Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Just came here to post this, he has to get sorted out, he wants to remain with us, we should be throwing the kitchen sink at him now and give him whatever he wants....

You're absolutely right, but the rumours that he's looking at around 350k a week make that doable. That's 90m over five years. A decent transfer fee and normal wages make a new player similar overall (I appreciate that's ignoring that we could land a big transfer fee if he were to go)

I'm convinced he'll stay. I think the negotiations are around the structure of his pay, rather than the total. The club will want the base rate as low as possible as that's the headline figure and what other players will try to use as a benchmark. I suspect they'd happily offer him 200k a week with bonuses that effectively double it. Fingers crossed, anyway

Similar to the way Gini talked about his contact negotiations but as much as I loved Gini... Salah is so much more valuable to the team and they themselves totally recognize that.

Sign him up, bronze statue as well.

Salah and his agent could easily have told the club they want £750k a week and are not prepared to negotiate on that.

Or £1m a week.

What he wants and what an FSG owned LFC Vs a human rights abusing oil rich country owned club are willing to pay you are different things.

The choice for Salah in a binary situation like that is take the additional money knowing your legacy will be forever tainted or stay true to your personal and professional beliefs and (hopefully) cement your place as a true legend in one of Europe's elite clubs.

At some point along the financial security curve the value of more money diminishes Vs subjective values such as winning trophies, being considered a club legend at one of the greatest clubs in the world and/or one of the greatest players in the X League ever etc etc

PSG are talking to his agent, we all know that, so is Real, and City. But expecting us to match their so called offers is impossible. Is Salah the type to throw it all away for money, as we know once you leave Liverpool you're a nobody, you're a Coutinho, a Gini, a Can , a Sakho, a Torres, a Owen, you may truly believe you're on to bigger and better things, but history shows you'll just end up a nobody.

Suarez and Alonso are only two I can think of that actually did go on to better things.

He’s won the league in 5 of the 7 years since he left, and 4 Copa del reys, along with the champions league, club world cup, super cup etc… hard to see us having done anything close to that, even with him.

Not to mention that his whole life had been leading to Barcelona, where his wife’s family all lived. His journey using football to follow her after she left Uruguay when they were teenagers is one of the few pretty romantic football stories.

Anyway, most likely with Suarez there we’d never have assembled the Mane, Salah, Bobby trio, so really things have worked out alright.

There's some talk that Salah already earns that amount with his current base salary, combined with incentives, bonuses and image rights etc.

I guess he just wants to turn those potential bonuses and incentives into guaranteed salary now instead.

I think there's a much greater chance of Mo staying than Gini. I think after 6 months of negotiations he decided he was leaving but wouldn't publicly admit it.

I think if I was Mo, money spent elsewhere would be as important as spent on him. I'd want assurances the club is moving forward on the pitch.

The club have a reputation of not spending over the last few transfer windows. Last season every man and his dog knew we needed a CB but the club scrimped and almost missed out on champions league. In the summer we lost our most reliable midfielder, an absolute machine and a man for the big game. He was never replaced either and it could cost the club dearly later on.

Mo believes he's the best player in the world, not many would argue with him but all the money in the world won't make up for him playing in a stagnant team that is just qualifying for the champions league each season due to lack of transfer funds.

day before the big game and nervous . I know liverpool the better team by a distance BUT..

Def need to play henderson on the right in front of trent as that is where they will attack most.

slight worry that we have our top back 4 back playing together and we are conseeding goals that we didnt do prior to the injuries.

Liverpool could give Salah what he wants, rather than let the clock run down on his contract, but put a 220m pound release clause in there. And if PSG want to trigger it fair enough.

In 14 short months both Mane and Salah can sign else where, clock is ticking.

For all the complaining about not signing Kabak after his loan, his performances at Norwich so far seem to confirm that he has no place in the upper regions of this league. Looks out of his depth, albeit in a really bad side.

Kabak and Phillips did an amazing job to help the club secure a champions league spot.

Now both are at their level one at a lower league club and the other 5th choice at a the club and highly unlikely to play first team football again for Liverpool.

No club not even a midtable or lower even seemed remotely interested in signing Phillips during the summer which is quiet sad really considered what he did in the second half of last season.

I think £350k a week base wage is fair that's £18m a year and then put an incentive of £5m in bonuses for goals, assists and trophies and maybe even a £1m for winning the Ballon d'Or.

I dunno. Robinson might have less crosses into the box but has a higher percentage of key passes and the same amount of assist from that chart. Unless I’m reading it wrong?

How to control the rush by everyone else is exactly the problem. Klopp wants a well balanced dressing room, not one full of cliques and splinters. If you give Salah £400k a week how do you explain to the next best player in the squad that they aren't worth 90% of Salah's wages and so on?

By all means offer the man what the club can afford as he's clearly worth it but don't make a stupid offer which ends up making him happy but disrupting the rest of the squad.

If I or you were good enough to be in the LFC team and working our socks off pressing and making chances for Salah but getting 50% of Salah's wages how do you think that would play out long term?

Barcelona are a good example of getting hooked on an entire team being reliant on one player and when that cycle comes to an end not only are you in debt it'll take years to pay off but you're left with a massively imbalanced squad.

Salah is a smart guy but so are FSG. If Salah wants money only an oil state owned football club can pay then that's his choice, it shouldn't be a bad reflection on FSG.

FWIW I don't think Salah can be arsed going to PSG as they've a mickey mouse league and both Real Madrid and Barcelona are struggling financially so I do think he'll sign a new deal with LFC and the compromise might be that it's a 5 year deal which for a (soon to be) 30 year old is almost unheard of but as we all know Mo is mega fit and really looks after himself so if anyone can follow the Ronaldo model of moving form the wing into a CF role and still being one of the best in the business at 36 it'll be Mo.

He signed a new contract earlier this year 🤔 so I'd imagine you'll be waiting a few more years before you hear any news https://www.spotrac.com/epl/liverpool-fc/sadio-mane-22847/

Chelsea's 4th goal is exactly the kind of goal for Liverpool gets disallowed tomorrow. Innoculous challenge by a Chelsea player in the lead up, Norwich player screams and goes to ground, ref waves play-on and Chelsea score. Taylor 100% blows up for that if it's a Liverpool counter attack.

Yes I'm wearing my conspiracy hat. 😄

I might be massively misguided, but I don't think he's the worst? The amount of times Anthony Taylor - from Manchester and from a family of all Man Utd supporters - has refereed the LFC/Utd games is amazing and really shouldn't be allowed.

Your link says he signed his contract 3 years ago and is out of contract in ~18 months.

As for wages, I’m always slow to trust sportrac, they’re very demonstrably wrong fairly often.

Eh he's a vital cog in Machine Salah, as are so many other.s Every senior player is on way way more than Mane. He had a average season last season, but that's looking like a blip, he has been great this season, 5 league goals in 8. And him and Salah look like a team again, wasn't so last season, they're back on same page now.