Liverpool Rumours Archive August 13 2020

13 Aug 2020 16:47:50
Bild reporting We've finally bid for Thiago. Anything in this or the usual rubbish?

{Ed002's Note - I don't know if there has been an offer but hopefully the club are suitably humbled after what has been said about the behaviour of Klopp again.}

13 Aug 2020 17:00:52
What happened with klopp? He talking to the player without permission?

{Ed002's Note - You must know that. Liverpool had made no approach to his club.}

13 Aug 2020 17:04:39
Not a day trip to Blackpool again?

13 Aug 2020 17:08:12
Yea it seems common knowledge. By doing this is klopp trying to force Liverpool’s hand into making a bid or unsettle the player. Or both?

13 Aug 2020 17:37:10
I don't understand the thinking behind the tapping up. It makes other teams not want to do business with us, creates a bad reputation for the club, and what benefits have we actually gained by the cheating that we wouldn't have gotten if we'd just done things the right way in the first place? Instead, it seems like we've paid heavily both financially and relationship-wise. I like Klopp as a manager but something desperately needs to be done by the club to stop this behaviour.

13 Aug 2020 17:37:48
Tapping up aside, he's a smashing player. has been for years. Would be a good signing in my eyes, could still be pulling strings in 4 or 5 years.

13 Aug 2020 17:42:28
Same old same klopp ringing players I’m sure they all do it but he’s persistent.

13 Aug 2020 17:49:04
Just wish we went about things the right way by contacting the club first and then the player. It reeks tbh. He is a quality player of course but doing the right thing wouldn’t go a miss. Ed’s doesn’t no of a bid however so I’m
Still sceltical on this one.

13 Aug 2020 18:06:42
Zpec - I am not saying it is right and I really wish Klopp stopped doing it. But we are PL, European and world champions we wouldn't have won any of those without the original tapping up, but enough is enough now.

{Ed001's Note - that is not true. We could have done the same signings the right way.}

13 Aug 2020 18:17:58
Ed1 do you see Thiago happening mate?

{Ed001's Note - it certainly looks likely now.}

13 Aug 2020 18:21:09
Inside scoop Reds - don’t believe everything you hear.

13 Aug 2020 18:21:24
Not sure VVD would be here now without the OTT pursuit. Without VVD I doubt we would be in this position. Klopp should not be doing it now regardless.

Did Fergie used to do this?

{Ed001's Note - Virgil would have been here, there was no need to do that to get him. All it did was cost us money to pay off Saints.

I don't see the relevance to what Fergie did, I would rather we were better than him rather than stooping to his level.}

13 Aug 2020 18:39:54
Wish Klopp would talk to the players after their club have accepted a bid.

13 Aug 2020 18:51:10
I'm all for Klopp doing it. Love the win at all cost mentality.

Its dog eat dog out there and klopp has bigger teeth!

13 Aug 2020 19:22:11
I also hope it doesn’t mean Gini isn’t staying if Thiago arrives.

13 Aug 2020 19:32:02
Really just about every transfer klopp has personally phoned him. by now there would be huge ramifications fakir. werner. thiago the list goes on especially after virgil.

13 Aug 2020 20:01:14
hahaha, im with u Bobby's Teeth! as long as we get the player I don't care how klopp goes about business, it would only bother me if we didn't go on to get the player! come on the reds!

13 Aug 2020 20:05:25
I'm not sure I believe all of it. I hope we get thiago, baller.

13 Aug 2020 20:07:55
. actually just thinking about it. it wouldn't even bother me if we didn't get the player. its just a game lol!

13 Aug 2020 20:17:34
Bow down to the Plummer.

13 Aug 2020 20:37:35
Exactly Rio - almost unbelievable isn’t it!

13 Aug 2020 17:21:18
What has been said about klopp then? I haven't heard anything. Please enlighten us?

{Ed002's Note - It is not worth opening up the same thing yet again.}

13 Aug 2020 17:38:00
What has Klopp done? Is it possible we don’t want him and it’s his people trying to drum up interest?

13 Aug 2020 17:57:27
Do most top clubs not do this ed?

{Ed002's Note - No.}

13 Aug 2020 19:04:10
Surely we are in danger of getting another ticking off if it’s been done in such a manner again.

{Ed002's Note - There have been two matters raised as I explained. Clubs are sick of it. How do you think RBL felt after months of tapping up and no approach to them and no money to make an offer.}

13 Aug 2020 19:09:08
Sky just reported that Liverpool’s stance on Thiago has not changed, we are not in for him?

13 Aug 2020 20:53:57
These comments about not caring are pathetic, immature and an embarrassment.

I’m sure you’ll give a toss if we ever get a transfer ban as a result of Klopp’s actions.

13 Aug 2020 21:11:04
I will take klopp for better or for worse shaq matey;0)

13 Aug 2020 21:06:31
Serious question Ed002. If Klopp was to call a player, but just general chat, ie the weather, sexi ladies, beer, holidays would that be classed as tapping up of they player later joined our club?

{Ed002's Note - You are making him sound like a complete flake as well as a cheat.}

13 Aug 2020 21:13:07
The only place I've seen anything about us tapping up, ( apart from the vvd fiasco) is on here. So the question is why are we not been reported and why isn't it in the main stream media, they love rubbish like this? Are clubs just letting us walk all over them or is it hard to prove?

