Doue is the better player though. I do think he can play in the CAM role too. Similar player to Wirtz in some ways.
I agree, but I think it is very unlikely they would sell Doue.
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Aye. Highly unlikely they’ll sell him. Especially as they seem to have learnt their lesson with the Neymar and Messi transfers.
Might just have been easier had Khvara decided to join us the first time around. He’s also a class player.
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Just for clarity, i don’t think hes good enough for us and dont really want us to sign him.
I just have this gut feeling about him ending up here.
Seek professional medical advice immediately.
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I just don’t see it to be honest.
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I hope you’re right.
That’s a weird take. Somehow Slot is a villain (excuse the pun) because we’ve spent big after winning the league?
Is that not allowed? Are the champions not supposed to buy anyone? Even if they didn’t buy anyone much last year? Do they understand that he’s not in sole charge of transfers?
So many questions.
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It’s baffling me. We hardly spend for a couple of years while making Europe and winning the title and we then decide to spend and it’s all moan moan moan.
It’s not different spending 60 million every window and especially even less from clubs who spend that and win Jack all and spend most seasons in no European competition or the lower level. I think since 2016 we’ve only missed out on the top competition once.
Only Man City can match that, same goes for the title it’s only been us who have won it bar Man City, Chelsea have a CL in that period but everyone else. And yet…
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Klopp once said we cannot spend like city can. This is proof Klopp was full of shit and Liverpool underperformed under him.
That’s pretty much it
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Villa fan hurt itself in its confusion!
They see other clubs spending (including clubs who finished below them) whilst their club is having to sell the likes of Emi and Watkins, and they make up wild conspiracies about a top four cabal. It’s just misdirected anger stemming from not really understanding FPR.
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It’s likely we will probably be another 100m down which still probably leaves us about 8th
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This is exactly what the arseholes on’t 'caf have been wailing for a few weeks now.
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Take THAT, Everton!
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Both our knockers and the negative nellies among our fan base should take a lesson from this. What we are now seeing is the upside of having high standards on when and on whom we spend our money. We are able to do this precisely because when there were calls to stretch in previous summers and add more depth we were very judicious in what we were willing to do. It means when we see something we want we start with more money in our pocket and less need to sell to buy (at a loss).
We have earned the ability to buy Wirtz at the cost of not following through on fan demands to just sign someone, such as Sancho when he was at Dortmund.
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All the other fan whining is just odd.
We’re replacing two full backs who cost us a combined £8m and have been mainstays for 6-7 years. We literally lost a player out the blue in tragic circumstances.
Then Nunez will fetch a good chunk of what we spent on Ekitike. Kelleher covers half what we spent on Mamardashvili. Quansah will cover a good chunk of whatever we spend on his replacement. Then there are fees for Trent, Tsimikas/Robbo, Morton, Elliott and Doak. That’s £100m easy.
I reckon we’ll be around £150m-£200m net having been in profit last summer. If that outlay had been split over two summers no one would bat an eyelid.
What’s really bothering them is no one got close to us in the league last year and they’re worried what might happen next season now we’ve made upgrades in every area of the pitch and the manager has a season under his belt too.
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I also think that supporters of other clubs don’t recognize that FSG have spent the last several years upgrading Anfield and building up Kirkby. Now that the bulk of that is finished, they’ve got more resources to put into transfer fees and wages.
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