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Other Clubs Transfers 2018 Summer edition (Everton seek to burn 50m)

goon

Ray wrote:
Salah-37M
Ox-£35M
Dijk-£75M
Keita-55M
Fabinho £45M

They’ve spent something like £250M in the last year alone and apart from Ox they’ve all been quality. And if they do get Fekir and Allison that would be close to £350M that is Utd/City level spending. We’ve got no chance with our self sustaining model especially with the type of players we’re going for.

They’ve brought in over 150m in the same period so that’s only a net spend of 100m. Getting to the CL final probably pays for Fabinho too.

We spent over 100m net not too long ago. I don’t think you want to see what we got for our money..

JazzG

Bryant wrote:
We should learn from Liverpool to get things done quickly and not dither around. They probably secured Fabinho's signing in early May and decided to announce it now.

I suspect it's the same thing with Fekir, probably done or very close to being done.

Lets hope we do change our ways but I wouldn't count on it. While the manager has gone the board and ownership remains the same.

mdgoonah41 wrote:
the fact that we showed no interest in fabinho is perplexing. especially at that price. unless we approached and he turned us down because were not in the CL

Doubt we even approached him. We're in no position to sign players like him.

ohboy

Keita and Fabinho, that is what you call an athletic and energetic midfield. It is infuriating the more you think about it. The Wenger led side of the last few years, would literally have been run off the park against the sort of Liverpool team we will see next year.

Emery has a huge task ahead.

goon

Only way we sign players of that profile is if no one else is interested (like Auba). This is our new reality folks. Being up in arms over us not signing him isn’t too dissimilar to what deluded Liverpool fans were doing when Sanchez chose us over them.

How the tables have turned...

Clrnc

If they get Allison and Fekir, that will be an unreal team and depth. They took just 2 windows to transform that team from average to world class. Literally will have signed every single player we wishlisted. The most annoying thing about their ambitions is we cant even say Wenger Out now.

Cant be panicking at this stage though. They havent won anything, finished 1 point behind their last season league tally and lost a European cup final. We just appointed a manager who beat their manager in a cup final 4 years ago.

Ricky1985

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Not sure if that being true would make me feel better or worse?

What do we sit around waiting for exactly? It's maddening.

Jed

What a signing for Liverpool. Their midfield is top quality now.

JazzG

Ricky1985 wrote:
What do we sit around waiting for exactly? It's maddening.

I doubt we were in for him, I'd like to hope we were but I've heard this nearly signed for bullshit too many times.

We're like those bargain hunters who show up to a shop when there is 40% off, think we will back when it is an extra 25% off and find everything is gone. Unless the selling club show resistance clubs go in and get their business done early

goon wrote:
They’ve brought in over 150m in the same period so that’s only a net spend of 100m. Getting to the CL final probably pays for Fabinho too.

We spent over 100m net not too long ago. I don’t think you want to see what we got for our money..

Yup, they've offloaded a whole load of rubbish out of their squad so their net spend isn't that high either. The squad they've built has been done step by step over many windows. We will have to go through that long process now as well.

Mirth

Ricky1985 wrote:
What do we sit around waiting for exactly? It's maddening.

In general who knows, but in this case we've been a bit distracted for the past couple of months.

What Liverpool have shown us is that it'll probably take a couple of seasons to get to that level in the first place. It's a lot easier to sign players when you have CL football and just reached the final.

Clrnc

Very reliable journalist just confirmed we moved in for Fabinho once we realised Liverpool bid for him but it was too late in the end.

Apparently he is Emery first choice to build a team around for Midfield which is why we didnt have much time to go for him after appointing Emery. Emery pushed hard to convince our board to sign him the last few days. He tried to sign him for PSG last season as well. Makes me feel better we tried to show some ambition, as sad as it sounds. Slow transfer team again, annoying assholes

Klaus

At least it means Emery realises that we needs a new central mid. That's weirdly encouraging to me.

If he wants a new midfielder we'll get one. Fabinho is a fantastic player; there are dozens more on his level in Europe. The question is whether we bid on him because we've realised it's not healthy to reward Xhaka for failure a third year in a row, or because he was the intended Ramsey replacement...

