KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Bruno Fernandes in, Camacho in part-exchange?

Saw this a couple of days ago. We were offering £45m and they were offering £71m.

I wonder if our involvement is just to help bump his price up to a rival team.

Sporting and his Agent have been manipulating the press by bandying stories of various clubs being interested in Fernandes. I’m fairly certain there’s a current standoff in price for Fernandes, he may have been interested in Spurs but they’ve just bought Ndombele and there’s a will he won’t he leave scenario with Eriksen. I believe Fernandes has no interest to join Utd because they’re not in CL however he is interested in joining us. Liverpool made a huge mistake selling Camacho to Sporting “if” they are interested in Fernandes because he was leverage.
Just yet another case of a club and Agent overpricing a player here and playing hardball, their position will change closer to the transfer window closing!

We wont be paying 70+ million for fernandes if we have ox already here. If thats what Sporting are holding out for then its just not happening. At least now from us. There is a chance we did bid 45 million and that's probably closer to his actual worth but if they dont accept then that's fine. We are not the liverpool of old. We arnt getting our pants pulled down anymore. Our analytics team and edwards are way too good for that. We know the value of the players we are going for and we're sticking to them. Let the likes of united blow their wad in over inflated transfer fees and wages. Let them make another pogba type signing and watch them continue the spiral down. Fernandes looks a decent player...in a [oops] poor league. Has done nothing to justify 70+ million price tag.

Camacho didn't want to sign a new contract and had only 1 year left + he wanted to go to Sporting particularly, so very little else the club could have done.

No one has bid for him yet.


He apparently has a clause in his contract that he will be given 5m Euros for every bid over 35m that is rejected.

In fairness I'm not surprised sporting agreed to it. They signed him for about 8m

He nearly ripped up his contract when the sporting players were attacked by fans (tats how Rui Patricio ended up at wolves)

So 35m seemed like a decent amount. 32goals in 50 games and his price is now 70m.

I'm not good at maths but I'm guessing someone could work out a figure that is both good enough for sporting to accept and for Fernandes to get a decent pay out too.

Offer 35 they reject. Bruno gets 5m
Offer 40 they reject. Bruno gets 5m

Sporting now down 10m

Offer 50. They accept. Collect 40m give 10 to Bruno and everyone is happy.

What if another club offer 36, then 37 etc, Sporting might end up owing him after selling if they reject bids.

So by that reckoning we must not be in for Fernandes then because it would be madness not trying to leverage Camacho.
Schalke were also very interested in Camacho, so it's not as if there were no other options available to sell with over a month to go until the window closes.

Camacho wanted to go back to Portugal, so he would not have moved to Schalke, with a year to go he could have just sat out his contract, he wasn't going to play for us this season, so no point in keeping him if he would not sign a new deal.

Fernandes will goto whoever pays the highest price I guess, Man Utd are being heavily linked, but i'd be surprised if he went to them as no CL, but I guess they can pay him more than anyone else to make up for that! looks like his price is being hyped up with him being linked to everyone.

I thought we were after Rabiot? he's a free from PSG isn't he? everyone has been linked with him, I guess his pay demands must be high as no one has bitten.

Makes no sense whatsoever allowing a player even with 1 year left on his contract to go to a club, where we are supposedly interested in one of their players, with over a month of the transfer window to go? How naive are we as a club?

You use Camacho as bait...no matter what Sporting, Camacho or his Agent wants/says!

Or we don’t want this fella? I know it’s in the papers so must be true but....

Or we’ve asked for first dibs on him after allowing Camacho to go there?

But I’d suggest it’s more the first one.