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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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This guy?!!I don't know looks like he lacks mobility plus U don't want to piss off Danny.
20m fee upfront? Sheesh- greedy AF. Nobody seems to have paid it yet.
Once it's clear none of the giants want him, his stock will drop well into midtable/lower half prem territory. For some reason I feel like we'll see him end up at West Ham or similar.
Just out of interest are you interested in some chequered paint?
He's got absolutely fuck all right on transfers for about 3 years. All his info is punts on players we're already linked to or vague info that's impossible to verify
The very fact he seemed to have a very good rapport with Cochrane has to be a plus
Tel-Dom-Odo
Son-Rich-John
Moore-++-Kulu
I actually think Frank can do a lot with this. What it can't do is compete for Top 4 in the Prem or get out of the CL group stages though.
I think Frank can pilot this to a 6th-9th place finish. We will need better attackers if we seriously want to compete for top 4 or reach the CL knockout rounds.
Son-Rich-John
Moore-++-Kulu
I actually think Frank can do a lot with this. What it can't do is compete for Top 4 in the Prem or get out of the CL group stages though.
I think Frank can pilot this to a 6th-9th place finish. We will need better attackers if we seriously want to compete for top 4 or reach the CL knockout rounds.
Isnt that our main objective?
Maybe it is publicly. It's not a realistic objective given our level of spending, and we don't currently have a good enough record of picking wunderkids or producing talent to be seriously trying to bank on developing young stars.
It’s a fact that he’s broken stories which were later confirmed by Romano. It’s happened multiple times, off the top of my head he was the first to report we were trying to sign vicario, a keeper nobody had even heard of before would be a pretty impressive guess to of called that.
The guy clearly has a source which is all I said, obviously not every player he says we’re interested in we’re going to sign as is the same with any reporter lol
I would want us to be one of the clubs courting him towards the end of the transfer window once he has to reduce his demands, his stats in the CL don't lie, he's a natural goalscorer and will add elite quality to our front three 100%.
Tel.Who was the first
We're supposed to get excited about the same bunch as last year.
Well, so far the cook supreme has just been throwing any shit at the wall
On Isaksen though, he's had a decent season at Lazio cooling a bit towards the end. His output in terms of goals and assists hasn't been great but he does know how to strike a ball and his right peg is half decent as well. Stylistically he could resemble Mbeumo a bit
So even if his season at club level waned off a bit he had two very good performances for the national team lately. 1-0 home against Portugal and 2-1 home against Northern Ireland. The one against Portugal he was up against Nuno Mendes, so for Isaksen to actually go past Mendes numerous times felt like a defining moment in his career
If there's anything in it, it should be easiest negotiations ever, since we've already got his girlfriend, Olivia Holdt, "locked up in the cellar"
That was 2 years ago mate, he also said Kulusevski was getting painkilling injections to play the Europa League final when less than a day later the club put out a picture of him having had surgery
I don't think he's bad at all- just that somebody like WHam will be willing to meet those demands, and we probably won't.
Should be keeping Cuti and signing Guehi.
Sign Eze and Semenyo, esp if Mbuemo off to Utd.
Get a decent No.6, absolutely essential.
Let Richy, Son and Biss go, only if Son wants out, might still be another yr in him if minutes managed correctly and not playing with chalk on his boots.
Would upgrade Vic too if the opportunity presented itself.
Personally I would let Davies go and sign another left ch / left full back.
That's the bare minimum required, no more excuses of having no money, we can't be brainwashed by Levys economics, if he is stuck for money then sell one of his hotels to himself like Chelsea did with their women's team and car parks, no more excuses.
Sign Eze and Semenyo, esp if Mbuemo off to Utd.
Get a decent No.6, absolutely essential.
Let Richy, Son and Biss go, only if Son wants out, might still be another yr in him if minutes managed correctly and not playing with chalk on his boots.
Would upgrade Vic too if the opportunity presented itself.
Personally I would let Davies go and sign another left ch / left full back.
That's the bare minimum required, no more excuses of having no money, we can't be brainwashed by Levys economics, if he is stuck for money then sell one of his hotels to himself like Chelsea did with their women's team and car parks, no more excuses.
People go on like it's chicken/egg, but are inventing a perspective of Liverpool that doesn't exist.
- They don't have the big wage bill of City, Woolwich, Man Utd, or Man City.
- They didn't "spend big" to win the league.
- They didn't give their new manager players for a rebuild last summer, and only added one injury-prone midfielder who barely played
- They don't buy big established "world class" players, but rather take calculated gambles
- They got to the end of the season with the contracts of their 3 biggest players running out. One of their best players just left with a token transfer fee, but was effectively about to be out of contract. They've just put two 33 year old players on huge contracts.
We probably could sign a £100m+ player if we won the league or the CL, but there's clearly just nuances separating Liverpool from this club, and it isn't anything to do with ownership - they just have been more successful with their gambles so far.
It is still far from certain whether or not that move will pay off for them - they still don't have a replacement for TAA yet, and have no succession plan for VVD or Salah. There's no obvious sign how Allison/Marmadashvilli will work. A lot of flaws in their strategy so far, in paying so much money in the area that isn't obviously where they needed to.
People will say that they are being clever doing business early, but they're now at the mercy of other clubs for the players they now need to shift (e.g. Nunez)
Untrue. Liverpool are always operating at close to the line of what they can afford. They dont have unlimited money, so they do say no. But they also back their manager and spend what they can afford.
We dont spend what we can afford. We spend what Levy allows. We could easily add another 75m to our wage bill and still be well run.