Summer 2023 Transfer Thread

[Guest]

4 hours ago, s(k)aturation said:

 

I'm very very late to the party and haven't paid much attention apart from seeing tropes like "Southampton... expensive... feeder club... Liverpool target... stalemate etc etc..."

 

Is there an actual player involved and what is his name?

Ignorance is bliss.

[Bobby Hundreds]

I saw a post saying we have the smallest squad in the league if that's true and you look at the collection of crocks that are a part of that too its mad. 

[Carra_is_legend]

I am actually gutted the season is about to start.

 

Could happily wait for another 6 months or years.

[Scott_M]

8 hours ago, Tj hooker said:

Isn't this Twitter feed linked to the club in some way  , I'm sure someone on here said it was .

Seen a few bits the 3rd bid has gone in. 
 

Another huge week coming up apparently. Same as the last month. 

[Scott_M]

8 hours ago, Harry Squatter said:

If they wanted more than we thought he was worth, then I’m not bothered.

 

Bit of a daft story / statement when  Szoboszlai cost more. 

[Ne Moe Imya]

28 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

If they wanted more than we thought he was worth, then I’m not bothered.

 

Bit of a daft story / statement when  Szoboszlai cost more. 

 

I agree with the first part. I feel the same about Lavia - if Klopp and our scouts don't think he's worth 50m, then I'm fine with them offering 41m (or whatever) and then refusing to go above that.

 

What bothers me is that if Southampton refuse to sell him for what we think he's worth, then you have to move onto the next one, sharpish. I suppose it's hard to complain about it until the end of the window, but if we really do get to deadline day and haven't bought a #6, then we're taking a huge risk on another season outside the top 4, and you can forget about challenging for the league. I'm all for being careful how you spend big fees, but at some point, we do have to field an actual squad of players who are good at football.

[Ne Moe Imya]

edit - apologies, double post.

[Scott_M]

4 minutes ago, Ne Moe Imya said:

 

I agree with the first part. I feel the same about Lavia - if Klopp and our scouts don't think he's worth 50m, then I'm fine with them offering 41m (or whatever) and then refusing to go above that.

 

What bothers me is that if Southampton refuse to sell him for what we think he's worth, then you have to move onto the next one, sharpish. I suppose it's hard to complain about it until the end of the window, but if we really do get to deadline day and haven't bought a #6, then we're taking a huge risk on another season outside the top 4, and you can forget about challenging for the league. I'm all for being careful how you spend big fees, but at some point, we do have to field an actual squad of players who are good at football.

I agree.

 

Didn’t the main Southampton guy at The Athletic say we’d done a lot of ground work with Lavia back in June?

 

Looking back on Google, it seems we agreed terms with Lavia around mid-July, made our first bid late-July and our second bid early-August. 
 

I know Fabinho and Hendo’s exit in the middle likely muddied the waters somewhat, it wouldn’t surprise me if Southampton stuck a little extra on top of the original fee after those sales and our added desperation. 

 

Neil Jones was saying the other day that the list of clubs looking at Lavia is seemingly closing and Southamptons hand isn’t as strong. Chelsea are focused on Caicedo, Partey is staying at Arsenal, the mancs need to offload and City don’t seem interested in making a move. I would agree with that and their desired fee (ie the £50m) isn’t fully realistic anymore and there must be some wiggle room. 

 

We must be sure there will be a compromise can be reached with Southampton, otherwise we’ve wasted approaching a month. 

 

I know there will be fume if it falls apart over a “few million”, I’d agree, especially if he’s as good as everyone says he is (or believe he will be) and we think he could be a player for us for the next >10 years.
 

We’ve seemingly done a lot of the ground work going back months, I can’t think it won’t happen, it’s just very frustrating the time it’s taking. 

[Jose Jones]

6 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

I agree.

 

Didn’t the main Southampton guy at The Athletic say we’d done a lot of ground work with Lavia back in June?

 

Looking back on Google, it seems we agreed terms with Lavia around mid-July, made our first bid late-July and our second bid early-August. 
 

I know Fabinho and Hendo’s exit in the middle likely muddied the waters somewhat, it wouldn’t surprise me if Southampton stuck a little extra on top of the original fee after those sales and our added desperation. 

 

Neil Jones was saying the other day that the list of clubs looking at Lavia is seemingly closing and Southamptons hand isn’t as strong. Chelsea are focused on Caicedo, Partey is staying at Arsenal, the mancs need to offload and City don’t seem interested in making a move. I would agree with that and their desired fee (ie the £50m) isn’t fully realistic anymore and there must be some wiggle room. 

 

We must be sure there will be a compromise can be reached with Southampton, otherwise we’ve wasted approaching a month. 

