KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Can't understand our transfer policy - Madness!!!

We are such a contradiction in terms!!

Haggle over the odd few million but yet we splurge quick time a massive amount for Hendo!

Same with Adam. Thrashing around for more than two weeks to save a million or so. Good job no-one else wants him cos he'd be lost just like it appears Clichy is!

Reminds me of January. We took the p*ss with Ajax for Suarez. We tried mugging them off but eventually paid what was meant to be.

The fact is that although we aren't in the know like people at the club we are all intelligent enough to know what valuations are realistic!

Wages aside...... Nasri for 20 Mil? Unreal! Makes Henderson look like a really overpriced buy (Sadly).

Nasri to Citeh will be the coup of the summer! Just glad its not United. That would have been horrible.

He is a fantastic player. Goals, assists, the works. He is brilliant.

Not sure where that leaves Arsenal as Fab is deffo off to Barca it seems. They'll be scrabbling with us to break into the Top four with us at this rate.

They are such a self destructive team! Oh well......

Understand we need to trim the wage bill but we should have wrapped up Clichy ages ago. 5 mil bid rejected and dilly dally over an extra 2 Mil? Seriously.... Clichy for 7 Mil is a bargain. No doubt.

Hopefully we get Mata and that will give me loads of optimism. I know that Downing is a decent player but he just about gives us a sniff of breaking back into the Elite.

Just pray that we get some real top quality as our nails can't stand it........

I know its not Football Manager 2011 but if FSG are that worried about the impending wage bill then let the deadwood go for free! Cole and Jova cost us nothing so drop them for a song and we save 7-8 Mil in wages instantly.

Thanks for reading fellow Reds. Getting your thoughts down and sharing them with others who love the club is therapeutic to say the least!

YNWA

I don't get it either. I cannot for the life of me understand why we paid 55 million for 2 players that haven't even really proved themselves enough to merit such hefty price tags. And as you say haggle for days over players costing a damn sight less yet have more experience.

I'm thinking perhaps they're waiting for tomorrow when the whole european market opens up. Cheaper and better players will become available. The bidding really starts then. Let's hope so anyway.

yeah we can get some cheap french crap

Depends what cheap French crap. But I wasn't thinking about that cheap. I should have said better value for money. There are players in Europe worth 20 million that are far better than Henderson. I'm not knocking him but that buy was a huge gamble. As was Caroll.

ive heard today on radio that we need to get the wage bill down by what i think was 30 or 13 million a year and cut the squad by about 13 players. although i dont believe what i hear or read in the media what i took from it all was that we are not going to be buying anyone else of a high value until we get rid of some deadwood and i personally cant blame the owners for doing so!!

Think of it this way. If we 'sold' Jovanovic to Birmingham (for example) for nothing. 0. Surely the money that they would have spent on the transfer (3 mil) could cover a large portion of his wages. Plus we get him off the books . WIN WIN!

i dont get it 1 minute we spend 16 to 20 mil on henderson next thing i hear is we are going to have to sell before we buy it just dosent add up.

i think people(newspapers) dont no anything about whats goin on and as soon as they see us not signing some1 like wickham(who they say knocked liverpool back) they then try and make us look like the old lfc


young - didnt want to come to us

jones - didnt want to come to us

so who can they say we missed out on realy wickham who i dont no nothing about anyway. we made an offer for jones as did other clubs he picked man u so did young so we must be able to spend before we sell (I HOPE ANYWAY)

1st January today. I am sure we will sign at least 3 players before this month is up and Mata is one of them.

Hoping that you are right Snakeye.

OP,

Recently posted in a similar vain. I am willing to keep an open mind, but the signs here look like a club making a mess of things yet again. We want players in and settled for pre-season so a unit and understanding can be devloped for the new camapign. Yet again United show the way......... 3 quality buys and done and dusted for the off.

If the Mata thing doesn't come good there are going to be a fair few pis*ed off fans and rightly so.

So what we can expect is the dead wood won't go (nice earners) under contract why should they? Stand-off and panicky bargain basement European punt or two?