Hypothetical: Would you reject a >£100m offer for Bruno from Saudi? | Same question but £200m?

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The Corinthian

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If a similar offer came in that Liverpool got for Salah, at a similar time (ie last couple of days) - would you accept?

Would you expect the club to accept?

Interesting to hear everyone's thoughts.

The offer is a giant reset button for Liverpool essentially, so it's interesting they've rejected it (and I get how late it is in the window so it won't allow them to find a replacement) but it's reminiscent of the Coutinho deal. I'd say Bruno is probably similar to Salah in the sense that they're both talismanic for their respective teams.

I wonder how we'd feel if we were on the receiving end of such a bid.

(Any chance of a poll as well, @mods)?
 
No chance.

He’s at the centre of everything good that happens in this squad. He’s out talisman.There’s no way we could replace him.
 
100% yes to declining based on who could replace him as a realistic option.
 
Hell no from me. We are likely to replace him with a Van de Beek level player. I don't trust them to adequately replace him. We struggled to get in a proper 10. lingard got too many games and Mkhitaryan was a dud.
 
Yeah I'd reject it. If they came back with 200m, maybe not, but it's so late in the window you'd have to.

It's a bit mad they're coming in with a huge bid so late.
 
fecking ell, with our transfer record in the past decade I’d suggest you get yourself checked into the loony asylum if you think it’d be a good idea to let our hands down best signing in that time go; and then chance our arm at doing a good job of replacing him :lol:
 
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Liverpool should sell. Salah is 31, on huge wages, and has undoubtedly peaked at this level. The frenetic pace of the Premier League has seen many players struggle in their early 30s. The offer is insanely generous.

Bruno still has at least a few great seasons in him. It would have to be an absolutely crazy offer for us to even consider cashing in. Of course, our owners are probably crazy enough to consider accepting a lesser offer.
 
At this stage of the window, definitely. That money is only meaningful if you're able to reinvest it well. I probably wouldn't trust us to do that even if there was sufficient time to do so.
 
It’d just give the Glazers a nice special dividend before they feck off…so no way would I sell him!
 
Nope. Selling Ronaldo for 90 mil just shows that the money you get is only as good as the investment you make.
 
It would be easy to make an argument for cashing in on Bruno if we reveived a sufficiently disproportionate offer.

It's much harder to make an argument for doing so right at the end of the transfer window, where we would inevitably receive less benefit from the funds generated. Especially if (as with Salah) there's a suspicion you could still cash in on that interest the following summer.

So no, I'd turn it down as Liverpool did. There's just not enough immediate upside relative to the immediate downside.
 
Excuse me? Just give me the "How to fly a plane for dummies" and a working GPS.
 
My answer would be different in different circumstances. Our record with big buys in the last few years, Sancho, Maguire, Antony, has been abysmal. And the jury is still out on our big midfield purchase this summer as well. The club's transfer people and ETH himself have not covered themselves in glory, so I would not say they could be trusted to invest the money properly to create a midfield that would be better without Bruno, which I definitely do think there is a lot of room to do. With different people running the transfers I would be more inclined to say yes.
 
Well if it gets to a ridiculous offer that we can't deny then yes. Otherwise no. Even if we had plenty of time to replace him and a similar offer came in, I would say no.

Our history of replacing players and just in the transfer market in general is pretty poor. We sign more misses than hits. For all Bruno can be annoying sometimes, he's been a hit and one of our best players in this dark era of the club. It would have to be for a significant price.
 
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Nope. Selling Ronaldo for 90 mil just shows that the money you get is only as good as the investment you make.
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The sad part about that summer is that Sneijder and Robben were available that summer for less than half what we got for Ronaldo.
 
The Corinthian said:
If a similar offer came in that Liverpool got for Salah, at a similar time (ie last couple of days) - would you accept?

Would you expect the club to accept?

Interesting to hear everyone's thoughts.

The offer is a giant reset button for Liverpool essentially, so it's interesting they've rejected it (and I get how late it is in the window so it won't allow them to find a replacement) but it's reminiscent of the Coutinho deal. I'd say Bruno is probably similar to Salah in the sense that they're both talismanic for their respective teams.

I wonder how we'd feel if we were on the receiving end of such a bid.

(Any chance of a poll as well, @mods)?
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the club will accept if 150m to 200m for Bruno came in.

I would only accept if we can get a better replacement than Bruno which is a tall order.
 
If you’re a serious club you add to the Bruno’s of the world and other transfers that are resounding successes. You sell your dross for as many million as you can in a timely fashion before they lose all value and add to Bruno while he’s producing elite numbers. Remember this is the club that nearly fumbled the Bruno deal? It was a slam dunk and we still arsed around on it for a whole month.
 
Not in a million years. His value to the team is closed to 150m
 
I’d never accept that. Knowing us we’d replace him with Lasse Schone for £48m.
 
Yeah let him go, he is overrated and not actually that good. Creates a ridiculous amount of chances but I also think he is a detriment to the team in so many other ways.
 
Who's the replacement for £100m? I'm not trusting our recruitment. £150m maybe. £200m obviously yes.
 
We'd almost certainly buy magic beans with the money, or worse, Glazer dividends.
 
At this stage of the window probably would be reject unless it was pushing 150m, but generally yeah a big offer like 100m for Bruno would make sense. We could technically put out a midfield of Casemiro, Amrabat and Mount now with Eriksen and Mainoo as depth.

Love Bruno, but he's 29 in a week, has 0 ball carrying ability and I think the CAM position especially tends to have loads of quality players around so we wouldn't be short of options to replace, though yes not as good of an impact short term. Replacing him with Wirtz though for example? 9 years younger and massive potential.
 
Bruno drives me bananas but if we're taking this as being €100mn or thereabouts the answer is no. Overall very consistent player and can get you goals against the grain from all his shot spamming. Obviously the second part of the equation is that you just couldn't trust this lot to adequately replace him and we'd be a far far worse team without his productivity.
 
I would accept >150 only if the Glazers aren't still here.
 
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