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2 hours ago, Paul said:

I thought there were more levers. Clearly they don’t want to continue selling off the family silver, but I think they can sell more of what they’ve already cashed in on. 

I believe the league have said no to it

Barca have no economic levers they can use this summer, have huge debts to service and a salary cap that cannot be increased whilst also trying to get Gavi registered on a new, significantly increased contract. Barca are a non entity unless they sell about 6 first team players.

2 hours ago, Barrington Womble said:

I agree. The only time we'll get in trouble is if we're getting into a fight with Spain's big two or the current top 4. 

At which point we will walk away and say there is no value in the market. Although for the next couple of seasons I don't think Barca will be paying the prices let alone the wages that even we are looking at.

The point seems to have been missed that although Ox and Keita don't play, they were signed as first team players and are paid first team wages. If we bring in players at that level then I expect them to be first team players that are brought in.

Not all leagues pay at the level of the PL. Players from France, Germany, Holland and Portugal are in far less that their PL counterparts. We will have no problem when it comes to wages.

18 minutes ago, No2 said:

I wonder if Tielemans is on our shopping list. There are hardly any rumours of where he is off to, which has me thinking it could be us. We have been better than anyone at keeping our targets closely guarded. 

Hopefully he was crossed out as a mistake when Klopp said he wanted to replace the tea ladies with men.

1 minute ago, Razoray said:

I know, that £45m down the drain, will haunt them for years to come. It has thrown their planned budget out of kilter.  What shall they do? 

 

Utter cunts

Makes no sense whatsoever as they already had that Lavia kid who could have played the 7 minutes that he's has played. Oh well 2 years of free transfers for them now...........

Oh, that's only us. Bugger

2 minutes ago, TD_LFC said:

If a club doesn't try to sign him this season then City take him next season for 40 million to replace Phillips.

Or we spunk 50m on a kid that has made less than 40 pl appearances 

5 minutes ago, Scott_M said:

I hear Lavia was meant to have been good for Southampton last night.
 

What a daft move to take him off in 86. Then they concede in 88 & 90. Like taking off Hamman in Leverkusen. 

I was really impressed with him last night, comfortable receiving g the ball in tight areas and not panicking. Was able to turn and beat the press on numerous occasions.

Would prefer he has another season at Southampton progressing his game than made the jump too early. 

Looks a player but the wrong move could scupper that. If he were to move this summer I think Brighton to replace caceido would be the best place for him.

5 hours ago, Scott_M said:

An infamous twitter accounts has just posted Klopp wants 3 midfielders in the summer and have £200m to spend.
 

I would post it, I don’t want people to get their knickers in a bunch. 

Fuck it, just post it, if they complain then call them cunts and move on.

This is the cesspit that is the summer transfer thread. Whats the difference between some shit no mark journo and some shit no mark twitter ITK.

8 minutes ago, redrosetints said:

No we need to extend our scouting network and connections currently into untapped (by us) markets such as SouthAmerica and Asia.

 

we need to invest the money when we need too, this isn’t to let FSG off being skinflints but we should also recognise buying a rough diamond on the cheap isn’t a bad idea. 

But without games and an environment to grow without pressure they would likly stagnate and not be the player we hoped they would. 

So what i read from what you guys are saying is we need to buy a club in Portugal and use them as a feeder club. If we can buy a club for about 20 to 30 m would be worth its weight in gold.

5 minutes ago, diamondjoe said:

Next person we sign is a cunt. 

We need a bit of that.

2 hours ago, Scott_M said:

The point isn’t the £250m or whatever figure. 
 

The point is if the budget stays the same, the % needed for Bellingham is more.

 

Again, thinking out loud, using £200m as an example, we speak to Dortmund they say £100m. Fine, we know our budget and that leaves us £100m to get 2/3 other players and in the 2nd half of the season players will pick up again, everything looks rosey again.

 

But the players haven’t picked up in the 2nd half of the season. They’ve been as abject as they were in the first half. Dortmund now decide they want £130m for Bellingham. Klopp starts to lose patients and decides we need more. Of that budget we, we get Bellingham and 1/2 others. 
 

As long as the budget has stayed the same and we are repositioning the funds (which Pearce, Reddy and a few others have said) then as much as I would have liked Bellingham and as frustrating as the whole scenario is, I’m Ok with it.
 

If players aren’t getting back to previous years levels, we do need more than Bellingham. A lot 

I typed out a long message in response to this then thought fuck it, you are too far down the rabbit hole.

These owners are done. Forget where we have been with them, what we've won, that's in the past, the goalposts have moved and this self sustaining model will no longer work. We don't need an oil state, we need the debt removed off the club as it is capital costs to improve the asset. And we need a reasonable injection of cash every few years. This would allow us the funds to be able to constantly refresh without the need for major rebuilds.

Delli Alli always comes across as an arrogant prick.

I cant believe we surrendered this game so meekly. I would rather have lost this leg 6 -0 having a go and at least trying to show we cared.

27 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

I bet he won't be free to leave. We'll still be hanging on for 20m or whatever. 

More likely Gomez and matip will be injured during the summer window and we will have to hold onto him a bit longer.

29 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

I'm getting really worried about Virgil's form. He just seems mentally not to be in games. He's reacting slowly, he's mostly looking very not arsed. It's easy enough to get up for the big games, but we need to see him dominate attackers when we're playing shite too. He's having too many performances this season were he's making absolute no mark forwards look good. 

I didn't think Virg had a bad game yesterday, I was at the game and it deemed to be Konate going wandering that caused most of the problems. Solanke barely got a sniff.

4 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

“What did Santa bring you?” 
 

A bike

 

”And what did Santa bring you Jessie?” 
 

An iPad

 

”and what about you Timmy?” 

 

Some Josef Fritzl pyjamas and a kettle 

Now thats inclusive

On 23/02/2023 at 08:47, skend04 said:

I cannot believe wokery has got it's claws into Lego now. Downs Syndrome figures? Figures with limbs missing? Whatever next? Black and brown figures?

 

This is madness! Burn it all down!

 

 

 

So does this mean that they are going to release some that are paedophiles and mass murderers as being inclusive should not be limited to people's ideals. 

You're either inclusive or you aren't. If you are inclusive then you can't pick and choose who you include.

2 hours ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Blows my mind people think one slip during the course of an entire season cost a title!   shit we wouldn't if been anywhere near a title challenge without Gerrards contribution not even close.

You're right? But now thats trending on twitter, with social media its very easy to change the narrative.

16 minutes game time and his season will be over.

He's shit and we should never have even entertained the idea of signing the malingering twat.

https://twitter.com/talkSPORT/status/1622938225772724224?t=BA1fRag7519XDJswE7GxZQ&s=19

1 hour ago, Bjornebye said:

https://www.vipboxtv.sk/stream-wolverhampton-wanderers-vs-liverpool-live-1

 

 

Your stream doesn't work, only one team seems to know how to play football

Just now, Red_or_Dead said:

Never let it be forgotten!

 

Streams anyone?!

 

 

Yeah I'm looking to grass some nawty good quality streamers up to the authorities.