Coutinho is definitely gone, I think they have an agreement in place a long time ago. The problem is that Liverpool have 100+ M to replace him with.
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Coutinho is definitely gone, I think they have an agreement in place a long time ago. The problem is that Liverpool have 100+ M to replace him with.
Why is that a problem? They’d spend 70 on Van Dijk. FSG are not big spenders and teams will raise prices.
He is a great character as well, met him during our Egyptian football team preparation to the w.c qualifying game against Congo which he scored that famous penality, he has big respect for Man.Utd as well, sad to see him in Liverpool shirt though, hope he moves to Spain soon.
He's pretty good. 
I can give you this year and last 2 years off the top of my head, Son, Hazard and Stirling. That's just in the premiership.
Possibly the first time I've seen a Liverpool player and really wish we'd signed him.
How can you put "They’d spend 70 on Van Dijk" and "FSG are not big spenders" in the same sentence ?,
Hazard has never scored 20 goals in a season. Salah has 20 before Christmas.
Reread my post, I said this season he has been extrodinary, its not like him compared to his previous seasons.
You missed my point, I'm not comparing him to those two for stats but consistently. Messi and Ronaldo are performing consistently for a decade, I don't consider people to be world class because of one season.
Ah, fair enough.
Again, it is pointless to compare. no one lives up to the consistency those two put up.
Using those two as the standard for anything world class basically makes the term meaningless. They are something different to other world class players.
Torres.
Someone else called Salah a world class player by end of this season if he keep up numbers. I only believe that define world class is that people have to keep performing consistently. I put Ronaldo and Messi as an example, not comparing.
People really need to understand this
(insert any currently underperforming player who doesn't play for liverpool and constantly gets called world class on here ) has a higher ceiling.
Fact is he's very good,cost peanuts and is on relatively low wages - we should have been all over this transfer.
Fact is he's very good,cost peanuts and is on relatively low wages - we should have been all over this transfer.
Great player in his time at Liverpool, obviously, but I never really wished we'd signed him because we still had great options.
We're crying out for a player like Salah right now.
This is absurd. Plenty of footballers have won ballon d'ors without that kind of consistency.
Salah is the first Liverpool player since Ian Rush in 86/87 to score 20 goals before christmas.
He's the kind of player we desperately need but there doesn't seem to be any on the market.
Salah is one of Europe's best players this season but are the Hazard comparisons fair? Salah basically plays forward for them, not too dissimilar to Alexis Sanchez.
I don't agree. I think he is Klopp player in the mold of Aubameyang, a great player, but more suitable for main man role, which ain't exactly suitable for the teams at very top.
Our team needs a supplier/ chance creator. Not a forward.
I agree. Hazard job is not mainly just end product. He is the focal of Chelsea attack, even if it's about creativity, ball carrying. Salah is more comparable to Sanchez role since he moved to Arsenal
Before Liverpool signed him, no one on earth thought he'd be this good. There are players in Europe like him just waiting to be signed, it's up to us to find them and get them before anyone else does.
Hazard's best performances this season has been better than any player's performance in this league apart from maybe De Bruyne in a couple of games.
Salah has been excellent this season and Liverpool's best player but I still think that Coutinho is their best player.
Hazard is easily better than Salah.
I don’t get the Hazard comparison who’s a breed of playmaker/winger rolled into one.
Salah is basically Liverpool’s Sanchez, lets hope he’ll be looking to leave them in couple of years like Alexis
Salah is basically Liverpool’s Sanchez, lets hope he’ll be looking to leave them in couple of years like Alexis
His transfer to Liverpool this season isn't massively dissimilar to Kante the season before, in that it has become instantly bizarre as to how none of the other top clubs in the country seemed to be in for him. Top player, would improve any team.
Wouldn't compare Hazard and Salah. Salah is in effect Liverpools striker.
I'll hold my hands up - wasn't sure about him to start with, but he looks unbelievable.
I'll hold my hands up - wasn't sure about him to start with, but he looks unbelievable.
Huh? Ballon D'Or has nothing to do with consistency, Ballon d'Or take a place every year. My point is that it is still early to call Salah a world class and its feel like that "worlds class" is overused for good players. Anyone can have a world-class performance in one game but that doesn't mean they'll be classified as world class player overnight. With kind of consistency required that player is going to perform well in many games for a long time would be classified as world class player IMO.
Good player.... winning Sports Personality of the year was a shock though.
You sound like someone explaining Bitcoin’s increased value, retrospectively of course. It’s not that easy
Even the cameramen went to the wrong house and had to pretend the signal had failed to cover their embarrassment.
There are countless examples of this type of signing that we always miss for one reason or another. De Bruyne, Salah, Hazard, Sanchez, Aguero, David Silva, the list is long.
The top teams were aware of all these players.
Of course, I’m not saying they were undiscovered. I’m saying we should have made huge efforts to sign every one of those names and at least got one over the line. These are the players that take you where we want to be. Pogba was a step in the right direction, true quality at a great age. Lukaku is the same profile so I can see the logic behind it but his ceiling is looking fairly low at the moment.
I think a lot of the players you are talking about were in a similar position pre transfers to Kagawa, Mkhitaryan or Martial. It's simply a fact that not all of them work out. For every Hazard, there is a Moura and for every Pogba, there is a Renato Sanches. Team tactics, environment, personality, profile of the team, ... are all factors that can dictate how they develop.
Had a feeling he'd do very well at Liverpool, mainly due to their style of play. He has gone way beyond that though, 20 goals before christmas is insane.
He is in a team that scores a lot of goals, same as gabriel jesus. Good players but we don't know how good while they play in a team that scores a lot of goals. End of story
That's a bit of a weird one though. He's by far their top goalscorer. It's like saying you can't judge Ronaldo at Real because they score loads of goals even though he's the one who bags more than anyone else.
Where do you get your stats from ? I know for a fact he did for Lille and probably for Chelsea too once