He looked very good in preseason. Just unlucky to get the injury at that time. We’ve got Endo as cover for Grav , Curtis as cover for Mac. If we are playing 4 midfielders , we’d need Elliot as a cover for either of Wirtz or Soboszlai.
The caveat being, If we are looking at 4 midfielders in the center , which we have done at times in the last season. I do think Slot’s more flexible in his formations rather than someone who’s fixed on 4-3-3 or the 4-2-3-1.
Not everyone’s in the team to be a potential starter. But if what Elliot’s offering isn’t that much of a step down from what Dom’s offering for instance. All the better to keep him.
Elliot is worth keeping if he will get more game time then he was getting in the second half of last season. I’m discounting the start of the season because of injury. How likely he is to get more game time this season is hard to judge when exactly where Wirtz will fit into the team isn’t known for sure. If he won’t get played more then before though, for his own good it’s worth considering moving him on.
The German football magazine ‘kicker’ believes that an agreement has been reached between Luis Diaz and that stupid club from the Bavarian capital. Unfortunately.
If he really did move to Munich, he would be finished in my eyes (as we say here in Germany).
Yeah, he will want a final big deal to carry him into his thirties. There is no way the club were ever going to give him that. I think they’d have been happy for him to see out his contract, but he wasn’t getting another.
I’ll be happy to not have to hear his dickhead dad flirting with Barcelona every five minutes.
I’m dissapointed with this. Dissapointed with the player. It seems that he, or his camp have been agitating since last summer. The Barca rumours, the Saudi rumours etc.
Trent was always leaving. Quansah wasn’t good enough maybe?
But a player of his calibre after winning the league should be chomping for next season.
I think Gakpo is always a great option on the left, and Ekitike/Isak covers the middle…but Diaz would have a lot of game time if he stayed.
Really dissapointed
This to me reflects the lessons learned around the likes of Henderson, Fabinho, Mane and a few others. We either give the high cost, long term deal taking them past the point we’d expect then to be at their peak and then struggle to move them on when the time comes or can only get nominal fees for them. Or, we sell the at this point when we’ve had great value out of them and make a profit selling them on.
The old adages of “letting their legs go on someone else’s pitch” and “better one year too early than one too late” come to mind. We’re doing both and it’s not as if we’re being bullied by Bayern like we might have been in the past. We’ve sold from a position of strength, with cover already in the squad, largely on our terms and with a healthy profit having had three and a half good seasons out of him.
It’s about the perfect transfer really. And we’ve kept him away from Barca.
Don’t care if he had gone to Barca, Bayern or wherever. From the club’s perspective, you want the best possible offer, especially if it’s outside the PL. I’m fine with the deal, understand the whole path and circumstances why it happened.
We could have used Diaz for another 2 years. But that’s still a sizable amount of money which we have gotten for him. We can get in someone younger with a higher ceiling with that amount. That’s how teams upgrade themselves. Good teams atleast.
The club valued Diaz to a certain point. Just not enough to give him the big contract that he was looking for. It happens. He’s come here and done a fabulous job. We’ve done well by him, supported him and his family when his dad got kidnapped. And we’ve let him go for a sizable amount.
He can go with his head held high. He probably hasn’t upgraded to a better club though.
Preliminary non-representative sample shows Bayern “fans” on twitter really negative about this move. Not good enough. Too much money. But at least it demonstrates Bayern are a bigger club than Liverpool
