We have at least 10 players available for sale and their loss won’t hurt Klopp and the squad:
Harry Wilson - 24 years old, had several very solid loan stints. Definitely not good enough for Liverpool. In my opinion last season’s offer by Burnley /12 mln. pounds + 3 mln. pounds bonueses/ was good enough. Hopefully Harry plays a solid EURO 2021 and I thnik he will follow the career of Joe Allen. A decent footballer, but not at the level Klopp and the club aspire to be.
Sheyi Ojo - when we signed him for MK Dons I thought that he had the potential to be a top player. For many reasons it did not happen for him. He had a decent season in Cardiff and if an offer of 2-3 mln. pounds arrives, the club could sell him.
Karius - we have to sell, but the problem is that there is no interest. I expect another loan and then he will leave on a free transfer.
Taiwo - finished pretty strong for Mainz 05 last season and started great for Union this season, but injuries hampered his progress. Good player who will bring financial benefit when he is sold. I expect that ahppening this summer.
Grujic - another player that had several successful loans /like Wilson/ and at 24 yeras it is time to sell. There will be plenty of interest, even from Porto. Step by step /after a slow start/ he gained his place in their starting eleven and now he looks much more confident. I excpect a serious interest from the Bundesliga too teams such as Werder, Herha, Stuttgart, Wolsfburg, Eintracht, Gladbach could be interested.
Grabara - the emergence of Kelleher and the potential of Jaros, Davies, Pitaluga and Ojrzynski means that Kamil could be sold.
Liam Miller - another players that will hopefully find his level at L1 or the Championship.
Adam Lewis, Arroyo and Hardy are just part of a group of players that either will be sold, or loaned out.
Minamino - not good enough for us. Time to reccuperate the money we paid to RB group.
AOC - injury prone, did not develope as we all expected, after a brillkiant start of his Liverpool careere. That injury vs. Rome practically stopped him.
And I will add several extra names that could be sold.
Ben Davies - the club signed him, but I have serious doubts that Klopp had anything to do with his signing. The manager constantly overlooking Davies.Preferring Rhys every time he had the opportunity. If Celtic are still interested, I thin we will sell.
Origi - a cult hero for our fanbase. The Belgian was a great servat of this club, but maybe it is time to move on.
Shaqiri - another luxury player /like Ox/. Has bags of talent, but mix of injuries and bad luck means that it is time to sell.
Gini and Adrian will leave on free transfers. And I think that we must sell Keita too. Losing Naby, Gini, Ox will mean that we must sign at least two central midfielders - Bissouma and Zakaria is good enough for me.
A central defender, two central midfielders and at least a forward are the minimum the lcub must try to do to help Klopp /because if we sign Bissouma it will mean that there will be one more player missing when the ACON starts in the middle of the season/.
Last summer, Liverpool hoped to raise £60 million by selling Dejan Lovren, Marko Grujic, Harry Wilson and Loris Karius, and perhaps another £20 million by selling either Xherdan Shaqiri or Divock Origi.
Liverpool sold Rhian Brewster to Sheffield United and Ki-Jana Hoever to Wolves. Those two deals brought in more than £35 million in total but offloading those two bright long-term prospects was considered a pragmatic solution rather than an ideal one.
In hindsight, letting our most promising young defender go for £9m whilst turning down £15m for a player we sent out on loan anyway looks like a very bad decision. Maybe we should have been more pragmatic with what we were willing to accept over who we were willing to let go.
The fees we’ll be able to get this window for the likes of Karius, Grujic and Wilson aren’t going to be any higher than they were last summer.
Turning our nose up at 15m for Wilson was a mistake, a rare one for Edwards.
Hoever though had slipped back in the pecking order, and probably needed the move. Really liked him as a player, but you can’t keep them all. I think we have a reasonable buy back option.
The offer from Burnley was rumored to be £12m, which we purportedly declined because we wanted £15m.
A month earlier (September 2020) he had come close to joining Burnley. However the Premier League side’s offer of around £12 million was under Liverpool’s £15 million asking price — and that is the same fee they continue to value the player at 12 months on.
Only time will tell whether not simply taking the £12m was a mistake – however, after another decent loan and the return of matchday revenue, I think Edwards would be right to look for an offer that matches our asking price.
Put another way: it only becomes a “mistake” if we aren’t even able to get £12m for him, which strikes me as unlikely.
I agree with this and it’s worth mentioning Keita as well coz I just don’t see him overcoming all the injuries. He is injured at the moment FFS! Time to move on to a ‘less physical’ league perhaps.
Agreed. Given the fees received for Brewster and Hoever, I don’t think £15m was all that unreasonable for Wilson. A lot of the chatter I recall from back then was that the club was holding out for £20m - I’m not sure where that idea came from though.
I think it is also worth considering whether that £12m would have been used to pay for additional players or whether it would have been absorbed by the transfer deals that were made anyway. It’s one thing to turn down money that could have been used for example to buy a better option to cover CB, its another for it to go to Bayern and Wolves because they are less willing to give beneficial terms for the transfer.
If I recall correctly, Burnley offer was £12m plus addons, resulting up to £16m. While our expectation was £15m plus addons, resulting up to £20m. I think that gap was substantial in that economic environment and considering the fact that Burnley operates on a tight budget, even on good years.
Considering all clubs will have fans returning in the upcoming season and a general upturn in economy, we can expect a decent fee for Wilson this summer.
It’s a mistake no matter what really. Holding him for another year only to send him out on loan again in the hope of getting £3m more for him now than we did in the summer likely meant we couldn’t replace Lovren or that Hoever was sold to raise funds instead. Or that we had to loan Kabak instead of getting Caleta-Carr in January.
I know I’m saying it with the benefit of hindsight but I think in nearly all possible scenarios, £12m last summer would have been far more beneficial than hopefully £15m this summer.
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