I think Virgil ends up staying a little longer. Unless there’s a big drop-off from him this season, there still won’t be many better.
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It would involve offering another contract, and presumably the club would look to reduce his salary, given his age. Remains to be seen if Virgil would be up for that.
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An even bigger drop off from where he’s been over the last couple of seasons? Sheesh.
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And yet he’s one of the best in the league.
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We will see.
The moment I personally decided we had to buy him was somepoint between Sadio signing for us while he was still at Southampton. Sadio got him isolated, with a lot of space to run into, tried to beat him and gave up on it knowing he’d been beaten. Later in the game he was faced with a similar opportunity and turned it down. That is Sadio fucking Mane at his peak.
A big part of Virgil’s impact has come from that aura of forwards doing the cheeky baby in the hallway gif when faced up to him and deciding they had better go backwards. The more vulnerable he starts looking the more forwards will start looking to take him on and the impact to us will be exponential
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[quote=“Limiescouse, post:2257, topic:5881, full:true”]The moment I personally decided we had to buy him was somepoint between Sadio signing for us while he was still at Southampton. Sadio got him isolated, with a lot of space to run into, tried to beat him and gave up on it knowing he’d been beaten. Later in the game he was faced with a similar opportunity and turned it down. That is Sadio fucking Mane at his peak.
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Was that when he shielded the ball out for a goal kick? That was my moment as well.
Edit: Hm, that post looks weird.
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Virg could very much still do a job for us beyond this season, but he would be slipping down from main man status to one of the group, depending on how all the permutations in play develop and grow.
He would not be worth the same salary to us, and at his age, agreeing a contract would be very tricky. He would likely want the security of a two year deal, and I doubt he would want much of a wage cut. We would want the flexibility of a rolling one year thing, on less money.
All things considered I think it is quite likely that Virg will depart next summer, hopefully on the back of a successful Liverpool season where we won silverware and he did well personally, and also helped bring through some defenders for us.
He will be on a free, which translates to a better salary for the player, and I fully expect him to take a gig in the sunshine somewhere, playing in an easier league and still earning a lot of dough as he winds it down.
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Yeah, maybe that’s more likely.
I have been around long enough to support through the hard times when trophies were something we hoped fir rather than expected.
I just want us to play an attractive style of footy and hopefully win everything.
But I will still be here through it all.
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Calum Scanlon has interest from both Cardiff City — where he spent the second half of last season on loan — and Sheffield Wednesday. He’s likely to be among the first on the move.
As previously reported, QPR are interested in Luke Chambers. James McConnell has a stack of clubs in the Championship showing admiration as well as Leicester City in League One.
Kieran Morrison’s performances on tour have opened up new loan opportunities, including a couple in the Netherlands.
Calvin Ramsay and Lewis Koumas are likely to stick around a little longer before decisions are made on their next steps, but Ifeanyi Ndukwe is expected to leave after the friendly with Como on Sunday.
The 18-year-old Austrian centre-back has impressed this summer and is weighing up strong offers from Portugal, Germany and Denmark while other clubs in Belgium, France and Spain remain interested.
Ndukwe also has offers back in his homeland but is focused on a new challenge elsewhere in Europe.
To add the exact text to the tweet that @Livvy posted.
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Huge helping of salt required, but the host on the Anfield Index transfer pod just said she’d heard from a reliable source for Chelsea that Strasbourg’s (ie their feeder club’s) right-back Guela Doue is trying to force through a move to Liverpool…
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That’s taking unreliable to a whole new level.
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Who’s ready for an Indy special?
https://x.com/indykaila/status/2087284165628617060
Also Jones to Inter could pick up later this week…could the 2 be connected?
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Less lurking, more buying!
But this is fun, I like an indy special.
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Yeah I also thought he’s looked slow in preseason. Yes it’s only preseason, but I’m not sure we can expect him to be a defensive mainstay beyond this season and even then I wouldn’t be completely shocked if AI ends up with a different CB pairing at the backend of 26-27
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Just to clarify, are those strong offers for Ndukwe loan offers or offers to buy?
I’m assuming they’re loan offers but I’m sure there are clubs interested in buying.
Loan offers. Liverpool just bought him, but need to loan him out so he can accumulate enough points for a work permit.
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Yup. I have now seen the tweet and it’s obviously loan offers.
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There can be zero exits until players come in. We dont have enough players.
We already need 4 or 5 that (look like they) wont be coming so we cannot sanction any departures.
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