Such a cynic, mito. Whilst I agree that many footballers are motivated purely by money, I'm sure that there are plenty more that see other factors as important in their career trajectories. It's not as though the difference between the offers of different clubs is life-changing to players who are already multi-millionaires. Game time, enjoying their football, and the possibility of trophies are amongst many things that can affect their decisions. Sadly, the latter is why I think we may have royally ****ed up with some below-par performances in the last few weeks. We've put ourselves under enormous pressure to win on Wednesday, because without any Europe next year I think we'll find it significantly more difficult to attract the players we need.
please log in to view this image Paul Progba was not good enough for Manchester United and he made it at another top club.
He was good enough but they ****ed him about too much, and as soon as a decent club was in for him he decided he wanted out. They wanted to keep him.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic: Paris St-Germain striker will leave in summer Zlatan Ibrahimovic will leave Paris St-Germain at the end of the season. The 34-year-old Sweden striker's contract with the French champions expires in the summer, and he has been linked with Manchester United, Los Angeles Galaxy and AC Milan. "I am very proud," he said. "I came like a king, I leave like a legend but I will be back." PSG said Ibrahimovic leaves as "the greatest striker and one of the very best players in the club's history". Ibrahimovic is the club's record goalscorer despite only joining the club in 2012, his 152 goals coming in 178 appearances. PSG have won Ligue 1 in every season Ibrahimovic has been at the club, wrapping up the title this season with two months to spare. "I loved every day I spent here," said Ibrahimovic, who has won league titles with six different clubs. "Paris St-Germain has become a star club in the world and I played a key role moving it forward. It is now the right time for me to take a different path." PSG host Nantes in Ligue 1 on Saturday before meeting Marseille in the French Cup final on 21 May. An agreement is in place for Ibrahimovic to return to the club at the end of his playing career, with PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi saying he is "looking forward to the prospect of working with him again". Ibrahimovic finished as top scorer in France in 2012-13 and 2013-14, and leads Lyon's Alexandre Lacazette by 15 goals this season. He has also been included in the Ligue 1 team of the year in all of his four seasons in France. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36283971
We will see who goes for him.. wise clubs will be in prior to Euros as belgium are one of those sides who might one day actually bother to fulfil some potential and he could be big part of it Hazard looks bothered to show himself off now. Luky, and bentekkers.. well... they might end up bench warming Orgig is racing to be fit... this guy could find himself front and centre and marseille should be thinking to hold look thats a fair set of points there. My view on their relative wealth would be that the one country that adopted bosman wholeheartedly was germany and really their players do think a contract is a contract and when its done i go where i want. however.... in general all the things you listed (trophies, lifestyle, playing) usually do get resolved withthe higher money. Ok so say west ham offer that marseille lad 100k per week.. you might say great, london lifestyle, will play every week... quids in 5mil in wages a year. Until suddenly city offer him 150k to sit on bench and not play... no london, easy medals maybe... etc.. If LFC offer 150k to gotze and cheslea offer 180k it won't matter if klopp plays nicer stuff. he'll go to chelsea I also do agree with alst part. last two weeks we've seriously messed up our european qualification and its now all or nothing. I do think there was an element of klopp reacting to earlier easy wins and seeing his team implode around january in run up to league cup final. the reality is we don't have the squad to pull off the resting he has done and it caught up with him at swansea. The reality was we simply don't have a balanced squad. We have 2 fit strikers which is great and if origi didn't get injured we'd have been far better off. but.. we only have 3 attackers for 3 slots behind that not 6 and ibe and ojo really show up. At CM we lost 2 layers and really couldn't replace them. At Lb its a disaster and at CB when sahko got done we ended up playing lucas there. Ok players take bangs and knocks and some let the side down and you have to cope but.... well... toure, caulker, stewart, lucas, ibe,... thats why we lost ground in league. If you look at what we have done in the league... and i know people hate me doing it..... look where we fell off the pace really. block 5 and 6... when? simple its Christmas and January right around all those cup games... we could not cope. that were we fell do far back we could not catch up.
no he told utd to get stuffed as he was impatient as they didn't fall all over him and he ran his contract out, walked away and immediately showed why utd were mad.
Ferguson ****ed up. He went crying to the Glazers for more money for himself when Rooney got a pay rise but when Pogba thought he deserved a better contract he called it a lack of respect.
yup... when a young players does that Ferguson was only ever going to do one thing... so he lost the player. Basically he should have brought him on quicker that season and maybe he'd have kept him. he left utd in 2012. ferguson claimed pgoba shafted the club well bofre but fergons gave the kid a couple games form january on so i reckon it was lack of chances early in season that made pogba's mind up but the contract issue was already done by then. I think ferguson was looking at city more than pgoba and was not having a great year cos they ****ed up europe as well.
Tbh, I'm not that annoyed about the earlier blocks. Klopp was still finding his feet at the time, and I'm sure he found the PL more difficult than he was expecting. By the end of February we'd started to hit some form and the new training regime was helping players rather than crocking them, and it's the avoidable slip-ups since then which get to me. Saints and Swans away, home draws against Newky and Chavs - 10 points dropped there in games where I think we were capable of doing better. Halve those dropped points and we're in pole position for the Europa spots. We were never outplayed in any of those games, we just took our eye off the ball.
I honestly think at that time there were less games to play and lads return from injury. Yes the entirely self inflicted **** always annoys me too. Add sunderland protest 2 points to that list too.
be on the look out for news on releases guys this has come out Daniel Cleary released.. confirmed by player himself it seems not yet by club. called it a crzy day so i am thinking we might see several kids and u21s going shortly.
If buts maybes... this has been a half season+ of knowledge gathering for Klopp. He knows who he can trust, who he can't, where we're weak, etc.. He'll address this over the next few Windows and hope to coach those that need a bit of help.. I hope we don't buy names for the sake of them being names.. I want players that Klopp believes will help us improve has a team. Be physically stronger and mentally, if we can cut out/reduce the number of silly mistakes we've made this season but 50%+ we'd be 10 points+ better off at the very least.