{Ed002's Note - You somehow missed the most extreme case of ruining the potential career of a 12 year old that got Liverpool a ban as well? Wow. One of the most extreme most despicable things in football. And Fulham and the trail of slime? Easily forgotten.”

13 Aug 2020 21:30:16
Wait until it starts happening to us and then we'll see about all the gleeful joy and celebrations.

13 Aug 2020 22:27:56
He shouldn't do it and doesn't need to.
You should ask permission and go through the proper channels, it's our business reputation that gets affected.
As aray said we were fuming when Barcelona publically went after couts so why should it be ok if we do it?

13 Aug 2020 22:31:33
ArAy it has happened to us. Remember Coutinho? Barca’s conduct was disgraceful as was Pip’s because they unsettled him. It happens.
Werner admitted that Lampard called him every day to persuade him to sign for them.
It’s a competitive business and people will do what they can to be successful. If you can’t handle that then find another sport.
I’m not saying I agree with it but it’s part of the game at all levels. I was tapped up as a 13 year old! I’d already signed for a club and another manager from a rival turned up at my house! 😂.

13 Aug 2020 22:50:25
This was all said about Timo and we never even made a bid for him. Was it not Frank in the phone every day to him to convince him to sign for Chelsea before they bid for him. All this talk about Klopp tapping him up seems a bit paper talk to me. If what Ed’s says is right and we have no money till we sell can’t see us buying him without a couple of players leaving first.

14 Aug 2020 02:09:59
Haha. Klopp has won a Champions League and a Premier League in no small part because of the recruitment he has over seen.

So what if he broke a few egg shells. You live by the sword, you die by it too. Coutinho, Sterling, Suarez all left the club in a similar way. Klopp is playing the game and winning.

No elite personnel apply for a job, they are wooed. To think otherwise is naive.

Some of the Eds feel personally aggrieved by all this. Not sure why or what they're angle is but in my mind all's fair in love and war.

14 Aug 2020 06:45:28
Lamps (Chelsea) got permission to speak with Werner whereas we speak with the player, hope he angles for a move and get a better deal.

We are starting to get a reputation for it and we will end up getting punished for it if we are not careful.

Just because it happened to us doesn’t make it right either, we all want our club to be the best it needs to act that way too.

14 Aug 2020 09:02:53
Great work by klopp, by any means necessary.

{Ed001's Note - even the man who said that changed his mind and realised that it was not the way to act, and he was talking about something far more important than a game. It is about morals, sad to say you clearly have known.}

13 Aug 2020 22:41:53
Not forgetting that at all ed02. I was referring to klopp mainly, he wasn't involved in either of them debacles. I'm just surprised nothing more is made of it when he does it.

14 Aug 2020 17:10:58
Maybe this is overdone by now. Truly, sn't tapping up a player really commonplace? Especially when you are one of the top teams in the world, players must constantly be "saying" they have interest in the club, causing the papers to go full swing on the matter.

What I am confused about is why LFC get particular bad coverage on this matter. This happens all the time, and is especially prevalent when you are a top club that EVERY PLAYER would want to make a move for. What separates Klopp from any other top manager that has players desiring a move? Has their fellow countrymen talking the manager and club up?

{Ed002's Note - It is illegal and not common place. Liverpool are the worst offenders by a light year - why do you want to keep dragging this out.}

16 Aug 2020 14:01:39
Not saying its right. But it most definitely happens. Let's not be nieve. Klopp is wrong and is upsetting other clubs. But it happens all the time. Ferguson did it regularly. Getting player's on international duty to talk to rival players Neville admitted. Gerrard himself was asked to do it for Willian. Ashley Cole was pictured in a hotel with Mourinho before his move to Chelsea. Pogba and Lakaku were at it all summer before Lakaku moved to utd.

Even filmed it! Not saying its right. As it most certainly isn't. But even at lower league professionals it happens non stop. I was tapped up on at least 6,7 occasions often by more than one rival manager or player's. As were a few of my better teammates. Im now a manager and have been aware of clubs very recently talking to my player's after we had won the double.

13 Aug 2020 10:59:13
The curious case of Karius. Ed's just hoping we are not left in a situation where we price Karius out of a move and another loan beckons. Is anyone serious in purchasing him from us?

{Ed002's Note - Loris Karius (G) Liverpool find him back on the doorstep and will need to find a solution - perhaps a reduced price and an early exit - CSKA and Hertha Berlin offer opportunities - does not wish to return to Turkey although there is interest from there. With Boeckx getting toward the end of his career and Roef's departure this summer already agreed Anderlecht would like him to challenge first choice Van Crombrugge. Wolves needed cover, but Karius would not be first choice there as they have added a player - and regular playing time is what he will be after.}

13 Aug 2020 12:21:23
Thanks for the reply. I have lost superlatives to describe your knowledge Ed2.

13 Aug 2020 13:35:34
ed002 when you say reduced price have we asked for a price for him. I can't see him being worth to much but I do know we ask for stupid money for players sometimes Clyne was a great example wanted to much money then we ended up getting stuck with him for the rest of his contract so paying his high wages and lost what transfer fee we could have got.

{Ed002's Note - Yes, Liverpool gave Anderlecht a price which they did not see value in and the picked up cover from elsewhere. No it would depend on price and departures - so much harder.}