I'd imagine it is to make more money and increase the club's value as a whole. If Levy starts shelling out 300k a week for players then I certainly won't stop him. I just don't see it happening. New page, new conversation.
I'll make a bet with you right now that if he goes to Liverpool he will have a better season than Mane next year. He was the best winger in Serie A last season outside of Mertens and I wouldn't even considering selling an elite 24 year old winger for less than $50mil, but Roma needs to sell someone to meet FFP and they have stated they plan to copy Juve and keep the defense intact. Monchi's track record on attacking players is really good, but I would still sell Rudgier before Salah. He isnt the first and he wont be the last attacker to be misused by Mourinho.
I don't disagree there, but that doesn't also mean that spending 35 on him is a good move. And how are you determining who does better between him and Mane? Because assuming if they both have the ~ same appearances I'll take the proven PL winger.
Better than mane? I can't see that. I agree with your point that mourinho failing to use a player properly doesn't write him off completely but mane was a top 10 player in the league last year. I'm not sure there is one team in the league that he wouldn't start as the RF or RW depending on formation.
Semedo from Sporting is apparently going to Villareal. Newcastle going to go after Lejeune from Eibar
Bild reporting £140k/week wages. Looks like even if Arsenal don't spend big money on transfers they are still moving their wage structure to closer mirror Chelsea, city and united
I imagine most of the top 4-6 clubs in the league can't get away with lowballing wages. People know the what kinda of money the clubs have.
Villarreal? The fuck? I'm not sure there are 10 RB/RWB options I would rather have than semedo. Figured he would move to a big club. I know Barca was rumored to have him as their backup to bellerin.
Kolasinac was a free transfer. the player is always going to have leverage for higher wages when there is no fee.
That's true. And unlike some players he held all the cards. I still don't understand how juve and atletico get away with paying their players much lower salaries while premier league clubs always seem to cave into agent demands
Yea I just saw that as well. I hate following all this crap, I need to help myself out and just wait for the official pictures.
You are talking about the Benfica Semedo. This is the Sporting one. I know it's confusing but they're not the Semedo player
If you're a big club, especially a big EPL one, you should never get stuck up on price. 25, 35, 45, 55, who cares, you have the money - just go and get your guy.
And again, my point is that I feel they can get other players that are to Salah's quality for not 35mil
Also, why are Liverpool buying more wingers/attacking mids? They need a real left back, and a consistent (healthy) striker.
Klopp wants to move Coutinho into the midfield. In doing so, we need a right sided attacker because Klopp wants to play 4-3-3. If Salah happens, Mane will go back to his best position on the LW and Salah would take RW.
Yeah we need all that and a CB but a pacey winger is a need as well. Plus I think Klopp likes Firmino up front because of his work rate.
Always amazed me how solid BBC is internationally and then how it's just a fucking cliff from there. There's literally no middle ground, BBC then national enquirer shit.
I don't know the the full list of who's available and at what price. But I just feel like throwing 35mil(or maybe a little more) at someone lie Costa makes more sense to me
Have you seen Salah play at all or are you pro Muslim ban? Spoiler I joke. But seriously I think he's a steal in this market.
I hate salah because he refused to shake hands with the Israel national team because he is an anti-Semitic piece of shit.
Lot of people are in that area not saying it's right. Did you see the Forever Pure documentary on Netflix yet? Fucking insane.
I mean that's one guy who they may not be able to sign and likely would be more expensive in fee and wages. We can agree to disagree but I think Salah is a solid signing for them and one of the better realistic options available.
Sounds like Chelsea is making a play for tolisso from Lyon. Not sure if this is to force Monaco/agent to make concessions regarding bakayako, a sign that they have moved on from bakayako or they want to sign both but it's being floated a good bit
I think he's a solid player. But I just don't think he's worth the price Liverpool are going to play. If I'm wrong and he kills it, I'll be the first to admit. I just don't see it.
Calling someone a name in the middle of a game and refusing to shake hands with the other team because they are jewish are completely different levels of fucked up but John terry has clearly had his issues and I'm not going to defend his actions. If John Terry refused to shake Ferdinand's hand post-game because he was black I would feel the same as salah.
that's fine, and not that I'm defending Salah in any way, but just so the issue is correctly stated, it happened against Maccabi Tel Aviv while he was playing for Basel, I believe he was changing his boots while the handshake line took place, and he had a lot of pressure on him from Egyptians back home to not even travel to the match. in the return leg he did fist-bump. again, I'm not defending him, just adding some context to "Salah refused to shake hands because he's an anti-Semitic piece of shit".
He put his boots on the side of the pitch specifically to avoid shaking hands and the fist bump the second time around to me was even worse because it was just an incredible lack of respect even after the criticism after the first leg. If Liverpool plays an Israeli team in the champions league is he still going to create controversy and refuse to shake Zionist hands?
I wonder if they make a move for Bertrand traore if they lose PEA. Bosz has had him on loan at vitesse and Ajax
Lukaku to Chelsea sounding like pretty close to completion. No idea on actual numbers. Will be interesting to see how the always calm and collected Diego costa reacts
Would be ideal but he came out after the season and said he won't move to China and is only playing for Chelsea or atletico next season which means only Chelsea. Hopefully the atletico transfer ban and the Chinese throwing money at the problem can get that deal across cause the numbers rumored is an overlay for a 28 year old headcase
At least they seem to have learned their lesson and most of the rumored sales this year of younger players include buyback clauses. I think the top teams will start doing more 2 year loans or sales with buyback clauses of promising youngsters moving forward. For every player like Harry Kane who fought through some shitty loan spells to make it there are many who flame out with the constant shuffling