It’s quite a coincidence that the apology and confirmation from Klopp that the club are looking for additional midfielders came after Keita was ruled out of games initially because of illness, then because of injury while stories supposedly from his agent about him demanding to be a starter and his contract talks stalling hit the papers…
I think Klopp was hoping the apology would nip the negativity in the bud. I think it was also his way of saying that he had been backing Keita to stay and be a part of this team - and now thought otherwise.
Pretty balanced this from Reddy. Not sure how much is opinion and how much is actual insight but covers a lot of what’s been discussed here. The desire is there but the ones they might have been looking at have been unavailable, gone elsewhere, been prohibitively expensive or a combination of.
Where that leaves us three days before the close of the window I’m not sure. Can’t see Brighton being willing to entertain losing Caicedo even for a silly fee. Only other names mentioned appear to be Kone and Laimer.
Think we’ll end up doing nothing now citing unavailability or being priced out. No one is selling someone this close to the deadline that isn’t making a push to go or they get a silly offer for. And silly offers just aren’t our thing.
I get that, but it was still silly money whatever way you slice it.
We also paid a then-world-record 75mil for VVD, and a similarly massive sum for Alisson. We’re known to make a big splash and pay “silly” money when we need to, and I’d say that if we’re after Bellingham, we’re prepared to pay silly money for him when the time comes.
Silly money doesn’t mean expensive, it means paying way over the odds. Would say VvD and Alisson have been pretty good value for money.
As for Nunez, it’s pretty early to make a judgement but £65m for a player with the season he’s just had, his potential and profile is about par for the course these days. Think Vlahovic, Isak, Osimhen and the like. If he costs us the full €100m then he’ll have done pretty well.
Sure, but it’s still a risk. Every transfer is a risk, especially the most expensive ones. I’m just saying we’ve made silly offers in the past - thankfully since Klopp arrived most of them have worked out well - but it doesn’t mean we won’t pay silly money for a good prospect.
I’ll give another example - if Harry Maguire and AWB had both become key players for Man United, then those transfers would look like good business. Because they have both spectacularly failed, they look like silly money.
