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Don't think he's currently got enough hype for Barca, luckily. As trix said, they need a young star to placate their fans.
Probably right, but would be a very clever signing for them.
Don't think he's currently got enough hype for Barca, luckily. As trix said, they need a young star to placate their fans.
I love Dele and don't want to lose him. I don't think losing him would be a complete disaster though. Losing Eriksen would be. He's irrreplaceable. If we lost Dele we could immediately flip the £120m transfer fee over to Dortmund for Dembele or Pulisic ourselves. Both are on reasonable wages at BvB and either would be perfect for us. It also may balance us out and help make us a better team. An attacking 3 of Son/Eriksen/Dembele behind Kane would be deadly.I think they would want Eriksen more and he is the one team he would leave us for. He has always dreamt of playing for Barca so could be a testing few weeks for us.
I love Dele and don't want to lose him. I don't think losing him would be a complete disaster though. Losing Eriksen would be. He's irrreplaceable. If we lost Dele we could immediately flip the £120m transfer fee over to Dortmund for Dembele or Pulisic ourselves. Both are on reasonable wages at BvB and either would be perfect for us. It also may balance us out and help make us a better team. An attacking 3 of Son/Eriksen/Dembele behind Kane would be deadly.
£100 million answers an awful lot of whys.
How were those sales mistakes? We had no choice but to let Bale go, he wanted out. Same with Suarez. Despite any contracts in place, once a player wants to go like they did, you can't keep hold of them.
In the sense that we would have had a better team had we kept the player, rather than sold and used the money to sign new players. Also it's completely possible to keep a player who wants to leave but is on a long term contract. Modric wanted to leave but we kept him for a season. Then we sold him for 30 million or something, but again the players who replaced him weren't the same quality.
So to me, selling a world class player is never worth it, plus when you look back a few years later the amount paid always looks like too little because of transfer fee inflation.
I really don't think he'd have a choice. He's building a new stadium and trying to fill it up with fans. Losing a marquee star like Dele is not the same thing as losing Kyle Walker.If that happened, do you really think that Levy will flip the whole lot onto an incoming signing? I don't .
Agreed hazard would make me happiest since Chelsea are rank average without him (Ok maybe not average but he is the difference in the big games imo)I hope Barca uses the Neymar money and targets one or more of Coutinho, Hazard & Sanchez.
Looks like it'll be Coutinho. Two Catalan papers saying 100m Euro, 5yr deal already agreed and Liverpool will sell because he wants to go.
We wouldn't buy a big player like you're suggesting even if we had the money- because of the wages issue. The wage limit seems sacrosanct to levy.I really don't think he'd have a choice. He's building a new stadium and trying to fill it up with fans. Losing a marquee star like Dele is not the same thing as losing Kyle Walker.
I love Dele and don't want to lose him. I don't think losing him would be a complete disaster though. Losing Eriksen would be. He's irrreplaceable. If we lost Dele we could immediately flip the £120m transfer fee over to Dortmund for Dembele or Pulisic ourselves. Both are on reasonable wages at BvB and either would be perfect for us. It also may balance us out and help make us a better team. An attacking 3 of Son/Eriksen/Dembele behind Kane would be deadly.
I don't disagree with you and I am not advocating it but it is a mistake to assume that owners do, especially when the player clearly would like the move.Which is then used to sign new players. But unless you are signing only the very best players, only about 50% or less of signings are successful. So it would make more sense to keep the world class player you already have.
Right now, neither Liverpool nor ourselves need the money, so it wouldn't make sense to sell a player we want to keep.
I agree with you totally on the wage issue. That's the main reason we'll never see Bale back here. The transfer fee wouldn't be a problem, it's the wages we can't afford. The Dortmund players however are all on reasonable wages. We could give Dembele or Pulisic a nice little pay raise without destroying our wage structure. If we sold Dele that would be the first place to look for a possible replacement.We wouldn't buy a big player like you're suggesting even if we had the money- because of the wages issue. The wage limit seems sacrosanct to levy.
£100 million answers an awful lot of whys.
I don't disagree with you and I am not advocating it but it is a mistake to assume that owners do, especially when the player clearly would like the move.