Yes and we spent £50m on Romero. We have an elite manager in Conte, a war chest and a desire to back him. Strikers cost more, if Conte wants Richarlison and is happy for £60m of our budget to go to it why the issue.
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Yes and we spent £50m on Romero. We have an elite manager in Conte, a war chest and a desire to back him. Strikers cost more, if Conte wants Richarlison and is happy for £60m of our budget to go to it why the issue.
You had a disagree, small willy.
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According to this; so do we...... And let's be honest; fans reactions to rumoured pricetags mean very little in real terms anyway.
Are you absolutely sure Richarlison is our #1 target? We were also being linked to Jesus last week.
The point about the window just being open is that such early doors rumours don't warrant such an emotional reaction...... We've already signed 2 players so it's not like we're sat scratching our balls.
My point is simply if we have a war chest, if Conte wants a player and he costs £60m and Conte and the club are happy for that to be put down for the player to back a truly elite manager then isn’t this what we always wanted????
I mean Lewis and Levy are finally doing what fans asked which is to be celebrated and I am for one very happy. We are never going to compete with Liverpool getting 2/3 rate options, maybe Richarlison isn’t number one, at the moment it’s just media talk but if our number one striker target is £60m and we get him then finally we can start to build a deeper squad than just a good first 11. The whole Ndombele saga has clouded peoples judged about buying top draw players.
No, let's buy another Ndombele and a Lo Celso
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I gave you a disagree for this. I've made my dislike of Richarlison very well made but that aside - if they rate him as their best player there's no way are they going to simultaneously drop their value AND over pay for Winks. Richarlison is their best player and nailed on starter. Winks is barely good enough to sit on our bench. If they have half a clue about negotiating they won't even entertain the idea of a player + cash deal and will instead deal totally separately.
Sorry, but there is a huge difference between not wanting Spurs to spend money and not wanting Sours to waste money. Big, big difference.
We're talking about spending a potential club record fee (or there abouts) for a player many fans simply don't like. A player who isn't really as good as what we have starting so would be a bench player more often than not.
Liverpool didn't get to where they are by paying 70m for Richarlisons. The closest they got was paying 45m for Jota.
A bench player. Liverpool often have Jota on the bench, we cannot compete with City and Liverpool with a just a good first 11, this is what separates top teams from decent teams, actually building depth, real depth.
As for Richarlison, if Conte and the scouts rate him very highly then that is their call, I rate Richarlison much higher than Gabriel Jesus but if Jesus is what Conte demands I can live with it.
They paid above £80m for Van Dijk which at the time was laughed at.
Lampard might very well disagree with you there. And if that's the case, it's perfecly possible that they value a home-grown midfielder around £20m-25m.
It's irrelevant what we as fans think of Winks.
Jota isn't a player that the majority of fans despise either. He's done what is needed of him very well and never causes any controversy.
I'd actually rather over pay for a player who isn't a shit stain. I get the hump when any of our players dive but most of them don't tend to pretend they are in agony 100% of the time. Son does need to stay on his fee more tbh. Don't really want anymore of that in my team.
Did anyone hate VVD though?
Did anyone anywhere think they'd rather rub chili powder round their pee hole?
If Richarlison is the forward equivalent of VVD (i.e. one of the all time greats in the Premier League history), then it's a good deal. However, seeing as he couldn't outscore Emmanuel Dennis, I'm skeptical of that.
Going round in circles here
Richarlison is not a player who is going to change clubs to sit on the bench.
Jota obviously is. He comes across as a team player and a good, mature person.
Richarlison will be trouble. It would be a bad decision to sign him and use him as a squad player.
How do you know that though. Had Everton fans on this forum praising his attitude and work ethic.
He wasn’t at the time though, even a few Liverpool fans thought they overpaid for him including my own cousin.
Did fans quibble about how much we paid for Romero? .....Not that I recall.
Regardless, I wouldn't let it bother you to the extent of calling anyone that questions Richarlison's pricetag 'small club minded'..... I'd just assume it's more a reflection on their feelings regarding that specific player.
I doubt many would quibble if we suddenly broke the bank for (eg) Hakimi.
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He starts every game for them. It's an incomparable situation.
As people cheerily point out, he's Brazil's first pick. There's a world cup this winter (erggh, hate saying that)
Do you think he's going to sit on the bench with a smile on his face when his shot at being the focal point for Brazil is under threat?
I genuinely don't think this is a Conte high priority signing as I can see a collision course.
How about this though. Neither of us know IF we'll even sign Richarlison, let alone how it will pan out.
Let's both wait and see rather than make impossible predictions.