Thiago Alcantara

[Scott_M]

[Scott_M]

[The Guest]

Called it half an hour ago I’m the new ITK.

[Bob]

34 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

The Keita talk is more about hopefully what's to come and the flashes he shows here and there, not about what he's done thus far. Because you're right, he's had a minimal impact in general. But also, there's no point in selling Keita unless we like losing money and taking a loss on players, because I'm pretty sure we don't like to do that and that's what would happen.

 

And I definitely think we're interested in Thiago. The issue is Bayern are still in the Champions League and nothing will be done until that is over so journos are just killing time by posting shite. 

Not that he’s in the same boat, but didn’t we made a loss on carrol, on benteke and on Robbie Keane if you go back far enough, with all being moved on swiftly the right decision?

 

i agree they won’t want to, but if we get £40m of the £60m we paid back for him, and that helps fund players Klopp wants to bring in, i could see it happening

[Scott_M]

Despite the Echo’s denial, I think there is to much smoke now for there not to be something. 
 

[Bobby Hundreds]

1 hour ago, Scott_M said:

Toni Camille eh... BRB!

[The Guest]

If Bayern are briefing the press with this to flush other buyers out then all of these knobheads would be doing exactly what they are doing right now.  I don’t see why the echo would say the club are denying it.  What have they got to gain by saying it?  It’s clearly more likely that Bayern are bullshitting after not getting a response from their “Man City want him” briefing from yesterday.

[No2]

The timing of this doesn't sit right. They have a week left in the champions league at most, with 2 ultra professional clubs involved it makes no sense for any noise to be heard. If we were interested we would have told the players agent we will be in touch after the CL and said the same to Bayern.

 

Bayern pimping a vital player a day before their biggest match in 3 or 4 years makes no sense either. I'm conclusion it has to be his agent trying to smoke out a pay day for himself.

[3 Stacks]

Thiago's a world class player, Bayern will have a billion offers for him. There is zero chance they have worries that he'll leave next summer for free and there's no reason for them to put out there that we're interested. 

[3 Stacks]

38 minutes ago, Bob Spunkmouse said:

Not that he’s in the same boat, but didn’t we made a loss on carrol, on benteke and on Robbie Keane if you go back far enough, with all being moved on swiftly the right decision?

 

i agree they won’t want to, but if we get £40m of the £60m we paid back for him, and that helps fund players Klopp wants to bring in, i could see it happening

Klopp rates Keita. He's not going to sell him to fund some other transfer. 

[Anubis]

There have been stories about us and Thiago for weeks and no drop off in his performances for Bayern, so I doubt they’d be arsed about contact being made public.

[lifetime fan]

43 minutes ago, Bob Spunkmouse said:

Not that he’s in the same boat, but didn’t we made a loss on carrol, on benteke and on Robbie Keane if you go back far enough, with all being moved on swiftly the right decision?

 

i agree they won’t want to, but if we get £40m of the £60m we paid back for him, and that helps fund players Klopp wants to bring in, i could see it happening

It depends on the way the transfer fee is spread over the accounts. 
 

In accounting terms I can remember reading we even ‘made a profit’ on getting rid of Keane. 
 

Apparently you can spread the cost of a purchase over the length of the contract but can record a sale as a profit the day they leave. 
 

Was a long time ago though. 
 

 

[Rotpeter]

Stevie Nicol was just saying Thiago would be excellent for the FA & League cups.

[Trumo]

6 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

It depends on the way the transfer fee is spread over the accounts. 
 

In accounting terms I can remember reading we even ‘made a profit’ on getting rid of Keane. 
 

Apparently you can spread the cost of a purchase over the length of the contract but can record a sale as a profit the day they leave. 
 

Was a long time ago though. 
 

 

 

Let's say we sign a player for £50m on a 5-year contract. That £50m would be written off in the books over those 5 years, thus reducing the player's book value by £10m each year. If after 2 years we sell the player for £40m, we will have made a £10m profit on his sale because he was worth £30m on the books at that point. It's one of the reasons some deals drag out for longer than expected (looking from the outside as we all do), because the selling club will only countenance a deal once the date has passed their financial year end, thus allowing them to include the write down and post a profit on the sale in the next set of accounts.

[lifetime fan]

11 minutes ago, Trumo said:

 

Let's say we sign a player for £50m on a 5-year contract. That £50m would be written off in the books over those 5 years, thus reducing the player's book value by £10m each year. If after 2 years we sell the player for £40m, we will have made a £10m profit on his sale because he was worth £30m on the books at that point. It's one of the reasons some deals drag out for longer than expected (looking from the outside as we all do), because the selling club will only countenance a deal once the date has passed their financial year end, thus allowing them to include the write down and post a profit on the sale in the next set of accounts.

 

Hahahaha - you boring cunt. 
 

 

ETA: That’s along the way I thought but explains it properly. 

[Barrington Womble]

3 hours ago, Rotpeter said:

That's what Milner was saying too.  Hi agent got in touch and months later he'd heard nothing.

 

Seems a bizarre way of doing stuff.

It's almost like we've given a job to Coco. 

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

14 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

 

Hahahaha - you boring cunt. 
 

 

ETA: That’s along the way I thought but explains it properly. 

Rude.

[lifetime fan]

7 minutes ago, Jarvinja Ilnow said:

Rude.

Very. But said with love. 

[lifetime fan]

Trumo is one of the beat posters on here. 

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

4 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

Trumo is one of the beat posters on here. 

No need to go overboard, Lifey.

[Bob]

59 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

Klopp rates Keita. He's not going to sell him to fund some other transfer. 

You may be right. I’m just arguing that the club might not be too bothered about taking a little hit on the money spent if he doesn’t.

[dockers_strike]

Would be a good signing if this comes off. Wonder if it could also signal Jurgen's decided if Gini isnt signing a new contract it's time to make a move?

[Rotpeter]

13 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

Would be a good signing if this comes off. Wonder if it could also signal Jurgen's decided if Gini isnt signing a new contract it's time to make a move?

He'd handle it the same way he handled Can, no? 

 

Let him run down his contract and then get a replacement.

[dockers_strike]

1 minute ago, Rotpeter said:

He'd handle it the same way he handled Can, no? 

 

Let him run down his contract and then get a replacement.

Not sure he'd let 2 senior players run down their contracts. Guess we'd have to wait and see.

[Josef Svejk]

57 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

Trumo is one of the beat posters on here.