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Thread: General Transfer Thread Summer 2023

  1. #1331
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    what makes me fucking sick (if the rumours are true) FSG are not wiling to give Salah the money he wants.. these shitbags have gotten richer of Salah for his contributions..
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    It’s not as if no one else will pay it, for all three because they will.

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    Quote Originally Posted by justme View Post
    what makes me fucking sick (if the rumours are true) FSG are not wiling to give Salah the money he wants.. these shitbags have gotten richer of Salah for his contributions..
    Depends on what Salah and his agent want. Without figures, these 'rumours' are useless...

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    I think its what he's on now and a 2 year extension. If its a ridiculous request then fine. But i doubt it is.. We saved millions in wages over the summer.. FSG don't care about us winning anything. If we were to finish outside the top 4. instead of spending money. They'd limit even more money that goes into clubs coffers when it comes to players.
    I think its a bit pathetic we are one of the richest clubs on earth and we have to scrimp and save.. We only got Chisea because he was a cheap option.. not saying he won't work out in the end.. after he gets 100% fitness but time will tell.
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    You have to ask yourself which is more probable, a penny pinching, money grabbing bunch of gits refusing to give players the contracts they deserve, or a number of senior players who have been instrumental to the club's recent success holding the club to ransom?

    I think most rational people would say the first scenario is the more likely of the two. Of course only those involved in contract negotiations will know for sure, but if I had to put money on who I think is the villain of the piece, I'd wager it's FSG.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RedMagic View Post
    You have to ask yourself which is more probable, a penny pinching, money grabbing bunch of gits refusing to give players the contracts they deserve
    Just stop you there for a second.

    We pay £925,000 per week on our attacking unit at present in Salah, Jota, Gakpo, Núñez, Chiesa and Diaz - and some of these lads are going to end up getting wage increases in time as they sign new deals or want last big pay-days depending on age (Jota?) and so on.

    How much would we have to pay our attack per week for the owners not to be seen as penny-pinching, in your eyes?

    Our squad has rarely looked this complete. A squad is never "finished" of course, but how often have we had it this good? The club is also future-proofing at present - we have a talented keeper joining us next season, left-back looks like it may be addressed, certain younger players managed to break through because we didn't always chase senior ready-made lads (Jones, Elliott, Quansah) and more may yet (Bajcetic, Danns, Doak) and we have depth in most positions.

    Play with 3 attackers and we have 6 of them.
    Good group of midfielders.
    Two good left-backs.
    Two good right-backs.
    Four good centre-backs.
    Three good goalies.

    All of whom are getting paid....

    Bring in a Regista-type that suits Klopp's style rather than Endo (maybe a player in and Endo+Morton out) and sort out a contract or two and blam - arguably our deepest-ever squad. Still always room for improvement (centre-back and left-back need future-proofed soon, as does Sarah's spot) and there's never any certainty, but I don't think the sky is looking all that cloudy.

    Sometimes time to assess opens doors. If we had gone out and strengthened in midfield immediately this Summer, we may not have gotten to witness the Gravenberch show, whereas now we can probably target a player to compliment his skill-set.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steveo View Post
    A reminder from September 2021.. Chant is very much applicable today - and it will be 5 years next May since we won our only title in 35 years.



    Do we actually have ANY money at all? Or Is Slot just going to have to make do? And if he does and we win the league - will the lack of additions be seen as a good thing?
    And we didn't build on it, crazy

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    The biggest clubs tend to spend big money in terms of both fees and wages. It has been mentioned on a number of occasions that our wage bill is big, but then again so are the wage bills of other big, trophy chasing clubs. Some of our players are also on less money that some think e.g. Diaz (see below).

    People who try to make out that we're relative paupers who cannot spend big need to give their head a serious wobble. We are one of the top half dozen highest earning clubs in world football. We've got rid of a load of high earning players which at the very least will have largely offset any increase in wages due to new players (or in our case player) coming in or existing players signing new contracts.

    Anybody who has their head screwed on correctly and isn't wearing blinkers knows that our owners are penny pinchers. Everybody knows it, so those trying to excuse FSG are either blinkered, not quite all there, or they are in some way an FSG shill.

    Mohamed Salah — £350k
    Virgil van Dijk — £220k
    Trent Alexander-Arnold — £180k
    Alisson Becker — £150k
    Ryan Gravenberch — £150k
    Alexis Mac Allister — £150k
    Diogo Jota — £140k
    Darwin Nunez — £140k
    Cody Gakpo — £120k
    Dominik Szoboszlai — £120k
    Andy Robertson — £100k
    Joe Gomez — £85k
    Kostas Tsimikas — £75k
    Ibrahima Konate — £70k
    Luis Diaz — £55k
    Wataru Endo — £50k
    Stefan Bajcetic — £40k
    Harvey Elliott — £40k
    Curtis Jones — £15k
    Jarell Quansah — £15k
    Conor Bradley — £10k
    Caoimhin Kelleher — £10k

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    Hows Diaz agent not been banging on the door for a increase, fair play. 1 out of 100, if not 1 out of thousands.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RedMagic View Post
    Anybody who has their head screwed on correctly and isn't wearing blinkers knows that our owners are penny pinchers. Everybody knows it, so those trying to excuse FSG are either blinkered, not quite all there, or they are in some way an FSG shill.
    Devil's Advocate, nuance, counter-points and non-binary arguments all exist - not everything has to be "either or" with these things.

    As an aside, Robbo is not on £100k per week - he's on £160k. I'd say a £330k per week commitment on our two starting full-backs isn't small change.

    I'd say under FSG we typically enter most seasons feeling we are one player short from looking incredibly good. Whilst that could be improved upon (just go and get that player for a change...) it's an infinitely better scenario than being 3 or 4 short.

    One man's "stingy" is another man's "prudent" - I'd like us to take that little bit more risk personally (as would most Reds) but am largely quite content with the fact we have a measured, risk-management approach overall.

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