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Go halves with you?

 

£32.50 each. Deal

 

Do it now, gives them plenty of time then (just can't join until the window)

 

See what happens with Elliott in Jan. article on him on bbc, didn’t realise just how little he had played there. 96 mins of football - loan really hasn’t worked out for him.

Villa have obligation to buy for £35m if plays 10 games so wonder if will be some agreement to come back to Liverpool in January.

Could be an option to play RW when Salah is away as our wingers are no longer speedy down the wing beat a man type and could play that more inside role with Frimpong/bradley overlapping.

 

Never rated him and don't want him back, he's hardly the future

 

Sorry, I am so used to talking in the millions I forget others would see it as sixty five pounds. I can only apologise.

 

As I understand it we can't take him back, unless Villa pay not to buy him and cut the loan short.

Only at the end of the season will he come back to us if he doesn't play enough.

For all intents and purposes we've already sold him.

 

Hence the ‘I wonder if some agreement to come back in Jan’.

Villa won’t want to keep him until the summer and just not play him if don’t want to keep him.
he won’t want to stay at Villa not playing.
and lfc won’t want him sitting their not playing if Villa aren’t going to buy him as value just drops.

 

And he can't play for anyone else because he's already played for both Liverpool and Villa this year. He could play at a club whose season is a different time frame to ours, such as MLS.

 

Depending on which sources you read, there either is or isn't a recall clause in the loan deal. If there is a recall, the problem for Liverpool then becomes do they end the loan and have him back playing in roughly Salah's position, which will mean they forego the £35m (I think) possible transfer fee.

 

That money isn't coming anyway, Villa aren't going to activate the payment clause

 

tbh the game i saw him in he was awful but he also looked like he would rather be anywhere else but there and it looks like the feelings mutual .

I did say at the time that Villa seemed a strange choice from both player and Villa pov

 

He doesn't have the pace to take players on the way Mo used to (neither does Mo any more), so we have to bring in someone else to fulfil that role.
I suppose that was one of the things Frimpong brought, but he's permanently injured.

 

I agree he's never had pace but he does know where the goal is and what it's there for. He is still our player so there's no cost involved in getting him back to maybe do a job during Salah's absence, bearing in mind he already knows the team and would be a minimal risk.

I also agree that, longer term, we need to be looking for Salah's successor.

 

I think there's a definite danger in trying to replace like for like to replicate what we had.

Signing another salah is going to be very difficult, signing another Bobby will be impossible.

We must evolve

 

Bobby was skilful and unselfish - he just wanted to make goals happen and didn't care if it was he or someone else that got them, and yes that's a rare beast.
It shouldn't be too difficult to find another speedy winger, and that is an asset to have - though one as good as Mo was at his peak won't be so easy.

 

An "Exclusive" from the Football Insider, (a completely unreliable source) - Steven Gerrard's name has been "discussed" to be interim manager until the end of the season.

Load of hogwash but interested to know what are people's thoughts should it actually come to that. (It won't imo).