Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2016/2017

Colemania

Wheety wrote: »

Just got in ad only tickets in the upper tier near the back or premium South Stand for €80.

Disaster or a website (Three's that is). I'm sure Ticketmaster could handle the numbers if Three had their sh8t together.

They're always the same. I spent 50 minutes trying to get into the 3 plus website because all I needed was that link that i posted above. Ticketmaster website running absolutely fine. I wonder did any lower stand tickets get released at all on the 3 presale

Sappy404

Whether you consider ?120k a low-ball offer or not, if other clubs are offering 40-50% more for a player who you've been leaking your interest in for months, you're going to look like a chump. Yes, players sometimes don't take the most lucrative offer, but you can't base your transfer strategy on exceptions to the rule.

Boom_Bap

If City did sign VVD, would it be worth trying to lure Kompany away from them.
I don't think he's a starter there any more, has had injury problems but I think he's past them. One of the best defenders I've seen. Scores goals from set pieces.

This is just wild speculation from me!

Harry Palmr

Kompany? Kompany for Sturridge? FFS

Benzino

Colemania wrote: »

http://www.ticketmaster.ie/liverpool-fc-v-athletic-club-dublin-08-05-2017/event/180052A289E71617?artistid=942041&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid=741&did=3dubli

Link there for the 3 presale tickets. Eventually got in but all tickets are up at the very back of the upper stand so didn't get any

I found some in the premium section, block 318 (I didn't take them). You need to set the price to 80 euro to find them though. Not sure it's worth that price though for a friendly.

noodler

Surprised to read on the guardian this morning that we have a higher wage bill than City.

Boom_Bap

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Kompany? Kompany for Sturridge? FFS

Where did Sturridge come into this? I'm talking about a central defender , and one that would improve our backline.

Kimbot

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Where did Sturridge come into this? I'm talking about a central defender , and one that would improve our backline.

I think that was tongue in cheek refering to both of them as "Kompany" for one and other in the treatment room :P

Boom_Bap

jonnycivic wrote: »

I think that was tongue in cheek refering to both of them as "Kompany" for one and other in the treatment room :P

Ah right....that went woooooosh over my head. :pac:

Harry Palmr

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Where did Sturridge come into this? I'm talking about a central defender , and one that would improve our backline.

jonnycivic wrote: »

I think that was tongue in cheek refering to both of them as "Kompany" for one and other in the treatment room :P

When a joke needs explaining....:( :pac:

Boom_Bap

I was reading it as some sort of trade for Sturridge ha!

rob316

Move on sure, Johnathan Tah anyone? £50m to spend would go along way there.

A strong, tough tackling CB with an excellent reading of the game.

Sappy404

rob316 wrote: »

Move on sure, Johnathan Tah anyone? £50m to spend would go along way there.

A strong, tough tackling CB with an excellent reading of the game.

He ticks all the moneyball boxes and could be as good as VVD in a couple of years, but we don't really do 'Plan B' when we miss out on signings, do we? We were after Gurreiro last summer and settled on Milner at LB when he went to Dortmund. We were after Zielinski and Dahoud too, but we kept Lucas and Stewart instead. Then there was Alex Texeira in January 2016.

DrumSteve

Anyone needs a 3 presale code just drop me a PM

Talisman

ERG89 wrote: »

For me 120k is a fair opening offer.

For context, £120k is the reported weekly salary of Kompany and Otamendi at Man City. Stones is reported to be on £100k a week.

PhiloCypher

Im probably being overly negative given the transfer window hasn't opened but I've got this sinking feeling that whatever attractiveness Klopp brings to us in terms of Transfers has been wholly negated by how far we've fallen in recent years and the competition we have. I'm sure we're "monitoring" and are genuinely in for the big names that have bandied about VVD, Keita, Bendy ,but when it's all said and done we'll probably end up signing players that would have signed for Rodgers given CL and a similar payscale.

Now that being said , should we have a creditable run in the CL and qualify for it again next year, that could all change, suddenly we wouldn't look that much of a risk to the top tier players we really want , and then the Klopp factor would really come into play.

eyerer

Even if true hopefully Klopp picks better players from the ones that are attainable. Rogers and the committee didn't do too well.

Kimbot

Whatever happened to the links with Dahoud, isnt he available alot cheaper this summer?

