I'll give my personal view on our prospects when the window closes and everyone has concluded their business. However, the club definitely has their sights set on moving the club forwards, year on year.
Bournemouth have signed Jermain Defoe on a 3 year contract. It's a free transfer for the 34 year old. Good signing for Bournemouth, Defoe still has goals in him.
Raphael Honigstein: Liverpool would be insane to pay £70m for RB Leipzig star Naby Keita LIVERPOOL should not meet RB Leipzig's £70m valuation of Naby Keita.
tbh that one has been the likely LB signing from what i've heard . can't say it fills me with joy but hopefully fee only circa £8m.
If we'd signed him would have been ridiculous, especially for the price. No better than anything we currently have. dont think we were ever seriously interested. Press putting us being after a CB and him being available together to make up own stories.
possibly but not by a huge distance though at least he might learn which Moreno seemed incapable of doing. From what i've seen of him defensively he is a bit lacking so will fit right in.
no but he is a bit of a fat pudding and if we are this amateurish we might as well revert to having a ruddock type in our squad. I doubt we were either... you can't tell these days who's real and who is not unless they keep on coming up time and time again. Him and robertson vanished a while back as stories nearly as soon as they surfaced I almost miss the era when a sunday newspaper was where the action was and hacks could save their stories up to break them then. now its 24/7 with any old spoofer and agent able to make the headlines. I am willing to bet most any of us on here could make up a rumour and drive it into the mainstream media. In fact i would issue the challenge Can you get your story onto sky whispers or at least the metro? I get RHC could do this with two phone calls.
thats not NPV though. if we were to translate todays 70mil into 2010 money its prob only 20mil. The level of infaltion in football over the past well.... since 1992 has been unending.
yes but it was a release clause on a biter... in the end... the worlds gone utterly mad. everton just paid 30mil for a GK.. who was RELEGATED. the world record for a keeper had been for 16 year... Buffon cost 32.4mil. now is pickford as good as buffon... nope. its just market rates. (if you note city paid 36mil for thier new keeper as world record you will see how much everton paid for the england u21 star (and he was a star in the tournament) last year juve paid 70/80mil odd for a 29 year old higuin... and they don't even have the sky tv money! IMO we've not even sniffed the madness yet. I think we are going to see some absolutely mad fees but end of august and be sitting hiere wondering if 70mil for a cb wasn't actually outrageous after all