January 2021 Transfer Thread

[Harry Squatter]

[manwiththestick]

53 minutes ago, Doctor Troy said:

Doomlord used to scare the shite out of me when reading the Eagle comic as a kid.

[Jimmy Hills Chin]

4 hours ago, manwiththestick said:

Doomlord used to scare the shite out of me when reading the Eagle comic as a kid.

Yeah, every time I see Pearce’s name it does pretty much the same to me.

[an tha]

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-transfer-news-january-market-19552970.amp

[dockers_strike]

For a German, Jurgen would make a good cricketer, he's a dab hand at using the straight bat.

[Halcyon Days]

Maybe Hamann’s been giving him tips, loves cricket our Didi.

[Crazy Dave]

L’Equipe again linking us to Mbappe. 1 year left on his PSG deal come June. Looks like a straight choice between us, Madrid or staying at PSG. 

 

I have to say that I think there’s something in this. I’d still fancy Madrid to get him, but I think we have a strong chance. Apparently we were in for him the year before he left Monaco. Klopp met with him and his family in-person and Henry even had them on his yacht. 
 

Paul Joyce mentioned a while ago that Mbappe is seen as the ultimate signing by FSG and its easy to see why. His contract situation means that there’s a fair chance PSG would do business, and not at an astronomical rate, plus he’s a Nike athlete and common sense dictates that they’d love him to represent a Nike team, especially given our profile. His wages would be enormous, but I wonder if Nike can help with that. 
 

On the pitch, it’s becoming clear that we need to freshen things up a bit and look to bring in some younger talent given our front 3 are all around 30 now. I could easily see a situation where one of Salah or Mane looks to move on this summer. Most probably Salah actually. Mbappe is one of the few players that is an upgrade on what we already have. 
 

[an tha]

Unless Mbappe can play centre half i'm out.

[dockers_strike]

5 minutes ago, Crazy Dave said:

L’Equipe again linking us to Mbappe. 1 year left on his PSG deal come June. Looks like a straight choice between us, Madrid or staying at PSG. 

 

I have to say that I think there’s something in this. I’d still fancy Madrid to get him, but I think we have a strong chance. Apparently we were in for him the year before he left Monaco. Klopp met with him and his family in-person and Henry even had them on his yacht. 
 

Paul Joyce mentioned a while ago that Mbappe is seen as the ultimate signing by FSG and its easy to see why. His contract situation means that there’s a fair chance PSG would do business, and not at an astronomical rate, plus he’s a Nike athlete and common sense dictates that they’d love him to represent a Nike team, especially given our profile. His wages would be enormous, but I wonder if Nike can help with that. 
 

On the pitch, it’s becoming clear that we need to freshen things up a bit and look to bring in some younger talent given our front 3 are all around 30 now. I could easily see a situation where one of Salah or Mane looks to move on this summer. Most probably Salah actually. Mbappe is one of the few players that is an upgrade on what we already have. 
 

I think it would need the sale of Mo and one other for this Mbappe to become a reality. Yeah there is talk of Nike 'assisting' financially in a deal but Im not sure I like that any more than I do selling Mo + 1.

[Scott_M]

6 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

I think it would need the sale of Mo and one other for this Mbappe to become a reality. Yeah there is talk of Nike 'assisting' financially in a deal but Im not sure I like that any more than I do selling Mo + 1.

 

Mo + Origi?

[Josef Svejk]

1 hour ago, an tha said:

Unless Mbappe can play centre half i'm out.

He's quick enough for our high line... 

[Arnaud]

Vincent Duluc, who’s a brillant journalist and L’Equipe ‘s head of football, said we are an option but Real is still the big favorite to land him.

 

Psg could sell him to welcome Messi and balance their squad, but they really want to keep him.

 

So it’s all on him to make up his mind. He’s mostly playing at the right hand side of the front three, so it would be an obvious replacement for Mo.

 

It would make sense but I reckon at the moment he’s not as good as Mo, and can be a lazy bastard. He’s not improved much the past two years. People often talk about Neymar and M’Bappé, but they are not on the same level, Neymar is a class above.

[an tha]

23 minutes ago, Josef Svejk said:

He's quick enough for our high line... 

Get it done!

[El Dangerous]

Might as well sign Upamecano ready to help Mbappe settle in this summer. Get William Prunier in short term for extra cover.

[Grinch]

What other players have Nike helped buy for clubs? 

 

Complete fantasy stuff.  Thankfully cause he's not a patch on Salah the lazy bastard. 

[Trumo]

6 minutes ago, Grinch said:

What other players have Nike helped buy for clubs? 

 

Complete fantasy stuff.  Thankfully cause he's not a patch on Salah the lazy bastard. 

 

Harsh on Mo that.

[Harry Squatter]

Dave Carmo sounds like some alehouse defender who plays for the Nags Head in the third division of the Liverpool Sunday league.

[Harry Squatter]

 

 

 

[3 Stacks]

Mbappe may not really offer value for money, is the problem. He's great, but how much better will he realistically get? Will he put up Messi or Ronaldo type stats at some point? That's kind of doubtful. He can for sure score about 30 goals per season and be an absolute menace. Is that worth about 200m? That's the question.

[chrisbonnie]

That Kopworld twitter account reckons we've stepped up our interest in the Portuguese guy from braga. He's generally fairly good with his info 

[aRdja]

“We have a solution”  don’t think so Jurgen

[johnsusername]

[joe_fishfish]

I mean this might be a knee-jerk reaction but after our last three games I'd rather struggle through the season with Henderson and Fabinho at centre back and use January to buy someone who can score some fucking goals.

[KevieG]

Nah, we need at least one CB. The squad is completely lopsided now. 

 

You could make the case that we had one defender on the pitch, Robbo tonight.  The chickens are coming home to roost. 

[Leyton388]

We did buy someone and Klopp decided to play him in a dead rubber CL game against fc chip butty and he did his knee.