Liverpool FC Official Thread

Keyser Söze wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

You haven't though, you've missed that by some margin.  Let's take your figures and pretend that they haven't been spun and that they're completely accurate.  Looking purely at the £ value, £75m today is worth less than £64m in 2009 money thanks to inflation, so that's a £26m deficit already.  If you think a £75m sale in 2014 is the same sort money as an £86m transfer in 2013 or an £80m transfer in 2009 then you're delusional.

Have you read Pay As You Play? If you have then you probably already know inflation within football is actually much greater than in general life.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Glen Miller wrote:I don't really follow the last point, I'm a bit confused.  If spending a lot is good for his election prospects, wouldn't he want the figure released to be as high as possible? If that is the case, it must be less than 63, even.

I'd say £75m is as high as they could go without massively stretching credibility.

Glen Miller wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:
I'd say £75m is as high as they could go without massively stretching credibility.

Ah, I was assuming that Barcelona would claim it would be 63 million when I read your post.

I definitely think that the price is lower than 75m, but I don't really find your claims about the president/election credible.

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Glen Miller wrote:
Ah, I was assuming that Barcelona would claim it would be 63 million when I read your post.

I definitely think that the price is lower than 75m, but I don't really find your claims about the president/election credible.

Liverpool want to exaggerate the transfer fee so they leak to the BBC that it is £75m when in fact it's closer to £60m because of Suarez's behaviour and ban.  Barcelona don't contradict them because they don't want to have a bad relationship with Liverpool and it's good for their PR to shoe they're big hitters in the transfer market.  What's incredible about that?

Glen Miller wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Liverpool want to exaggerate the transfer fee so they leak to the BBC that it is £75m when in fact it's closer to £60m because of Suarez's behaviour and ban.  Barcelona don't contradict them because they don't want to have a bad relationship with Liverpool and it's good for their PR to shoe they're big hitters in the transfer market.  What's incredible about that?

The Liverpool end of it makes perfect sense, especially with people like Ian Ayre trying to save face.  On the Barcelona side, I think that buying Suarez, universally recognized as one of the top 5, maybe top 3 players in the world, in and of itself indicates that they are big hitters, and lying about the fee and claiming to have spent 10-15m extra represents a large risk, especially if Suarez underwhelms or fails to make an instant impact (given he is banned until November, maybe even from training, it is a strong possibility).

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

Keyser Söze wrote:
Have you read Pay As You Play? If you have then you probably already know inflation within football is actually much greater than in general life.

No, I'm aware of it and the subject does interest me but I find Tomkins such an insufferable cunt that I can't bring myself to read anything he's written.  I do share the belief that inflation in football is greater than in real life, but I didn't want to posit it as I don't have any figures to back that up and I was trying to be conservative.

Keyser Söze wrote:

ResurrectionRooney wrote:

No, I'm aware of it and the subject does interest me but I find Tomkins such an insufferable cunt that I can't bring myself to read anything he's written.  I do share the belief that inflation in football is greater than in real life, but I didn't want to posit it as I don't have any figures to back that up and I was trying to be conservative.

His wikipedia pages says he's suffered from "Chronic fatigue syndrome" since 1999   What the fuck is that?

Glen Miller wrote:They discussed his right to play virtual football on a game console.

Scott_LFC wrote:

Keyser Söze wrote:

You actually believe this?



So?   They are no better than Lambert.

Who are Arsenal linked with? Not hearing anything Not going to replace Giroud? Brilliant.

Scott_LFC wrote:Apparently we're after a Barcelona player, but not Fabregas.

Rumblings of Pedro or Sanchez.

Would love either one.

Scott_LFC wrote:Barrett: LFC have been made aware of Fabregas’ availability but prefer Alexis Sanchez.

Southampton not budging on their £30 million valuation of Lallana, so we're looking elsewhere now, apparently. Sanchez and Shaqiri.

samiz wrote:Di Marzio has confirmed our strong interest in Sanchez

Scott_LFC wrote:yfw picture of Lallana, Shaqiri and Sanchez all holding same LFC flag.

Scouser_Dave wrote:No less than 80M for Suarez 

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/luis-suarez-transfer-news-liverpool-will-not-allow-uruguay-striker-to-join-barcelona-for-less-than-80m-9569146.html

Reckon Barca will offer a player plus £50M though. Don't want him to leave but Sanchez plus a considerable amount of cash would certainly soften the blow.

Scouser_Dave wrote:

Theo Filippo wrote:

Yeah yeah, delusional spastic.

Sorry forgot that Arsenal are an untouchable force now that they have won the FA Cup

Scott_LFC wrote:What would your line up be if we were to acquire Sanchez?

I am struggling to settle on one. The purchase of Lallana has added to the headache, also.

Maybe this:

Sterling - Sturridge - Sanchez
Coutinho - Lallana
Henderson

Probably too attacking. Gerrard can gfto too, I hope Can somehow ends up being so beastly that he replaces Gerrard

Scott_LFC wrote:Mine, based on who we've signed so far, and the hypothetical inclusion of Sanchez.

Sterling - Sturridge - Sanchez
Lallana - Henderson
Can
Enrique - Sakho - Skrtel - Johnson
Mignolet

Subs: Lambert, Borini, Coutinho, Allen, Gerrard, Agger, Flanagan.

I don't care that I've never seen Can play properly. I just can't be doing with Gerrard anymore. Cba.

Ra's al Ghul wrote:You do have to wonder what possessed Sanchez to join a stagnating side like Arsenal instead of a team that's so clearly on the up like Liverpool. Must have been the London factor, I can't think of anything else. At least you guys are signing proven Champions League level players. It's also nice to see Rodgers address your defensive problems so sharply as well.

Scott_LFC wrote:I don't see how any of them are funny? No one said we were definitely signing Sanchez.

Scott_LFC wrote:http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jul/01/liverpool-barcelona-luis-suarez-alexis-sanchez

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/10939185/Luis-Suarez-negotiations-between-Barcelona-and-Liverpool-begin-with-Alexis-Sanchez-a-key-factor.html