Be easier to send Klopp to the U21 Euros and wait for France to play the Netherlands.
Thuram, Kone, Gravenberch and Van de Ven break off from their respective pre-match team photos to have a Liverpool signing photo with Klopp right there on the pitch before kick off.
Bulk ship them back to Liverpool afterwards to save on the postage.
I don’t know about Gravenberch, he was one of the shiny new Dutch talents until his last year at Ajax. Then the criticism started that he was arrogant, lazy and a bit of a dreamer.
He made a surprise move to Bayern for max €24m where he came mostly off the bench.
He is good at the ball and has the frame to play in the PL, perhaps if the price is right … Don’t know.
Apparently he told a news outlet in his own country that he wants to be somewhere he can play, 100% of the time. Tuchel on the other hand, said, Ryan is a good dribbler, he needs to be patient and fight for his spot. That is telling.
Maybe I’m wrong, but i think he wanted assurances he will be more involved this year, not sure he’s looking for guarantees. He wants to play, didn’t enjoy sitting on the bench all year.
But I did think it was an interesting that Grabenberch and Thuram have the same agent. The Anfield Wrap lot were chatting about it and they made the point that in those circumstances there’s no playing the two off of each other like you might be able to do if they had different agents.
If we do indeed have an interest in both and are perhaps deciding between them then she has a bit of a conflict too. That or we’ve had an eye on them for a while and have been doing some wooing behind the scenes.
I think she’s the one who picked up most of Raiola’s clients after he popped his clogs so she’d be a good one to have on side providing she isn’t quite as awful as he was.
This is the issue I see - Raiola was the complete opposite of awful to his own clients, in terms of getting them the best/biggest contracts (not necessarily the best footballing moves in some cases), and if she’s the one to pick up his clients (and therefore groomed by him for the job I assume), she may well be very much the same - difficult to work with.
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