Excellent business. Great attitude, scored a few great goals, was immense in the 2 Cup comps. All the best in Monaco, Taki!
The fee is an initial £12.9m (€15m) plus a further £2.6m (€3m) in add ons. Takumi Minamino: Monaco agree transfer deal worth £15.5m for Liverpool forward | Transfer Centre News | Sky Sports Best wishes and thanks Taki!
Loved having Taki here and wished he’d have pushed on more, but still thankful for his contributions. All the best Taki!
Thought someone in the PL would've picked him up for that kind of money. Scored some decent goals and always looked lively. Monaco doesn't seem like a bad place to be. Good luck!
He had more to do with our winning two trophies this season than Salah, Mane, Hendo, and VvD put together! All the best Taki!!
Read something on social media that Taki was spitting piss and vinegar about how he was treated at Anfield. Sounded very un-Taki-like. Anyone else hear anything?
Don't think so - his interview was that he wished he played in more important games etc. (for some reason he didn't think getting us to 2 cup finals was as big as getting starts in the CL and PL - tenuously true).
I truly don’t understand how fans can turn so quickly on a player and look for any small slight to the club. Saw some with Gini, then with Sadio, and now with Taki. Each of them was class while here and offered significant contributions. It’s so simple to say thank you and best wishes. Perhaps I’m just old.
Yep wound absolutely agree with this but I’d have a few exceptions. * Diouf. * Never liked the way McManaman ran his contract down and refused to negotiate. * Not entirely well disposed towards Coutinho, but wouldn’t go on a jihad against him. * Iffy about Owen, but would deffo have a pint with him. There might be others, but largely it’d be “thanks for your time”.
It's hard to blame McManaman for wanting to get away from an increasingly defensive mindset in Gerald Houllier. McManaman was (if not the best player in the premiership at the time - he was maybe just behind Ginola) of a calibre where he needed a team that was set-up to attack like 95-96, 96-97. That great pulse died away in 97-98, and prob was partly responsible for his not being willing to negotiate. Macca knew what had been lost already - because for a couple of years in the mid-90s we were as good as Man Utd, and then just as suddenly, we weren't.... Having said that - there was likely also some greed factor involved.... but would he have left if we had won the FA Cup in 96 and the Prem in 97 as we should have, and it was then still just Roy Evans....?? prob not ....IMO...
Of course - this is the case for me too, but much too often certain segments always seem to slag off players regardless of context. The more I think about it, I guess part of modern fandom is to ignore context, so here we are. /rant McManaman was my favorite player at the time so will always have a soft spot for him.
He totally plays dumb about it now too (watch Carragher's podcast with him) and claims he was begging to come back to Liverpool and he couldn't get in. So I guess that means it's ok to f uck off to Manure .