Just listening to Danny Mills saying that Carra has 'Liverpool-tinted spectacles' for saying that he believes Ford will stay, at least for this year. 'If Barca call you have to go', being the logic. But hang on, Carra wasn't denying the player would like to go, or even that Liverpool won't eventually sell him: the issue, that Mills seems oblivious to, is that Liverpool nowadays are cash rich enough to say no, as are most Prem clubs now. Indeed, PSG told them to **** off over Verrati.
Certainly, the days of being butt-****ed as we were over Luis are over. Mills reckons that ultimately the player has all the power - well up to a point, but as we now see with VVD and hopefully Ford, that doesn't mean, if a player 'becomes' unsettled (like Masch did acting under orders from Barca), that Barca can get them for cheap. As Comolli says, Prem clubs can simply say no to that now - have Barca (and FSG too) got that message?
So you're wrong Danny, at least about saying the player holds ALL the cards: the selling club in the Prem don't have to roll over and sell at knockdown prices anymore, and that is Barca's MO all over. Also means that if and when VVD moves, Soton can get £60m for him (probably not from us the way I see it now), or simply say no deal. Certailny, we can - do FSG have the balls?
well TBH i read about carragher and souness discussing coutinho and then redknapp discussing VVD.
Mills is an outsider so maybe carragher knows something we don't about the one more year. But i did feel on sky the pair of souness and carragher did sound quite pro LFC so i would be fine with anyone calling them on it.
Redknapp gave saints the opposite treatment and probably riled the **** out of quite a few saints fans.
I understand what you are saying about barca and all that as well... but real are the club in the ascendancy in Spain now, I think they overestimate their appeal currently. Not that LFc can hold a guy, just that a guy would be more inclined to go to real or psg it seems.
I'd also agree on VVD. I think arsenal or Chelsea will buy him close to deadline day.
Can you imagine the scenes if you ended up selling Coutinho and we nicked VVD? SOS would go into full meltdown, Henry would be getting turds in the mail within days lol.

