Criminally Negligent: The Liverpool Transfers Thread (2025)

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  1. LiverpoolFanatic

    Liverpool FC, Philadelphia Union
    Feb 19, 2000
    Lancaster, PA
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    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Good luck to Nat Phillips.
     
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  2. Menace2Sobriety

    Menace2Sobriety Member+

    Aug 12, 2004
    Washington DC
    Well, in Hungarian…Kerkez Kedd!

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  3. zaqualung

    zaqualung Member+

    Jun 17, 2015
    San Francisco
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Definitely not. he rarely played badly.

    SAF just preferred Scholes or maybe not interfering with the camaraderie of the Giggs, Scholes, Beckham, neville axis too much.
    Personally I strongly doubt Scholes would have started for Argentina at that time ahead of Veron. Or that that Lazio team would have won the 2000 (i hink it was) Scudetto if you;d swapped them.
     
  4. zaqualung

    zaqualung Member+

    Jun 17, 2015
    San Francisco
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Luckily Hungarian is not necessary for planning stuff .... or most stuff would nto get planned. Dastardly difficult language to learn as a 2nd language, I'm told by a linguist friend.
     
  5. ewibe

    ewibe Member+

    Jun 4, 2015
    Stavanger
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    That sorts it if we buy him back he is the real deal
     
  6. imasyko

    imasyko Member+

    May 16, 2002
    Spring City, PA
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Just curious...do they have spelling bees in Hungary> :)
     
  7. SamScouse

    SamScouse Member+

    Jun 1, 2015
    Toronto
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    Liverpool FC
    doubt it, my guess is even the people have problems spelling things.
     
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  8. SamScouse

    SamScouse Member+

    Jun 1, 2015
    Toronto
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  9. Wingtips1

    Wingtips1 Member+

    May 3, 2004
    02116
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    Liverpool FC
    In cash, yes.
    But the dollar cost of the total transfer is amortized over the life of the contract.
    So if we pay 100m in cash today or 25m annually, the accounts show us spending 20m/year (100m for 5 yr contract).
    Or ~half the money we recouped for Quansah which we get to count IMMEDIATELY in our accounts.
     
  10. Wingtips1

    Wingtips1 Member+

    May 3, 2004
    02116
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    Liverpool FC
    At the risk of being like real a second time, they have triggered buybacks many times only to turn around and sell the player for a tidy profit.
    And, yes, their buyback clauses are always somehow unworldly tiny sums for the players they sell on.

    From AI:
     
  11. Wingtips1

    Wingtips1 Member+

    May 3, 2004
    02116
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    Liverpool FC
    That was more SAF trying to play him as a #10 when he was patently not a #10.
     
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  12. newterp

    newterp Moderator
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    Jun 6, 2007
    North Potomac, MD
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    Liverpool FC
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    United States
    Oh yeah - sorry I thought you meant something else regarding the net spend for the summer.
     
  13. SamScouse

    SamScouse Member+

    Jun 1, 2015
    Toronto
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    Fabrizio Romano
    @FabrizioRomano
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    3m
    Milos Kerkez can now be considered as new Liverpool player, deal also club to club

    Medical completed and contracts sealed with left back joining Liverpool for £40m as fee from Bournemouth.

    confirmed. Official statement next.
     
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  14. Suss

    Suss Moderator
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    Aug 11, 2003
    New York
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    Liverpool FC
    Nunez to Napoli seems like it’s happening. I wouldn’t have thought that Napoli could afford him. Will be interesting to see what kind of fee we get for him.
     
  15. Samarkand

    Samarkand Member+

    May 28, 2001
    Have seen £37m quoted.
     
  16. newterp

    newterp Moderator
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    Jun 6, 2007
    North Potomac, MD
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    Liverpool FC
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    United States
    I believe that was the initial offer (And then some add-ons that were supposed to get the deal closer to 43m-45m).
     
  17. LiverpoolFanatic

    Liverpool FC, Philadelphia Union
    Feb 19, 2000
    Lancaster, PA
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  18. speker

    speker Member+

    May 16, 2009
    Canada
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    I think it's a big problem, once again. I tend not to trust a players motives once he's run his deal down to one year. Liverpool will certainly want to tie Ibou down and as with our other guys will be offering good money. We saw it with Emre Can and recently with Trent as both opted to run down their deals preferring to walk and grab the big signing on fee elsewhere. I hate it but the clubs options seem limited if Ibou continues to stall.

    Sell
    (if he'll go)or bench him which would impact his World Cup chances.
     
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  19. Red Bird

    Red Bird Member+

    Sep 30, 2003
    Oxford
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    Liverpool FC
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    England
    We storm the league.
     
  20. Red Bird

    Red Bird Member+

    Sep 30, 2003
    Oxford
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Are we actually interested in Guéhi? I’m not convinced we are.
     
  21. SamScouse

    SamScouse Member+

    Jun 1, 2015
    Toronto
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Liverpool and Uruguay striker Darwin Nunez, 25, has made Napoli his preferred destination if he leaves Anfield this summer. (Football Italia)

    Newcastle are willing to make 25-year-old Sweden striker Alexander Isak the best-paid player in the club's history to ward off interest from Liverpool, Barcelona and Arsenal. (Times - subscription required)
     
  22. Suss

    Suss Moderator
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    Aug 11, 2003
    New York
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Or enjoy what he has to offer for one more year and win more trophies. I think selling him would be a huge mistake. We are assembling one of the greatest squads we have ever had, and I would not risk leaving us short at the back. The club seems to be less bothered with players leaving on a free than most supporters are. I would pencil Konate in as the starting centerback, sign a player who can challenge him for minutes, and then continue negotiating a new contract with him after the summer business is over.

    If he leaves on a free we will have partially replaced him with a player who will have a year at Liverpool under his belt. Then we have 12 months to come up with a long term replacement next summer.
     
  23. speker

    speker Member+

    May 16, 2009
    Canada
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    We could ,Suss and I think Real Madrid would be high fiving all round saying , "Yes Ibou , well in lad. See you next June!"


    "Oh and by the way ,Ask yer pal Macca when his deal expires. We may have another opening."
     
  24. Suss

    Suss Moderator
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    Aug 11, 2003
    New York
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Still not sure what we could do about it. We can go to Madrid and say give us 50 million for Ibou, and they would say no thanks we only want him for free. At the same time they can promise Ibou even higher wages for coming for free.

    From Ibou’s point of view, it’s a bit risky to not have a long term contract when you are as injury prone as he is.
     
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  25. speker

    speker Member+

    May 16, 2009
    Canada
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Agreed it's a problem of which I don't know the solution either but the club must figure it out.

    I have read where the club do not want to be caught in the same situation it found itself with Trent. One suggestion was to buy another cb eg Guehi then ask Ibou to either sign or be sold and if he decides to stay and run down his deal then sit him out. It is a WC year so odds are he would want to be playing........somewhere.

    Ideally Ibou signs a new deal but bottom line a club like Lpool cannot continue to allow some of its top assets in their peak years to walk away for nothing.
     
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