I don’t get the point of all of this “it’s close!” reporting. Just report it when the deal is done.
And if Trent has any integrity, he would wait until after the season is over to sign a deal with RM instead of doing so during a crucial run in towards a Premier League title. It’s not like RM will look elsewhere if he waits until late May.
Well, journalists exist. We cannot cut them out.
Are we trying to unsettle Bournemouth and their fans with our recent links with Kerkez?
No, we’re not. It’s just normal procedure, most transfers these days are found out or talked about before they’re announced.
The word ‘negligence’ really boils my piss when it comes to football.
There are decisions we don’t like and factors we don’t understand. Even mistakes made in good faith.
But Trent isn’t leaving because no-body could be arsed to put a decent contract in front of him.
Well if you cut off the rest of what I said it probably will boil your piss.
I had highlighted there are lots of factors at play and mentioned ‘systemic’, i.e. not related to one single part like you replied with.
But at the end of the day, we shouldn’t have let it get to the stage where a world class player in his prime can leave on a free (never mind 3 of them!)
The way most of the fan base are moaning and groaning is embarrassing.
Why wait till after the season to sign it. Unless you mean anounce it which has always seemed the case would happen.
With all the shit he gets from 90% of the fan base if it was me I would have said fuck you lot im off.
Yes, but I think the issue is less that Trent wants a new challenge, and more that we’re not getting a bean for him.
I don’t see this as anyones fault - it’s just a natural consequence of period of upheaval. As soon as Jurgen announces he is going(and the club will have known before us), that creates a massive gap in the sporting direction of the club.
FSG decide that they can’t replace Klopp and go back to the model when he arrived - a manager working under a string director of football - they are not going to get any contracts sorted with no director of football, and the big lads aren’t going to sign new contracts without knowing who they’ll be working with, and whether they are going to get on with the new guy.
This left us vulnerable to Trent’s head getting turned by Madrid, but I don’t think it’s anyoneMs fault. It’s just one of those things.
I’d be delighted to see extensions for Salah and Virgil announced, but in all honesty I think all three are going to go, Edwards, Hughes and Slot want to build a new team, and I’m not sure I can say that would be a mistake.
If anything his weekly wage is less at Madrid than we offered (you would think) and OK he gets signing on fee.
But trent leaving might free up some extra funds for VVD and Salah.
Reminds me of when Mane and Mo both had a year left…as soon as Mane left Mo signed his deal as LFC could offer Mo that bit more now Mane was off the books (and Mane reportedly wanted pretty much the same as Mo)
If he thinks he’ll have an easier ride at Madrid he’s sorely mistaken
I think the club would be mad to let all 3 go -especially after winning the league.
Has there many teams who are considerably weaker the day after lifting the prem trophy?
FSG would have to lay out some serious funds with those 3 going plus the other upgrades we need in other areas of the pitch and thats not FSG
I didn’t cut anything off. I just think negligence isn’t the right word in this context, and feels a bit over the top. Something you’d see on Twitter rather than our forum.
The club has been a bit unfortunate in that the 18months between Klopp announcing his departure and Slot proving he was a worthy successor was the time to get this done, and that left us vulnerable to losing him. I don’t think it’s negligence.
No one knows, but the odds on improving after losing the world’s best CB, the source of most of our goals, and a world class creator seem low.
I do see the argument for freeing up at least one of their wage bills though.
An ideal world would be keeping them for a couple of years and adding to the squad but I assume they have choices to make in this regard
I honestly have no issues with him leaving. He has won everything here and he wants a new lifestyle and try something different. If I got the offer in my job to go an work abroad, less tax, better weather and less stress - and thats before I got paid - id be mad not to give it a go.
Yes its disappointing not get a fee for him but if the club offered him contracts and his mind was made up then thats on them
You did though. Giving an opinion over actual fact is something more common on Twitter
Virgil is the one that would really concern me. But even then, I don’t think the club see it that way.
With Salah, he is getting on, players tend to drop off sharply, and next season - which might be the last productive one - there is an AFCON to navigate. The last one of those properly fucked him.
We’re already seeing how he is having to manage himself through 90 minutes, and rely on others legs to get him through games.
As good as he is, the club are obliged to think long term, and may view it as unwise to have a team built to service a 34 year old who could drop off a cliff at any moment.
So I don’t think the club would be mad.
A lot of people are saying variants of this, and I think it’s based on a perception of FSG that just isn’t rooted in reality.
When they need to spend, they spend.
I’ve said for a while now that this might be a summer with six incomings and the club spending £200m plus net.
What FSG don’t do is sign players for the sake of it. To win transfer windows, as it were.
Who says he does.
Trent, or more importantly, whoever is advising him at the moment (his brother), have surely been negligent in their duty towards him regarding the contract running down…
The reason being, and this also brings into question, a big question, of his commitment on the pitch during each game… we only have to think back to the injury Alan Smith got on the Anfield pitch a few years back… the kid was never the same again..!
The point being, there were plenty of ways for Trent to have handled this contract situation… a situation that would deem everyone a winner at the end of it…
Now, the lad is playing every game, with a cloud of injury hanging over his head, without anyone being under an obligation to renew it after this season, or issue a new one…!
The retired striker, who came through the ranks at Leeds United and proudly represented the club before they were relegated in 2004, sustained an awful broken leg and dislocated ankle while defending a John Arne Riise free-kick in the closing stages of an FA Cup fifth round tie at Anfield.
There is no incentive for him to sign a new contract with an affordable release clause, and I don’t think that the club would be particularly willing to offer him one either. If he absolutely wants to leave, he won’t do anything to risk it, and the club is determined to keep him long-term, not get a token fee for his departure.
There isn’t a way for him to leave and please everyone. It’s highly disappointing that we can’t keep even the local vice-captain away from their clutches, but he must be seeing this as an one in a lifetime opportunity.
I don’t understand why people are treating this as though it’s already happened.
