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His demands to get real game time show he wants to play and not just take a salary and hang out with an entourage wearing bling.

Any player that stands up and says he wants to show what he can do on the pitch for LFC as often as possible has my vote.

I guess it depends. If he’s demanding to play week in week out regardless of form etc then no he’s not for us.

If he’s just asking for a decent amount of game time to continue to develope and to show what he can do/make a contribution then that’s fair enough.

No player should expect to play guaranteed.

Nobody can demand that and I don't think anybody does. However, as any good player, he should demand what's the plan with him, first team player, bench warmer, rotate with other players regularly to begin with.

If we can secure a trophy this season it will be up to players to sell themselves to us not the other way around. A big fee by comparison to what you and others previously spent does not guarantee a place immediately in the starting line up. Similarly a small fee paid does not mean you will be bench material.

When you win things you can ask a player how does he expect to get into such a fantastic team. Let's not have the tail wagging the dog here. No place in our squad for players with tickets on themselves.

You can understand why any forward joining Liverpool would want some re-assurance on playing time as our front 3 rarely changes (mostly because we do not have the same quality to com on), if he is good enough, he will get games as we will be going for 4 trophies next season, any top club he joins will not guarantee games.

I also think that a player like this would not want to jeopardise his international career, especially being German. If you look at Salah, Mane and even Shaqiri their place in their national teams is pretty much assured. For a young German this may be difficult not getting into a national team because of not getting first team action abroad.

This could be difficult if we were looking to sign both Werner and Brandt.