Summer 2023 Transfer Thread

[Street Preacher]

4 hours ago, YNWAViking said:

With one week left of the window I think we can say that a lot will happen in the next few days. We are now at the time in which both buying and selling clubs have to decide on who to go for and who to sell. The deadline is near. Will be an interesting week. 

They should make the transfer window seven days long. Clubs sit around ; seemingly fuck about for months & then all of a sudden spring in to action with 48hrs to go. I'm sure lots of stuff is going on behind closed doors but the whole transfer market scene seems so unprofessional & a load of bollocks for the most part. 

[Street Preacher]

2 hours ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Hang about, what Klopp said earlier about no more outgoings.

 

Big Nat staying then?

The fucker will be due a testimonial soon won't he? 

[Bruce Spanner]

Just now, Street Preacher said:

The fucker will be due a testimonial soon won't he? 

 

Excellent idea, we can unveil the statue at the same time.

 

Probably best get a big screen in Matthew Street for all those that cant get a ticket.

[YNWAViking]

8 minutes ago, Street Preacher said:

They should make the transfer window seven days long. Clubs sit around ; seemingly fuck about for months & then all of a sudden spring in to action with 48hrs to go. I'm sure lots of stuff is going on behind closed doors but the whole transfer market scene seems so unprofessional & a load of bollocks for the most part. 

 

Well the selling clubs might think it's in their best interest to wait till the last week when the interested clubs are desperate and need to go ahead with the buy. All kinds of reasons why a signing is dragging on and happening only at the end of a window. A hard deadline leads to things happening. 

[AHA]

2 hours ago, stringvest said:

 

More like Harvey Elliot and Ron Yeats.  Now here's a poem

 

The Oblong of Dreams

 

Move him onto his side —
Give him dignity, give him some warmth
Which he’d possibly not received of late
I’m not a mate as such
I just used to see him around and about
And I could never work out if he was heading
For a food bank or a pharmacy
A field path or indecency
Either way, he’s out of it now

Onwards, then, to the Leasowe light
Along Lingham Lane and out of sight
Away from the obvious and the asinine
The soundbites and the party line
Escape from Telepudlian Paul
Around about now regaling all
With his ‘Did you see the match?’
And his flat back four
He’s a Super Sunday super bore
Escape up onto Caldy Hill
The spirit of Olaf, and if you will
Stand still, wait, sudden breeze
Clouds part, showtime

And now I’m in Paradise
Or that’s how it seems
When Spring has sprung upon this Oblong of Dreams

Everything I want is here and everything I need is here

Inland, Thor’s Stone, Limbo Lane and into the zone
Speedwell, campion, jack-by-the-hedge
Orange-tipped butterflies, Bradley Dredge
I’m about a thousand miles away
From Claire Jenkins’ gin reports
And Stuart Bell and dull Adele
And Janet from Accounts banging on about turmeric

Woodchurch, and yonder my ridge
Over the Fender and under the bridge
Estate memories all good, sunbeams on my childhood
On past where our bonfire burned
Where Robbo’s Viva overturned
Early purple orchid blooms
Releasing me from darker rooms
And as creation thus uncorks
I cross the field where she still walks

Stay, sit, this is it
And up by the school
There will be daffodils

Now Spring has sprung upon this Oblong of Dreams

Clouds part, showtime
Cowslips and celandine
Clouds part, showtime
Cowslips and celandine
Wake up, Oblong of Dreams

 

He should be the poet laureate. 

[El Dangerous]

1 hour ago, TD_LFC said:

If that's where you're getting your football opinions I'll give it a miss.

It’s either there or 4Chan.

[Carvalho Diablo]

58 minutes ago, Street Preacher said:

They should make the transfer window seven days long. Clubs sit around ; seemingly fuck about for months & then all of a sudden spring in to action with 48hrs to go. I'm sure lots of stuff is going on behind closed doors but the whole transfer market scene seems so unprofessional & a load of bollocks for the most part. 

I've said it before but all transfers should be agreed before the window ever even opens, bar two things:

 

1. the medical

2. the formal signature

[BeefStroganoff]

Another wasted day in the transfer market. 

[BeefStroganoff]

3 hours ago, FrenchEyeGlass said:

Bored of Jurgen's woe is me shtick, here's a thought gaffa why don't you PRE-PLAN and attack market instead of waiting until we sell all of our players to scrounge around for 30 year olds in the bundesliga.

 

Fuck FSG but Jurgen has lost all sympathy from me now. If the reason we haven't addressed the Issues in the squad is because of a lack of money then he should have called this out by now. Stop talking shit and playing the fans for idiots and telling us we have enough when anybody with a brain knows we don't.

