, Remmie said:

I know there are 100 reasons why it shouldn't and won't happen, but the thought of signing Koulibaly, Marone. 

 

What a defence that'd be. 

I’m not sure how he’d fit in the team considering we already have two world class centre backs in Van Dijk and Lovren...

[Guest]

Liverpool have shown an interest in signing Sao Paulo midfielder Igor Gomes, according to a report from Brazilian outlet Esporte Interativo, as translated by Sport Witness.

[El Dangerous]

At least he’ll be subservient.

[Harry Squatter]

Monitoring..

[Bjornebye]

Our last Igor got his cock out so I'm all for it. 

[Pidge]

Time for some nice, simple, speculative youtube research. 

[Harry Squatter]

No more loans. Just sell if he's never going to play for us.

 

[Lee909]

With a mandatory buy on its probably a option. Loads of teams won't want to spend this year and if you can guarantee the money next year it wouldn't shock me to see us accept. 

 

 

[Harry Squatter]

We can put it towards next years contract pay rises

[El Rojo]

‘Mandatory option to buy’

 

Michael Edwards: ‘How am I doing, boss?’

 

Don Corleone: ‘You’re doing a great job, son... a great job!’

[Anubis]

How can you have a mandatory option to buy? You either have an option to buy - the operative word being option, as in choice - or you have a mandatory purchase.

[JohnnyH]

2 hours ago, Doctor Troy said:

No more loans. Just sell if he's never going to play for us.

 

“Mandatory Option” feels a bit of a conflict of terms?

[Harry Squatter]

Probably lost in translation as it's from a Serbian newspaper

[aws]

Sounds like we'd be getting a put option. Either that or it's a purchase which takes effect in a year and they get a loan in the meantime. Or maybe it's all bollocks.  

[Ronnie Whelan]

Hopefully if we win the league with a few games to spare, lads like Minamino and Curtis Jones and a few more get a few games.

 

However, for me, Sunday showed what we all know. We need another attacker or a midfielder that can unlock a defence. 

 

If Phil is available for 40 odd million and is prepared to take a big wage cut, it makes sense. He knows the club and is clearly liked by the team. 

 

Ali's injury cost a tilt at the treble. If we lost any one of the front three for a few months (possibly 2 with African Nations) it is scary and Divock won't cut it for us.

[Lee909]

Problem with a front line of Jones, Minamino, Bobby, Elliot is they all lack pace and it completely fucks up the balance 

[TheHowieLama]

2 hours ago, Lee909 said:

Problem with a front line of Jones, Minamino, Bobby, Elliot is they all lack pace and it completely fucks up the balance 

Take Firmino out of the equation there - he has his role. And we struggle just as badly to replicate that as we do the two wide players.

Definitely the other three cannot play in the same style as we do now and have shown the most when playing deeper anyway. We either need to change it up with those or add a wide player with top pace to plug in - probably doing both would be best.