 

I know there will be fume if it falls apart over a “few million”, I’d agree, especially if he’s as good as everyone says he is (or believe he will be) and we think he could be a player for us for the next >10 years.
 

We’ve seemingly done a lot of the ground work going back months, I can’t think it won’t happen, it’s just very frustrating the time it’s taking. 

 

I reckon there's a few possibilities:

1. We're trying to negotiate the price with Southampton, and it's going very slowly

b) We're looking to sign someone else and Lavia is an option, so we're slow playing it until we have decided which to go with

3. We're just generally incompetent because there's no-one left at the club doing transfers, just some retired German fella by his pool in Ibiza

[joe_fishfish]

4 minutes ago, Jose Jones said:

 

I reckon there's a few possibilities:

1. We're trying to negotiate the price with Southampton, and it's going very slowly

b) We're looking to sign someone else and Lavia is an option, so we're slow playing it until we have decided which to go with

3. We're just generally incompetent because there's no-one left at the club doing transfers, just some retired German fella by his pool in Ibiza

Option 4, all of the above

[Vincent Vega]

On 06/08/2023 at 04:39, Jurgen Knows said:

The point you are missing here is that you seem to assume that the bolded bit doesn’t exist in the Middle East. I’m sorry if I sound sarcastic but believe me there are more than 400 million people in the Middle East, and they are much more emotionally invested in football and their clubs and rivalries than anywhere else in the world. The Al Nasr/ Al Hilal Riyadh derby is one of the fiercest, and the city rivalry between clubs from Riyadh and Jeddah is intense as well. I have a lot of respect for you an tha, but I really think that you and many on here have very little knowledge of the Middle East. 

Yeah sure.

 

 

[Anubis]

Hopefully Kopworld is right and we’ve sorted it. CB next please - especially with Nat reportedly on his way to Leeds.

[Bruce Spanner]

The Deloitte money league has us as the club with the second highest revenue in the world, just behind madrid in first, and ahead of Yernited for the first time ever.

 

Something is wrong, somewhere.

 

 

[Anubis]

Well I don’t know about anyone else but this has settled my nerves.

 

@JoshLFC1909

 

NEW: Don't worry, things are happening at Liverpool. -

@FabrizioRomano

#LFC

[Lee909]

Argentinos Juniors vs Fluminese 2nd leg tomorrow night. Get a better idea if theyll sell Andrei after that

[Anubis]

“We have reliable reporters working on it.”

 

”Who?”

 

”RELIABLE. REPORTERS.”

 

 

 

 

@JoshLFC1909

 

According to reliable reports in Saudi Arabia Al Ittihad have offered Mo Salah an €180m two year contract.

[Josef Svejk]

18 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Well I don’t know about anyone else but this has settled my nerves.

 

@JoshLFC1909

 

NEW: Don't worry, things are happening at Liverpool. -

@FabrizioRomano

#LFC

 

 

[Barrington Womble]

3 minutes ago, Anubis said:

“We have reliable reporters working on it.”

 

”Who?”

 

”RELIABLE. REPORTERS.”

 

 

 

 

@JoshLFC1909

 

According to reliable reports in Saudi Arabia Al Ittihad have offered Mo Salah an €180m two year contract.

If they offered us 100m it wouldn't surprise me if we sold either. Maybe even less than that as fsg would be doing little somersaults of joy getting his 350k per week off the wage bill. It wouldn't surprise me if this is why we're seeing these links to that villa kid. Maybe they've just decided to write this season off already and if they're going to clear the decks of big wages, go the whole hog.

 

If Salah goes, by next summer would there only be Trent and vvd left on those 200k wages? 

[Allan]

 

[Harry Squatter]

18 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

If they offered us 100m it wouldn't surprise me if we sold either. Maybe even less than that as fsg would be doing little somersaults of joy getting his 350k per week off the wage bill. It wouldn't surprise me if this is why we're seeing these links to that villa kid. Maybe they've just decided to write this season off already and if they're going to clear the decks of big wages, go the whole hog.

 

If Salah goes, by next summer would there only be Trent and vvd left on those 200k wages? 

Yes but we need to become more self sustainable and protect the future of the club. 

[Anubis]

22 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

It wouldn't surprise me if this is why we're seeing these links to that villa kid. 

Who are links for? Not seen any for Villa.

[Harry's Lad]

7 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Who are links for? Not seen any for Villa.

Jaden Philogene.

[Barrington Womble]

9 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Who are links for? Not seen any for Villa.

Some kid I've never heard of called philogene and we're willing to pay 30-40m supposedly. 

 

 

[manwiththestick]

7 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

Some kid I've never heard of called philogene and we're willing to pay 30-40m supposedly. 

 

 

Of course we are!

[El Dangerous]

This team is crying out for a right footed winger but it that doesn’t have you sold then this surely will….