We just don't know the details but from the outside Brighton set 100mil price Chelsea willing to go to 80 odd. Chelsea buy a bang average leeds player for 20 odd. LFC enter auction and offer 110mil (bbc) Do we think that Chelsea won't go to 111million? I don't know. why 111, why is bbc reporting such a figure? I can only conclude that we have gone far higher than we would have if we thought we had a free run at him for 100mil. If Chelsea then match who knows. I don't know, but until he's signing a contract we need to assume this can all flip
Not after PUBLICLY saying Bellingham - who everyone knows was Klopp's choice - was too expensive with an £86m release clause (disputed that bit though).
Bellingham was decided against before we lost our entire midfield and before we had an extra £60m in the bank.
Huge suspicion Klopp wanted both Caicedo and Lavia after our midfield Exodus... We have room for both. That's why we were playing hardball with Soton over price. When it became obvious neither Soton nor Brighton were going to sell below their asking the option to sign both went off the table... LFC could pursue only one target so had more money to spend on the individual target.
Not sure it was from our side at all. Quite the opposite. We said from day one it was £50m and didn’t change that. The leaks were more likely Liverpool generated to try and get Lavia to force a move for the lower price. Served us no real purpose to be leaking it (other than perhaps to get Chelsea involved, though there are far better ways of doing that).
So just go do the numbers Foreign super stars 1.Alisson 2. Adrian 3. Matip 4. Konate 5. vvd 6. Robertson 7. Tsimikas 8. Thiago 9. Szoboszlai 10. Macallister 11.Diaz 12. Nunez 13. Jota 14. Gakpo 15. Salah 16. Caicedo??? 17. Doak (he actually will have to be for europa for this season) Home grown 1. Kelleher 2. Trent 3. Gomez 4. Jones 5. Phillips (to be sold surely) underage HG: 1. elliott 2. Bajcetic 3. Bradley It looks to me like there's room in an 25 man squad to bring in lavia as he would become HG in 2 years time and would be b list today.
I think this year will be like the season where we tried to outscore the opposition can’t see us reinforcing defence - I think the defensive reinforcement is that the midfield will try not to let it get through as much as last season in two seasons (cause if this goes through we have blown our pot for for windows lol) we will reinforce defence If Nunez Doak and Gakpo come through me could sell Mo next season to strengthen defence ?
nah, its deffo not coming form us mate. It was seconds after we "submitted bids" and then instantly "its rejected" it was out of your lot. there wasn't time for these to come back round to come from ours. the only thing that came from our lot was that south american lad imo. Of course it was in your interests to be seen to have a set 50mil price and advertising the player was, and is, available at that price. It put massive fan pressure on LFC if nothing else so everything points to your club as the beneficiaries. I would point out that at NO POINT did the safe regulars we would look at comment first on what was going on. It was people on the south coast first. I wouldn't be too worried though i think it was a fair tactic to get maximum value and it will now force chelsea's hand.
Going to put this out there but we could easily be doing this off the back of knowing something that nobody else yet knows concerning a Saudi bid on salah AND another on thaigo. You are right though, if we were sat on 111mil in ready money then hard balling southampton for 50 can only suggest we had 52 in from suadi to go with the funds to buy a cm and CB. Lets just do a quick sum up 10 for thiago (maybe) 40 for fabinho 12 for henderson 8 for phillips (being generous) call that 70mil. 100 for salah from nowhere. thats 170mil. 111 for caicedo 60 for szoboszlai 35 for macallister thats 206 mil. we might easily be looking at 50mil net spend again. somethings triggered us here to pivot from poor mouthing southampton to throwing cash at brighton. What that is we can only speculate. What we do however know is now the cat is out of the bag so we need to get that medical done and contract signed before Chelsea come back in.
Was expecting that. I fully expect this to implode and us crawl back to saints who say the fee is 60mil now. you are good for it.
Well if we add a DM (and rest of Midfield) that can actually run, that should give the defence some of the protection it was lacking last year
thats the plan but we will see. until its done i'm not putting a first 11 on paper with him in it. Theres more to come here. ego is involved with chelsea.
Too late, unless the player says he's only going to Chelsea (very possible). Brighton said they wanted the bids in last night and have REPORTEDLY signed a contract with Liverpool.
