KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Damn you FSG for letting united get Falcao!

You are about a decade late pal. That ship has sailed, and it's a multi-million dollar yacht. It's out of hand, you gotta pay what you gotta pay if you want that player. I'd lose hendo before Sterling just because Sterling will sell more shirts in the long run, and we will get more money for him if we keep him for a couple of years (most likely), Hendo we could probably only eventually sell for 20 million pound, which depending on what report you believe, is what we paid for him.

I don't think any of them do really. My point still stands though as he's not worth that much.

He is argueable our best player right now, so if our best player cannot earn half of what best players of other teams are earning, then we should be aiming for mid table, upper mid table if you prefer.

So one minute you say we can't sign players with high wages because if breaking FFP but we should pay Sterling above what he's worth? Nice reasoning.

For me he's way too inconsistent and has done bugger all to deserve it command over £100k a week. You can argue he's our best player (Coutinho has been so far for me) but that still doesn't mean we should get robbed by him. If he goes it's hardly like losing Suarez is it?

Plus you say by not paying him we should aim for mud table. Is that not what FSG are effectively doing anyway? Stupid committee, but young and cheap hopefuls (or young and expensive this last summer) and no new stadium. Could that not be seen as a mid table mentality? Plus I think there are only three teams in the league that might pay Sterling more per week than we will and that's chavs, City and Utd.

Was just thinking about it and realised, Di Maria cost 60mil and Coutinho cost 8.5. Who's had more of an impact? Another brilliant bit of business by united.

Although if Di Maria goes on to score against us, i will be pretty peeved.

And who is to decide what he is worth or not but the market, ie, what is being offered to players by the different teams. Also, I don't think 10-20% above a 100m will make a difference to FFP. Now if we have decided that we are a mid table team then he will not be offered what I think he deserves compared to others in the EPL and he would/should leave to earn more.

Inpact by individual players depends a lot on the team, the manager and adaptation. Di Maria has had much more impact in football in general that Coutinho so far.

But most other things FSG do suggest they're more than happy to be a mid table team like the new stand etc. yet you defend that!?

I know the market dictates what a player is worth that's why I try not to get too hung up on any given transfer fee. But we have to be reasonable too. You say it's only 10-20% more but that will then make the others think they deserve it. Hendo, Sturridge and Coutinho should be the first as (apart from Sturridge this season) all have had as big an impact on things as Sterling regardless of whether they're as talented.

After the stand, we'll have the 3rd biggest stadium in terms of capacity behind Manure and Arsenal by a couple of thousand seats, that's not mid-table, and if we can get that at a reasonable costs, then funds will be available to pay players market prices. Hendo is not more important than Sterling, maybe Sturridge if he can stay fit should also be higher than 100k, good strikers are expensive and he is our best striker and I would say the same thing for a consistent Coutinho. The best players of United, Chelsea, City and even Arsenal now earn much more than that, Rooney earns 3 times more. Sterling is probably one of the best attacking players in the EPL for the 18 months, he has won nothing because he us playing at LFC. Would you like him to go and we replace him by Sarah for example. For me, on the going market, he deserves 100k