Romeo Lavia | Chelsea bound?

Bubz27 said:
Ah that must be the reason you need 2 midfielders.
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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.
 
Orc said:
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.
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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.
 
Klopper76 said:
I think we were expecting to go into the season with both Fabinho and Henderson in the squad. Neither were expected departures and its left the club scrambling around for a replacement DM, whilst making sure not to break FSG’s budget.

We’ll be left behind in this league if we don’t start investing properly. We should be backing Klopp whilst we have him.

Since we won the league we’ve signed two CB’s (Konate and that young kid who never played for us). City on the other hand have spent over 200 million iirc on that position and continued to refresh the squad.
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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.
 
Adebisi's Hat said:
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.
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Colwill as well, hasn't been a good transfer window for them.
 
Adebisi's Hat said:
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.
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Not if they fail upwards, it won’t!
 
croadyman said:
Reckon we would have matched their bid had we been able to sell McTominay earlier
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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.
 
interesting battle here between chelsea and Pool ....using each others bids to drive a war for caicedo and lavia
 
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.
 
Fortitude said:
The tragedy of this league is that a club that is not only cheating, but doing so backed by infinite money, is setting an artificial bar, which everyone else is measuring themselves by and trying to meet or even overcome.

You're putting it on your owners that they aren't conjuring similar funds to compete, but you must know it's wholly unrealistic and anyone finishing ahead of City would do so via a perfect storm, unless state-backed themselves?
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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.
 
lysglimt said:
What would people here prefer - Caicedo for £100 million or Lavia for £50 million ?
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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.
 
What’s Liverpool’s plan here anyway? Tell Lavia to sit tight and wait while they throw a Hail Mary for Caicedo?
 
Judas said:
Chelsea are a bizarre club.
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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.
 
B20 said:
We are a joke of a club these days. Without Klopp we'd be nowhere.
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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.
 
Bojan Djordjic said:
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.
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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.
 
Adnan said:
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.
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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.
 
Bojan Djordjic said:
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.
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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
 
Mainoldo said:
Amrabat don’t do it for me. Seems like a steady Eddy no star quality.

Give me this kid or a Tchouameni any day.

Reminds me of when we signed Schneiderlin.
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Neither of those two, lavia or tchouameni are a DLP, passing machine like amrabat. I think amrabat will be done once DVB and Fred depart.
 
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