Yeah me neither! Watched this one video and there’s a few clips of him against us looking pretty classy, but I don’t remember him at all. That kind of composure at that level at his age is pretty special. Hopefully Mainoo can be that!
Romeo Lavia | Chelsea bound?
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Yeah me neither! Watched this one video and there’s a few clips of him against us looking pretty classy, but I don’t remember him at all. That kind of composure at that level at his age is pretty special. Hopefully Mainoo can be that!
Of course you are - it's not often you have no clue what players will start on the saturday. You will get the line-up and think to yourself: "Is he playing for us ? I didn't know that"
Ah that must be the reason you need 2 midfielders.
Surely you cannot be referring to Keano at Forest??
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Like I suggested last night, had Nkunku been fit we would’ve lined up with 4 attackers and 2 midfielders. With him now out long term I guess the plan is to play with a front 3 and then 3 midfielders. That’s the only way us signing 2 more midfielders makes sense.
Even in that instance you'd still be short of a starting midfielder and maybe a rotation midfielder. And in my opinion, a goalscorer as well.
Paint it however you want, when you spend £600m+, to be one injury away from needing another 3 signings is ridiculous.
But haven’t you banked over 50m for the 2 of them? Should be pretty straightforward to drop that money on Lavia.
its getting funny that the Scousers seem to be missing the mark on signings, first Mount turned them down, they lost out on Bellingham despite the cringefest with Henderson, Amrabat has turned them down and now Lavia could get messed up too. The meltdown will be delicious.
Colwill as well, hasn't been a good transfer window for them.
Not if they fail upwards, it won’t!
ETH got the players he wanted. We dropped everything to get Mount. He was Imo the no1 midfield target. As soon as became known he was available we were straight in same as for GK and striker. Kane was never available to us so we didn’t waste time. The priority positions have been filled. Next depends on outs. This FFP line was nonsense though ETH is managing squad and especially wages brilliantly. With the expected outgoings we could see another 2-3 incomings. we will be a far stronger team than last season for sure. If Qatar deal completed by November Jan window could be silly though ETH will manage it well Imo no stupid Neymar like deals. Varane and Casimero written off by far to many on here it’s crazy. We can enjoy them in red for at least another 3 seasons.
Not hard is it? 5 multiplied by 10, plus 1, Romeo done.
interesting battle here between chelsea and Pool ....using each others bids to drive a war for caicedo and lavia
Solid post
So solid
They should get the deal done in 21 seconds
So then their gross spend should be more than yours then
The stage is set for us. Get it done.
What would people here prefer - Caicedo for £100 million or Lavia for £50 million ?
I'm surprised the clubs mentioned are so reluctant to get near Southampton's asking price because it's not that high in PL terms. Well, at least if he was as good as some state with potential world class ability he should be relatively low risk as a 19 year old that can only improve.
I think they see it as more of a punt in reality. End of the day he's shown a bit of ability in a team that got relegated and I think standing out there requires some caution.
I think they see it as more of a punt in reality. End of the day he's shown a bit of ability in a team that got relegated and I think standing out there requires some caution.
Caicedo. But I doubt that is possible with Casemiro in the side. Lavia more realistic. But we will get neither.
But when you look at our spending we do seem to be underspending compared to our rivals somewhat.
Some of it is also poor transfer strategy. We’ve overspent on attackers and underspent on midfield/defence.
Caicedo, I would have said no due to the price and thinking he is slightly overrated but looking at the Paqauta deal really has been the last straw for me worrying about prices.
I'll always just want the better player and not even look at the price tags going forward because it's just so ridiculous.
Listen, just listen
Since the scousers have an injured striker, what if Chelsea sends them their Rome, and Southampton sends Chelsea their Rome. Then pool and Chelsea each pay 25 mil to Southampton. Everybody wins.
Man I need a cold shower, brain's overheating.
Since the scousers have an injured striker, what if Chelsea sends them their Rome, and Southampton sends Chelsea their Rome. Then pool and Chelsea each pay 25 mil to Southampton. Everybody wins.
Man I need a cold shower, brain's overheating.
What’s Liverpool’s plan here anyway? Tell Lavia to sit tight and wait while they throw a Hail Mary for Caicedo?
You back off Lavia, and we'll back off Caicedo.
If Thiago goes to Saudi Arabia, they might need both.
This transfer window has been great, seems the addition of Saudi to the equation has sent the system nuts. I’m all for it.
You’d think so.
When does the "find out" part of the "feck around and find out" equation happen for Chelsea? Surely there's consequences to this mental spending at very high prices in many cases. Surely the point of an investment fund is that the investors will want to see a return and I just can't see what market efficiencies they are exploiting that will enable their investors to make anything but staggering losses.
Do you not think some of the blame lies at Klopp's door? All your signings were coming up trumps before Klopp started looking for more control and the analytics guys jumped ship? Now there doesn't seem to be any structure to the recruitment.
The analytics guys are still there mate. None have left as yet. The problem they're having is that other clubs aren't as daft anymore when it comes to recruitment.
Romeo who?
Analytics guys might have been an overly-crude catch all term but I mean the likes of Michael Edwards, Ian Graham and Ward who presided over a lot of the successful recruitment.
The guys that run the recruitment department at Liverpool are still there. Barry Hunter and Dave Fallows are the chief scout and head of recruitment at the club and it's their recruitment decisions that the data science team have been assisting with. Ian Graham will leave at the end of the current transfer window, he hasn't left yet. And Ward was the loans manager for a while before being trained up to succeed Edwards as the DoF.
Could easily meet asking price for him if we managed to sell McTominay
This might be the craziest transfer window ever.
Good chance even 50m won't be enough for him now.
Imagine if Brighton go in for him...