I think both players drastically exceeded expectations here, and even then it’s maybe only us who fully appreciated how good they were once they got here.
Everyone knew Barnes’ talent, but was plagued by the perception that he was inconsistent - “why cant he score that goal he scored in the Maracana every game”? It was considered an exciting signing, but a bit of a gamble.
Beardsley was just generally underappreciated his entire career and even after producing the best football of his career in his first couple of years here he still struggled to nail down a role in the england side
Ceefax was launched in the 70s. I definitely remember spending saturday’s in the 80s spending the morning playing football in the garden then rushing inside at 3pm to spend the next 2 hours sitting in front of the ceefax waiting for the scores to update
I can completely agree with your logic. By announcing your position you are opening yourself up to be scrutinised. It is definitely not good PR. You only have to look at the reaction on the forum to see that.
There are a host of reasons why the club may have gone down this road - one possibility is that they are speaking to those representing other players and are trying to convince them that those players are now our primary target(s).
…or LFC have heard, or been told he wants to go to RM.
Like hearing through the grapevine, your girlfriend is going to dump ya next time she see’s ya, so to save some pride you get in first and dump her by text :0)
Recently lost Tchouameni, so a similar blow with Bellingham wanting to do the same dance, we could do without.
