Salah is a player Klopp didn’t even want the club to buy I believe.
356k £ per week (22m € per year) have been reported by Bild, and it's unlikely he would sign for less as Bayern reportedly offered even more.
The net spend was lower, but give or take most seasons LFC spend about 60 after sales. Due to being more selective some years they spend little at all, and some years they will spend more. Last summer lfc spent nothing, so based around the 60, they'll spend about 120 net this year, but i suspect diaz and nunez might make it much less.
Van Dijk, Alisson no doubt ("Coutinho Money"), Nunez, Diaz and Keita, kind of. The bolded ones, though, cost less than what West Ham paid for Max Kilman last summer. I think some are still underestimating the average spending of EPL clubs. Brighton paid more than a quarter billion on players and 200m net in one summer last year without even playing in UCL. West Ham spent 150m+ net in 22/23. For reference, German side Stuttgart played UCL last season and spent 80 gross and 8m net on player transfers.
Eye watering fee and wages.
Yeah but the guy is 22. Imagine having to extend that contract in three or four years when he's in his prime
There's a weird desire the report every Liverpool deal as shrewd business, I'm not sure why. I get that if you're winning then expensive flops like Keita and Nunez are easier to ignore, but their fees don't get sensationalised in the same way.And yet the British press are reporting a drastically lower fee. Typical
It is strange. I expect there is some commercial gain to be had in reporting negative news about the biggest club, though.
I kind of expect him to run his contract down and move to Barca or Real afterwards.
Yeah could easily see it play out like that
Yeah could be. I think it's difficult to shake established narratives as well, and the fact is we've been poor in the market in recent years. No doubt there's clicks to be had in the idea that we're wasting yet more money.
To call a €150m signing a bargain is essentially propaganda.
Yep. And unless Wirtz's trajectory doesn't show even a tiny bump there will be problems with these sort of superstar wages. What if he's outperformed by MacAllister or Szoboslai? He and Liverpool should be under enormous pressure to justify those figures.
Which is actually one of the reasons I’m not that upset we didn’t get him. He’s a little bit too expensive for my liking and there’s the „danger“ I just mentioned. Still would have loved him at Bayern, obviously.
isn't it fair to say VVD and Salah deserve their wages. the best in England? Like Haland and others.
Haven’t seen you post in a while! How you keeping?
Not bad thank you. Hope you are well? I don’t post now really but transfer season is always fun!
We aren’t miles apart in our assessment. I counted Bale to Real, Ronaldo to Real, Bellingham to Real all as successes. Rice and Caicedo as jury still out. Good players playing well but hard to say they were worth the nine figure fees. Neymar I see as a failure. He played well but didn’t come close to achieving what he was expected to. Mbappe is a difficult one, just in terms of the fee he cost 160m, set all sorts of individual scoring records but PSG only achieved what you’d expect them to achieve with their budget, as a minimum. He left for free, and after he did they improved and won big ears. So was he worth the 160m? Not really.
Haha, what?
I think it’s an important point to consider, I really do. The reason I haven’t commented on it much is beyond expanding the argument further a field into a more holistic understanding, complicated the debate significantly more. So for ease of digestion, I left it out. That said, it is definitely a consideration both directly and indirectly. Players have been signed for large fees that had an impact on not just the marketing but also the brand perception and fan engagement of their team and league. Just like Ronaldo for Juve.
If Cherki is probably the next Superstar then he would cost a lot more. I'm not saying that he can't be but it's more possibly than probably.
Cunha*
wow
Lotsa scousers on this forum, since they don't have their own worth a dime?
He’s United “apparently”Lotsa scousers on this forum, since they don't have their own worth a dime?
I hope he flops.
+1
Something in the middle seems far more likely. He ends up a very good player but not a transformational one on a Salah level, like a Phil Foden prior to whatever happened to him this year.+1
Considering how much Liverpool is allegedly willing to pay for him (Ornstein yesterday said it could be an EPL record transfer fee, let alone Liverpool one), there are only two possible outcomes:
1. He will either be a monumental flop, or
2. He will be as transformational on the left wing for them (and sometimes in the center) as Salah has been on the right.
Clearly, no United fan wants to see #2 materialize
Paying EPL record fee for non-transformational player will end up being a catastrophe. Have you met English press? Nobody is going to just let him be a "decent" player and forget they paid astronomical fee for him. That is not an option, mate
I think you would be surprised, when it’s Liverpool involved. They signed Nunez for 85m and he’s been shocking, but the press are generally very favourable on him.
Fair enough. They are always much bigger assholes to us and our players, than to scousers
