I for one never believed we had the cash in hand for both VVD & Keita at the reported prices .In fact unless we sold Sakho ,Markovich et al for serious dosh i'e at least £40m for those 2 alone doubt we would have bought both . Our net spend so far is circa £33m
My feeling on calling it's mistake is the club should know the actors involved and should have been very very confident of the players reaction. They have at best ignored the player, at worst they got lied to and believed it. Imo the real issue here is purely cash. We didn't do our business well thus far and don't seem to have a target so wedding need the cash. The thing I now expect is they will accelerate on the Enfield road end and try placate fans on that front.
Why? Unless we get £135m for him and hurt Barca, they;ll just keep doing it again, as they did with Masch and Luis. Now we don't HAVE to sell to anyone anymore. We acn afford to let him act the goat - it's WC year, he'll soon come around. If he feigns injury he can't play international either. No different to Luis in 2013 in the end.
Let's be fair. 1. 50mil into kirkby 2. 10 mil into Enfield this summer. 3. 33mil spent thus far. Let's not lose the head everyone..... don't believe the press etc.
You've hit it on the head. Your best bet is keeping him otherwise you go into the new season at a massive disadvantage with one of your best players gone. The same with Sanchez, we're better keeping him than selling him and WC year will make these players perform for selfish reasons.
But one big difference is that Ford has four and a half years left on his contract. As I said though, we went through all of this with Suarez in 2013, and he even called in the PFA to try and get a move - he wasn't sold and he then went on to give us his best season ever.
its down to the player themsevles imo. I am not sure what coutinho will do.. i think he would be embaressed to be seen in LFC colours having handed in the request. Suarez was a total ****. Costa has been a dick constantly and acted like nothing happened then and played. Sanchez for me is a workaholic who will play and work like a dog if he doesn't get his move. VVD.. who knows.. i don't know him well enough to say what he's going to do. Keita in germany is back doing sponsor merchandising for leipzig... some guys think this is all just business and normal.... I will be interested IF he stays to see the first game in front of the kop...
Yeah it is a tricky one for him as the Liverpool faithful are a passionate bunch. It really is tough when your star player wants to move on the eve of the new season.
I dunno about you but this is more worrying please log in to view this image "locked and loaded" he doesn't seem worried that ordinary artillary is in range of the wives and family of several thousand us service persons in south korea.... he says they are completely ready which of course is a lie. You think coutinho going or not is REALLY all that lads
Its nothing personal... we are all big boys. He shouldn't expect a big cheer when his name is read out on the team sheet like.. but get on with it or get on with the move... its all really down to barca offering a deal thats not acceptable and offering it late in the window reacting to neymar going.....
