"Liverpool had made all the right, persistent moves for Van Dijk and how delighted they must be with the man who, it wasconfirmed yesterday is to be crowned PFA player of the year." This is the player who Brendan Rodgers (when he was Liverpool manager) wanted to buy when VVD was still a Celtic player...and the Liverpool scouts said he wasn’t good enough for the premier league.
Cor, Schad! You might be right with your very exact & sanitised view of the system but you know as well as me it ain’t gonna happen. More likely to go Juva’s way than above. Anyway, i’ll continue on my rather blinkered SFC “hard done” by route, on this subject & all other manner of other things. which allows me to have teams I dislike & ones I have some stupid affinity for. It adds to a bit of, NO a lot of added spice & passion, albeit it, probably daft, which is what makes me love football & especially SFC. Here’s to me shouting my mouth off (aka James) this afternoon pushing Saints & deriding AFCB for a silly notion about who’s the best club on the South Coast! COYS
All football clubs are rotten; but Liverpool is more rotten than most (apart from Man City, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Barca etc etc).
That is an expression used frequently in Liverpool lingo, and with your NW connections, it has permeated into your language, lah!!
You include Real Madrid, this ultimate of clubs, "royal" by name, even more "royal" by nature, even more "royal" than all the royal families throughout Europe, in your list of rottenness. Can you not forgive them for finding favor with Franco, with the big institutions when in need of cash, with their dark arts when they need to squeeze out a victory, finding favours with referees to get opposing players sent off {CL final v Juve], Ramos taking out Salah. Surely we can forgive them for all their sins? Perhaps not? PS: Well done to Getafe the other night by the way
I think that the unseemly and quite frankly distasteful ongoing dispute between Cardiff and Nantes answers the OP's original question perfectly. R.I.P. Horacio Sala...
May not like it, but it is fully understandable...this money isn't peanuts. If he is a Cardiff player, then Cardiff's insurance will pay out. If he is shown to be Nantes, then their insurance pays out. Cardiff would be idiots to pay the money, then find out he is a Nantes player anyway and they can't claim on their insurance. Easier to withhold the money till the legal side is sorted than to try and get it back later. It's a complicated issue that needs sorting out.
It wasn’t about whether he would leave Saints, it was about where. That’s why Klopp & Liverpool overstepped the line and that’s why they took the risk. As you’ve pointed out, the whole system leads to corruption, but in a football world with many conflicting interests, there will never be an ideal solution.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/sports/premier-league-liverpool-manchester-city.html Article about the Top six response to the Leicester title
Well never mind, the European Super League, with promotion and relegation, looks like it might happen: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...entus-chairman-andrea-agnelli-outlines-plans/ This would obviously have a profound effect on domestic football, as the Premier League, money-wise, would probably be reduced to somewhere near the status that the Championship currently enjoys. Instead of fighting for Champions League or Europa League places, the “best of the rest” would be aiming at one or two promotion spots to the elite, where the difference in resources would mean they would stand little chance of lasting any longer than Fulham did this season.
