I have no knowledge of this player but a 75m transfer with a 5 year contract and agent fees will be like 140m. Yeah we can forget about this one happening.
I have no knowledge of the player either, if we are spending that sort of money I would much prefer Kai Havertz, he looks ideal for our system and would be the ideal long term replacement for Firminho and could play in the front 3 now, rumours are Chelsea are close to a deal, if he moves we should go in for him, as there are very few players like him and once he moves to Chelsea,
we will never get a chance to get him again. We will never get a chance to get him with our leeches unless we sell Mane or Salah or both
I understand why FSG are being careful, 10 years ago we nearly went into administration, and the Covid outbreak has cast uncertainty over football, but it does feel like FSG are using this as a welcome excuse to curb spending.
FSG bought Liverpool for about £300 million, they have ran the club well and increased turnover with their business/sports experience and brought Klopp in, so we are pretty much self sufficient and returning good profits, LFC market value must be in the region of £1.5-2 Billion now, so it seems very shortsighted to not spend against that value, we need 1-2 top class players, a forward like Havertz etc and a decent defender, so probably £100 million would do that, which the club could easily support the purchase off, which would then deliver more success and increase our value for FSG.
Klopp is being nice now, but I can see him getting pi**ed off with FSG, he has never demanded lots of Galactico type signings, but if they have promised him support for players and are now changing that using Covid, I can see it seriously backfiring on FSG, if Klopp walked, the flack FSG got would be huge.
