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[Daffydd]

Ornstein says Diaz has told the club he wants to leave.

Ornstein also reckons Chiesa is considered an option at striker.

[Lee]

Mateta is 6ft 4, Leoni 6ft 5. It's almost as if the team has returned to training and someone has realised how short our players are next to Virgil.

I'd like to get Guehi, plus 2 of Leoni, Hato or Lukeba

[Insidious]

Is it good business from us to let players like trent, Diaz and konate leave on a free?With the latter two it feels if we give them the wages they want they would sign. Are they worth it?

Regarding the first question, it can be good business - sort of. We have PSR and UEFA squad cost rules to work with for one thing.

Take Diaz. He's 28 right now.

If we bumped him up to £200k-pw (just making up a figure) then that's a £10.4m investment per year. Four years of that and we have spent almost £42m on his services, by which time he is 32 and we need to consider a big transfer fee on a replacement PLUS invest in the wages of the incoming player.

Having two years of Diaz on his current (lower) wage and then getting a replacement in is more cost-effective and we get that (presumably younger) player in sooner, which comes with better risk management regarding injuries as we don't deal with the 31/32-year old version of Diaz who may have clocked up more niggling injuries and certainly more mileage.

The ideal scenario (monetarily anyway) being that we get a decent few for him now when his transfer value is unlikely to climb higher (28, Premier League Champion) and we use that money to source a younger player that may give us 6-10 years in a reasonably cost-effective way.

I think UEFA's squad cost rules are now down at 70% of revenue now when it comes to agent fees, transfer fees and wages so letting (lower) wage contracts run down or making sales when players retain high value is a more sustainable exercise long-term. It was 90% when first introduced, then 80% - think this is the first year of it being 70% so limiting the number of players earning "top dollar" whilst generating as much revenue as we possibly can is the name of the game.

Doesn't mean we should always seek to sell of course (Alisson, Van Dijk, Salah) but it's often helpful if you can.

[RedMagic]

I'm not on X so I didn't have direct access to this post, not that I'd know how to embed it on here even if I did.

Here is what David Ornstein of The Athletic has just said:-

"Liverpool make approach to sign Alexander Isak from Newcastle United. #LFC say no formal bid + well aware #NUFC stance has always been: not for sale. But communicated interest in deal for 25yo Sweden international worth in region of £120m @TheAthleticFC"

Make of that what you will.

[Ravo19]

Reading between the lines-
Newcastle after Hugo Ekitike,then liverpool to sell nunez and buy isak.
Liverpool not looking to sell DIAZ but might find offer of around €100m tempting.
Konate to be replaced by guehi.
Gomez to stay but young CB to arrive.
Also mateta to arrive.
Tsimikas or robbo sold,elliott & chiesa sold

[teesred]

100% he's told his agent to put that out.
This is gonna happen.

[Insidious]

100% he's told his agent to put that out.
This is gonna happen.

If Diaz is leaving (?) and Núñez is leaving (?) we'll certainly need to do some forward business and clubs will know we're in need.

The sooner we can get our targets in, whether they include Isak or not, the better.

[Steveo]

100% he's told his agent to put that out.
This is gonna happen.

Do you mean Isak? or Diaz?

[teesred]

Do you mean Isak? or Diaz?

Isak yesterday. Liverpool must have an incoming this can happen for that info to go out. Imo anyway.

[teesred]

Do you mean Isak? or Diaz?

But I also do think that about Diaz too, I think he's going to be sold.
Cody promoted to first choice and Nguomha getting some games in-between. Wirtz has played left side also.