The Unreliable Transfer Rumours Discussion Thread (Part 4)

Rumour Mill
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We are about to be linked to everyone and his dog.

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1317

What kind of dog, whippet, Rottweiler is it injury prone, can it play on either wing.

All valid questions

Oh forgot one what’s it’s jump like?

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1318

Jacobs saying we decided against Semenyo after talks in November.

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Seems strange. Wonder what the stumbling blocks were, I presume we’d offer a competitive wage?

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More likely that he’d prefer not to play for a club whose fans racially abused him.

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He wanted out because we did not pay him the right amount of wage (meanwhile Gakpo is on 250k-per-week).

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One fan, who was quickly dealt with.

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I don’t think that makes a difference to Semenyo. That idiot was more than enough on his own.

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https://x.com/indykaila/status/2003571119291617497?s=20

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The Liverpool Transfer Committee is back.

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That’s not surprising if not everyone agreed (doesn’t even matter who was for and against), IF true.

These decisions are far more complex than fans shouting from their sofas “bring him in, that one also and the other one, too”.

Especially in our current situation.

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Need an emergency striker backup?

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its fate

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1328

Can it head?

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That might have happened when he was racially abused by a fan at Anfield :man_facepalming:

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This thought crossed my mind.

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Fan, singular. Now permanently banned from the stadium.

Shame on you.

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He publicly gave a very gracious thank you to the club for the way they handled the situation.

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Yep, he had two years to go on his deal and was agitating for a new contract. At first it all seemed cordial and professional enough, but the longer it progressed you could see it was starting to get a little edge to it, and so our choices were to:

  1. Keep him at the club, disgruntled, on his current terms (which were higher than a lot of the inaccurate reports were suggesting)

  2. Give him a new contract, taking him into his 30s on a high wage (nothing wrong with that per se, but since we pushed the boat out for others, perhaps we didn’t want to put too much money into player wages on the wrong side of 30?)

  3. Sell, for a fair price

We chose option 3.

He’s a good player, no doubt about it. I prefer him over Gakpo in a straight choice. I think our struggles this season have made some look back at what we had before. There have been lots of shouts for Klopp, quite a lot for Diaz, and some were even saying Nunez would have done well for us this season pressing from the front and providing a threat in behind.

We are struggling at the moment, but a new team will emerge from all this, hopefully the sooner the better, and I’m looking forward to seeing how we get there.

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If you had bothered to scroll a couple of posts down, you’d have seen that my point was that it likely didn’t make much difference to Semenyo whether it was one fan or ten. One dickhead was more than enough.

Or maybe you did scroll down and wanted to have a dig anyway.

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Can these players, that continue to opt for City, while the 100+ charges hang over them, be forced to stay with City if they are dropped a division or two? Of course neither that, nor City being dropped a division or two will happen, but it’s Christmas time, and a man can wish.

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