Agent Coulson

Looks like City have just spent €50m on Lucas Hernandez so I wonder does that end there interest in VVD.

Agent Coulson

jonnycivic wrote: »

Whatever happened to the links with Dahoud, isnt he available alot cheaper this summer?

Joining BVB.

PhiloCypher

PhiloCypher wrote: »

Im probably being overly negative given the transfer window hasn't opened but I've got this sinking feeling that whatever attractiveness Klopp brings to us in terms of Transfers has been wholly negated by how far we've fallen in recent years and the competition we have. I'm sure we're "monitoring" and are genuinely in for the big names that have bandied about VVD, Keita, Bendy ,but when it's all said and done we'll probably end up signing players that would have signed for Rodgers given CL and a similar payscale.

Now that being said , should we have a creditable run in the CL and qualify for it again next year, that could all change, suddenly we wouldn't look that much of a risk to the top tier players we really want , and then the Klopp factor would really come into play.

It's possibly more simple than that.

If City, United or Chelsea are after the same player as us then we lose out.

Same is probably true of Arsenal and possibly even Spurs.

It's almost like a draft system now. They all have their pick and then we choose from what's left over.

Talisman

jonnycivic wrote: »

Whatever happened to the links with Dahoud, isnt he available alot cheaper this summer?

Dahoud has signed a deal with Dortmund.

gimli2112

Genuinely wonder what motivates players into signing. I mean if you have offers off £100K and £200K a week I get that there's a big difference but either way you're still on 100 frigging grand a week. Just wonder how much of a factor it is.
I imagine a lot of them are led by family, friends and agents to maximise the wage side of things

DrumSteve

City spending money like its going out of style

Vicxas

Odd that Madrid are selling him, unless the transfer embargo is being dropped.

Agent Coulson

Vicxas wrote: »

Odd that Madrid are selling him, unless the transfer embargo is being dropped.

Nothing they can do if clubs meet the buyout clauses.

Talisman

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Looks like City have just spent €50m on Lucas Hernandez so I wonder does that end there interest in VVD.

Atletico must be confident of the transfer ban not happening then.

NukaCola

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Nothing they can do if clubs meet the buyout clauses.

Tell that to Arsenal.....

Kimbot

Talisman wrote: »

Atletico must be confident of the transfer ban not happening then.

Actually isnt the case up in court again today?

Talisman

jonnycivic wrote: »

Actually isnt the case up in court again today?

News reports saying the ban has been upheld.

http://www.espnfc.com/atletico-madrid/story/3137327/atletico-madrid-transfer-ban-upheld-by-cas-until-january-2018

Potential Underachiever

mosstin wrote: »

I'm guessing that was taken from Google Translate but, to tell the truth, it read exactly like one of your own posts.

Well played! You could give out a few banter lessons!

Talisman

Sappy404 wrote: »

He ticks all the moneyball boxes and could be as good as VVD in a couple of years, but we don't really do 'Plan B' when we miss out on signings, do we?

Blame Klopp - he has said he won't sign a player for the sake of just signing a player for a position, he only wants to sign the right player.

mcgragger

gimli2112 wrote: »

Genuinely wonder what motivates players into signing. I mean if you have offers off £100K and £200K a week I get that there's a big difference but either way you're still on 100 frigging grand a week. Just wonder how much of a factor it is.
I imagine a lot of them are led by family, friends and agents to maximise the wage side of things

Shrewd players will know that their earning potential is limited - so a 4/5 year deal at 200k a week is double your money on 100k. No brainer.

Agents take a percentage of fee and also a commission based on rate of salary so the higher the better.
I would say its a massive factor.

Also if you are getting that kind of offer its going to be a good club so again no brainer.

Then again if you look at the latest economic value of clubs - United/Real/Barca all around 3 billion - all of a sudden fees of 50/60 million dont look like so much--- other than to us mere mortals

Agent Coulson

utd have dropped all interest in Griezmann time to jump in now :P:pac:

ERG89

Agent Coulson wrote: »

utd have dropped all interest in Griezmann time to jump in now :P:pac:

Wonder which one dropped their interest first.

corwill

gimli2112 wrote: »

Genuinely wonder what motivates players into signing. I mean if you have offers off £100K and £200K a week I get that there's a big difference but either way you're still on 100 frigging grand a week. Just wonder how much of a factor it is.
I imagine a lot of them are led by family, friends and agents to maximise the wage side of things

If there's one thing most people like more than lots of money, it's even yet more money. That's far from a startling insight.

hefferboi

Potential Underachiever wrote: »

Well played! You could give out a few banter lessons!

