Liverpool want to act fast and the bid has been ready but not sent for a week. 
Even my procrastinating arse would be proud of that.
Even my procrastinating arse would be proud of that.Romeo Lavia | Chelsea bound?
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Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) discuss United's fantastic win away against Athletic Club in the semi-final of the Europa League.
They also pick out the positives of United's 4-3 loss away at Brentford, and Nik reviews a day out at Old Trafford watching Manchester United Women qualify for the Champions League.
The bid is cooking, can’t rush it, needs to be perfect.
So they would have brought 3 players from Brighton, Southampton and the German league. For all 3 of them to settle into a big club, with expectations higher than they have ever experienced, is not going to be easy!
My thoughts exactly.
I get the Lavia love in but get a grip people, this won’t simply slot into place for them.
People desperately overrate the “big club big expectations” thing for most players. It’s a tired cliche at this point unless you’re talking about a teenager.
Jeeze I thought he’d already signed for them the way people were talking in the Liverpool is a mess thread
I'd have him over Amrabat personally, although I'll take either over Fred or McTominay. I certainly don't want Liverpool getting their hands on him, mind.
Thing is you buy players to fit your system, a player in the right system can look a few orders of magnitude better than they are.
I'm not saying Lavia is bad or Amrabat is great, I'm purely saying you can put a player in a team and they look shit then take them to a team that plays to their style and they look like a world beater.
United need a certain type of player and Amrabat according to ETH fits the bill, not only that but Amrabat is a warrior and a leader, and he wants a team of leaders, that fight and that are aggressive you want a winning dressing room that when you are fighting against a Man City or a Liverpool that they leave everything on the pitch.
Can you imagine coming up against AWB, Martinez, Casemiro, Amrabat, mixed with Varanes experience, Shaw is tidy on the ball, I think as a back 6 thats hard to play against. You also have Onana who is brilliant on the ball.
Lavia is top class potential but a lot of youngsters are a bit sheepish I don't think its what United need right now
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Mac Allister: started in and won a World Cup final 8 months ago. Has played in the EPL for a few years.
Szobozslai: regularly played in champions league for Leipzig and Salzburg.
Lavia: made a first team appearance for City in the FA Cup.
I expect Liverpool to struggle a bit early because they’re rebuilding basically their whole midfield, but I doubt any of them will struggle with the expectations given their experience.
They need to pay what he’s worth….157 million.
Tell them to feck off the low balling net spend cnuts.
If they sign him fair play but I think they need an established 6 for lavia to back up. He's no where near the finished article
They got £40m for Fabinho, but here they are low balling
It’s a massive ask to put a young kid in that position if they want to challenge for the league. Is Lavia that exceptional to fill that role?
Wasn't the initial bid £35m + £5m in add-ons? Very weird that we needed more than a week to table an "improved" offer that's only £1m higher (add-ons included).
They got £40m for Fabinho, but here they are low balling
They overpayed a bit for Nunez, then followed it up by buying Gakpo - a player they didn't really need for a further 40-45 million. They've spent about 80 million this summer already on Mac Allister and the hungarian lad whose name I am not going to spell.
They didn't get money for Milner, Firminho or Keita and are losing about 7.5 million on the Mane deal as his add-ons cannot be met since he left Bayern early.
I'd not be shocked if the reason they are scrimping on Lavia is because they are close to their FFP limit even with getting 40 million for Fabinho and 10 million for Henderson
Very unlikely since we apparently had in excess of £300m room to spend, according to this article published right before the start of the World Cup last season. It's possible that we simply don't have the money to do a lot more business, but it doesn't seem to be anything FFP-related.
Watch it scousers Boehly will jump in
Boehly won't jump into this. Ugochukwu not much different to lavia and we signed him already.
Liverpool want to act fast and the bid has been ready but not sent for a week.
Fair play to Southampton, but it’s good for the game that bigger clubs cannot just pinch relegated players easily.
They’ll sign him but expect them to end up paying what Southampton want or very close to.
They’ll sign him but expect them to end up paying what Southampton want or very close to.
hold out for £90 million Saints... you know it makes sense
Yeah keep pushing
Other than being nowhere near as highly rated as Lavia?
Is he any good? City have a buy back clause for him, don’t they? Hope Soton rinses the dippers in this deal if he’s going to them
Yeah talented player,however just feels like Erik wants someone a little more experienced
The best move for him would have been to a Brighton if they sold Caicedo. I like him as a player, but don't think he is ready for a club who is needing to win every week.
Yeah they are good at developing further
To be fair, why would they take 41m when they can keep him a year and almost guarantee that 40m buy back will be activated by City or at least get that from another team. 50m is more than reasonable, especially as he classes as homegrown.
Lavia could be a very good signing for Pool but dont think he is the one for us right now if he wants to be a starter.
His technique is extremely good but lapses in concentration means he messes up some simple passes, pretty similar to Kone in that respect.
His technique is extremely good but lapses in concentration means he messes up some simple passes, pretty similar to Kone in that respect.
We saw lot of highly rated players flop and underrated players shone well too. As of now he is not finished article just highly rated.
When it’s us ye. Other clubs seem to get reasonable prices for players.
The best hope is that Chelsea and even PSG come in for him and push the price way up. Want to see Liverpool spend the full 50 at a minimum.
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Nearly 2000 mins in DM/CM in the PL at 19 and people are seriously unsure if he’s any good?
He is good - but he isn't good enough to play DM for a team fighting for top-4. He is inconsistent as you can expect for a player that young - at his best he was really good, at his worst he gave goals away by making the wrongs choice less than 30 yards from his own goal. I would like to have him - but I can't justify us signing him for £50 million. Especially if we sign Amrabat who will make him a 4th or 5th choice.
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I’m not saying we should be in for him though now. At this point it would be a waste for what I think we need.
Lavia for me has the potential to be one of the best in the world but in an ideal scenario he would get another season of men’s football under his belt before we would be in for him.