 

Jürgen Klopp on the Saudi transfer window shutting 20 days after the European one:  “What is not possible is for our transfer window to close and theirs to remain open. If they don't stop, how can we react? It's a challenge. We have to learn to deal with it. Authorities should make clear that if you want to be part of the system you need to do business at the same time as everyone else."

 

Hes really wrecking my head lately what's happened to him? This was the man who used to rally the supporters before every game and speak of the opposition trying to steal our points. Now he just whines about pointless guff like fans singing songs about him and journalists asking reasonable questions, not to mention treating the fan base as idiots.

 

Bring back the old Jurgen, the one that isn't treading water.

[Street Preacher]

49 minutes ago, Carvalho Diablo said:

I've said it before but all transfers should be agreed before the window ever even opens, bar two things:

 

1. the medical

2. the formal signature

Agree with this 100%. There's nothing stopping clubs from sorting out their transfers outside of the window. I just think the whole thing is bizarre. 

[coachpotato]

What the fuck would sly do if it was condensed into 7 days?
They’d be lost.

[Creator Supreme]

Just now, coachpotato said:

What the fuck would sly do if it was condensed into 7 days?
They’d be lost.

Jim White would spontaneously combust!

 

So it's a yes from me!

[The-Sir]

5 hours ago, stringvest said:

 

More like Harvey Elliot and Ron Yeats.  Now here's a poem

 

The Oblong of Dreams

 

Move him onto his side —
Give him dignity, give him some warmth
Which he’d possibly not received of late
I’m not a mate as such
I just used to see him around and about
And I could never work out if he was heading
For a food bank or a pharmacy
A field path or indecency
Either way, he’s out of it now

Onwards, then, to the Leasowe light
Along Lingham Lane and out of sight
Away from the obvious and the asinine
The soundbites and the party line
Escape from Telepudlian Paul
Around about now regaling all
With his ‘Did you see the match?’
And his flat back four
He’s a Super Sunday super bore
Escape up onto Caldy Hill
The spirit of Olaf, and if you will
Stand still, wait, sudden breeze
Clouds part, showtime

And now I’m in Paradise
Or that’s how it seems
When Spring has sprung upon this Oblong of Dreams

Everything I want is here and everything I need is here

Inland, Thor’s Stone, Limbo Lane and into the zone
Speedwell, campion, jack-by-the-hedge
Orange-tipped butterflies, Bradley Dredge
I’m about a thousand miles away
From Claire Jenkins’ gin reports
And Stuart Bell and dull Adele
And Janet from Accounts banging on about turmeric

Woodchurch, and yonder my ridge
Over the Fender and under the bridge
Estate memories all good, sunbeams on my childhood
On past where our bonfire burned
Where Robbo’s Viva overturned
Early purple orchid blooms
Releasing me from darker rooms
And as creation thus uncorks
I cross the field where she still walks

Stay, sit, this is it
And up by the school
There will be daffodils

Now Spring has sprung upon this Oblong of Dreams

Clouds part, showtime
Cowslips and celandine
Clouds part, showtime
Cowslips and celandine
Wake up, Oblong of Dreams

 

 

This and Slipping the Escort. The real bard of Birkenhead (nice chap too).

[Razoray]

5 hours ago, Razoray said:

Arsenal 

Raya Timber Rice Havertz

 

Chelsea

Too many to list

 

Liverpool 

MacAllister Szoboszlai Endo

 

Manchester City 

Kovacic Gvardiol Doku

 

Manchester United 

Mount Onana Hojlund

 

Newcastle 

Tonali Barnes Livramento Hall

 

Tottenham 

Vicario Maddison Solomon VdVen

 

All bar Chelsea of the "big 7" have brought in 3 or 4 senior new signings this summer. 

Rumours that Arsenal could still bring in one more, Lifey says Chelsea have another £100m burning a hole in their pocket, City are looking at an attacking midfielder, United want a defender and midfielder if they can sell some players, fuck Newcastle and Spurs want a striker. 

Could be a busy week.

Arsenal selling Balogun to Monaco for £34m. They'll spend that money this week

[CapeRed]

5 hours ago, stringvest said:

 

More like Harvey Elliot and Ron Yeats.  Now here's a poem

 

The Oblong of Dreams

 

Move him onto his side —
Give him dignity, give him some warmth
Which he’d possibly not received of late
I’m not a mate as such
I just used to see him around and about
And I could never work out if he was heading
For a food bank or a pharmacy
A field path or indecency
Either way, he’s out of it now

Onwards, then, to the Leasowe light
Along Lingham Lane and out of sight
Away from the obvious and the asinine
The soundbites and the party line
Escape from Telepudlian Paul
Around about now regaling all
With his ‘Did you see the match?’
And his flat back four
He’s a Super Sunday super bore
Escape up onto Caldy Hill
The spirit of Olaf, and if you will
Stand still, wait, sudden breeze
Clouds part, showtime

