Ridiculous price and an awful deal for Sheffield United.
I reckon they'll go down this year.
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Ridiculous price and an awful deal for Sheffield United.
I reckon they'll go down this year.
is it a ridiculous price?? Can’t see how they lose money in any way on that deal.
Worst case scenario would be breaking even on him.
Liverpool bought Thiago, Jota and Tsimikas for 80 million while selling lots of fringe players for 50 million . They still have a couple more leaving and will end the window at about a zero net spend . Absolutely incredible transfer policy
Sheffield absolutely fleeced how the feck do Liverpool do it. Bet if we sold Brandon he would go for 5 million.
They sell when the price is most high, whereas United would have kept hold of the kid.
You're talking for granted that Brewster have high potential thus holding value. What if he's as shite as Ibe, Solanke...?
Well, the way people talk, you’d think he does have high potential.
I just think if they ended up selling him, they’d get at least £20m for him. Not a terrible deal. Far from a great one but not terrible.
Obviously, it can go either way but I just think he’ll get a lot of minutes at Sheff. United and will therefore hold his value.
The prices they manage to attract for their deadwood are unbelievable.
Also probably helps that not every player they have is on minimum 100k a week salary.
This.
We tend to give our players far too much time to succeed and by doing this they are given united level of wages as part of the first team squad but performances on the pitch aren’t reflected hence its always difficult to shift unwanted players.
If Garner would have decent spell at Watford as Brewster had at Swensea we would sell him for 20 mln+ there is nothing extraordinary in that.
The thing is we always bring back those players giving them huge contracts to try them out here even if it means 5 cameos in a season, and then if we finally decide he is not going to make it nobody wants them especially with those wages at the level of best earners in other clubs.
Chelsea, Liverpool they sell potential when everybody see that player is talented and maybe turns into some player we try if that potential will be usefull at OT and then if turns out differently which is 9/10 times so we try to sell, but everyone already knows There is nothing to see here.
They have done well because its like a 3 year loan and they can take a look at him while pocketing a load of cash.
We are an absolute joke, he'd be on 100k at Utd so he wouldn't be able to move.
That’s £50m they’ve raised this window from deadwood. We struggle to give ours away.
He's a 20 year old prospect, hardly deadwood!
Sheff Utd only need him to score 10 pl goals to be worth that.
Brewster is hardly deadwood, at least not in the same sense as Pereira or Jones are.
It is part of United tradition to give youth a chance, so bit unfair on the club to contrast Liverpool selling Brewster to United holding onto Pereira in my opinion. There is enough to criticise as is. 
He’s a decent right sided forward..
It's so annoying. Streets ahead of us on and off the pitch.
Who have they sold to raise £50 million. Obviously Brewster for £23m and Lovren went for £11m. Who else?
Brewsters million’s
I guess Rummenigge is unreliable too when it comes to Bayern, right?
That Holland's right back nobody ever heard about in the Jota deal for 13.5 sth. Wilson is very close to be sold for 15-20.
We try to make 60-80 mln player from those talented ones and have never done it( not counting Rash or Mason because they started right of without loans) LFC sell 10 of them for 10-20 mln and buy ready made players for 150 mln...
Pure moneyball and no fetish attached to homegrown or young players. They identify players who are undervalued and purchase them, and from a position of strength they make clubs pay over the odds if they want their prized youth who are still unproven. If they didn't sell Brewster, it would be no big deal. Probably on very low wages.
Jota is kind of the one as stands out as being odd for Liverpool, but maybe they will have gotten that one right too.
So they’ve sold Brewster for pretty much the same price they paid for Thiago 
You would have known Liverpool fans and the Scouse love in media better during all this time. Their players would be this and that. Lucas Leiva was even touted as world class by them lot.
Brewster had a decent spell in Championship, but hardly anything special.
Shiefield United would have to do well to trust a young player now that they have to battle to survive, where experience is important with less margin for error.
