The guy looks like Danny Mills.
How long before they announce the signings. Photo ops cant take this long.
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Let’s ignore Haaland’s wages and just look at what City are paying out of the box (according to Marca):
€75m fee
€10m in add-ons
€30m commission payment to Alf-Inge
€50m commission payment to Haaland’s agency
Which is equivalent to about £133m on his fee. Now we don’t know what our club are paying Nunez’s agent so maybe its not a like for like comparison, but even ignoring the wage difference, Haaland’s signing is a completely different ballgame to Nunez.
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It hopefully is less of a medical and more of liverpool doing their announcement videos
So no unveiling today, and technically not until July 1 when Portuguese transfer window opens. But#LFC anticipate a formal signing announcement tomorrow.
OH MY GOD!
Portuguese transfer window is irrelevant. FFS.
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Well I doubt it really matters about the formal transfer window when they’ve effectively announced it themselves this morning.
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Let’s also not ignore the 100m they flunked on Grealish last season, compared to the two we got for 20m less.
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Hmmm if City met Haaland’s release clause and didn’t negotiate with Dortmund, why is there €10m in addons? Would that even be something written into Haaland’s contract with Dortmund? And most reports are now saying €40m combined agency and father fees and not the €80m quoted above.
Looking at the more conservative figures of a straight €75m and €40 commission (for father and agency) its still €115m which is above and beyond Nunez…
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Those involved have gone on the record to explain what happened so I dont get that its really up for debate. The bizareness of the move and how badly it turned out makes us so wiling to believe it was a panic buy, but it really was part of the strategy.
Comolli came in a couple of months before the window opened. The club acquired Suarez largely outside the sphere of influence of this new DoF. When the Torres stuff started happening Comoli pushed to make it happen so he could push up his pursuit of Caroll 1 window earlier.
That’s backwards…if you could get the information you needed from medical records to make the medical a formality we wouldnt need medicals (ignoring the question of whether the Fekir thing was REALLY down to issues found during the medical).
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It already HAS formed…coupled with mockery of Klopp’s “I’d never pay 100 million for a player.”
Yes, we are being called hypocrites despite not actually paying 100 million for him, not in absolute terms and especially not in inflation adjusted terms
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Carroll was definitely not our first choice that January, as well as clearly recalling our bids for Llorente and another striker (and after a post above now recall that being Aguero as well), one of the players involved confirmed it:
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Don’t forget Carlton Cole. 
Although that was possibly in the summer of 2010 under Roy.
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That was a quote taken w.r.t Pogba transfer to man utd in 2016.
I dont think Llorente would know whether or not he was our first choice, only that we were wanting to make an offer?
We tried to buy him first
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What has happened since though is that Comolli’s briefed the press on a version of events that makes him look less like a twat.
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This. Exactly this. Comolli was and is a bullshitter supreme whose every utterance is designed to make him look like a genius. If he said it was raining out I’d be putting on the sunscreen.
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Understood, but it doesnt refute what I said. Its important to remember how little time Comoli had been his role by the time this happened, only about 6 weeks. I’m not suggesting we had a totally tied up thought process around this, but it was NOT a panic buy. It was a guy with a pre-existing love for a player and an intention to pursue him in the next window being given an opportunity to go and get the player he wanted to bring in.
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What I find interesting is the price point suggests were shopping at a higher caliber of shop, but the profile of the player is still in line with what made this group so good - young, hungry, still on the upswing of his career. The ris with high priced players is you’re paying for someone whose already hit the heights for their career. This cost changes the risk equation here as any transfer can go wrong (hello, Markovic), but this is still at least the profile that makes me excited.
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