Using it to pay off the injury witch to get her to stay away?
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Well if itās that, then he doesnāt do a great job of it to say the leastā¦ 
Nah,I think itās just Kloppo der Schwabe*: likes to accumulate all that gold and play with it, but doesnāt want to spend anything. 
(* they are notorious for being as tight-assed as it gets.)
Heās got to outbid the oil clubs!
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There is always money available for the right signing. Thatās my point. We can buy players, if it makes sense from a financial point of view and if that player is worth adding.
Iāll stress that last point, because the club and Kloppās view on whether a person player is worth adding, and the fans view, seem to be miles apart.
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Is the Injury Witch any relation to the Anfield Banshee? The one screaming āFORWARDā over the top of any commentary? Iād pay to get rid of her.
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Weāve become a bit weaker at selling I feel or weāre just not finding the mugs we once did. If you think weāve seen Can, Markovic, Chirivella, Clyne, Lallana, Larouchi, Gini and Origi all leave on bosmans in Klopps time. Plus weāve Ox, Keita and Firmino (Milner too but heās probably got no sale value) currently in that position for next summer and Mane going with just one year left then thatās an awful lot of potential fees walking out the door for nothing or less than full market value.
Sure, we need buyers for these and the likes of Clyne and Markovic were pretty much dead weight weād get nothing for. But, if selling is key to our purchasing power then we really need to make sure decisions are being made on new contracts or moving players on before we get to the final year of their existing deals, even if that does mean taking a bit of a hit on the fees.
Wijnaldum is a good example. We sell him the summer before and we could probably have got Ā£20m for him at least, plus saving his Ā£4.5m a year wages and that could have gone towards replacing him. As it is, we got another year from him at a cost of Ā£4.5m and then nothing extra in the pot.
Wonder what we could have got if weād actively looked to move on some or all of Ox, Keita and Firmino this summer and used that money to go after a more reliable midfield option.
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You could also add Loris Karius to that list. To sell a player you need a prospective buyer and willing player.
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In hindsight yes but we thought theyād be all contributing on the pitch. We just sold three strikers, canāt afford to sell Bobby too (I know now it looks like heās not contributing) and depend purely on Carvalho.
Also, and I keep coming back to this, we were ready to buy Tchouameni in addition to Darwin. So the money is surely there
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Iām not thinking the actual outgoing business would have been the same had we had a focus on moving those guys on. Could have held onto Taki if Firmino had gone for example.
Really though, the point is more about the higher than average number of first team players we seem to be comfortable letting go on frees rather than pushing a move for them one to two years out from their contract end if they arenāt looking like signing a new deal.
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If we were more inclined to take that approach it may also further encourage players to agree extensions when offered, if they knew we were more likely to look to move them on if they didnāt.
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How do you know this?
We moved for Darwin after the Tchouameni deal fell through.
Having known for a year that ManƩ was leaving, are you saying we would have been okay to not sign another forward had we indeed been able to sign Tchouameni?
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Itās not about what I think (although for what itās worth, my shopping list for the summer was forward, midfielder and right back)
Iāve just seen people say that the funds were there to sign another player alongside Darwin, just based on the fact that we went for Tchouameni.
Maybe weād have signed Darwin anyway. Or maybe weād have added a forward in the 20m bracket. Or maybe weād have kept Minamino?
Remember when we didnāt have any money for a defender and yet stumped up about 20m only for Marseille to back track when the guy was on a plane.
The money is available, same goes for Diaz, if this was rigid then that deal doesnāt happen. Klopp had spent his assumed 40m on Konate for that year.
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To replace ManƩ?! Someone who was integral to how we play?
We know Minamino is not strong/inventive/rapid/influential enough to be a straight ManĆ© replacement. Unless you know any, I canāt see an up-and-comer THAT talented that would be so cheap
Btw @Mascot i hope you know this is just an academic discussion, I have no point to prove, nor do I have any info we all donāt already have.
Fucking hell itās wild out there. Social media is full of absolute knicker pissing chicken littles. They fucking love it when weāre struggling. Gives them a chance to show how good they are on football manager.
Itās always - how can I put this diplomatically - the newer generation of global fan? Jumped aboard when we started winning, and have never seen us struggle. I saw one lad two footing Klopp and claiming he is washed up. Profile said he supports Liverpool and Spurs. And heās got the nerve to talk about how āus redsā deserve better.
I got stuck in to one lad who said it was a scandal that we didnāt sign a player the summer after we won the league. I mean, harsh on the three lads we did sign.
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Oh mate, for your sanity stay the fuck away from the socials this week. Forget responding to them, even reading the first sentences will drive you nuts.
There are global āfansā who zealously defend Barcelonaās deplorable behaviour. With a straight face.
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Iāve seen them. Itās hilarious.
I assumed that Diaz was signed as a ManƩ replacement.
In truth, we can only sign those players that are realistically available. There really isnāt any point in signing a mediocre player for the sake of it unless we are really up shit creek. I suppose we did that with Ben Davies a couple of seasons back but in the end we relied, actually quite successfully, on Nat Phillips and Rhys Williams.
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You have not seen anything yet all of a sudden United has around 5 million new supporters and guess where they are coming from ā¦ Fucking Amsterdam if I did not hate that shite city enough!
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