They also sold some one to Reading to for about 4mil if I remember one of the Tweet correct.
Shaqiri is also about to leave, too
United and Liverpool don't do deals. Wasting your precious time.
Pereira has an option to sell thats more than this?
Heres the thing, if we sold promising youth players our fanbase would rinse us. They just dont have a path to the first 11.
Especially when Liverpool have a lot of their top stars aging together. Theres a lot of 28 odd year olds in that squad.
If they had Dean, they would have sold him years ago imo.
Thats not something to praise them over.
It is part of United tradition to give youth a chance, so bit unfair on the club to contrast Liverpool selling Brewster to United holding onto Pereira in my opinion. There is enough to criticise as is.
We used to move on academy players who we knew are not going to be part of first team in future. Now we keep them around for so long that nobody wants to buy them.
Option to buy = Lazio can always walk away, which they likely do if looking at their transfer history. Unless Pereira had a world class season (which would be our loss), we would be lucky to have Lazio take him for half of that high fee.
Liverpool is selling unproven talents for high fee. Quite some has proven to be daylight robbery like Ibe, Solanke.
Liverpool has TAA coming through their rank, and is currently one of the best full back in the world. So it's not like they're selling everything last one of them.
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Exactly, he also had a good loan last year IIRC, so the price makes sense. Sheffield should be a good place for him to develop.
He's 20 and highly rated.
Your "deadwood", presuming you mean people like Rojo, Jones, lingard etc are a lot older and not so highly rated - you could get decent money from Pereira and would have got more if he had been sold to another prem side you'd get the same price for James if you sold him now in the prem as well, but your others are just not worth that amount of cash. Liverpool haven't done anything amazing here, just sold a youngster who has good potential but not enough for a top 6 team.
£23.5 million for a player who has achieved what? How many appearances has he made at PL level?
I'm willing to guarantee that's he'll be at a similar level to the other players that Liverpool have rinsed other clubs for: Ibe and Solanke.
No way should Liverpool be getting anywhere close to £20 million for him. Their transfer activity is incredible.
I think people also need to realise that transfer income is Liverpool's main source of income, they don't have the same level of sponsor income as United.
I remember SAF stating that the club don't look to make money off sales, if a player wants to go then we let them go.
Again the wages don't help matters, but Brewster is on £10k a week, he's barely featured for their first team but has been good at a high level championships club, he's going for similar money to Dan James.
I remember SAF stating that the club don't look to make money off sales, if a player wants to go then we let them go.
Again the wages don't help matters, but Brewster is on £10k a week, he's barely featured for their first team but has been good at a high level championships club, he's going for similar money to Dan James.
My point was he's not deadwood
So something has changed with us because we aren't letting players go, that need to go.
Liverpool are one of the best teams in Europe so their bargaining position as far as giving out contracts to fringe/young players is very strong and that's because they have a strong structure at the club headed by Michael Edwards.
That still doesn't excuse us when it comes to handing out too much money in the way of contract renewals etc. But our issue is that most of our first 11 look to be under threat from the fringe and young players at the club, so the hierachy is probably reluctant to let them go easily IMO.
That still doesn't excuse us when it comes to handing out too much money in the way of contract renewals etc. But our issue is that most of our first 11 look to be under threat from the fringe and young players at the club, so the hierachy is probably reluctant to let them go easily IMO.
0 goals, 0 starts = surplus to requirements = deadwood.
They have Trent and Curtis Jones but yeah you're right in terms of youth we are different clubs.
Still, wasn't highlighting just Brewster (which is an amazing deal for them) or Ibe or Solanke - It's not only youth players. Seems almost all sales are excellent from their point of view. Lovren, Sakho, Coutinho, even Danny Ward for roughly £12m.
Some take the piss out of net spend but it's true they've built this current side on amazing value for money. The big frustration for a lot of Utd fans is, why can't we be as good in the market?
It's hard to deny they are much slicker than us in both buying and selling. Isn't that a massive worry for you?
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