The club has said he's staying, his agent has said he's staying, but I wouldn't rely on anything tbh. As with everything to do with football, it's safest to just wait and see what happens. I'd definitely hold out for more if we did let him go though - it's not about his legs or his waning ability, it's all about image for the Saudis. The money's small change to them, the PR is invaluable.
Pretty much what I was alluding to Only you said it posher than me would say articulated it better but that’s 5 syllables I can only manage 2 lol
get ready folks. just stand back. the Todd is NOT happy with the small squad he has nor the Arabs getting the attention. another 400mil splurge is about to happen between now and when the deadline slams shut
Albert Sambi Lokonga. has been offered to Liverpool by Arsenal. The young midfielder is surplus to requirement in Arsenal.
so this thread should really be the post transfer gossip thread? Would certainly save a lot of time and energy
More important to make a stand imo and tell them to **** off. Who cares about the money when we have a week left to rush some bullshit replacement through? Season has started and we’re not interested.
Liverpool could reportedly offer Joel Matip as part of a player-plus-cash transfer for Rennes star Arthur Theate before the end of the window. https://www.sportskeeda.com/footbal...-joel-matip-part-swap-deal-sign-23-year-old-d
Seems Chelsea and United were the trend setters if the above is to be believed (factoring in inflation). Heskey is like 30th in list for us
this is random and subjective inflation being applied to players who were all bought for big fees at the time. the first and most major issues with that is Le saux 1997 for 5mil 102/5 = 20.4X If they are applying compounding this is about 12.5% inflation of fees year on year. however if you apply the same rate to SWP then from 2005 to now should be 175mil. in other words they are either just guessing or applying a non linear inflation rate for fees. the big problem is both Shevchenko and SWP were signed in 2005 and bother for about 30mil. So there's no way to tally the vast difference between thier "today fees" Again rio ferdinand demonstrated this as he was 2002 and 29mil but is vastly more than SWP but below Shevchenko
It is no longer how much a manager can spend, but how many trophies he can win.Football is now a big business and investors want immediate returns.
Figures do seem made up and the correlation isn't quite there. Sky sports though so it suits to mock Chelsea who were the big spenders of the early 00s and seem to be hell bent on doing it again. Maybe the figures they use for inflation work the same way for ffp thresholds
they claimed it was form the average fee per year and then applied and verified however if two players bough in the same year for the same fee are so radically off then it makes little sense. Also kepa was bought in 2018 for 71.6mil are they seriously telling us the inflation from 2018 to 2023 (hyper inflationary fees) is only 23% or are they telling us goal keeper sonly went up that much?
according to that paragon of accuracy, Transfermarkt. Chelsea have 42 senior players plus 6 on loan. room for 5 more at least then. I could make that 40 say by wrting of players not actively signed by the todd but still. its 40 players. note that pochettino has stated he wants to bring in 5 youths for tonights league cup game as its "important" to the club and the academy works so hard. Its just a bizarre club now. IMO the only means now to restrict clubs is a hard squad cap for registrations but that could seriously affect youth development at other clubs.
Usually they use the world transfer record at the times to calculate the inflation If someone moved for £5m when the record was £15m, that's 33%. If the world record now was £200m, 33% of that is £66m. Ie, the £5m becomes £66m.
