This game of chicken between the 3 players soon without a contract and the owners could end badly for both parties. Our current form and success might evaporate come January it has to be resolved by Christmas. Father Christmas has already received my Xmas wish envelope.
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This is giving me FSG Mookie vibes although I benefited from that one.
I remain typically level-headed for now. But Iām concerned about this and that I wonāt be able to afford specsavers once weirdo does away with Obamacare while looking for his concept of a plan.
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Iāve difficulty to believe that the club havenāt already made several offers. I suspect that the negociations have maybe stalled over Moās demands, and that every side is playing hard-ball right now.
However, I completely agree with you. This is a player who is far from losing his legs. He needs to be tied up as quickly as possible, and I for one will be fuming if he leaves us for another club. He wonāt be short of top-level suitors, so the club better play that game correctly.
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Yeah, could be 3/1, though I think it would have been quicker in that case. With a 1-year term, FSG is making a fairly simple assessment.
No, I think that is exactly the problem. He is definitely losing his legs. He doesnāt have the burst he did 4 years ago. The problem is he is still quick, and still very effective. Four years from now, he will be nowhere near the player he was. Right now, he still is.
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That is right, but he has a brain as well, which has helped him compensate his loss of pace. Thatās why heās still so effective. Iām quite sure that heāll be involved in a lot of goals in three four years. Heāll lose pace further, but heāll continue to adapt himself to the new circumstances, as he does now. His intelligence is a precious gift, and is often underestimated on here and elsewhere. Heās far from a simple pace merchant. His impressive number of assists are testimony to this.
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Theyād better do.
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Press have their story now mind.
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The thing is (something Hughes doesnāt see), regardless of Salah staying or not, we have to keep looking at the striker market.
Itās not like itās all fine and rosy up there central and we ājustā need to find a high scoring right winger. Those are very rare, chances are higher than the next one wonāt be able to produce what Salah is.
Nunez is in his 3rd season and realistically, doesnāt look like the long term answer.
He will have 3 years left on his deal at the end of this season and if he gets 4 years at Liverpool and doesnāt show serious improvement, he can be bloody happy and not moan if heās told the story is over here, when we get to his last 2 years. Thatās probably the latest we will be smart to continue with him, as weāll possibly already know for a while that weāll lose money on him.
Jota is effective whenever heās fit (which is not often enough) and a perfect player as long as heās happy to be in the first 15 players or so, but I donāt think he can be the clubās āfirst choice strikerā, without serious competition at least.
The new striker might now score much more than Nunez while Salah is still here, but it would have to be someone who we fully trust for the future and already does better than Nunez in a way that heās a starting XI player.
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How can you possible say this?
Simon Hughes by the way, not Richard.
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He makes it sound like the only way to replace Salah is to find another Salah, which weāre all well aware is incredibly difficult. He gives himself the answer in saying that. There are more ways how a team/a new attack can be formed.
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Carra on MNF just said he is massively disappointed with Salah because of the timing of the comments ahead of the Madrid and City games.
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Iām massively disappointed in him for getting us Hodgson, but you donāt see me spouting that on TV do you?
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Mo nailed on for hat tricks in both then
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And a high number of coaches and physios and scouts and analysts and god knows how many other backroom staff that we lost last season
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Listening to an interview given by a reporter of the mail to TAW he said that FSG have made the same mistake with an ageing baseball superstar sticking rigidly to their policy of not extending older players, he then joined a rival team and won the league for the next two years for his new team while the Red Sox struggled.
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