Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Yeah, but it's the same in every industry... if your current employer is too small to be able to afford your actual market value, you invariably move on. Doesn't matter whether you're an accountant, engineer, or footballer, that's just how things are.

The question for Liverpool to answer is whether it's more important to keep their current wage structure intact, or make allowances for a generational talent. And it is a genuinely difficult question... but if they decide to not pay him what he could get at quite a few other clubs, it shouldn't come as any surprise to anyone that he would move to one of those clubs.

If it was all about the money, he'd just be going to PSG for double the wage he's asking from us, and that'd be the end of to though.

Senegal thru on penalties with Mo missing the first one. Maybe the club can use that in contract negotiations.

At least Mo gets a rest in December which is handy. Unless we've sold him! Right team went through. That Egypt team are crap.

Don't give him what he wants - he has clearly lost it, hasn't scored in weeks! 😏

It's not great but the Egyptians have been at that crap for years. Game last week was the same, if that was the second leg they'd be doing the same in a pen shootout.

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Correct but it is what it is. The outrage is a bit much given the exact same would have happened to other way round and it was the Egyptians who gave the Senegalese the idea. No effort was made to stop it last week and no effort was made to stop it last night.

Didn't see the match as I was at the Ireland match but this looks a shitshow

I'm talking about seeing calls for the match to be replayed and senegal to be punished which I saw a lot of yesterday. Firstly it's not the players fault, secondly Egypt have done it for years and I've seen Senegalese people saying them doing it in the first leg is the reason it was done in the return so its their own fans fault really. Interestingly the Egyptians haven't complained about the lasers cos they know the score with their own.

Not fair on either team but the fact a pen shoot out was required and could have been impacted by the lasers is neither here nor there cos it'd have been the same if the ties were reversed. I happen to think Mo's pen was just absolutely awful, didn't take his usual run up, and absolutely blammed it, no surprise he missed by miles.

The laser events of both legs were not fair on either set of players but you can blame CAF for allowing that.

I'd be far far more concerned about the pitch invasion after it and the reports coming out today of the violence and racism the Egyptians were subjected to beforehand.

I think they are, but worth pointing out the picture on the right is from 2013 and is Al-Ahli, rather than the national team

I've seen TV footage of it happening in the first leg. Egypt are definitely not an innocent party in this, just that it was a different level during the penalty shootout.

And the pitch invasion and throwing of stuff you put up above is inexcusable

This is a problem that needs to be sorted by CAF. Good luck with that though. One of the Vice-President's is also head of the Senegalese Football Association and he did not see anything, apparently.

"President of the Senegalese Federation, Augustin Senghor - who is also the vice-president of CAF - said he would await official reports on the incidents.

"From the stands, I didn't pay attention to the projectiles thrown," Senghor said. "About the lasers, if it happened this is a first in Senegal. But we know that in Cairo there were a lot of these and [they are used] often in specific countries. Senegal isn't used to that."

He added: "In my opinion, I didn't see during this game something that could be considered as chauvinism because the Senegalese are known to be very welcoming.""

Honestly if he didn't see the lasers he is blind. But typical of the world today, instead of fessing up it is about deflection and not accepting blame. This goes for both sides and all other countries as well.

Scary that he is in a position of power

The whole power struggle for votes in CAF is scary. The recent elections you had everyone elected to a position of power who is an ally of Infantino. You would have hoped he was going to be a force for change from Blatter, it turns out he is exactly the same power hungry leader of FIFA. Weird how the leaders of FIFA are all the same. Blatter learned everything from Havelange and it seems like Infantino is just more of the same.

Here is the issue the club face if they pay Salah that money it won't be to long before average players start knocking on the door saying they want more money or when the club tries to sign new players they will say they want money similar to Salah and that's when you start to end up falling into the wage trap like Man U

I completely stand by the clubs decision not to shatter the wage structure that could have a long term bad effect on the club.

As much as I shout give him what he wants when he scores a worldy the clubs just can't afford to shatter wage structures to compete with state backed or money making machines like Man City or Man U.

Liverpool can't afford to sign up a contract like that without putting the future of the club in jeopardy, you could end up in a Barcelona situation, if he needs that salary then he needs to go, simple as, it doesn't have to be nasty or played out in the media, his agent could do it discreetly for once.

i think, given that ronaldo and messi are not it anymore ,only mo,mbappe,lewa are really, haaland could but not there yet, the statement it would send out if mo stays is bigger than the one if he leaves because we cant afford him ..its lets the others know,we are top of the table ,you cannot take our players anymore..we look weak if mo leaves because of money,when its not messi or ronnie money we are talking about. if other players want elite player wages then they need to be in the balon dor running too,simple as.

Big difference between not being able to afford him, and not being held to ransom.

Gini left cos he wanted more money than the club felt was necessary, if Mo goes for the same reason then so be it.

That in itself is enough of a statement from the club.

Your not bigger than us, if you feel you are then off with you and thanks for the service, here's hoping you don't get splinters on the bench of a farmers league.

Maybe thats what they have done. We've only been leaked a basic pay. Generally all we know is that current wages are lower but when we win things overall salary is one of the highest.

Salah may be saying he no longer wants incentives, he wants it all upfront. Especially if others are offering upfront.

I think the club should hold firm, show their strength. Giving in could lead to a decade of having to over pay ageing footballers.

He should want to stay because of the great set up. He knows he has the best manager in Europe and the club will bring in the best players to keep them challenging. He has to decide between 40 million and a career of glory or 80 million and a likely flaccid end to his peak.