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InBiscanWeTrust said:
If you start selling your best players, doesn’t look great to the other players at the club. Maybe signals that you don’t feel like your a top club who will challenge for all the major trophies.

Tbh can’t see other players moaning too much if the best player is paid the most money. I’d imagine they would rather he earn more money and still be at the club, than lose him
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Perhaps, but there's a compelling argument that others - Virgil and Alisson are the obvious examples - are just as crucial to our current level. I just don't think any one player in a team is worth twice that of any other, and my personal opinion is that it sends the wrong message to the others, not the other way round.
Also, it's putting all your eggs in one basket - like I said earlier, if we have limited funds we have to be careful how we spend them - it's irresponsible to do anything else.
Do we give Mo an improved contract? Absolutely. Do we acquiesce to the demands of his agent, regardless of what they are? Absolutely not.
 
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saintKlopp said:
Perhaps, but there's a compelling argument that others - Virgil and Alisson are the obvious examples - are just as crucial to our current level. I just don't think any one player in a team is worth twice that of any other, and my personal opinion is that it sends the wrong message to the others, not the other way round.
Also, it's putting all your eggs in one basket - like I said earlier, if we have limited funds we have to be careful how we spend them - it's irresponsible to do anything else.
Do we give Mo an improved contract? Absolutely. Do we acquiesce to the demands of his agent, regardless of what they are? Absolutely not.
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Well the proof would be last season to the likes of VVD

I don’t like the idea of giving into demands - and I think the wording of Salah’s press release is very clever

It would be interesting to see how Salah got on at Madrid or Munich or PSG
Or Newcastle….
 
DivockMcFerrin said:
Well the proof would be last season to the likes of VVD

I don’t like the idea of giving into demands - and I think the wording of Salah’s press release is very clever

It would be interesting to see how Salah got on at Madrid or Munich or PSG
Or Newcastle….
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If you're referring to the "it's out of my hands" bit then I've already said I really don't like that. His agent may be the one to do the negotiating, but he is the one to say whether he accepts the offer or not.
 
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saintKlopp said:
Who really knew Salah would be as good as he is when we bought him? Out there somewhere is the next Mo Salah waiting to step into the limelight. As we've said before we run the risk of wrecking our wage structure for the foreseeable future, I think the club might just see this as too short-term a view.
In my view it's just as big a risk tying up a large proportion of your budget on one player as letting him go and having to find a replacement. He could be injured, or his form could drop, who knows?.
I remember the same "give him what he wants" comments about Coutinho. I disagreed then too, though I do think Salah is a far more important player to us now than Coutinho ever was.
I want to see him stay. I hope we offer him a deal worth his value to us, but not fold to excessive demands which, after all, will be more his agent's doing than his.
What I don't like to read is the "it's out of my hands" comments from him, putting the onus on the club to satisfy his demands. Of course we don't know what offer is on the table, but he is equally responsible for reaching an agreement that is acceptable to both parties.
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I think this is more he's not involved in negotiations, it's between the club and his agent
 
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DivockMcFerrin said:
Unpopular opinion but I would sell him
He has been fantastic
But I think now would be a great time to get max value
I would not sell him to another English club but sadly we appear to be the stupidest with money
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I agree this is the best time to sell, I'd usually be with you in suggesting this too. However, who is buying him?
 
InBiscanWeTrust said:
There’s obviously a limit on what we can afford and tbh we don’t know the numbers so hard to judge. Just think right now the guy is best in the world and not giving him a contract now is a statement that we maybe aren’t one of the elite. What does that say to players like vvd, alisson?

Also don’t forget the amount of money he prob brings in from shirt sales in Egypt. Especially given our deal with Nike gives us a % of money for each sale.

He’s an attraction to help bring other players in. Players will want to join to play with him, younger players will learn from him. More to having him in the squad than just his performance on the pitch
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What does it say to future stars? Liverpool are a well built club that give you a great platform to fulfil your playing dreams but also put you in a very expensive shop window for that end of career financial goldmine move.

Nobody joins Liverpool expecting to be extravagantly paid (in football terms)
 
If you read between the lines guys what salah is really saying is I now have residency in the uk lads, I dont want to end up at Newcastle playing liverpool but if you dont stump up the going rate I'll just have to be sad doing it.

He is on the ball this lad, as I said milner retires and we have the money to pay him 350k per week without ever taxing ourselves.
 
We have longed to be a destination club for the the best players as we were often seen as the stepping stone.

We literally have the best player in the world saying he wants to stay. If we can't keep him, then what are we as a club? Do we actually have ambitions to be the biggest and best? Or are we content with merely competing?

Do we just want to become a new Leipzig or Dortmund? Keep getting rid of our best players to fund new new ones and then repeat the process?

We have hardly bought players since we won the CL - if we can't afford to keep Salah, then there needs to be serious questions asked on finances / ownership. We thought it was a good idea to give Henderson a £200k a week contract until he's 35 - you can't then tell me that there are questions over Salah's worth.
 
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Zorba said:
From what I got from YouTube,the 'out if my hands' is that he meant he'd stay at Liverpool as long as they wanted him.<confused>
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I agree. "It depends on what the club wants, it doesn't depend on me." That sounds like he wants the club and it depends on whether they want him. I do think that it can be interpreted in a different way - if you want it to.
 
Jimmy Squarefoot said:
We have longed to be a destination club for the the best players as we were often seen as the stepping stone.

We literally have the best player in the world saying he wants to stay. If we can't keep him, then what are we as a club? Do we actually have ambitions to be the biggest and best? Or are we content with merely competing?

Do we just want to become a new Leipzig or Dortmund? Keep getting rid of our best players to fund new new ones and then repeat the process?

We have hardly bought players since we won the CL - if we can't afford to keep Salah, then there needs to be serious questions asked on finances / ownership. We thought it was a good idea to give Henderson a £200k a week contract until he's 35 - you can't then tell me that there are questions over Salah's worth.
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No we haven't. We don't sign stars, we make stars!
 
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Club was about winning not stars. You can take your pick of any generation there was no stars just top players and team mates.

Imo Owen was the first genuine hysteria but torres absolutely eclipsed it. It was mania. But torres was a team player too

The one thing klopp has is team ethic more than anything else.

In the past we let lads go to do whatever, keegan, souness, rush, if they wanted we got good money had had our replacement in mind.

Dalglish, mcmahon, aldo.
 
Zanjinho said:
No we haven't. We don't sign stars, we make stars!
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Generally speaking, I agree, we do make more stars than we sign. We did sign world class players in Alisson, Fabinho and Thiago (albeit he is on the other side of the curve of his very best days but was still a regular starter and CL winner in a world class team at Bayern). Virgil was well on the way to world class and arguably became that in his first season with us.

I agree with Jimmy's sentiment that whether or not we sign stars, we do very much want to be in consideration as a destination for the very best players. Not every good player is greedy but they will want to know that we're not entire skinflints when it comes to negotiating the right deal for the right player.

I wouldn't normally be of this opinion but in Salah's case I say we break the bank for him, he's that important to this team.
 
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Jimmy Squarefoot said:
My statement applies to keeping players and not just buying players. We've had world class players like Mascherano, Alonso, Torres, Suarez all wanting to leave for bigger things.
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There will always be some players who want to leave - be it for more money, more fame, a change of scene, climate, closer to family - whatever. You can't stop that. We do our own thing - pay what we can afford, and with Klopp particularly, build a team from what we have.
No matter how good an individual player is, he's not enough without the team around him. There are always different players, and a different way to play.
 
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