A very truthful statement there, trusting bosses is perilous, as Isak is discovering.
Might be a long time before a player will trust Toon again.
A likely guess is Isak was the next priority, so we made a record bid and watched the ineptitude at Newcastle.
We have also had a little to and fro on Guehi.
I suspect work has gone on behind the scenes all along the way, with other players besides the two mentioned, only as fans we don’t know about it.
Again, judge it at the end of the window.
We have had a good-very good window, spending a lot on some cracking players, loads of talent, brought the age down, and recouped a lot of money too, which is very important.
If we sign 2-3 more players it will be the best window I;ve ever seen as a Liverpool fan of over 40 years.
And any promises made by Stavely should be honoured by the current establishment. It’s not Isak’s fault that Stavely left the job.
From what it seems like, It looks like there was a commitment made by the previous management to Isak to increase salary etc etc. Newcastle can’t simply come out and say there’s been no commitment made to that regard by an employee of the club. Especially when staveley isn’t in Newcastle anymore. That’s an idiotic thing to do.
Maybe we should sign Amanda, too.
They are over a barrel. No way we should pay £130m. £95m or we walk. For they have an issue. No time for sentiment.
The big issue is that a verbal or gentleman’s agreement isn’t worth anything.
Unless Alexander has something in writing, it’s worth toffee.
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I really think it’d be best for us to look elsewhere, for him to go abroad, and for Newcastle to get in a replacement asap.
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The issue the Toon have is that no club from abroad have shown an interest (we know Isak would say no to a Saudi club), and they are really struggling with signing any replacements. The chaos behind the scenes is the key driver, not that the toon journos report that.
Maybe we should sing about it. They’d report it then.
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There aren’t really many clubs that can afford Isak and if they don’t need him and he doesn’t want Saudi, then there is a very limited market.
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Yeah, but if the price goes down to 100m it might change. Only a couple of clubs who can afford that, but they’d be able to get a decent replacement for that kind of money.
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Generally speaking verbal agreements can absolutely be legally binding. They are just a lot trickier to prove and therefore enforce.
I’ll let @Kopstar address that point.
Not for football contracts. They’re akin to property purchases in that regard. Any variations etc must be in writing.
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Besides Diaz, the other two Nunez and Jota (due to injury) did not play too many minutes last season except in the cups.
To replace them with Ekitike and Wirtz seems like an upgrade so far (we have not weakened the midfield so Wirtz could play an attacking position easily if required with the midfield of last season).
Rio is being eased in. Chiesa might be used… I don’t see a problem except that we might be giving chances to people who didn’t get it last year.
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Whilst we’ve improved the XI (I doubt they’d be anyone silly enough to disagree), the squad is still 2 players, if not 3, light. Not including Woodman because he isn’t going to make the squad in any game, we have a 21 man senior squad (& that’s including Kostas who we’re looking to move on).
Another CB and either a LW/CF are musts and the fact we’re targeting 2 of the very best in the Prem and willing to spend the best part of £150m to bring them in, would reinforce that argument.
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Yes Alvarez
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Was he the MC player that went (back?) to Spain? If so, I was never convinced of him but I never saw the required number of games…
In the end, the point is that there is one (and maybe two) that could hit those numbers in the next couple of years. We are after one of them.
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You go and watch his last games for. Atletico he was devastating and cannot stop scoring and we have macallister to help us get him.
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I doubt AM would be keen to sell at this stage.
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