Summer 2021 transfer thread.

[an tha]

When our midfield is relying on a 50 year old Milner and a kid to anchor it because the usual suspects are unavailable we'll wish we had both got rid of the unreliable and bought new players in.

[TD_LFC]

16 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

You'd just take a loss on shaq and origi, what's the point in keeping them around paying a few million pounds wages when they're not really wanted and wasting their own careers. 

 

Next year they'll be worth even less.

Because you wouldn't just take a loss in any other walk of life if you can possibly help it.

 

Taking a loss means you take a bigger loss in the accounts which could mean further restrictions, gives you less money for signings etc etc.

[Vincent Vega]

3 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

UH-OH

 

 

Strap yourselves in boys. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride on the FF for the next three weeks. 

It will be the same few people saying the same things day in, day out. Just like it has been all summer, and every previous summer. 

[Scott_M]

6 minutes ago, Captain Turdseye said:

UH-OH

 

 

Strap yourselves in boys. It’s gonna be a bumpy ride on the FF for the next three weeks. 

Let the rabid mongrels loose.

[TD_LFC]

Not sure that's quite what he said mind.

[Scott_M]

1 minute ago, TD_LFC said:

Not sure that's quite what he said mind.

Yeah, it’s a nothing article. 
 

Klopp says this all the time. If players leave, we’ll get somebody in.

[Captain Turdseye]

3 minutes ago, Vincent Vega said:

It will be the same few people saying the same things day in, day out. Just like it has been all summer, and every previous summer. 

Harsh on aRdja and 3 Stacks, that. 

[3 Stacks]

1 minute ago, Captain Turdseye said:

Harsh on aRdja and 3 Stacks, that. 

I haven't had a vigorous debate with aRdja in forever, mate. Been too long.

[TD_LFC]

1 minute ago, Scott_M said:

Yeah, it’s a nothing article. 
 

Klopp says this all the time. If players leave, we’ll get somebody in.

Headline writer has set up Caoimhe O'Neill with that, especially when Twitter get's hold of it.

[Special K]

We aren't buying anyone

[johnsusername]

Michael Edwards is a genius.

 

Am I saying it right? 

[TheHowieLama]

[Strontium]

So our only purchase in the window is a £36m signing in a position where we already had 5 players vying for 2 spots. Doesn't this strike anyone as odd?

[TD_LFC]

The complete mis-representation of a situation that hasn't changed from an hour ago is odd I would agree. The rest of it, not so much.

 

Maybe I just need to read the room better.

[3 Stacks]

4 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

So our only purchase in the window is a £36m signing in a position where we already had 5 players vying for 2 spots. Doesn't this strike anyone as odd?

Not when you consider that Fabinho was our 4th choice CB last season and will now exclusively play midfield. The depth is more balanced this season.

[DalyanPete]

16 minutes ago, Special K said:

We aren't buying anyone

Every time I tune in and this thread is hot I think, hello, here we go and this is my first seen post. Oh maaaan.

[Bobby Hundreds]

23 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

Because you wouldn't just take a loss in any other walk of life if you can possibly help it.

 

Taking a loss means you take a bigger loss in the accounts which could mean further restrictions, gives you less money for signings etc etc.

Of course you take losses in other walks of life, most business will cut losses on certain products and services because its no longer profitable or viable. Ive worked for business that have had profitable revenue streams but cut them anyway because they wanted to divert their funds and time to another project. Shaquiri has stated he wants to leave, if in the end he doesn't move because there's a couple of million difference in the valuation it just seems a dumb move not to take it. Money aside clogging the squad with a player who wants to play but won't, who isn't that highly regarded by the manager and potentially stops us recruiting a player who can improve the side seems like a dumb move too. 

 

It's like its a sin to want the club to do transfer business half the time.

[3 Stacks]

 

[TheHowieLama]

8m for Shaqiri?!

 

In this market!!

 

The club is a disgrace.

[Pidge]

1 hour ago, TheHowieLama said:

Probably a little outside of what FSG's sweet spot has been as it is pretty big dough for a youngster but I think they realize they need to transition to finding talent earlier, like a season or two earlier, without an additional transfer in between to bump the price up.

  

If his wages are (relatively) reasonable I don't think they'd mind about the fee being a bit rich.  As with Jota, they'll pay to get someone in once they identify them.

[Lee909]

This is the guy that broke the Messi stuff first

[TD_LFC]

2 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Of course you take losses in other walks of life, most business will cut losses on certain products and services because its no longer profitable or viable. Ive worked for business that have had profitable revenue streams but cut them anyway because they wanted to divert their funds and time to another project. Shaquiri has stated he wants to leave, if in the end he doesn't move because there's a couple of million difference in the valuation it just seems a dumb move not to take it. Money aside clogging the squad with a player who wants to play but won't, who isn't that highly regarded by the manager and potentially stops us recruiting a player who can improve the side seems like a dumb move too. 

 

It's like its a sin to want the club to do transfer business half the time.

Did you miss the 'if you can possibly help it' bit?

 

There's a difference between a negotiating a slightly lower fee (which we'll end up doing) and just selling for the first offer we get to cut our losses, especially when transfer fee's out are going to be tied to transfer fee's in whether directly or indirectly.

 

 

 

[Red74]

If Shaqiri was playing for someone else and was available for €8m I’d be wanting us to take a gamble on him.

 

I can’t understand the urgency to get shut of him as the only game I can remember him being poor for us was the 1st half in the Barca 4-0 yet he’s been linked with a move every summer.

 

 

[Megadrive Man]

If we are close to letting Shaqiri go for somewhere between £5/7 million then we must have another player ready to bring in? 

[Scott_M]