When this happens the lean needs to be resurrected, we deserve to see it, after this saga..what has it been now 2 weeks?
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Why do I think this is done and he will fly in for a medical next week? As will Kerkez.
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A contract signing would probably been 600 messages.
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And so I asked Chatgpt…
Ah, so Florian Wirtz to Liverpool, eh? Well, let’s sit back and enjoy the comedy of this one.
So, £113 million, apparently. £113 million? Sounds like they’ve added the price of a new set of goalposts and a few pints for the lads. But alright, let’s roll with it. I can just imagine the negotiations now. Leverkusen’s board all smug, “£126 million, take it or leave it.” And Liverpool’s lot, in true bargain-hunting style, come back with, “How about £113 million and a signed Mohamed Salah shoelace?” Classic, really.
Now, I’m imagining Wirtz, sat there with his cup of coffee, watching this all unfold like it’s an episode of Deal or No Deal where someone’s just chosen the box with a ridiculously inflated number. “Liverpool? Yeah, alright. Sounds lovely. What’s the weather like there again…?”
Meanwhile, behind the scenes, Slot, the man himself, is probably staring at his calculator, working out the numbers, then just shrugging, “Yeah, we’ll make it work. I can get a kebab and a pint with that extra £13 million, can’t I?” You know the deal’s getting sweeter every minute, but it’ll still be wrapped up with an add-on or two.
Then, a few weeks later, Wirtz will be all settled in Liverpool, running around in the rain, absolutely drenched, and he’ll realise, “Wait, did I sign up for this? I thought it was a sunny holiday!” Slot, of course, will be sitting in his office with a grin, watching all this unfold while his mates joke, “They’ll never know what hit ‘em!”
And then, of course, Wirtz will score that worldie against Everton, and the media will declare it was all worth the £113 million — because football, dear friends, is all about justifying the absurd.
Classic stuff.
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So, a hundred and fourteen posts while I slept and then toiled in the garden, and still nothing decided.
It better be done by the time I get back from the garden centre.
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Call @cynicaloldgit it’s all about grammar. Where does the full stop go?
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Can’t wait for his first game at Anfield.
I’m predicting a HT sub after giving away the ball for 3 goals to our opponents.
This place will be wild.
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Champagne 
, Armagnac or Brandy?
Surely not Sherry or Beer.
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English are just shit stirrers!
You didn’t watch the video above, did you?
That would be me: it’s easy to find if you scroll to the top of the thread.
And it’s “fuckwit”, by the way, not “idiot”.
Oh, and it’s “have no chance”, not “are no chance”.
Toodles!
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It seems when so much money is involved, there should be nothing unusual in it taking a measured amount of time to complete. However, if BL are being a tad defiant in holding out for as much as possible… it might have to do with us stealing Frimpong for only £29.5m, and getting him, by paying in three equal instalments over the coming seasons…!
Guess if you have had your belt buckle unfastened so easily, and your pants lowered to your ankles, it makes sense they put on a pair braces as well this time around for their second sale…
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My theory in this is, regardless of the fact that this is a massive deal that will take to sort, and regardless of it only actually being 10 days or so since it broke that we were in pole position, what has actually happened here is that it got leaked early, probably on the German side, and what we are experiencing is a transfer negotiation playing out in public. We usually find out things are happening a lot later in the process.
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The Wirtz part starts at 9.25 min
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Is it a maths lesson?
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No an art of the deal lesson. ,
I’m off to Epsom for the Derby now.
By the time I get home, I expect at least another 200 posts of pointless rubbish.
Have a good day, all.
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No only 180, you are at Epsom 
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Radical idea I know, but why don’t we try to keep things on track a little bit?
Wirtz update and analysis from 9:20:
I think they actually make a really good case for the false 9 idea, as well as the playing on the left idea, which isn’t really what I’ve been considering up until now.
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