Summer 2023 Transfer Thread

[Freddo]

Salahs asked to leave according to the twitter twats. But he won’t push for a move. How convenient, he won’t push but wants to move. Fuck off. 

[Fugitive]

1 minute ago, Freddo said:

Salahs asked to leave according to the twitter twats. But he won’t push for a move. How convenient, he won’t push but wants to move. Fuck off. 

Good to know. Glad you are here to keep us up to date with any breaking news.

[an tha]

6 minutes ago, Freddo said:

Salahs asked to leave according to the twitter twats. But he won’t push for a move. How convenient, he won’t push but wants to move. Fuck off. 

Those two words are absolutely key here in digesting that "news".....

[3 Stacks]

12 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

 

We can't even replace the lads that have left, let alone our 2nd best player and best outfield player. 

Replacing Salah wont be difficult. There is an abundance of talented forwards and creative players of pretty much every kind on the market every season, except basically pure 9s and traditional wide players. If we have a plan to replace Salah when we do it and it isnt forced upon us like the Fabinho sale this summer, it will be relatively easy, in terms of finding someone good. 

 

The issue will probably be tactical setup, which is different. We have bought 4 individually talented forwards in different ways over the past 3 years and I have argued, and Ill stilll argue, we havent made it work collectively.

 

 

 

[Scott_M]

24 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

 

I don't see Bradley replacing Trent in this hybrid role. This is the problem with this formation, it's very unconventional and hard to bring kids into weird positions. It's hard enough asking him just to be a right back. 

 

You list those 7 players, but howuch confidence do you have in Jones, thiago and bajcetic getting on the pitch? We need 5 mids for every match with the 5 sub rule. You're right we're missing some steel but tons of experience too. As old as endo is he has no experience at playing for teams dominating football matches for example. 

 

I'd feel if we added a defender and midfielder (depending who they are of course, no more Arthur's), the window would be ok. Not great, but ok. I don't expect any more to be honest. 

Feel I referenced quite a bit of that.

 

On Bradley, I don’t think he needs to replicate Trent playing more inside. I wouldn’t expect Gomez to do it, nor the left backs. It’s a weapon we can use when Trent is available, we play with a more conventional back 4 when he isn’t.

 

Don’t necessarily disagree on the midfield players. If they were all never injured, we’d likely be Ok. Jones & Thiago are often injured, apart from his current injury, I don’t know what Bajectic’s fitness record is like.  I know we can shuffle players about (eg Trent or Gakpo in midfield) but it isn’t ideal. We definitely need someone before next Friday.

 

Been seeing talk on Hincapie and Graveberch or Kone today. I think that would end the window well. It’s absolutely all taken too long, fuck knows the full extent of the issues. If we got Hincapie and one of those midfielders (Granveberch would be classed as an U21, Hincapie is only 4 months older, so I assume he would be as well), with the possibility of Andre in January (we’d have 1 HG spot left), I think we’d all have been quite happy with that in May - fully realise that’s a hypothetical and there is a lot of work to make that happen .

 

24 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

Nobody was coming in for him..he was likely earning buttons at Celta, of he penned a new deal with celta it probably locked him at a higher release clause, so he's secured his future. It's not ideal for any young lad, but I don't blame him. It's dead easy for pricks like kroos to criticise him when they've had a top career and all the riches that come with it.

He was a complete unknown this time last year. If it was me, I’d be knuckling down and working harder to secure that bigger, more prestigious move. I can’t see him becoming a better player in Saudi and then having more opportunities at top clubs in Europe. 
 

As I said earlier, we’ll see more players true motivations in the next few years. 

[johnsusername]

It's definitely an interesting tactic to sell your best players. 

[BeefStroganoff]

If we sell him and do nothing else I’m walking away for good.

[Megadrive Man]

Bein Sports are reporting that Salah has accepted the offer to join.

 

[3 Stacks]

3 minutes ago, BeefStroganoff said:

If we sell him and do nothing else I’m walking away for good.

Rooting for it now.

[El Dangerous]

I wonder if we could set our forwards up minus Salah in a similar way to how we used Sturridge, Sterling and Suarez with Diaz being the Suarez free roaming forward and Gakpo playing deeper off Nunez with Trent going back on the overlap. It would certainly require a lot from Nunez but you don’t spend that kind of money without expecting a lot in return plus if he’s shite we have Jota. Use the Salah money to buy Wirtz and whoever is a top prospect on the right. 

[Fugitive]

Our best player, top scorer for years, a week left of the transfer window.

 

The owners:

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

7 minutes ago, Megadrive Man said:

Bein Sports are reporting that Salah has accepted the offer to join.

 

 

Al Jazeera

 

Egyptian forward Mohamed Salah has agreed to a blockbuster move to Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad, according to the channel beIN Sports.

However, his current club, English Premier League side Liverpool, have not accepted any deal from Al-Ittihad.

[Planet Origi]

It was inevitable. Why settle for mediocrity here when he can do it earning more than double over there.

[Elite]

Highly doubt he'll go at this stage. Especially with our recruitment, we'd end up Ricky Lambert again.

