26 Jan 2016 00:55:26
Sky sports reporting were some way off the texeira deal, do u expect us to get it done in time ed's? Thanks in advance!
{Ed001's Note - there is no way of knowing, a price has been set, which we are some way off, but even if we do agree to pay it, there is no guarantee the owner will not just increase it like he did twice to Chelsea.}
26 Jan 2016 06:19:41
This deal has got a week to go and it has got shades of konoplyanka all over it . The lad has said he wants to come to Liverpool but I just don't think that will be enough . We won't offer the 35 mill and if we do as ed1 has said I suspect the goalposts would simply be moved to prevent the deal happening . I hope I'm wrong.
26 Jan 2016 06:49:31
Surely ed why are we taking this much time of the window of its that doubtfull mate shouldn't we of moved onto someone else by now?
{Ed001's Note - I agree, but I am not involved in making the decisions. It seems we like to waste time on forlorn hopes just because the player is keen.}
26 Jan 2016 07:16:14
And even if we do get a deal done we will have over paid and stretched our purse strings yet again.
Could it be a case of as its potentially Klopps first big signing the club want to try there upmost to get it done?
26 Jan 2016 07:19:55
As someome mentioned above, it stinks of Konoplyanka. You would think Ayre had learnt from that and would move on to someone else.
Ayre's inability to get a deal over the line or inability to move on has cost us in numerous windows. At what point do the club consider changing him?
26 Jan 2016 07:24:31
Maybe it's not that often a top player is that keen, so that's why all eggs etc.
If it were me, the (apparent) £28m, I'd try £18m on Ter Stegan and see if Leicester want to double their outlay on Kante at £8m, leaving £2m on a loan fee for a striker, maybe Remy.
26 Jan 2016 07:47:25
£18m on a good but fairly unproven keeper, £8m for a key squad member of a team fighting for the title with no need to see and £2m loan fee for a fairly average striker who can't get a game in a team desperate for forwards. Awesome.
In regards to Tex, I quite like like the idea of going hard for the player you want, as long as you don't then switch to a second or third choice last minute and are willing to promote from within or work with what you have. What I hate is spending so long on outside options and then panic buying when they don't come off.
26 Jan 2016 07:57:06
Myself I don't think we will be held to ransom for more more I hope we tell them to do one. The whole world of football is just so greedy it really p***** me off.
26 Jan 2016 07:47:25
£18m on a good but fairly unproven keeper, £8m for a key squad member of a team fighting for the title with no need to see and £2m loan fee for a fairly average striker who can't get a game in a team desperate for forwards. Awesome.
In regards to Tex, I quite like like the idea of going hard for the player you want, as long as you don't then switch to a second or third choice last minute and are willing to promote from within or work with what you have. What I hate is spending so long on outside options and then panic buying when they don't come off.
26 Jan 2016 07:57:06
Myself I don't think we will be held to ransom for more more I hope we tell them to do one. The whole world of football is just so greedy it really p***** me off.
26 Jan 2016 07:47:25
£18m on a good but fairly unproven keeper, £8m for a key squad member of a team fighting for the title with no need to see and £2m loan fee for a fairly average striker who can't get a game in a team desperate for forwards. Awesome.
In regards to Tex, I quite like like the idea of going hard for the player you want, as long as you don't then switch to a second or third choice last minute and are willing to promote from within or work with what you have. What I hate is spending so long on outside options and then panic buying when they don't come off.
26 Jan 2016 07:57:06
Myself I don't think we will be held to ransom for more more I hope we tell them to do one. The whole world of football is just so greedy it really p***** me off.
26 Jan 2016 07:47:25
£18m on a good but fairly unproven keeper, £8m for a key squad member of a team fighting for the title with no need to see and £2m loan fee for a fairly average striker who can't get a game in a team desperate for forwards. Awesome.
In regards to Tex, I quite like like the idea of going hard for the player you want, as long as you don't then switch to a second or third choice last minute and are willing to promote from within or work with what you have. What I hate is spending so long on outside options and then panic buying when they don't come off.
26 Jan 2016 07:57:06
Myself I don't think we will be held to ransom for more more I hope we tell them to do one. The whole world of football is just so greedy it really p***** me off.
26 Jan 2016 07:47:25
£18m on a good but fairly unproven keeper, £8m for a key squad member of a team fighting for the title with no need to see and £2m loan fee for a fairly average striker who can't get a game in a team desperate for forwards. Awesome.
In regards to Tex, I quite like like the idea of going hard for the player you want, as long as you don't then switch to a second or third choice last minute and are willing to promote from within or work with what you have. What I hate is spending so long on outside options and then panic buying when they don't come off.
26 Jan 2016 07:57:06
Myself I don't think we will be held to ransom for more more I hope we tell them to do one. The whole world of football is just so greedy it really p***** me off.
26 Jan 2016 08:06:26
Doesn't this approach simply introduce three more large salaries that tend to dwarf the transfer fee paid over time, increasing the debt?
26 Jan 2016 11:30:19
Of course it does NeilP but a lot of people just seem to be blissfully ignorant to it.
26 Jan 2016 11:42:07
Is anyone else fairly happy to just wait until summer to get any transfers done?
We slowly but surely are having our squad return to fitness. obviously it would be great to get teixera, BUT at that price for someone unproven outside the ukranian league, i would prefer to wait until the end of the season.
Ed's do you think we will see more of the portuguese teixera as in both exeter games he didn't give a bad account of himself!
{Ed001's Note - I expect to see a bit more of him in cup games at least, he is on the bench in case we get a decent lead in a match to get him on and give him a run out but we haven't done that yet.}
26 Jan 2016 12:42:40
Ter Stegen has played and won champions league. Unproven? Think not.
{Ed023's Note - Djimi "slidetackles" Traore?}