Price will be another crazy one for Mane. Saw Leipzig want £85m for Diomande with about 30 odd senior games under his belt.
Mane has been impressive from the beginning. That said, it was his surname that caught me eye first for obvious reasons… But there are some parallels with our Mane in terms of confident, aggressive running and pretty decent finishing. I wish he was a winger, though - not saying he won’t be but every time I saw him play for Wolves, he was in central areas.
I think he’s an English youth international, though, that likely means that Wolves will ask for an arm and a leg to sign him from them…
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It is what it is, but the cost of emerging talent has gone through the roof. Diomande and Mane would be two exciting young attackers, still in need of more maturing and experience, but exciting players nevertheless. Put me down for both.
But here’s the rub. It would likely cost £150M for the pair. And that’s the sort of money that should be buying you the finished article.
Anyway, let’s do a list. I love a good list I do!
Wharton - 70M
Diomande - 80M
Mane - 70M
Jacquet - 60M
Konate feels the love, continues his good form and signs a new deal.
Sales:
Salah - 50M
Mac Allister - 50M
Maybe one or two lesser players, but we would be looking at a net outlay around 150M+
Not sure if we can, or will spend that much. Not sure what the system is that we will be buying for, or indeed who the manager will be. So it’s a shot in the dark.
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If needed, I would also be open to selling Gakpo for 50M in order to achieve the above, or something similar. He has a name and pedigree, but he’s not an elite winger. If we need pace and the ability to open it up by having a winger who can beat a man, Cody is not that.
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Followed by Duncan Gerrard and Dirk Wijnaldum
Also there’s literally another Luis Suarez at Sporting CP in the primera liga
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That’s a strange request
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It’s what this season is doing to me, take me out of my misery 
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Despite what many Reds feel about Anthony Gordon, I can easily imagine the club making a bid for him. Just not 95 million though. 65 at the most IMO.
Fichajes doing their best to amuse yet again. 50 million for an 18 year old who’s played only 15 PL games? Not even Utd would be stupid enough.
Liverpool are the frontrunners in a race with Manchester City and Arsenal to sign Newcastle United’s former Everton winger Anthony Gordon, 24, but the England international will cost £95m. (Caughtoffside), external
The move comes as Mohamed Salah, 33, looks set to leave Liverpool at the end of the season, with the Saudi Pro League planning to push ahead with plans to land the Egyptian forward. (Teamtalk), external
Liverpool are also in another battle, this time with Manchester United, for Wolves’ 18-year-old forward Mateus Mane this summer. The Portuguese-born England youth international is valued at £50m by his club. (Fichajes)
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Anthony Gordon has 1 goal in his last 34 starts by the way.
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I just cannot imagine a world in which I’m cheering Gordon on 
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Gordon is more expensive than he should be because he is English. Being English automatically makes a player 10-20m more expensive.
However, we will have to buy English players this summer, because in the last summer Slot decided that selling off 5 homegrown players was a good idea.
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Against us…
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Setting aside his sheer unlikability, the biggest issue I have with Gordon is that he has made his name revelling in the kind of space that is simply not afforded to us.
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Yeah, and he’s not very good.
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Move on Chiesa and Endo, and there are two homegrown spaces.
The homegrown issue is more about who the club chose to retain rather than who it sold.
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We do need more homegrown players, but it doesn’t mean we have to stupidly pay a huge amount for undeserved players. We’ve switched to buying some very young players recently; for example, Leoni will count as HG and club-trained when he’s old enough. Same with Rio, and if one of the 4 young CBs we bought this winter makes it, then we’ll have another. I could see us following this approach: buying decently developed U18 players rather than throwing money at overpriced but not good enough ones 
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I expect this, too. Konate might also move on - though I did find Van Dijk’s comments on his situation interesting, he sounded as if though he sensed there was a strong chance of parties coming to resolution.
I am a bit concerned about another summer of “revolution”, though, in addition to homegrown quota being something that should be taken into account. We have fitness issues at centre back and right back (that’s probably an understatement). We need cover at left back. We need a settled midfield trio (that said, they might already be at the club but Jones might want to leave and if Mac Allister’s current form prolongs, we won’t find a club to give him away to, let alone sell him to). We need a least one winger who, for all of his qualities, will likely be judged against arguably the best wide player the club has ever had - how many out there will not buckle under that kind of undeserved pressure?
That’s really lazy, not necessarily us going back for Gordon, but linking Salah’s possible departure with that potential move. That’s just classic unreliable shit.
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I cant see any truth in links to Gordon. Our previous interest was at the very least in part driven by the prospect of him being available relatively cheaply because of Newcastle’s financial position in regards to the FFP rules.
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Gordon hasnt improved over the last couple of seasons. Numbers were decent and you thought he would get better but he dropped off last season. £95m for a player who should be close to the finished article at his age is silly. I think we’d probably buy Mane from Wolves if we wanted a homegrown player in the forwards.
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From the very first post by @ISMF …
Nevertheless, it’s comic relief from some of these sources.
Continuing the discussion from The Unreliable Rumours Discussion Thread (Part 1):
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