[Bruce Spanner]

The Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, was built in an area which doesn't have the sewage capacity to allow it to have functioning toliets, showers, cleaning ports linked to the main servers.

 

So in a wheeze which will help you understand the braindead braggadocio nonsense which Dubai is founded on they hit upon a novel solution...

 

... shit is literally loaded into tankers all day, every day, a driven across the city to be dumped at a sewage works.

 

That's the mindset with this nonsense, be the biggest no matter how ludicrous, or expensive, it is, even if you end up with trucks full of useless shit you have to parade across the city and dump at the end of the day.

[Megadrive Man]

4 minutes ago, Planet Origi said:

It was inevitable. Why settle for mediocrity here when he can do it earning more than quadruple over there.

 

Fixed.

[Geoff Woade]

To be fair I thought when he signed a new contract we’d end up paying him to leave after 18 months so if we can get 100 million or so then fair play 

[Scott_M]

I’m unconcerned by this Salah stuff. 

[Barrington Womble]

17 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

Replacing Salah wont be difficult. There is an abundance of talented forwards and creative players of pretty much every kind on the market every season, except basically pure 9s and traditional wide players. If we have a plan to replace Salah when we do it and it isnt forced upon us like the Fabinho sale this summer, it will be relatively easy, in terms of finding someone good. 

 

The issue will probably be tactical setup, which is different. We have bought 4 individually talented forwards in different ways over the past 3 years and I have argued, and Ill stilll argue, we havent made it work collectively.

 

 

 

 

I honestly sometimes don't understand your posts. Mo Salah has been one of the greatest goalscorers in the history of our club. A club which has won more than any other English club and has had amazing forwards generation after generation. Of course Salah will be difficult to replace, this is not championship manager. He's one of the finest players of his generation. And the window closes next week. 

 

16 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

Feel I referenced quite a bit of that.

 

On Bradley, I don’t think he needs to replicate Trent playing more inside. I wouldn’t expect Gomez to do it, nor the left backs. It’s a weapon we can use when Trent is available, we play with a more conventional back 4 when he isn’t.

 

Don’t necessarily disagree on the midfield players. If they were all never injured, we’d likely be Ok. Jones & Thiago are often injured, apart from his current injury, I don’t know what Bajectic’s fitness record is like.  I know we can shuffle players about (eg Trent or Gakpo in midfield) but it isn’t ideal. We definitely need someone before next Friday.

 

Been seeing talk on Hincapie and Graveberch or Kone today. I think that would end the window well. It’s absolutely all taken too long, fuck knows the full extent of the issues. If we got Hincapie and one of those midfielders (Granveberch would be classed as an U21, Hincapie is only 4 months older, so I assume he would be as well), with the possibility of Andre in January (we’d have 1 HG spot left), I think we’d all have been quite happy with that in May - fully realise that’s a hypothetical and there is a lot of work to make that happen .

 

He was a complete unknown this time last year. If it was me, I’d be knuckling down and working harder to secure that bigger, more prestigious move. I can’t see him becoming a better player in Saudi and then having more opportunities at top clubs in Europe. 
 

As I said earlier, we’ll see more players true motivations in the next few years. 

I'm not sure playing a formation only when 1 player is fit is a great plan to be honest. And I don't think it's a plan klopp will want to go with. Personally I think bajcetic will cover Trent, but obviously that depends on his availability and we already have too few players in those more conventional midfield slots. 

 

There's been loads of links and talks all summer. 2 of the signings we have, there's been no talk about..I don't know howuch we can read into any of it, no matter if it comes from the Liverpool pack or different leaches on twitter. 

 

13 minutes ago, Megadrive Man said:

Bein Sports are reporting that Salah has accepted the offer to join.

 

Wonder if that ties in with lovren deleting his social media post calling it lies earlier. 

[Freddo]

34 minutes ago, Fugitive said:

Good to know. Glad you are here to keep us up to date with any breaking news.

More than happy too. We also want Bakayoko and Hincapie, maybe Gravenberch and Kone. 

[Grinch]

28 minutes ago, johnsusername said:

It's definitely an interesting tactic to sell your best players. 

It’s ok, it’s easy to replace the best right forward in the world.

[Colonel Bumcunt]

31 minutes ago, Fugitive said:

Good to know. Glad you are here to keep us up to date with any breaking news.

 

[Section_31]

I wouldn't put it past Salah to be honest and that gobshite agent of his. 

[3 Stacks]

10 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

 

I honestly sometimes don't understand your posts. Mo Salah has been one of the greatest goalscorers in the history of our club. A club which has won more than any other English club and has had amazing forwards generation after generation. Of course Salah will be difficult to replace, this is not championship manager. He's one of the finest players of his generation. And the window closes next week. 

 

What was so hard to understand? I thought it was all there. Even gave you a caveat. 

[Planet Origi]

2 minutes ago, Grinch said:

It’s ok, it’s easy to replace the best right forward in the world.

Sure is when you consider the abundance of talented forwards available every season, especially bargains for £100m that can get you the likes Mudryk and Lukaku