Coutinho had 5.5M Instagram followers in that video but he has 7.4M in real life so wonder how old the video is.
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But it's the Oil clubs we need to beat to win trophies.
Especially the big one(UCL) which PSG and City have set their evil eyes on.
Is he feck, get a grip of yourself.
It wasn't a cheap deal but at the same time it wasn't that huge either imo since City paid the same for Sane later and no one spoke much about it.
Problem with that Martial deal that it seemed like a panic transfer at the last deal because we sold most of our forwards. I don't think Ed even tried to negotiate the price. He was just trying to finish it quickly before the window shut down. I don't blame him much.
Bale at this time was overpriced, yes. I think that's the transfer that started everything. When the most expensive player is 100m you'll expect cheap ones to be 30m, the middle ones to be 40-50m and the elite players to be 70-80. Pogba's transfer didn't add much to that as it kept on the same range but Neymar's one led to the bubble bursting.
€145m Dembele and €155m Countinho and yet they gave out about PSG spending money 
The market is gone too daft to even buy players nowadays. If you want a top class player you'd have to spend your entire years budget (unless you're an oil club).
Countinho is a good player not world class. Liverpool should be punching the air in delight for that money. Only problem now for them, they will also have to over pay like feck for their next player. Probably buy Lemar for €120m now
The market is gone too daft to even buy players nowadays. If you want a top class player you'd have to spend your entire years budget (unless you're an oil club).
Countinho is a good player not world class. Liverpool should be punching the air in delight for that money. Only problem now for them, they will also have to over pay like feck for their next player. Probably buy Lemar for €120m now
I thought he wanted to stay they all told us?
Wanted to go all along. Good price but the money is already spent. Not sure why the big speech from Klopp, makes the club look very small.
Wanted to go all along. Good price but the money is already spent. Not sure why the big speech from Klopp, makes the club look very small.
Shite that he's gone in January and removed himself from the Champions League but at least it's at the beginning of the month and we have adequate time to spend the money (un)wisely. Lemar is an obvious target but we could sort the GK out now as well. Does Oblak have a buy out clause?
You handkerchief waving cnuts better give us Kovacic for about £50m to finance your Hazard splurge.
Sure, but it's still possible to compete with them. Like I said, they can only field 11 players at the time.
Just answered my own question. Last pic Coutinho posted on Instagram in that video was submitted on August 8th so they made it between then and the summer window closing. Must have been close.
Athletico to Liverpool is a step down, no?
They would have done it regardless.
Then, that's a very good deal for Barcelona.
The relevance from the number of followers/friends, it beggars belief - strange times indeed
Ridiculous fee. Liverpool have seriously mugged off Barca here, great bit of business.
The market has gone crazy, though. Neymar's transfer pushed everything overboard.
The market has gone crazy, though. Neymar's transfer pushed everything overboard.
No doubt, you don't build delusion of their heights without such shitty drama, it's convenient timing for them nontheless.
Again, 50 mil for a 19 year old unknown was a gigantic fee . See it in the context of the time. Before Pogba and Neymar. Prices like that affect other prices.
Neymar cost Barca much more than that. Way more. Lots of shoddy money there.
My point isn't to say we are the most guilty. But we are big time players too. Non oil clubs like Barca and Madrid too.
Official Barca video — 800k views. Some noname burning his shirt — almost 150k
I thought Barca were broke btw?
Modern times, eh.
This transfer makes Liverpool even less likely to win anything major. They might even have a fight on their hands for top 4 losing such a key player. Salah will have to keep scoring at this ridiculous rate or they are in trouble.
They might actually buy some decent players with that money under Klopp.
Always some twat that wants 5 mins of fameBollocks that was Neymar.
Smaller clubs are guilty of it as well, you can justify a Pogba at £90m when you figure in the talent, the marketing and the package.
You can't justify a Gylfi to Everton for £50m though.
Bale isnt worth £45M
Hopefully it will be like when Brendan spent the profits from the Suarez transfer.
The Sane deal was after. So it just followed in the same trend. Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying we shouldn't have signed Martial. Just saying the price was a bit too steep.
I agree about the Neymar fee and had hoped it would spur UEFA and others into action..but they are toothless dogs
The idiot almost burned himself too.Official Barca video — 800k views. Some noname burning his shirt — almost 150k
Nice. Lets see who they buy.
Fans that burn player's shirts in cases like that and have no understanding behind the motives of the move seriously piss me off.
Coutinho stayed long enough at a club below his level.
Coutinho stayed long enough at a club below his level.
It's not a good deal for Liverpool at all, Coutinho was their best player and they will never win league titles, if they continue to sell their best players. I'm not worried how they spend the money. Top top players like Dybala or Griezmann would never go there.
Come on, Jürgen, splurge it all on quick new attackers.
Ignore things like a DM, fullbacks and a keeper please. Those things are boring anyways.
Ignore things like a DM, fullbacks and a keeper please. Those things are boring anyways.
It definitely wasn't that cheap. I just think it's not one of the causes of the problem of the market at the moment.
Anyway, we'll have to cope with the current market starting from next summer. Getting top class players will be a real pain.