That’s down to them not offering enough cash, £130m would help with that so buying two decent forwards isn’t the sort of problem they can’t solve in the remaining time.
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I have a feeling that this season will be the last for Howe… Might just be me, but I’ve never thought he had the ‘X’ factor to become a successful winning manager… Everything, progress included, seems to move in slow motion around him.
At one time he could be regarded as an up and coming manager with real potential… but it has never materialised though.
For all we know, he could be part of the reason Isac wants away.
If they do get a huge chunk of money in transfer kitty, will be interesting to see if the board trust Howe with the best way to spend it… or wait until new manager arrives next summer.!
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The parallels with Van Dijk are spooky. As with that transfer it could easily go close to the wire this transfer window only to then actually go through in January.
Guehi ought to arrive though and we’ll then see where we are in 3 months’ time.
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I think they are totally different. We haven’t had Werner getting pissed and running his mouth in front of all the other P/L chairmen there-by pissing off Guehis’ club forcing them to lodge a complaint about illegally tapping up their player and making Henry issue a public appology.
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Do you mean Isak’s club?
I mean, weren’t Newcastle threatening legal action earlier in the summer? 
But yes, apart from Werner running his mouth and causing us to back off the situations are remarkably similar.
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Were they, I must of missed that. I just remember when we contacted them with the 110M offer and they shut it down with a hard no, but don’t remember any talk about legal action
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Wasn’t that just someone on social media claiming how personally hurt they were.
I assume less hurt than those journalists or gay people they execute.
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Also, you started talking about Virgil and Guehi, so I blame you for confussing me
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Might as well merge the threads at this point.
Craig “Cope” never explains what would happen if Liverpool met their fee? Also it somewhat feels they are reliant on that money to get any deal done.
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The intent was for Newcastle to play Ekitike alongside Isak. They weren’t in it for him to be a replacement to isak.
I don’t believe that for a second. There’s no chance they’re doing a net spend of £175m plus this summer in their PSR position.
I think they’ve been after that big money number 9 all summer because they knew Isak wanted to leave. They’ve kept missing targets and he’s now pissed because they won’t let him go until they have their new shiny toy. He’s getting worried it now might not happen because of their incompetence.
I also reckon there’s some annoyance from Newcastle that we took one of their targets which is why they’re super pissed at us
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Agreed rab. If they were really keen to see what it would be like to be on the pitch with Hugo and Alex playing together, then they can find out at Anfield in February.
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In retrospect it was a pretty bold move and we had to understand that it would make the issue more thorny.
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They can be pissed all they like but Liverpool had all their targets sorted well before they even heard about them and notice how they contact our targets before we move for them. They never got pissed when all the other top teams gazumped them several times. Ekitike was already parked for a while and the player had already made up his mind.
They’d have spent weeks low balling only for someone else to come in.
Don’t let them kid anyone but some knob like Hope.
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This all reminds me of the fiasco when Suarez left and we missed out on target after target until we ended up with Lamert and Balotelli.
Everyone just assumed that we’d sign Sancho, but it turned out Wenger had been in his ear for 18 months. We probably learned a lesson about what it takes to recruit at that level.
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You typo’d Sanchez into Sancho. Thankfully we were never in for Sancho.
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Both Lambert and Lallana were signed early in the window as well. Technically before the Suarez deal was closed. Our issue that summer was seemingly less that we kept missing a succession of targets, but more that we kept spending money in other areas and seemingly didnt turn to signing a replacement until relatively late. Even if we think there was a big problem in being naive in putting too much hope in Alexis for the level of groundwork we’d done and then getting caught cold when he chose Arsenal, there was still a good 7 weeks from that deal being finalized and the end of the window.
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Sancho ?
But assuming you meant Sanchez , He would have been perfect for us.
I still think we should table a 105 million pound offer tomorrow morning just to troll them.
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