Interesting news this morning with the Reds signing Naby Keita for $48 million pound plus a "premium" for next season.
I wonder if this will be a trend we start to see in difficult negotiations or with young "wonder kids".
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Interesting news this morning with the Reds signing Naby Keita for $48 million pound plus a "premium" for next season.
I wonder if this will be a trend we start to see in difficult negotiations or with young "wonder kids".
Interesting business that we seem to do. Didn't we sign Origi and loan him back for the next season?
I think this is a bit more tactical. They obviously want to keep him this year. Much the same as us and coutinho. Pay 48M and a "premium" to bump it up to, I imagine 60M at least.
We get our player, before other clubs can trigger the clause as well and pay overs on the salary. And good business for them, keep their player for a season, plan ahead, get more than the clause when they sell.
Hope he lives up to his price tag.
Will Sakho be missed?
I'm not a registered coach of general manager though.
Oxlade Chamberlain
40 million
FMD
Wenger must have been laughing his arse off when he heard your offer
why?
I have a pin dick
40 M is excessive. For somebody we will be deploying as a bench/squad player.
Only thing he has going for him is he would be pretty determined to make a go of it to prove everyone wrong.
Here's hoping anyway.
I think Henderson is one of the best pure midfielders in the prem.
love watching him play. proper focal point, always open, always looking for the ball, always making the smart pass.
blokes like Ox would love having him boss the mids. makes his job easier, and he clearly didnt have the same type of player at Arsenal.
reackon he could be a real good signing.
So true.
Oxlade isn't worth 40 Million but it was either you sign him now or he goes to Chelsea. Chelsea actually forced your hand to bid on him now rather than him arriving on a free at the end of the year.
After the Liverpool loss Arsene blew up at everyone and told them that whoever wanted to go would be sold. Even Mustafi was sanctioned to be sold for 35 million but Inter said no and he is a first choice CB but Wenger got the shits and told everyone that they were for sale. So the Ox was definitely leaving this window no matter where he went and once Chelsea bid 40 million you had to bid as well.
He will be your new James Milner. Good but not great, will have some amazing games against tough opposition but won't consistently play to that level and win you trophies. But he always idolised Gerrard so he is happy. I don't think Arsenal are going to take a massive step back with him leaving. No one wins, no one loses... Except Chelsea who instead went and overspent on a very strong/fit/great crossing wingback that can't defend great. Just like what City did... 3 times this window no less, lol.
I saw Ox play live one day. Him and Theo on the flanks RVP up front and just a bunch of dudes hanging around.
They put 7 past the hapless assholes who dared show up to play.
I walked out of the Emirates thinking Arsenal were gonna win the title by 100pts but Wenger pretty much didn't play that formation (and sold Song) for the rest of the year.
I reackon Ox is a real good player. When billionaires are hassling what's 2,5 or 10 million if it gets you closer to glory.
I hope he does well.
Not saying he isn't a good player, but you could have him for like 10-15 million if he was your first choice and gave Torino enough time to properly replace him. They were working so hard to keep Belotti that they would have been easier to deal with that way. City overspent massively on fullbacks compared to you guys, my comment was more on Liverpool forcing you to quickly negotiate the deal after they signed Ox ahead of you.
Can't believe people claiming Mane didn't deserve red for his brutal attack on the City keeper
I think most people are taking exception to "brutal attack".
Yes, red card. It wasn't malicious. It was reckless. He had eyes only for the ball.
He backed his pace to get there first. Like he has done many times before. If he gets there fractionally earlier and gets to the ball and knocks it to the side, Ederson is the one who gets a red.
Definitely a send off. It was clear dangerous play. Was there intent? I don't think so.
Myeh, it's a red every time, you can't seemingly fly kick somebody in the face.
Up to that point, looked a pretty even contest.
We just needed to get to half time, change tactics and could've made that a bit respectable but, klopp threw the game in the end, keeping key players fit for CL.
Take nothing from city, they were relentless. Mendy and Walker as wing backs look dangerous. MAne and Salah weren't tracking them well. Salah needs to be more clinical in front of goal.
Oh, and Klavan out.
If Mane wins the ball and the keeper takes his legs out.....red card the other way for denying goal scoring chance.....simple thing is Liverpool were rubbish and have a lot of work to do defensively.....if we want to achieve anything this season we are going to need a lot of 4-3 wins the way we defend.
Shane Smeltz got let off for lack of intent, and he nearly killed someone...
The interpretation of rules is a joke in football that needs to be looked at - too much debate.
If you put the rule book aside I would have said no red card and I don't follow Liverpool.
Anybody seen Ritchie(?) tackle in the Newcastle game?
Boot to the head, no injury. Red or yellow? Why?
Yehhh, they were reasonably stationary, where mane and ederson were running towards everything. But foot still hits head.
How we feel about bicycle kicks?
Yeah bicycles are dope.
I actually have seen some 'attempts' get pulled up for a foul but not sure if I've ever seen a goal disallowed because of one.
Any ref that chalks one off for a foul is a bum.
I disagree.. not about the dopeness of course.
I think its so dumb that refs just ignore the dangerous play aspect when people do them. If you've got a couple feet of space around you and you have "right of way" to go for it then yeah, go nuts. When you kick a defenders head while doing one and it gets allowed, that just seems stupid to me. Do defenders just need to learn how to bicycle kick all their clearances or be at a disadvantage competing for head height balls in the box?
I'm pretty sure there's a part of the rules along the lines of if a high foot means that a player ducks or pulls their head away to avoid getting hit then its a free kick. Again, this would be happening in so many bicycle kicks.