That’s about actual physical incapacitation, one incident of which led directly or indirectly to the revised rules around concussion substitutes, no?
But it’s about refereeing. Perhaps you could argue that we could have tried to push the limits around that too, but again, I don’t think we were focused on attacking their players but scoring the goals we needed to win (we even took the lead before concussion helped them score).
Trent Alexander-Arnold enjoyed a farewell party over the weekend with no expenses spared - leaving Reds fans furious once again. 
The Liverpool vice-captain laid on a lavish personal summer festival with a band, flamethrowers, bars, and barbecue food at the club’s AXA Training Centre.
And the fun didn’t stop there, with beach games, a kids’ zone, fairies on stilts, crazy golf, and even cakes dedicated to him under the party’s ‘Summer of 66’ (his shirt number) theme.
Wait, he paid for his own farewell party?
What a bunch of cheapskate owners we have. #FSGOut
Where’s the money saved on TAA leaving party John???
Simple answer: it explains the gaudy monstrosity that Salah was wearing at the contract signing…
Who did he book? Rammstein?
TAA would have to go a long way to beat this party that a friend of mine attended..
The host declared himself bankrupt shortly afterwards but what a way to go…
I think 4 years for Bradley is about right at this stage.
He’s got much more proving to do than Trent when Trent signed his last extension.
Contracts are usually between 4-5 years, so I have no issues with the amount of years we agreed with Bradley at the moment. I didn’t expect it to be 3 or 6.
The rest we’ll see what the future holds.
We cannot guarantee what we will want to do in his position in 2029 or before (we are actually signing a player to add competition) and he cannot guarantee what he might want to do in a few years.
I’ve no issue whatsoever with Trent having a farewell party. The discussion over him leaving has all been done, wherever you stand on that. With the decision made, a farewell party is part of the package. The scale of the party is related to the money top level footballers earn. It was never going to be a quiet meal in the corner of a modest restaurant.
I hope there’s no more booing and the agenda moves on. Bradley is a smashing player who just signed a new deal. Frimpong is on the way. More signings to come as Slot shapes his squad. All from a position of strength as champions.
The future is very bright indeed.
At the risk of stirring up a hornet’s nest again, I was just thinking about the whole argument of missing out on a transfer fee for him.
Is it common at all that a top club pays a transfer fee for a player in their prime from another top club? And by top club I mean clubs who would have been among the favourites for their domestic title or the Champions League title. The closest I can think of is Thiago (twice)?
Sad to see how his departure is being handled.
Hope Slot does the sensible thing to start him on Sunday so that Trent receives the deserved send off when he takes him off after the hour mark.
Neymar - Barcelona → PSG
Coutinho - Liverpool → Barcelona
Lukaku - Inter → Chelsea
Pogba - Juve → ManU
Hazard - Chelsea → RM
Ronaldo - ManU → RM
Have I misunderstood the question? Coutinho is one which very much provides an example of how some think the move should have been done. Sign an extension and then move so the old club makes some money from the move.
I guess we could take that, but that was more that Barcelona (nor anyone, really) thought that PSG (or anyone, really) would actually pay that money for the release clause?
Realistically, no, we weren’t favourites except in our own eyes. We may have been in the ascendancy, but I remember fans thinking it would be like the Suarez or Alonson situations.
That’s a good one! But I’m not sure Chelsea were favourites for anything despite having just won the Champions League…
Perhaps it’s my selective memory, but I don’t think the latter has been a favourite for the league or Champions League since 2011?
The former doesn’t count, not favourites for anything.
Again, good example!
I think that missing out on a transfer fee for him is used as the biggest stick to beat him with because people are convinced that he engineered that particular exit strategy on instructions from Real Madrid, putting the personal gain and the gain of other club over the club that made him. Personally, I’m in that camp. I don’t think that Liverpool would have begrudged him a move had he just told them he wanted to move to a foreign club.
As for transfers between rival clubs, probably the biggest “rival transfer” that I can think of is Figo’s move from Barcelona to Real Madrid?
Also, someone reminded me that Higuain moved from Napoli to Juventus, I think Napoli were fighting them for the title back then?
If TAA has been taken aback by some of the hostilities toward him, he could begin to mend fences by dropping a percentage of his signing-on fee, into the foodbanks on Merseyside.
Might not even make a ripple of change to some supporters, but some type of gesture, is better than no gesture at all.
IMO, he and his brothers have really cocked-up the way this entire episode has unfolded… Yet the brothers have never earned the legacy that TAA could/should have protected…
The season end will be a welcome break from all the toxic comments that are being bandied about… We just need to look forward to the possibility of Robbo marking him out of the game, in the probability we will play RM at some stage next season
Hopefully everyone’s got it all out of their system now, whether booing or defending him. Total ambivalence in relation to Trent and focus on the trophy lift and celebrations
Ha ha ha, not going to happen, if anything the resentment has grown since the Arsenal game with his fucking ludicrous leaving party and face-like-a-smacked-arse last night.
Why is leaving party an issue? In the grand scheme of mad shit footballers do, I don’t think it really moves the needle.
People leaving jobs having leaving do’s. It’s just a matter of scale.
I’m tired of pointing out how that particular opinion requires a lot of assumptions that don’t seem particularly likely, so I’m not interested in that bit.
I’m more interested in this question, hence my own question posed. I’m wondering if a market for him existed in the first place, i.e. would there be a transfer fee for which we’d be willing to sell him, versus a transfer fee for which a club, like Real Madrid, might be willing to buy him. I suspect that there’s no overlap in the ranges, hence the wondering of how often it’s happened historically, especially recently.
That was 25 years ago now, and it was also the first thing that came to my mind but I’m thinking it’s less relevant since it was 25 years ago, and according to Luis Figo to Real Madrid: The Transfer That Launched the Galacticos Era it was more a Perez thing than anything else?
I just looked it up, and curiously enough in his three seasons at Napoli, they were nowhere close in the first two, and ironically closer in the two seasons after he left, but I guess that counts regardless.
I know people keep suggesting that he could have signed a contract with a reasonable release clause for Real Madrid, but I’m sceptical that he would be offered such a contract. Firstly, it would set an unwelcome precedent for the club. Secondly, right now all the anger is focused at him. Can you imagine what would have happened if the club had given him such a contract? I would guess that there would still be anger, but a lot of it would now be directed at the club. Lastly, although it’s often suggested that the club doesn’t keep players who want to leave, I think the evidence shows that unless a player actively forces their way out, e.g. Mignolet, we tend to keep them as long as it suits us, e.g. Kelleher, Gomez.