You could do with banter lessons.

MisterAnarchy

Umaro wrote: »

I would expect that they sell out pretty quickly yes. The Utd one looks to have sold out and that is midweek and more expensive.

Ticketmaster pretend sold out for the UTD match.
They have just released a huge amount of extra seats for the Utd game ,and good seats too ,much better than the crap they were foisting upon people last week in the presale and general sale.
Typical Ticketmaster ,sell the crap first.
They will no doubt do the same with the Liverpool match .

Potential Underachiever

hefferboi wrote: »

You could do with banter lessons.

I've had some, the main one is about originality, not flogging the same joke to death, you're welcome

Gbear

A few rumours saying we're going to sign Salah for £40m+.

Would've saved everyone a lot of hassle and money if he'd come to us in the first place rather than going to Chelsea to sit on the bench.

x43r0

BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Rome, Salah bomb: Liverpool offers 40 million, the agent in England
News that destabilizes Romanesque fans: the Egyptian one step away from adulthood?

Editing Fantagazzetta | 31/05/2017 23:29 1'

Liverpool's hands on Mohamed Salah : lightning strike for Romanians fans the action of the Reds, who put on the plate for the Egyptian striker 40 million euros.

It would be a serious offensive to the English club, so that the agent of the Roma player would be in England to talk about the proposal. Serious proposal also taken into account by Rome. Although there are no sources that report as agent, Ramy Abbas, in London for other reasons, Tam tam market has started, stronger than ever. Salah a step from adulthood to Rome?

40 million bid for Salad rumour out of Italy

Ouch - This type of signing won't make us too popular around the league


After all, you don't win friends with Salah :pac:


Already got my coat on....

Sappy404

jonnycivic wrote: »

Whatever happened to the links with Dahoud, isnt he available alot cheaper this summer?

It's been all but confirmed that he's off to Dortmund.

Sappy404

x43r0 wrote: »

Ouch - This type of signing won't make us too popular around the league


After all, you don't win friends with Salah :pac:


Already got my coat on....

When the rest of the league Caesar Salah, they'll be wondering how they lettuce get away with signing him. He's a real rocket.

yourdeadwright

Just seen City look like There front runners for VVD, if they get him and Walker there back four and Keeper will cost close to 250 million that is mental,
If you look at it Ederson  (never capped) , Mendy (unknow) Walker( good) Stones ( awful ) VVD ( looks great ) ,the money for them 5 is just crazy ,Pep is going to fail
People o  here go mad if we don't spend but id rather not if that's the back 5 you get for close to 250 million

Agent Coulson

In the crazy transfer market we are in now ?40m for Salah who has done very well in Italy becoming close to a 1 in 2 wing-forward isn't the worst use of money for the type of player we need.

Buford T. Justice XIX

NukaCola wrote: »

Tell that to Arsenal.....

+£1:cool:





:pac:

mcgragger

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Ticketmaster pretend sold out for the UTD match.
They have just released a huge amount of extra seats for the Utd game ,and good seats too ,much better than the crap they were foisting upon people last week in the presale and general sale.
Typical Ticketmaster ,sell the crap first.
They will no doubt do the same with the Liverpool match .

You can be sure they will.

Check toutless.ie a couple of weeks before the match and I would say you will get one.

Gbear

Gbear wrote: »

A few rumours saying we're going to sign Salah for £40m+.

Would've saved everyone a lot of hassle and money if he'd come to us in the first place rather than going to Chelsea to sit on the bench.

Chelsea used their wealth as a blocker.

Harry Palmr

Gbear wrote: »

A few rumours saying we're going to sign Salah for ?40m+.

Would've saved everyone a lot of hassle and money if he'd come to us in the first place rather than going to Chelsea to sit on the bench.

You mean it would cost Liverpool far less to buy him if Ayre hadn't low-balled Basel three and a half years ago.

Talisman

Harry Palmr wrote: »

You mean it would cost Liverpool far less to buy him if Ayre hadn't low-balled Basel three and a half years ago.

Chelsea paid what Liverpool were offering for the player. Salah received a phone call from Mourinho after which the player decided he wanted to move to Chelsea.