Showing his ignorance by presuming the players speak English …should he not be talking in Arabic to show that he is there to embrace life as a manager ?
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For blasphemy? For deviant beliefs?
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Leaving aside the question of Jordan wanting to leave, I can’t believe the club will let him go for such a small amount - the idea some sandclub thought they could have our captain on a free transfer is a disgrace. And 20m is a bargain for a player who is an inspirational captain with a great attitude and his fitness record and speed won’t be an issue in whatever low level their league is. After watching that clip of Gerrard ‘coaching’ I can see just how valuable Hendo would be for them, so we should insist on 30m at this point and if Hendo doesn’t like it too bad.
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I see the Saudi’s are the new clickbait journalist destination. first Henderson, now Fabinho are touted to go there by Ornstein?
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Let’s wait to hear from the proverbial ‘horses mouth’…
people do love their rumors though.
At what point when you see journos like Ornstein making the rounds with these, do you add them to the “unreliable” list. I don’t think we’d have that many “reliable” journo’s left.
Given that 32 year old N’Golo Kante moved to a Saudi club on a free, then maybe we would be doing well to get 10 million for Jordan.
Well Kante wasn’t the club captain and Chelsea wanted rid. Don’t see why we wouldn’t keep Hendo for another season if we don’t get a good offer for him. 10m is peanuts for his attributes in football today
Wouldn’t change a thing.
It’s money that should be being spent on the infrastructure of that country.
I’m glad he has the ability to live his life out there.
I wouldn’t be able to but all the best.
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30-year old (soon to be 31) Brozovic, a better and younger player than Hendo, went for €18m.
Kante was also a free agent.
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Kante was and is regarded as one of the world’s best midfielders. Despite what we may think, Hendo is not held in the same high regard. I think 10 mil would be OK and getting 20 would probably get Schmadtke the job on a five year contract.
Ive made the point that if I took LIV’s money I would have made a point of finding LGBT organizations to plaster all over my gear. Put them in the situation of paying me to promote causes they persecute, or negate the sportswashing goal of the whole thing by having to publicly challenge me over a political statement on human rights.
But that is because it’s only their money, you dont have to actually be in Saudi to collect it. I dont think I’d be wearing the rainbow shoelaces if I went to play in this league, which I think is a pretty strong statement in itself.
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Was he? Oh dear, I forgot that! Even so, I doubt if the buying club would have paid all that much even if there was a year or two left on the contract. We value Hendo highly, but in the real world, at his age, he doesn’t have a high value.
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I wouldn’t take it regardless but I get that point of view.
With LIV you seem you have to have signed up to something.
If Klopp ever makes the move I’d probably be upset but whatever pleases them. Not to LIV though watching Klopp play Golf might be amusing.
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People’s issues with this seems to be focussed on LGBTQ+ rights, and rightly so. We should also remember they have destroyed Yemen, committing countless war crimes, and killing 20k people. This would also involve considering UK’s role in the destruction
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I’d be satisfied if we settle for around £15m, maybe a bit more through bonuses, realistically.
What concerns me about Saudi Arabian football clubs is not so much the human rights record of the Saudi government but more that it seems that this is another attempt by the Saudis to take over a sport to which they have no historical or cultural affinity. It’s like sporting colonialism.
Today they’re buying big name players and coaches. To what end? Perhaps to create a club that could actually pose a threat to the European / South American dominance and win the FIFA Club World Cup. That could be the prelude to an LIV-style takeover of football globally with a Saudi backed body supplanting FIFA.
Maybe that sounds paranoid, but if you go back just one year would anyone have thought that the PGA would sell out to LIV? There has to be a reason why all of a sudden Saudi clubs are splashing the cash, and I think that because they, and the rest of the world, know FIFA is corrupt and so they see an opening there for global dominance.
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Definitely fair, but I think the thing about value is that when there is length on the contract, the selling club decides the value.
In the market he might be worth £5mill or £10mill but to Liverpool, where he has been captain for a decade, where the vice captain and 3 other experienced pros have already left, where we are short of homegrown players, his value has to be more. We’ve shown that in the past when we’ve kept players for the final year of their deals instead of selling them cheap. Gini being the best example.
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Or something in between for both- a growing disenchantment with the whole fucking lot. The hypocrisy and greed a symptom of the neoliberal shitshow our world finds itself in
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