17 Jun 2016 14:58:17
I remember a while a ago Liverpool were close to signing Clint Dempsey. What happened there.

{Ed002's Note - Liverpool were accused of tapping up Clint Dempsey which is why Mr Werner and Mr Ayre issued apologies to Fulham in order to have them withdraw their complaint to the FA. A transfer was not going to happen after that.}


1.) 17 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016 15:12:57
Thank Ed. Liverpool seem to make a habit of this.


2.) 17 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016 16:39:33
It's at a stage of embarrassment now. Can we honestly think we can do it and get away with it much longer?


3.) 17 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016 18:21:31
If you have been doing something and getting away with it for long enough it turns into the norm. Maybe a slap on the wrist is the kick up the hole we need.

{Ed001's Note - thing is we did do so, hence why I got pelters for saying he was set to sign when it didn't go through and he went to Spurs. He was all agreed to join us, but we had gone to him first instead of the club. Idiotic way to work.}


4.) 17 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016 18:24:06
Why not?

Plenty of employment headhunters out there in our ordinary lives, so why is filthy rich football any different?

What's the problem?

Blame the players if anyone, and not the club's.

I don't see how football is any different.

I don't see why Mr Joe Bloggs is any different when his star plumber is lured away for a better wage.

Do we see people moaning then?

No, because they get on with it instead of frigging whingeing!

{Ed001's Note - different employment contracts, they do not require registration to play elsewhere.}


5.) 17 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016 20:53:05
Just follow the rules of the game and organisations, it shouldn't be hard, especially after being warned. Why do they do it, to avoid the embarrassment of being rejected of the club say yes and they player no?


6.) 17 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016 22:13:59
I bet the majority of transfers have an element of tapping up its just sometimes it goes more public (like Zeilinski saying that he'd spoken to Klopp in the press) . There are so many ways to contact someone these days you can't tell me that a manager or other club rep never speaks to a player of another team to sound them out before approaching their club. It's totally naive to think that everyone plays by the rules.


7.) 18 Jun 2016
17 Jun 2016 23:09:44
As a recruiter, luring someone away from a job into another job is one thing. But convincing a company to dump a contract, even when it's a one person company, to take up my contract is a) exceptionally unprofessional and b) likely to end in lawsuits surrounding fair business practice.


8.) 18 Jun 2016
18 Jun 2016 02:41:09
I wonder, is this tapping-up behaviour, a long term Liverpool FC habit, or is this about FSG`s transfer policy? As I dimly recalls the FSG (in their early LFC days) said something like: "We won't overpay for any player".

Tapping up players, and also loosing out on preferred targets on small cash principle seems to have become far to common in this club.

It all smells mediocre to me. But then again, it could just be something wrong with my nose.

{Ed001's Note - it was going on long before FSG.}


9.) 18 Jun 2016
18 Jun 2016 08:11:24
Shame we don't tap up some decent player. I would have an issue with it then!


10.) 18 Jun 2016
18 Jun 2016 11:50:31
Ed, do other clubs tap up at all and we're just stupid enough to get caught or what? I just can't believe how easy it would happen, yet other clubs don't do it!

{Ed002's Note - Some clubs do bot the vast majority don't.}