Summer 2022 Transfer Thread

[El Dangerous]

49 minutes ago, Marko121 said:

So mancs paid £70m for Casimeiro and have bid over £80m for Antony from Ajax? Those Glazers are fucking terrible

The good news is that reports have us being more valuable than Man Utd now so we got that at least.

[3 Stacks]

1 hour ago, TD_LFC said:

What is it about either of them in the games you've seen them play that has stopped the likes of Utd, us, Juventus, Barcelona. Real Madrid, PSG and others from signing them while mid tier teams like Wolves and West Ham do, given they are so right do you reckon?

Do midtable clubs ever preemptively sign top players, or do they always just sign players who will never play at a high level?

[Jairzinho]

Hearing that Roma and Southampton aren't the two biggest clubs in the world.

[Red74]

1 hour ago, El Rojo said:

Hearing he's looking for a new house in Liverpool. 

 

[Anubis]

Back before Wolves made a move the Twitterati claimed we enquired about Nunes but didn’t value him more than £30m so it was no go.

[TD_LFC]

44 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

Do midtable clubs ever preemptively sign top players, or do they always just sign players who will never play at a high level?

Do you think there's a reason why top clubs let some players make the intermediary move first?

[3 Stacks]

1 minute ago, TD_LFC said:

Do you think there's a reason why top clubs let some players make the intermediary move first?

Why are you answering my question with a question?

[TD_LFC]

4 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

Why are you answering my question with a question?

Pot and kettle?

[TD_LFC]

1 hour ago, FrenchEyeGlass said:

We should have signed Wirtz when Chelsea signed Havertz. 

He'd just turned 17 hadn't he?

[TheHowieLama]

16 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

He'd just turned 17 hadn't he?

Is that a question?

[TD_LFC]

Just now, TheHowieLama said:

Is that a question?

Not sure, is it?

[Horus]

Boy oh boy, next summer though...

 

[Bobby Hundreds]

What I'm looking forward to next summer most of all is looking forward to the next summer!

[El Dangerous]

19 minutes ago, Horus said:

Boy oh boy, next summer though...

 

Feel like shit, just want Shaqiri back.

[Barrington Womble]

3 hours ago, an tha said:

It is fair enough being sustainable, lowering debt, being run properly, being profitable - not over paying for players etc etc etc...

 

But sometimes circumstances happen and emergencies occur and you have to get the credit card out and pay it off later....

 

We have been in a great position to dominate alongside the oil cheats but seem quite happy to let the opportunity pass us by and the team (well certainly the midfield) stagnate.

 
No one (except Twitter Africans) expects us to spend £200m net every year - most sensible, reasonable people would just like us to spend like a top 3 club and one of the highest revenue generating teams in the world look to improve constantly....

We now have the second oldest team in the league and the bench options are mostly injury prone or unproven kids. 

We have very few players in that peak/prime 24-27 age group....Diaz, Trent, Jota, Tsimikas and if you count Keita that is about it.....Not one of those (i am not counting Keita with his 42 league games worth of minutes in 4 seasons) is a midfielder....

I've said it since these cunts have come in. Like any business, you make long term plans and along the way they get disrupted for whatever reason. If you're running your business well, you're in a position to react and make tactical changes to ensure success. You most certainly don't go "fuck that all we have is a long term plan, we're not moving from it".

 

But I go back to the same boring thing I've been saying for a decade, the situations that force you into tactical decisions vary depending on your target. If your target is winning the league, then obviously we need tactical recruitment now. If it's top 4, why would you spend a penny? If my objective was achieve top 4, I'd sit tight. 

[Horus]

in a hundred years time, Liverpool fans waiting for next summer will be used by physics PhD students to teach infinity.

 

FSG are the definition of doing none of the work but getting A+ on their report cards.

[Megadrive Man]

5 hours ago, Harry Squatter said:

We're basically writing off the prime years of some of our squad because FSG won't spend any fucking cash the tight bastards.

Plus the last years of Klopp too.

 

We are crying out for a senior midfielder to come in! This is almost as bad as when we refused to sign a centre back when he had literally zero available two years ago!

[TheDrowningMan]

41 minutes ago, Horus said:

Boy oh boy, next summer though...

 

Henry, Werner, Hogan and Gordon will convene a board meeting above a convenience store and there’ll Garmonbozia on the menu for a CL-less Liverpool next summer.

[Pidge]

2 hours ago, FrenchEyeGlass said:

Wirtz is never happening, we missed our chance. For the bunch of smart guys we purport to be we never actually buy any major talents before they become unattainable. 

 

We should have signed Wirtz when Chelsea signed Havertz. 

He plays for Leverkusen, so I'd say there's a chance. But if Bayern are sniffing around him... maybe not I guess.

[Creator Supreme]

1 minute ago, TheDrowningMan said:

Garmonbozia on the menu for a PL-less Liverpool next summer.

Fixed!

[joe_fishfish]

4 hours ago, Strontium said:

When Lucas Paqueta and Matheus Nunes are going for chump change, the myth of the "right player" not being available has been well and truly busted, and anyone pushing it should be swatted in the face with a housebrick.

£45m isn't chump change. There's maybe two or three teams in the world outside of our league who could drop that on a player.

 

I thought we should have moved on Nunes this summer myself and at £45m I think he'll be a good signing for Wolves, but it's not insignificant, that fee.

[3 Stacks]

We can talk about reasonable fees and signing "the right player" when we're not 16th in the league and we don't have about a week to improve an area of the pitch that is really, really shit at the moment.

[joe_fishfish]

We won't be 16th for long. Beat Bournemouth at the weekend, get a couple of players back fit, even if one of them is Keita, and we'll look loads better.

[3 Stacks]

1 minute ago, joe_fishfish said:

We won't be 16th for long. Beat Bournemouth at the weekend, get a couple of players back fit, even if one of them is Keita, and we'll look loads better.

That's fine, but we're going to be in a battle for top 4, at best anyway.

[Barrington Womble]

12 minutes ago, joe_fishfish said:

We won't be 16th for long. Beat Bournemouth at the weekend, get a couple of players back fit, even if one of them is Keita, and we'll look loads better.

 

11 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

That's fine, but we're going to be in a battle for top 4, at best anyway.

We will absolutely be in the running for top 4. We managed it with our worst home run of all time and no centre back for most of the seasons. That's how good we and klopp are. 

 

But it feels fanciful we can win the league at this point. Even though we're only 5 points behind with 35 to go, with the injuries we have now and likely to continue to happen, it will be tough to put together a run like we did from Leicester till the end of the season.