Although its not really saying much, it does feel from DO’s words that PSG aren’t really in for Diomande at the price RBL appear to be pricing him at as I can’t imagine its a problem area on the pitch for them, and that PSG would require YD locking PSG in as his preferred option, to claim the ‘only-to-PSG’ discount.
The fact we have already made an offer would suggest YD hasn’t done that. But thats not to say PSG wont re-enter the frame and change their stance, which IMO might hold a lot of sway for a Côte d’Ivoire player. I’ve been holding off thinking about him in red but this all sounds reasonably positive. Absolutely not locked in yet though.
Oh no, he actually writes very good and interesting articles that he links to there as well; I really don’t think he has any need to use ChatGPD at all. That’s nonsense.
But tbf, you really have to have read a bit of his work first to understand that.
If he’s worth 250m in 3 years at current market escalation he would have been a massive flop. You won’t be able to buy Jon Flanagan for less than a billion in a few years.
I mean the fee is objectively high. But the market for elite right wingers is basically non existent. So yes, we will overpay, but that is unfortunately where the market is. You never know, of course, but I can’t see this guy being a flop. He has all the tools to be very successful in the PL.
I think if you’d told most people a month ago that we’d have been getting two of the world’s most promising young wingers to be our new RW and LW starters for £70m each (which is what it is basically when you combine the fees for Munoz and Diomande), they’d have bitten your hand off.
That’s the problem, though - the shrinking market. Spending big money used to buy a finished product but now it mostly buys potential.
On a side note, I’d like to see what the equivalent of the highest transfer fees in the period between, say, 1996 and 2004 would be now, taking into account the inflation and whatnot. Those were the days when massive fees were paid out for the likes of Ronaldo, Batistuta, Crespo, Vieri, Nesta, Buffon, Mendieta, Inzaghi… But also the likes of Veron, Van Nistelrooy, Ferdinand and Rooney.
Ive seen several analyses of exactly that recently and few of the recent signings figure that highly. There are different methodologies that will produce different results, but Serie A in the early 90s was BIG. Summer 92 Milan broke the world record twice to sign Papin then Lentini and Juve spent a similar amount to bring Vialli in from Sampdoria and thet all still feature right at the top of the inflation adjusted values. Rio’s move to Utd and SHearer’s to Newcastle are typically the Prem’s biggest
But the fans end paying the cost with merchandise, but there is another aspect that is supposed to be the socialist aspect of liverpool , in regards to the community and to which the part shanks revelled in…klopp even said if he signed a player for £100 million he would quit…seems a shame that some of our fans are quite happy to forget about our roots of our club, where spending obscene amounts of money especially in this day and age is dismissed…but yeah lets all make excuses for the stupid money being spent on football players, and then lambast the obscene money that billionaires yield and how unfair it all is.
I dont think Shanks had a problem spending money, and didnt he say something along the lines that the directors were only there to open their chequebooks?
Jurgen’s comments were time specific (fees were at some point going to higher) and more a point of principle - he has always stressed the transfer market shouldnt always be seen as the solution to a team’s difficulties.
