Liverpool transfers in/out and rumours 22/23 + Contracts

[Steveo]

Truth is - there is nobody out there at this moment in time - with this level of individual brilliance.

See how many times he Diego's through players. On his day as good as any player there was. 2 and 3 moved ahead of the opposition.Man oh man what a player. Turn you inside out and upside down - cut through teams like a knife through butter. The way he ran with the ball. One of only a very few players who could ever do that.


We have had some absolute genius players down the years.





That great Liverpool side - one of if not the best ever - and Barnes was literally heads and shoulders above any of them.

Free kick at Loftus Road - and the ball would have hit me on the head had the net not stopped it.. Memories

[jozza800]

Hard to take cities reported spending seriously with off the books payments.
At the peak of his powers and best goal/Assist stats, sterling took a pay cut by the books.

Either way. It's hard to argue that City have spent their money significantly better than United.

[jozza800]

Truth is - there is nobody out there at this moment in time - with this level of individual brilliance.

See how many times he Diego's through players. On his day as good as any player there was. 2 and 3 moved ahead of the opposition.Man oh man what a player. Turn you inside out and upside down - cut through teams like a knife through butter. The way he ran with the ball. One of only a very few players who could ever do that.


We have had some absolute genius players down the years.





That great Liverpool side - one of if not the best ever - and Barnes was literally heads and shoulders above any of them.

Free kick at Loftus Road - and the ball would have hit me on the head had the net not stopped it.. Memories

You're right, those kind of players are long gone.

It's all down to tactical positional play and playing safe/keeping the ball.

As kid I was a winger. I'd have hated playing in today's systems.

[Insidious]

As kid I was a winger. I'd have hated playing in today's systems.

There are so many "free spirit" types who would hate the likes of a Guardiola system.

Just picturing a Kanchelskis type playing for Pep

[Steveo]

You're right, those kind of players are long gone.

It's all down to tactical positional play and playing safe/keeping the ball.

As kid I was a winger. I'd have hated playing in today's systems.

Precisely. My son is going through the indoctrination now - like the programming of a robot.

[ianlfc]

Precisely. My son is going through the indoctrination now - like the programming of a robot.

Any flair he possesses will be soon knocked out of him . Can't be having any of that fancy shit anymore.

[jozza800]

The two that really stick out to me are Joe Cole and Jack Grealish.

Joe Cole especially, when he burst onto the scene at Wham he was direct, pacey and loved to beat a man. Mourinho essentially turned him into James Milner!

[Steveo]

Any flair he possesses will be soon knocked out of him . Can't be having any of that fancy shit anymore.

This.. Precisely this. But I’m a 51 year old “dinosaur of a dad” so when I speak about it I get laughed at.

[miller0863]

Have to admit, never heard of him and I don’t believe that salary for one second.




Liverpool have been linked with Real Sociedad winger Takefusa Kubo and reports in his native Japan suggest just how serious their interest is, with an offer supposedly being prepared as well as details of a lucrative contract proposal emerging.

Kubo has lit up LaLiga with Real Sociedad over the past couple of seasons after joining the club from Real Madrid in 2022. While the move to Madrid may have come too soon in his career, the door doesn’t seem closed by any means to a top-level transfer.
Still only 23 years old, Kubo has a bright career ahead of him and he has been tipped to take the next step as early as this summer. Liverpool are among the many Premier League clubs to have been linked with the Japan international.

Now, according to Sponichi, a Japanese outlet that cites English sources, Liverpool are preparing to bid €65m (£54.8m) for Kubo, which is actually €5m higher than his Real Sociedad release clause.

Not only would that make Kubo the most expensive Japanese player of all time, but he could become the best-paid Japanese player of all time too.

Indeed, the report claims Liverpool have drafted up a contract with an annual salary of €15m (equating to around £240,000 per week) for Kubo. The only Liverpool player currently on more than that is Salah himself.

[jozza800]

Why would we pay more than the release clause?

Sounds like utter bollocks.