Have we ever spent over £100m on a player before?
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The thing is, we don’t know much behind-the-scenes legwork has gone into those past transfers before they’re announced. When there isn’t a release cause, especially. I imagine that Alisson and Van Dijk, in particular, involved a lot of negotiations.
The public nature of these transfer negotiations is what’s unique, in my view.
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Made for Liverpool then, London would be a disaster for that type of personality. Liverpool has always been considered a low key community when compared your other metropolitan locations.
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I don’t think its protracted. Its just being played out a bit more publicly than we are used to. In an ideal world, it would have been kept quiet, but (as i said earlier) the German press were informed by Bayern Munich that Wirtz had rejected them…that was the cat out the bag.
Protracted was the Virgil deal. Even Alis was long in the making.
As others have said, its a £100m+ deal. We arent at the supermarket pondering whether we want a Chicken and Mushroom or a Bombay Badboy pot noodle.
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The Thiago signing dragged on for weeks. It was Bayern pushing that one. Most of the noise over this has come from Bayern, although for different reasons.
We don’t usually see the working on these deals. I think Dom was 48 hours from rumour to signing, but I don’t think the conversation went, “Do you fancy a game? Cool! Sign here.”
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Yeah Thiago took ages, we are probably only reaching Maca type levels of time now.
As I said it’s about 2 weeks from the period that it looked like we were favourites and there has been a national break for one of them.
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Nothing compared to the Keita saga and look how that…oh wait…
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Friday can’t come soon enough…
Be shocked if we actually sign him. After this long, all smoke no fire. If it were meant to be, it’s be done already
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Its been less than 2 weeks. Its not FIFA or football manager. It took Arsenal nearly 4 weeks to complete the Rice deal
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Even takes about 2 weeks game time or more.
On FIFA you get to have those meetings.
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I’d be shocked if we don’t end up signing him. He wants LFC, no one is even denying that and Leverkusen won’t keep him against his will and with the contract situation.
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It shows our inexperience as a fanbase with this magnitude of transfer.
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Rayan Cherki
Rayan Ait-Nouri
Rayan Wirtz
I liked the old days when I could change the thread titles. Spoilsports 
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I must say this every year, I work in Real Estate and I wish some of you guys would buy a house off me, as I would love to negotiate with you. I would then make my sellers so happy with how much money I got for them!!!
Have patience ffs
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I think world class can only be defined by what you have done but does not automatically carries it indefinitely. Just remember the number of supposed world class players that have moved to another club and failed. LFC had some of these supposed very good players in the past but just did not live up to expectations. Wirtz is young, and have done great things with BL. But while you can say he is world class there, does not mean he will be definitely be world class here, or else it will be easy then, always buy the best players with the best stats and we will surely win. So I think the truth is always somewhere in the middle, the club employs great scouts and analysts who tried to minimize the risks and our club has a good track record in that. We have a great coaching team who can coach even the most normal of players into world class ones. But the larger the fee, the larger the risks, and to wave away those concerns that some might have, just because oh he has done great things at BL and looks really good so he will definitely succeed at Liverpool. Both sides of the argument are valid so I find it very bemusing when either side insists they are correct. There is no correct here. There are only opinions and the only definite thing we can do is to support the club in its decisions whether we think it is correct or not in terms of transfers.
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“Liverpool pursuing 2 transfers with Premier League window to close and reopen”
Liverpool are currently working towards the transfers of Florian Wirtz and Milos Kerkez but the transfer window deadline is looming before it reopens next week.
The summer transfer window is a little different this year to accommodate the Club World Cup, with a mini window added for clubs to complete their business.
The early window opened on June 1 and will close at 7pm (BST) on Tuesday, enabling teams in the Club World Cup to register players for the tournament.
Liverpool, of course, have already taken advantage themselves despite not competing in the United States this summer by signing Jeremie Frimpong.
It is a short wait, however, before it reopens on June 16 and then closes on September 1, after the new Premier League season has already got underway.
So although the window does shut on Tuesday, it will not stop Liverpool’s pursuit of Wirtz or Kerkez – it simply means neither can be registered as squad members if a deal sheet is not completed by Tuesday evening.
Thankfully, there are less than six days between the two windows and it will not throw a spanner in the works as negotiations will continue over Liverpool’s transfer targets.
Wirtz and Kerkez deals
The club saw their third bid worth up to £113 million for Wirtz rejected by Bayer Leverkusen but optimism remains that a deal is within reach, with the German side reported to want a package of at least £118 million.
The 22-year-old has chosen Anfield as his destination this summer and the Times‘ Paul Joyce reported on Sunday that “the expectation remains” a deal will be struck.
A deal of this magnitude was never to be completed swiftly and although the consistent non-updates can prove tiresome, a breakthrough looms for a club record transfer.
As for Kerkez, Liverpool remain in contact with Bournemouth – the Cherries value the left-back at £45 million but Richard Hughes will be keen to drive that figure down.
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“Transfer blow to Liverpool as window shuts without deals”
Probably a couple of German bank holidays in that period anyhow.
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