I agree.
It kind of takes the pressure off us and may stop clubs holding us over a barrel for any future potential signings.
I have also been really impressed with Bajetic. Maybe, our failed attempts are a blessing in disguise.
And who knows, maybe Endo will surprise us all. Playing with no pressure of the price tag, with better players and Klopp’s guidance, wanting to prove himself. 
Sounds sensible to me. Granted I’ve only seen him from the World Cup, but he’s Captain of a decent Japan side. He’s reliable, experienced and relatively cheap at £15/16 million.
There’s not a single doubt in my mind that this signing is to urgently add a bit of necessary steel as the season has already started and not because he’s the new Fabinho. With Endo in, we can breathe a deep breath and not now complete a panicky deal for over the odds on the player who will be our first choice no 6 for the next several years. Hopefully that’s Doucoure imo, but we’ll see.
What are you, 12?
I guess long story short all he has to do is be better than Fabinho was last season. We had the shittest season in recent memory and still nearly got there. If he’s just a bit better than the walking disaster that Fabinho was in 22/23 then we should be comfortably making the Top 4 again.
Sounds like a Lucas? So we can expect roughly 10 free kicks a game around 20-25 yard mark from fouls?
The transfer thread where everyone wanted @Nikola to open.
nah, he’s Japanese. Sounds more like a Honda (Keisuke). much better wiring. 
Baffled by some of the negativity around this tbh, but ok 
If you look at his name quickly you see “wet fart ended”.
not surprised to be honest… the transfer window is more of a popularity contest than anything else. Thats why when small teams like brighton sign unknowns like Caicedo, no one notices until they see him play…Big teams must ALWAYS sign the so called big players (whatever that means) that everyone is after…
I was just going to ask that.
Months
Yeah- he might realise that long-held ambition of captaining his country.
Oh wait…
The constant underrating of the guy purely because he won’t cost £100m is ridiculous.
Obligatory FBref stats, in comparison with Fabinho over the last year:
Posted this in the wrong thread:
I have to admit that I’m now warming up to this move. Obviously, the nature of the fee and the contract will be important, but if he can play a role like Klavan did for us at the time, then it will be worth it.
But again, why leave it so late? That’s the question. It would have been so much better to have this lad around a month ago or so. Now he has to adapt to a new country, language, city, club, league within a minute.
Depending on price… Looks like a great pickup if he can reproduce his performances from the Bundesliga.
The stats and reports all seem to indicate that he has been a very good player over the last few years.
At 30 though and in Klopp’s system, I would obviously be worried about his legs and when his performances will drop off a cliff.
This proves what i said a couple months ago for a lot of the fan base they are less concerned who the player is more of how much he cost.
And without proper Klopp pre-season training under his belt.
Im guessing we aren’t expecting him to play 90min every game.
For the avoidance of doubt:
Lucas was one of my favorite LFC players and I mean this comparison positively.
