Republic of Ireland General Discussion Thread 2024 [use match threads for games]

I could give you four strong reasons and, given your post history, you’d just come back with, what I would consider, sh*t responses. So I’ll just say to a 90% degree of certainty he has another season to go at Liverpool.

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Forest’s initial bid was supposed to be £15m plus Matt Turner. Which is about £15.5m! So a long way to go to get to £25m. And while many sources say Liverpool’s asking price is £25m, that is not confirmed and I have seen £30m and £35m mentioned too. I can understand that as that’s what he’s worth to Liverpool, because it’s a certainty that, in addition to the cups, there will be some league and CL games where Liverpool will need a keeper to step in for Alisson.

Also, Caoimhin is guaranteed to start all Ireland games this year. Massive gap between him and the other available keepers, and when Bazuna gets fit again he won’t be playing for Southampton unfortunately

Yup, something flagged in his medical will keep him out short term said Jonathan Walters. Well what he technically said was Lawal was signed with a long term view so the medical issue didn't turn them off but could have been an issue.

Looks like he'll be staying at Liverpool unless a bigger bid comes in.

https://www.football365.com/news/liverpool-reject-nottingham-forest-offer-star-back-up-goalkeeper

forest:

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I'm not sure you understand how negotiations work. Waiting until 30 hours before the deadline and lowballing is a pretty common strategy. Nothing wrong with chancing their arm. Weird to call them morons.

Because they did the exact same thing last season waiting until the final day of the January transfer window before giving a low-ball offer. If I was Kelleher I'd even be wary of joining them. Their purist of him seems half arsed in that sure if we get him we get him and if not we'll play one of the other five or six keepers we've also signed recently.

good strategy when the club wants to sell, bad strategy when the clubs doesn’t want to sell

Good strategy when the club who are buying him are not pushed either way. Nobody wants Kelleher, submit a bid to see where Liverpools head are at.

Calling them morons lacks an understanding of the most basic negotiation strategies.

Paying 40k a week for Harry arter for 3 seasons, paying 20 million for bench fodder, lowballing a club that doesn’t want to sell with hours left in the transfer window that you already lowballed for the same player in the previous window shows a lack of understanding of the most basic negotiation strategies.

Making the owners 23 year old son the man who runs the club and makes these decisions. Their business acumen is legendary.

You seem to have a bee in you bonnet about Forest. I guess it's been a while since anyone cared about us.

Harry Arther was brought in a long time ago, yes on inflated wages, but was playing for Ireland at the time, but it was him who screwed Forest and is a pure mercenary.

Didn't play well fell out with everyone, and instead of taking multiple opportunities to be sold and go on loan , preferred to sit on he's arse , training with reserves/youth team, take his paycheck , and didn't care about his playing career.

But it shows the other side of how much players can influence if they want to stay or go.

Also not sure what's wrong with the owners son involved in Forest. The owner is over regularly also for most home games, he has olympiacos also, and it will be the son the inherits his business and football clubs in the end .

As for Kelleher, you said we should not leave it this late in the window, but also give out that we bid in January also.

Remember Forest don't need a GK urgently either at the moment.

20M defender, Omobamidele, he was bought for potential and to be integrated into team, he played last year and already this year. Do you complaint about all the big teams with riches in the bench? Chelsea for eg , man c. Alvarez etc.

just think their transfer business in the cases mentioned is incredibly stupid. This current self defeating pursuit of Kelleher is more facepalm material. A tutorial in how not to sign a player.

I don’t care about forest, I was happy to see them back in the Prem because they are a proper club. Their front 4 is potentially interesting.

An angle forest might be playing here is that they are registering their interest in the player ahead of making a move next summer at a price that will be lower…but I don’t know about that really.

They'll be too busy trying to decide do we boo United/Liverpool players or just Rice and Grealish.

Robbie did say that he it had always been a "boyhood dream" of his to participate in a chat about a complicated champions league draw, though.

Ferguson doesn't even make the bench today. You'd wonder is there something else going on. Bench midweek for cup game and not used but fit for the Ireland squad

let it go

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