Close family friend of his dad from what I remember.
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It’s easy to write a story about how much he’s after without it necessarily being true. Easy assumption to make especially with the agent involved and the wages other players are being put on.
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So unhealthy! 
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Out of interest. What wages is de Ligt on and where would he rank compared to our players wages?
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Looked it up. £240k a week. Signed that contract 2 years ago.
We recently extended many of our key players contracts but de Ligt would probably still be in our Top 5.
That’s the answer to why anyone (even Haaland) would work with Raiola.
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My understanding is Riola will take contract negotiations away from the player entirely. Even if Haaland wants to go the best place for his football rather than the highest bidder, Riola is still going to say to the media he wants €50m a year and any calls he gets from a concerned Haaland would lead to a simple “trust me I know what I’m doing”.
That’s the experiences I’ve heard from players represented by him before (and even sometimes players he doesn’t official represent).
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Why not just say, ‘my client isn’t interested in playing for a plastic club’? 
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Cause that will rule out Cheaty meaning he can’t use them as a bargening tool against the normal clubs that bid
Dortmund didn’t enter any negotiations this summer, so Chelsea had no chance anyway.
Haaland apparently turned up to training wearing Leeds shorts after he got linked with Chelsea. I enjoyed that, deliberate or not.
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obviously became a Leeds fan from when Robbie and Dom were there. Knows where he needs to go to before he can make that step up 
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I won’t be upset if we don’t buy another midfielder. I will be upset if we buy a midfielder that is not Yves Bissouma.
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Open minded then!!
Wow, really?
exactly. Everyone is “trying” to sign the next football phenom. but a large part of it is actually developing that talent.
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Yeah, sometimes I wonder what the fuck Klopp does.
Then I see Pep, Arteta…
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The “next big thing” signings are ready top talents that happen to be young and then, when signed, explode onto a new level. Think Ronaldo at United, Aguero at Atletico, Dembele at Dortmund types. We’ve signed players who weren’t exactly fancied that we made world class. We’ve signed players over that 18-21 age range who became some of the best in the world. And we’ve signed talented youngsters, developed them in our academy and made them world class. When was the last time we signed a widely coveted, hyped up/recognised as top talent, 18-21 year old who has come straight into our main core group of players? Ryan Babel maybe? We don’t seem to be a club that likes to take those high price risks on those type of talents and when we have we’ve got it wrong or they’ve just failed to kick on. But those type of moves, when they work, are absolute game changers. Because it’s a high risk and requires top money for younger players who sometimes aren’t quite worth it yet we tend to play it more cautious and end up missing out like we did with Ronaldo and Aguero going for older, more certain Kewell and Kuyt instead.
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We tried it with a certain Lazar Markovic who came with a big price tag of £20mil. once bitten…
Lazar Markovic was hardly widely recognised as a top talent, its unclear what deal exactly was in place but it certainly seemed Chelsea (I think it was) could have pulled the trigger and got him if they wanted. Some kind of refusal on him. And £20m when he was bought wasn’t that big, Aguero and Ronaldo were years earlier and that kind of fee.
I think signing a promising young CF who is ready to breach that gap from youth team to senior might be good. We have Kaide Gordon seemingly ready to follow in Elliotts footsteps and already have Jones fully integrated by now. Two that seem to get a lot of excitement and could be next are Balagazi and Musialowski. I’m not sure whether one of the CFs is looking ready I think someone who follows the youth teams a lot could answer those questions.
But we’ve been linked to Adam Hlozek a bit and he’s looking quality. Maybe a little further back in development Haalands causing Albert Tjaaland seems ready to break through at senior level and is a publicly acknowledged Liverpool fan to boot.
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Now, I’m trying to understand…are any of these players of a type that the club doesn’t usually try and sign or not? 