I don’t wish him ill, and I understand his position, but I’m sorry to lose him and I’m especially sorry that he’s joining such a nasty club.
It’s done now and time to move on. Good luck Lucho, but I hope you don’t win anything with the Bierduschers.
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Good luck Luis. I’ll miss your craft and guile. YNWA.
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I’m happy for Trent leaving the way he did. I strongly supported him when he was actually booed by the majority at the ground whilst still our player. I didn’t enjoy that he went to RM, but he respected his contract and I can’t actually see what’s wrong with that.
Diaz leaves with two years left on his £140k/wk contract, only just ticked over to 28yo, and he leaves to BM in what I consider peak years. BM was once a big upgrade, recently a sideways step, now it’s a backward step.
If the reports are true of us attempting to offer a new contract on two occasions, the only reason I can think that there was so much animosity to Trent but little to Diaz is because, in a sibling analogy, Diaz is the more loved child.
Not projecting.
So I really don’t agree with your conflation that there is hypocrisy amongst the fanbase because we treat two different ends results in the same negative way. IMO, one of these two players will always get a few pass by the fans (Diaz) and one won’t (Trent).
Just finally, suggesting Diaz is coordinating a move from the club now because of peak value might sound nice when written but really is reaching.
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wasnt Diaz on 50k a week here?
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I’m not sure where that originated from, but it ended up being widely ridiculed.
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Yeah what next, actual enslavement?
I was dissapointed in both players leaving the club. A lot of supporters are.
But “condemn” is a strong word and hardly applicable in the circumstances. We are football supporters, not politicians.
And your #NOTALLLIVERPOOLFANS retort earlier. Really? At best, badly thought out.
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Most journalists rejected that theory. He wasn’t “greatly” paid, but it wasn’t £50k either.
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Around 140k a week. Reported by Joyce and others.
No wonder he left, how the hell was he supposed to survive on that?
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I’m not a fan of agents, but maybe his dad wasn’t the best placed to handle his career matters?
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The two really aren’t comparable. Trent engineered a free transfer. Diaz has left us with about 65m to find a replacement.
Whatever we offered Diaz, it clearly wasn’t enough (in financial terms or duration) to a player looking to maximise his earnings in the last years of his playing career.
Liverpool have no intention of getting stuck paying north of 200k to a player who relies on pace and explosiveness at 32/33 years old.
Diaz had no intention of finding himself out of contract at 30, and looking for a big deal with his earning potential diminished.
In a situation like this, everyone shakes hands, gets what they can, and moves on.
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Diaz hasn’t left us with £65m. The transfer market, or to be precise, Bayern has and we accepted it.
It’s not one of the player’s primary missions to take care of this. Ultimately every side tries to mainly negotiate what’s best for them.
Football doesn’t exist since yesterday, this is just natural. There will be more cases like Diaz and more (although less) cases like Trent (Konate might be next).
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Trent engineered a free transfer?
Diaz left us with £65 million?
Neither is true.
First instance, contract completed.
Second instance, engineering a move for the last twelve months.
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Yeah a player honours his contract right till the end is the devil. Someone who has stamped his feet like a toddler and not fulfilled his contract is seen as doing right by the club.
For me this sets a dangerous example whats to stop Alexis, Grav doing the exact same next year if Madrid come knocking after all they are doing right by club maximising value.
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Both wanted to leave. Both engineered their move.
Only difference is at what stage of the contract they did it.
But people were more pissed at Trent because he was a local lad and he timed his move so that the club got very little compensation for him leaving.
It’s not that deep and people can feel differently about both moves.
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It can be said that footballers right now seem to be peaking earlier. There’s no hard and fast rule that Diaz is entering his peak years as a footballer. For all we know , he might have reached his peak as a footballer and its downhill from that.
The Bundesliga is a more forgiving league than the EPL in terms of the competitiveness of the team so I suppose that it will be easier on his body.
I’m not complaining. We either use this money to buy a younger footballer in that position or we use that money to help strengthen the team elsewhere.
Diaz has been great for us but he’s not essential. Not good enough to be an essential Liverpool player. He gets a pay hike in Bayern playing with a competitive team. Even if it’s a step down. We get good money for him. Not as much as I would have liked but the best teams improve by upgrading the starting XI. We now have a chance to do that
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His gobshite Dad most likely
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Mental gymnastics at best. Again, because Trent is Trent and Diaz is Diaz.
Trent gave the club 2 years to prepare for his departure. If a player isn’t signing a new contract when he’s on his last two years, there’s likely a reason for that. It’s not hard to take the hint. The club almost certainly knew what was going on.
Diaz on the other hand gave the club about 3 weeks. Yay! Money! I would 100% take Diaz running out his contract and us getting 2 more years out of him than to take the money and gamble on a new player.
That’s the difference: you want the FM money; I want the performing player we already have (had).
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That completely depends on what the club offered him on their attempts to re-sign.
If they offered him huge wages but on a two year contract, that’s him in out team while still in his 20s. We don’t need to be talking about age on someone in their 20s, even if we are talking about the tail end, especially for a player that hasn’t even shown signs of deterioration.