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I think you are right. The clubs are very similar in trying to achieve their goals. Clearly VvD was/is still a key target for us and we went hard for him. But Barca need that star acquisition to soften the blow of Neymar's departure. They are trying to make us accept a fee that would be acceptable for them as the whole world knows that they have £200m in their pockets.

We just don't have to make it easy for them. If we are going to let him go, then we must get them to pay...handsomely (£130m+) and get them to share some of that windfall.

This, or simply don't sell at all. Barca have to learn, just as we are doing with Soton, that Prem clubs don't have to do anything any more - it's not 2014.
 
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At £100m you should want to sell. He's a talented player who turns up 1 game in 3.

Just your (blue-tinted) opinion. Want to and have to are two different things. This isn't Luis in 2014 - if Klopp doesn't want to sell we don't have to. Only fly in that ointment is what FSG want to do....
 
yeah the everton signings are a very mixed bag. some punts, some good improvements.

For me to be happy.

1. prove me wrong. just prove you have not been lying to us. (not klopp par se but seriously i can't believe this stuff)

2. If we sell take all cash no add ons and no installments. I think this might be whats holding up the coutinho deal personally. Just get a good deal.

3. I think LFC need the spine of the team strengthened. I think we are too weak as CB to go into this season and I think we are weak at CM also. We tried and have so far failed. to have targeted then signed nobody is i think many would agree tantamount to giving up on the season before its started. Its a difficult market fine... klopp says theres not many better players out there....ok.... but we know where we blew up last year. we know where the huge risks in the injuries are..

4. finally the real thing i would like is anfield road end news :) I would really like to hear we build this as it would at least give us a 61k stadium or so (if we are to beleive rumours ) and be some sort of outcome from this bubble of cash we are seeing.

If we HAVE to sell Ford, and when we SHOULD get £130m, then I fully agree with this and have said so in previous posts. I'd like to see a seated tier on top of the Kop now, and safe-standing, as it's been agreed, where the seats are now. Pointless taking all that money and then blowing it all on a £30m player in the last hours of the window. And a CB too (although we have the money set aside for that). Ben Gibson is no VVD, but he's a damn sight better than Lovren -as is SAKHO!!!!
 
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Depends how you play it really.

Coutinho will probably be worth more next year (depending if Qatar are planning on spreading the wealth) but Barca may not necessarily have that money in their pocket anymore.

Likewise if you are like MITO you may think theres a giant bubble and 100m now might be worth 200m next year in a depression so you may be better off long term taking the money.

Selling him this year though will mean you're jeopardizing this year
 
I'm not too bothered really though it's tiresome and frankly getting embarrassing for both clubs now imo.

It's just the double standards from some that get me and the mentally that we should just do what they want cos they're 'liverpool la, 5 times la'

And you have evidence of this, of course?
 
Depends how you play it really.

Coutinho will probably be worth more next year (depending if Qatar are planning on spreading the wealth) but Barca may not necessarily have that money in their pocket anymore.

Likewise if you are like MITO you may think theres a giant bubble and 100m now might be worth 200m next year in a depression so you may be better off long term taking the money.

Selling him this year though will mean you're jeopardizing this year
I don't care what he's worth personally. We should not be selling if we want to build a team to challenge for honours.
 
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Well I've exaggerated yeah but you yourself have whinged about Barcas behaviour while implying you haven't acted the same.


Go back through the post feller and see what I have said on this topic (without once adding five times, I may add) , but I understand why you've used the word 'implied' so that you can offer an opinion over fact what I have said. I have consistantly berated VVD, for instance, for going on strike and not putting a TR in, and also stated the new reality that Prem teams nowadays don't HAVE to sell to anyone. The only difference that I fully defend what I have said is that Barca think they can use their media forces to get the price knocked down - whatever we have done in the past (and God knows why we went on to do it for Lovren) we have ALWAYS paid you top dollar (and more) for your players.

But I challenged one of your fellow posters off your board who came on here a couple of days ago claiming that we 'haggled' the price down on all our sales from Soton with this challenge - go on, when did that happen?

He hasn't come back yet.
 
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