Frimpong and Kerkez look like obvious additions in those positions and I can see those being the first 2 through the door, the #9 position is the one we’ll be mulling over…no obvious name stands out and many thrown into the hat, from Gyokeres to Sesko to David to Cunha to Ekitite. Isak been mentioned as well but I guarentee that never happens.
The futures of Ibou, Diaz and Harvey are the ones I’ll be keeping the closest eye on this summer. It would be very disappointing if we didn’t renew Ibou which increases the chance he’ll be the next big name off for nothing and would be a major setback.
Another reason we should tell those fascist scum to fuck off and refuse to let Trent leave before 30/6 unless they pay a substantial sum (>5m) which they won’t. At no point have they behaved reasonably and we need to put our foot down.
There is a game theory angle to this, which Liverpool need to consider.
The obvious thing to do is let Trent leave and screw as much money out of Madrid as possible. See if we can get £5m and consider ourselves lucky.
However, winning the CWC (and you just know that they fucking will) would net Real Madrid 100m. Money which can then be turned towards players like Konate and Mac Allister, who they have expressed an interest in, or generally consolidate their grip on the CL, which we would quite like to win.
The sensible and entirely logical, unemotional thing to do might be to tell them to go fuck themselves.
Absolutely - although Trent won’t likely be the difference between them winning and not. And on top of that it’s important that other clubs know if they behave this way we won’t take it lying down and certainly won’t make it easy for them.
Or… Liverpool want to sign Rodrygo as their new forward, so if Real Madrid really want TAA to feature in CWC, they might find some common ground to get both deals completed.
KSA in Germany (I’d never heard of them either) saying we’ve shown an interest in Wirtz.
Some talk that Bayern have to pay €150m but anyone else it’s €100m.
Transfer fee of £2M to release him early, then throw in a clause that should Trent be in the CWC squad and they win, we get £10M and if they come come anywhere near any of our players in the next 15 seasons, they will need to pay an additional £500M on top of any transfer fee.
As soon as I saw Plettenberg reporting Liverpool were the favourites, I knew that he would be going elsewhere - and that elsewhere seems to be Real Madrid (Marca have also reported this).
Ouch, you are going to miss out on so much if that’s the case, if united sack their manager you will miss out on @Alright_Now_Legend new song for incoming manager …and @aussielad will have a ton of jokes in between…
