So we could reject it.
It said it was an amicable call and yet we refused it straight away. Must have been some reason for taking the call evidently wasn’t for them to treat the matter cordially as they would have gone away by now and not acted like a pesky hornet.
There was a piece in the Athletic last week that made that very point. Yes, they will be happy landing him, but for now it is just as valuable for them to distract search engine algorithms with stories about Mo
Are Owen’s antics when he left clouding your judgement a little here?
When somebody complains the aircon isn’t working?
Depends on how much of the transfer fee he gets to re-invest in the team,
I think it also very much depends on Mo’s stance. Klopp is always happy to not stand in the way of players who want to leave, and if Mo says he wants to go I think JK’s position will be to get as much as possible for the good of the club.
However, if FSG come to him and say Saudi have bid £300m and we’re selling him, I think JK would be furious (and rightly so).
Even without spending a penny, they are enjoying the limelight in European football scene. This is how they are building relevance. Also, have you noticed none of the media is mentioning their atrocities anymore.
I really don’t think you could be furious at a very obvious decision. If Klopp then gets that £300m plus a good chunk in January, that’s like selling Cou and getting VVD and Ali plus another top line player. We’re talking 3 x £100m plus players. Yes Mo is one of the very best but he won’t always be and his value right now is frankly laughable. £300m? In a heartbeat IF Klopp gets to spend it. We have enough to cover till Jan.
If we were in the CL, different kettle of fish. Then it would take something utterly ridiculous to justify selling him. There are only a few teams in this league who come close to us. Mo is amazing and I don’t want him to go but it wouldn’t be the end of the world and we’d be rocking in January.
No point in selling him and we are quoting crazy money they are yet to show.
Also you might want to note oil prices have just shot up, this silliness is costing people elsewhere.
Tell them to come back in Jan if they wish or prefably next summer. We’ve started the season well, downgrading ourselves for 3 months while adapting effectively loses us another season.
I don’t think as a fan I find that worth it. We will still get a pretty penny if we were to sell in the summer next year they’ve already admitted what they see him has and it gives us a year to prepare the ground to sign who we need and also a year for Doak.
John Barnes was exceptional for us and he is one player I would have loved to see play under Klopp, in a similar position to Mo
My favourite player as a kid but never saw him in the flesh
Obvious to a diehard capitalist like you, but not to a football purist like Jurgen
First of all, I don’t want to sell. I expect it will happen at some point, but we have to make the timing work for us i.e. when we can spend the money.
Playing Devil’s advocate as to the options, until January, if a ridiculous offer were to prompt a sale this week:
Diaz Gakpo Nunez
All seasoned players, all of them know what they are doing, and there is pace and goals there. I would also be interested in seeing Diaz and Nunez switch sides, possibly even multiple times within a game. Diaz is much the better dribbler, but Darwin uses his pace and power to dominate defenders, and I think if the two of them switched back and forth it would be effective.
Diaz Nunez Szoboszlai
Now that we have a few good midfield options, we might prefer to put Szoboszlai on the right. He looks to be a top player, and while he doesn’t have the same attributes as Mo, he has enough about him to be very effective in the position.
After those two options, we are getting into possible permutations where we would look at Elliott or Doak, but I feel they would be better suited to the Europa, to work their way up. If it came to it (and I hope it doesn’t, yet) I would go with either of the first two options in the Prem.
And of course Jota is a very able back up.
All hypothetical of course.
But this is what I would do IF (big IF, let’s see) Mo is sold now, and we have to wait until the window opens again to bring other players in.
Haven’t seen much discussion on this. Lots of people assuming he’d go because he’s Muslim, or he’s like every football that wants even more money. Maybe he’s different? Maybe he wants to spend the rest of his career in the best league/team possible 
I’m not entirely sure we know exactly what Klopp’s thoughts are on the matter. Ever heard him say he’s a football purist? And even if he is, there’s always the greater good. Mo might be begging him to leave, want to keep an unhappy player?
Maybe he’s reading this forum right now thinking ‘hmm, I really love LFC and thought the fans loved me too, but now I see they are all making plans for my departure and think that Harvey can do my job. That’s it, I’m off’.
I think Mo is open to the move as he hasn’t shut it down, unequivocally. He could have easily done that, with all the speculation whirling around now.
Being open to something doesn’t mean that he is going to make it happen though.
That’s the sort of grey area we are in right now. Mo might be open, but I doubt very much he is agitating for this.
Right now the stars aren’t aligned, so it would need something forceful to make it happen, and I don’t really see that on Mo’s side.
I would be surprised if it doesn’t happen by summer 2024 though.
‘Jarrod Bowen suggested as a replacement for me, the Egyptian King. Fuck’em, I’m outta here’
He might be open to the move and fair enough, is he actively engineering it is another matter.
That’s were the line is.
Someone wake me up when the Saudi transfer window closes.