And now I’m in Paradise
Or that’s how it seems
When Spring has sprung upon this Oblong of Dreams

Everything I want is here and everything I need is here

Inland, Thor’s Stone, Limbo Lane and into the zone
Speedwell, campion, jack-by-the-hedge
Orange-tipped butterflies, Bradley Dredge
I’m about a thousand miles away
From Claire Jenkins’ gin reports
And Stuart Bell and dull Adele
And Janet from Accounts banging on about turmeric

Woodchurch, and yonder my ridge
Over the Fender and under the bridge
Estate memories all good, sunbeams on my childhood
On past where our bonfire burned
Where Robbo’s Viva overturned
Early purple orchid blooms
Releasing me from darker rooms
And as creation thus uncorks
I cross the field where she still walks

Stay, sit, this is it
And up by the school
There will be daffodils

Now Spring has sprung upon this Oblong of Dreams

Clouds part, showtime
Cowslips and celandine
Clouds part, showtime
Cowslips and celandine
Wake up, Oblong of Dreams

 

Awesome

[TheSire]

31 minutes ago, The-Sir said:

 

This and Slipping the Escort. The real bard of Birkenhead (nice chap too).

Shithouse.

[FrenchEyeGlass]

Klopp's embargo comments make it clear. FSG are not giving him funds.

[Street Preacher]

1 hour ago, coachpotato said:

What the fuck would sly do if it was condensed into 7 days?
They’d be lost.

A lot of  in the knows and footy journalists would be fucked. What would they do for the rest of the year? 

[Planet Origi]

8 minutes ago, FrenchEyeGlass said:

Klopp's embargo comments make it clear. FSG are not giving him funds.

His comments around the signing of Endo also suggest he's also severely hamstrung on the profile of players he can go for. 

[TheHowieLama]

@hamstrung

[Moo]

And yet there will still be people who suggest Klopp has significant funds but chooses not to use them for all different manner of reasons. 

[Freddo]

3 minutes ago, Moo said:

And yet there will still be people who suggest Klopp has significant funds but chooses not to use them for all different manner of reasons. 

A shit load of them. Klopp out trending now. Dumb fucks

[Moo]

5 minutes ago, Freddo said:

A shit load of them. Klopp out trending now. Dumb fucks

 

Well if it's trending it's on Twitter which is full of no-nothing gobshites.  I'm sure, despite the presence of a few FSG apologists, that's not the prevailing feeling amongst the genuine fanbase.

[3 Stacks]

32 minutes ago, FrenchEyeGlass said:

Klopp's embargo comments make it clear. FSG are not giving him funds.

That's not what he's saying. He's intimating that there is a player valuation model that will rarely be overruled.

[an tha]

From the embargoed part of the press conference earlier....what i just can't get my head around is this constant narrative of us having such different financial circumstances and being so much worse off than other clubs - we have been in the top 2/3 revenue generating clubs in the world over recent years FFS....

"We have our situation," said the Reds boss. "There was one year when money was less of an issue because Phil (Coutinho) went to Barcelona and we could do two sensational transfers. But we always spend over the years when we have to improve. From the team when I arrived here eight years ago, there's only Joe Gomez left. There has been a lot of business and we've had to do it our way.

"Since I've been here, we have had to (live within our means). The club has had to, and of course that doesn't make it easier. The problem is not our situation, it's just in comparison to the other main teams. We have to be on point. That's pretty much the thing. There is not a lot of space for failure.

"We cannot put sticks around the area and hope that nobody will run through. That’s how it is. I have no problem with that. We do really well, and as long as it is all by the rules I have no problem (with the spending of other clubs)."

Klopp added: "Other teams will do their things. In the end it’s the circumstances, they might be different but it’s all about what you make of it. That's where we try to make a difference in a positive direction but we will see. I want to improve the squad, I absolutely do. But I have all the information around and I know what is possible and not possible, and it's not always exactly what I want.

"But it is not my job to complain, it is my job to take the team we have at the end of the transfer window and make the best of it and not sitting here thinking (grumbles) 'oh they have this and they have that'. That's how I understand it.

"I’m pretty sure there are always heated discussions in the market and I can’t remember a transfer window where every single person was happy with the window we had. Everyone always says ‘we should do this, we should do that, another centre-half and another number six and another number eight and another striker’."

Klopp has made no secret in the past of difficulties during a transfer window, particularly when the season is underway and his players are being linked elsewhere. Mohamed Salah is the latest, with reports from Saudi Arabia suggesting Al-Ittihad are preparing an attempt to lure the Egyptian away from Anfield.

"I was always glad when transfer windows are over!" said Klopp. "I'm absolutely in it. While this window is open... I'm not sure what the percentage of true stories is in the newspapers, so thank God I'm not in it, but I'm pretty sure there have been times where I've been asked about something and I've thought 'eh, I don't even know the player'."