I don't mind so much if he's playing the "WB" role. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather he didn't play, especially since Ibe and Marko have proved to be so effective there but he does provide another option on the right or left. Just don't put him in the defensive line!
I think we should all take a lesson from last summer and just leave Southampton alone. Players play better at smaller clubs. Fact. They would all bomb with us, when we shell out a combined £80million.
Not entirely true though is it. And if if we don't but from clubs smaller than us, we have to buy from the same level or bigger. Can we attract players from clubs bigger than us like Barca, Madrid, Bayern etc? Certainly not... then you you look at teams in similar level to us like Dortmund, Roma, Atletico etc, and we'd have to offer them something they don't currently have. At the moment that wouldn't be CL football so would have to be wages and we all know we don't splash the cash on wagers... in the place our club is, until we become an established CL team again then we have to shop at clubs lower than us and hope to pick up their best / most suitable players.
We buy the players that are surplus to requirements at these clubs. Sakho was surplus at PSG, Coutinho had stagnated at Inter etc. Shaqiri went for £11m. There are plenty of good value deals out there - particularly in Germany. And I agree - we need to buy players who can handle pressure and expectations. Look at Can - despite being only 20, he's played CL and was a starter for Leverkusen. That experience is far greater than what the likes of Lambert or Lallana have experienced (WC aside) who are older and have played more games.
Pretty sure it was about £20m which for them is huge especially since he's Young and hardly played for Madrid
Euro's not pounds. 5 goals in Seire A in 19 games. Not great is it, especially when you play for the only team in the league that's any good.
Thought it would belong here and open for your guys thoughts. MLS players about to strike due to salary minimum wage and salary cap along with wanting some sort of free agency. You can read the article but MLS holds all the cards, who is bought and sold etc, they have the money, they have control. All those teams fall under MLS and all MLS does have a say on who is bought and sold. Many times a player has been BLOCKED, Dempsey was one, Donovan another, where the league openly blocked their move abroad....... they were too important to the league. Dempsey eventually left but after years of fighting it. http://www.espnfc.com/major-league-...acking-down-from-cba-positions-on-free-agency Couple this with a ridiculous MLS draft system that is futile and every year new teams in the league get basically a free pick of players outside of the designated players to allow conformity is bullshit as well. It allows for any point teams can rise to the top and fall as well but basically its mediocre and that is a big reason why Klinsmann wants the US players as far the **** away from MLS as possible...... and yet they come back and make the big bucks ( 7 mil a year for the likes of Bradley, Altidore, Dempsey, etc) while these same players make 30x more than the average players ( about 45-100k). When I was coming into this realm, I had a chance to make more money in the USL ( second division) than an MLS team! Back then (2007-2009) the minimum wage was 17k, 17k for a ****ing professional footballer. Can't live like that and it was something like 10k for the second division. Big reason I just stopped and went into coaching, I had to make a living! Glad the players are finally standing up for this though. Big step for the future of the American game.
thye must have some contractual clause that when they sign they are then tied to mls. Surely the blocking of moves is the one that is illegal fedreally. mind you if its mid contract i suppose thats different. Is it at the end of a contract too?
Liverpool transfer target Danny Ings rejects Real Sociedad as his heart is set on Anfield 19:00, 24 February 2015 By John Cross Burnley will make more money if free-agent striker joins Reds as they would have to pay around £6m in compensation while he'd only cost Spaniards £300,000 Desperate Dan: Ings has decided he'll be a Liverpool player next season Danny Ings has turned down a move to Real Sociedad - to join Liverpool this summer. Burnley striker Ings flew to Spain this month as David Moyes' La Liga club have targeted the 22-year-old, who is out of contract this summer. But Sociedad know they have missed out on Ings, who has now set his heart on a move to Anfield at the end of the season. Tottenham, Manchester City and - surprisingly - Chelsea have all been in for the Burnley hot-shot. But Ings has made up his mind to move to Liverpool, who courted him in January when Burnley insisted he stay put. Danny Ings 2014/15 league stats 23 Games 9 Goals 4 Assists While Ings will have his pick of the interested clubs, him moving to Liverpool will be better for Burnley than a switch to Spain. Ings is under 24 and the Clarets would only get around £300,000 in a compensation package if he joined Sociedad. Liverpool would have to pay a bigger compensation fee, of around £6million, as he would be staying in this country. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-transfer-target-danny-ings-5222935? The Ings saga looks set to rumble on.