Ricky1985

Why did our transfer team need Emery to tell them Fabinho is a good player? That's what I don't understand.

Everyone knew he was leaving Monaco this summer, we should have been talking to his reps as early as was possible.

Mirth

It depends on the way this new structure works, right? Should they be bringing in players and getting the manager to work with them or should the manager be the one giving direction to what position/profile we look for?

lorddulaarsenal

I think Emery is gunna do good tings for us

Bryant

I think we weren't interested in Fabinho before due to Wenger's dislike of Mendes. They probably did not want to sign someone before we actually hired a manager.

Gazza M

JazzG wrote:
Ricky1985 wrote:
What do we sit around waiting for exactly? It's maddening.

I doubt we were in for him, I'd like to hope we were but I've heard this nearly signed for bullshit too many times.

We're like those bargain hunters who show up to a shop when there is 40% off, think we will back when it is an extra 25% off and find everything is gone. Unless the selling club show resistance clubs go in and get their business done early

goon wrote:
They’ve brought in over 150m in the same period so that’s only a net spend of 100m. Getting to the CL final probably pays for Fabinho too.

We spent over 100m net not too long ago. I don’t think you want to see what we got for our money..

Yup, they've offloaded a whole load of rubbish out of their squad so their net spend isn't that high either. The squad they've built has been done step by step over many windows. We will have to go through that long process now as well.

We also have to contend with agents hawking their players around once we show interest. This is more damaging to us now that we've been leapfrogged by pool. We are currently the least attractive of the top English clubs (city, united, chelsea, pool), so if the player is good there will most likely be a better offer waiting in the wings

Bryant

Apparently, the guy who first broke the news that Liverpool will sign Fabinho today is saying that Oblak is Liverpool's #1 target at GK while Alisson is #2.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/breaking-liverpool-complete-45m-deal-12612810

Clrnc

Ricky1985 wrote:
Why did our transfer team need Emery to tell them Fabinho is a good player? That's what I don't understand.

Everyone knew he was leaving Monaco this summer, we should have been talking to his reps as early as was possible.

Maybe because the structure only works after consulting the manager on his plans and how he want to spend his limited budget? I dont know, I'm using some logic to console myself 😆

For a midfield general, I had 5 player wishlisted in mind. Fred, Jorginho, Fabinho are all gone, Keita very early as well. We can redeem it with either Ndombele or Milinko Savic.

I still hope we can sign Fekir, but failing that we can get Mahrez, Guedes, Ozyabal, Bailey or even Lemar/Malcom? Not as good as Fekir but still decent choices available out there.

Bryant

Clrnc wrote:
Ricky1985 wrote:
Why did our transfer team need Emery to tell them Fabinho is a good player? That's what I don't understand.

Everyone knew he was leaving Monaco this summer, we should have been talking to his reps as early as was possible.

Maybe because the structure only works after consulting the manager on his plans and how he want to spend his limited budget? I dont know, I'm using some logic to console myself 😆

For a midfield general, I had 5 player wishlisted in mind. Fred, Jorginho, Fabinho are all gone, Keita very early as well. We can redeem it with either Ndombele or Milinko Savic.

I still hope we can sign Fekir, but failing that we can get Mahrez, Guedes, Ozyabal, Bailey or even Lemar/Malcom? Not as good as Fekir but still decent choices available out there.

Mahrez looks very close to sitting on Man City's bench for 75m:

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/man-city-riyad-mahrez-news-1613143

Clrnc

Bryant wrote:
Apparently, the guy who first broke the news that Liverpool will sign Fabinho today is saying that Oblak is Liverpool's #1 target at GK while Alisson is #2.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/breaking-liverpool-complete-45m-deal-12612810

Alot of Liverpool supposedly itk saying they will bid record fee for Alisson and completing the deal soon.

I can forgive us for not getting other positions fixed yet cause there are plenty of options, but there's literally zero players that is as good as Alisson and gettable for keeper. No excuse for not going for him at all.

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