29 Aug 2024 21:51:17
Just to point out we have bought two players which cost around 8 million for the two lads we have sold them for around 50 plus million we have bought a keeper who stood out in the euros for around 30 million and probable Italian International for 12 million out of the money we got for the two lads that went to Brentford.
Is that not good business by the suits at LFC?
29 Aug 2024 22:06:32
Yes, however we haven’t signed contract extensions for three key players, or addressed the two key areas that need improving in cb and dm/ cm…. Chiesa, I hope will be brilliant but judging by Ed’s sounds like a gamble…. of course I hope it proves a fruitful one though.
29 Aug 2024 22:38:04
It’s a 2/ 10 window so far. Need to get those contracts signed. Priority number 1, get Trent signed up.
29 Aug 2024 23:08:31
You don’t win football matches in the transfer market, you win them on the pitch.
I judge the team on 1) Results and a very very distant 2) entertainment
Finance ?♂️.
29 Aug 2024 23:51:40
Mark I posted weeks ago that Trent will be announced shortly after the window closes however the club believe vvd and salah will both walk next summer. Still believe this is the case.
30 Aug 2024 00:24:05
This is meant as no disrespect but the 3 that need contracts are old news.
This is Slots team now not klopps. Personally for me they can all go, on the basis that quality replacements are added.
30 Aug 2024 00:41:10
Contract renewals don’t need to happen in the transfer window surely?
30 Aug 2024 01:05:23
Why do we keep banging on about contracts during the transfer window? It’s not like they can’t sign contracts after the window shuts is it?
These are the same people that are calling Hughes out of his depth and criticising the lack of transfers.
Maybe, just maybe they have been concentrating on trying to bring players in whilst the window is open and will get the contracts sorted after?
Or maybe the players in question don’t want to sign new contracts?
30 Aug 2024 01:09:15
Agreed mark.
30 Aug 2024 04:15:50
Personally for me, I'll count the contract renewals separate from the transfer window since, as many have pointed out, contracts can be signed any time outside the window. So our transfers for me, is about a 5/ 10. Mamardashvili and Chiesa are good additions but, I feel we're still missing an LCB who can challenge and ultimately take over from VVD.
The contract renewals is a 0/ 10. No excuse for not settling it by now. Should have been done even before the Euros tbh and should have been the priority after it ended. Heck, Salah was around all pre-season so there's the Euros can't even be used as an excuse. It's poor from us to drag the contraction situation out this long.
30 Aug 2024 04:40:39
Who are the two for 8 million?
All window and previous window we were after central midfielder. We even said, if we don't find anyone better, we will not sign. Then end up taking a goal keeper for future.
If this isn't weird, what else?
Anyone sane can't understand this deal at all as Mamrma is no way better that Allison if "better" logic as in midfield is applied.
For some reason many here believe that it is the best thing whis absolutely is not.
Chiesa is an opportunistic signing with very little risk. Full marks there.
30 Aug 2024 05:41:29
We did nothing all window. Chased a kid who never ever wanted to leave Spain. Signed Chiesa to calm the fans or there would be a riot outside.
30 Aug 2024 07:06:35
Everything is linked. The contracts should have been to to bed many moths ago. As Ed02 says they should have been the priority. If the 3 had been signed on new contracts it would have been easier to sign payers.
Posters are seriously saying we they don’t think we have enough competent staff to work on transfers and contracts at the same time! Even with 6 months work. Shame on them.
30 Aug 2024 07:40:25
@UnderArmour …. “We did nothing …… signed Chiesa”, do you see where you went wrong there? Leaving aside the keeper we also signed. the facts in the real universe don’t agree with your make believe world.
30 Aug 2024 08:13:22
@WDW. You know where you went wrong pal? “We cannot sign a DM because it will block the development of Stefan Bajectic”.
30 Aug 2024 08:39:48
Walter the problem is though mate the it’s slits team now not Klopps I bet those 3 will still start 85% plus of PL and CL games this season when fit. So that would tell me they’re very much part of Slots team.
On the 3 contracts there’s always going to be speculation because the club hasn’t said anything.
All we’ve had is Vvd say he’s not been offered anything and then Mo’s statement from a couple of days ago.
If any of the 3 or all 3 are saying they don’t want to
Sign then why not announce it.
I get people will say it will upset the apple cart but it would upset it whenever it was announced.
I think it would be easier to take In August a couple of games in rather than in Jan-Apr 25 when we are full tilt in a title challenge.
I’m still extremely hopeful that all 3 players stay. Because let’s be honest all 3 are still starters
And are probably 3 of our best 5 players (in my opinion)
30 Aug 2024 08:47:07
I'm sorry but did you just pluck an argument out of thin air to make a non-existent point? Where was it ever mentioned on this thread that "we cannot sign a DM because it will block the development of Stefan Bajcetic? " Granted, that was a point that was raised in the past but we weren't even discussing Bajcetic on here and has nothing to do with the point WDW3 was raising, in that we didn't do nothing this transfer window since we signed both Mamardashvili and Chiesa.
30 Aug 2024 09:05:38
Through our last year @Dracred. The need of a top class holding midfielder is not new, We haven’t replaced Fabinho for two years now. Last year they shut us down with “Bajectic needing game”. I don’t know what is his excuse for this year.
{Ed001's Note - Slot doesn't play with one, give it a rest.}
30 Aug 2024 09:51:37
I’m convinced UndwrArmoud and others clamouring for a makelele type have not watched how we play under Slot.
The point around the contracts is that getting them sorted may have helped provide clarity for this transfer window. I. e., if we need to sign a left-sided CB in this window then quite rightly that player would probably want to know the future of VVD before committing to coming.
I don’t think it’s the disaster people are making it out to be tho. And the other strange thing is the idea that we should just sell them if they don’t want to extend. Like they’re a piece of meat lol
I went in with. 2-3 window perspective to rebuild the team. So for me, we have time.
30 Aug 2024 09:50:19
Ed01, but we both know they won't. It's as if these people don't give a hoot what the manager wants/ needs. As long he signs the type of player they want, it's all good. And if he doesn't, everything goes to crap in a hand basket.
Now, I would ask them what qualifications they have to dictate to a successful/ winning manager what players or types of players he should sign and use. I wouldn't be holding my breathe for a response, sadly.