There were a few reports that Shalke offered Matip an improved deal, and there a couple of French clubs also after him.
That'd be par for course. It's down to what offers hes got on table. Shalke is an easy deal if he wants it but if we are in then the offer has to be worth way more to him than what they'd give. Simple exchange rate and prem wages
If the other club opts to terminate, do they have to pay the full loan fee still? Obviously, if its in our interest then we could negotiate.
there will be multiple clauses at play. there should be a minimum performance clause for both parties. The may be a review clause for january as well, we did recall ryan kent and he played at coventry. we could recall ibe last year as well. I think if villa have not used him at all, which they have not we should be able to recall on that basis alone. however if villa find him utter ****e and have to pay us for rest of year they might be choosing to say no have him back. The thing is there not really any firm news on it. todays gaurdian has this: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jan/06/tiago-illori-liverpool-aston-villa Liverpool have responded to their mounting injury problems in central defence by asking Aston Villa to cancel Tiago Ilori’s season-long loan at Villa Park. Ilori, the London-born Portugal Under-21 international, has not played a competitive game for Liverpool since signing for £7m from Sporting Lisbon in 2013. The 22-year-old is yet to feature for Villa either this season, despite their struggle at the bottom of the Premier League, but such is the shortage of fit centre-halves available to Jürgen Klopp that his parent club are exploring the possibility of an Anfield return. Liverpool were without the injured Martin Skrtel and Mamadou Sakho for Tuesday’s impressive Capital One Cup semi-final at Stoke City and ended the first leg with midfielder Lucas Leiva alongside Kolo Touré in central defence after Dejan Lovren suffered a hamstring strain. Philippe Coutinho also damaged his hamstring in the 1-0 win – the extent of his and Lovren’s injuries have not been confirmed – and Touré finished his first full game in almost a month struggling with cramp. Klopp’s side are in the midst of a demanding run of games with Friday’s FA Cup third-round tie at Exeter City followed by home league games against Arsenal and Manchester United. Ilori would represent a stop-gap option should Villa agree to cancel his loan. The former Villa manager Tim Sherwood agreed a £1m fee to sign Ilori on loan with a view to a permanent transfer this summer, expected to be around £6m, but his failure to break into Rémi Garde’s team may encourage the Midlands club to sever ties. Schalke’s Joël Matip is another centre-half of interest to Liverpool, and eligible to sign a pre-contract agreement given the Cameroon international’s deal expires at the end of this season, but the German club have been reluctant so far to consider the possibility of a permanent January exit.
Ok. First instruction is spend next 6 months in gym with weights. He's got to bulk up to make it here
you mistake deliberately falling over for being pushed off it. The pics of him leaning show a hairy armed ****er but the shirt they game him showns he's at best wirey. If you want to be compared to gerrard or matics as the articles on sky suggest you go get ready for the physical side of it here....
yup... i just want to give him the best chance. He can go home, tool about playing where the titles already won and turn up and get a shock or... well he could be told what to expect and do for 6 months and turn up at preseason looking like he's ready to make an impact.
