Liverpool thread 2020/21

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casualattitude said:
If it wasn't Liverpool though, would you be looking at any of these deals and thinking they are overpriced in the current market ? Wilson performed well at Bournemouth, Grujic the same at Hertha, Xhaqiri is a Swiss international (and even then the sale is really just recouping the original purchase price). Brewster is both the highest priced compared to his experience but also the player with perhaps the highest potential - the lost year to injury set him back at a crucial time in his career.

Each of them have years left on their contracts, meaning it's not just a question of having to take what you can get to stop them leaving on a free in a few months.
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Listen There is no way in hell anyone would pay 23 m for Brewster. He is 20 years old with only 20 games ever in first team 0 in Premier L . He doesnt look fit and this is to much of a risk for Sheff Utd which need proven striker . He is not that Why would they pay 23 m for him no change this is dodgy as fuck
 
I think the fact brewster is English has everything to do with it. It almost doubled his price tag. Although sheff utd aren't struggling to reach their homegrown quota
 
But but but....I thought this was the best team ever to have laced up boots with the best players that ever lived and the best manager ever to choose a team to play......has the public enquiry started yet to ascertain what went wrong?
 
Cityfan1977 said:
Listen There is no way in hell anyone would pay 23 m for Brewster. He is 20 years old with only 20 games ever in first team 0 in Premier L . He doesnt look fit and this is to much of a risk for Sheff Utd which need proven striker . He is not that Why would they pay 23 m for him no change this is dodgy as fuck
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Can I ask what makes you think he doesn't look fit ? He seemed in shape in pre-season, and the injury that put him out for a year was a one-off ankle injury requiring surgery that took over a year to heal. He's been back training/playing for over a year without any re-occurrence of this.

I honestly don't know if he's worth the money, but his age and his potential does offer a lot of upside for Sheff Utd and no-one has questioned his skill levels. When he was playing for England with Foden he looked extremely talented (I'm not arguing that he is/was as good) and had it not been for the injury setback there might be no questioning of the price.
 
Brewster has a superb reputation from the youth groups, which all teams will be fully aware of, has the England World Cup win to bolster that further still and by all accounts had a very good loan at Swansea last season. Add to that his English homegrown markup and The £23 million being quoted isn’t beyond reasonable.

We reportedly value Garcia at roughly around the same price after playing just a handful of mainly meaningless games for us when we had no other options there and he only has 12 months left on his contract.
 
casualattitude said:
Can I ask what makes you think he doesn't look fit ? He seemed in shape in pre-season, and the injury that put him out for a year was a one-off ankle injury requiring surgery that took over a year to heal. He's been back training/playing for over a year without any re-occurrence of this.

I honestly don't know if he's worth the money, but his age and his potential does offer a lot of upside for Sheff Utd and no-one has questioned his skill levels. When he was playing for England with Foden he looked extremely talented (I'm not arguing that he is/was as good) and had it not been for the injury setback there might be no questioning of the price.
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He just doesnt look fit to me sorry but thats they way I see it and that is why Liverpool is selling. I could be wrong thats opinion in football for you. About the price Callum Wilson , homegrown, English international was sold for 20 million he is proven . Do you think that 23 for Brewster in these time . Covid and all is not a dodgy price ?
 
Cityfan1977 said:
He just doesnt look fit to me sorry but thats they way I see it and that is why Liverpool is selling. I could be wrong thats opinion in football for you. About the price Callum Wilson , homegrown, English international was sold for 20 million he is proven . Do you think that 23 for Brewster in these time . Covid and all is not a dodgy price ?
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Fair enough - what's football without differing opinions ? I personally think he's being sold because he's nowhere near ready to compete with our current front line, but is too good to play in the under-23s, and the offer is high enough to outweigh the potential benefits of keeping him around/loan. Still seems to be highly rated, hence the buy back clause which I haven't really seen before from Liverpool (eg Ibe etc).

Comparing the price to Callum Wilson is tricky because of the difference in age and potential (which I would suggest is higher for Brewster). The price is slightly higher than I would have guessed if the reports of £23m are correct, but not excessively so in light of how he was developing prior to his year absence. Comes down to view of his potential I suppose, but I would agree that it's a bit of a gamble for Sheff Utd - £23m isn't exactly chump change
 
LGWIO said:
If the rumours are true then I think its a case of simply playing the players we have available. No matter of age or experience.
Otherwise I think that what happened to Orient should happen to Liverpool.
If you cannot fulfil the fixture then forfeit the tie or the points.
OK it is the prem as opposed to the cups but there should be continuity.
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what rumours are these ?
 
MaineDAWG2008 said:
So Liverpool gonna sell Brewster 23.5m to Sheff United

Wilson to be told to Burnley 15m

Grujic to Mochengladbacch 15m

Xhaqiri possible to German team for around 15m

How on earth are they managing to generate such funds for reserve players ? something not sitting right.
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Been saying this for a while, how did Palace afford that Benteke fee and why, when he was worse than Bony was for us at Liverpool? Even when teams know they are desperate to get them off the books, they still manage good fees, something isn't right and it's not just Liverpool.

Wouldn't that be a great way to cheat FFP?

Liverpool fans: "We cheated FFP the right way"

I don't care what the Liverpool apologists on here say, they are a vile club and I don't trust them.
 
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ninjamonkey said:
Brewster has a superb reputation from the youth groups, which all teams will be fully aware of, has the England World Cup win to bolster that further still and by all accounts had a very good loan at Swansea last season. Add to that his English homegrown markup and The £23 million being quoted isn’t beyond reasonable.

We reportedly value Garcia at roughly around the same price after playing just a handful of mainly meaningless games for us when we had no other options there and he only has 12 months left on his contract.
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He's only proven at youth level and championship level. By that logic, he's less accomplished as a senior player than Patrick Roberts and the likes, I doubt we'd get £23m for him and that's not even accounting for COVID, something is fishy in my opinion. This is not about one inflated fee in isolation either, they always seem to get great deals even for dead wood, as I've said above.

We're struggling to get £20m for Garcia who's got 11 starts for City's first team in major competitions(PL and CL... meaningless? Don't think so) 16 appearances including coming off the bench and he's had an appearance for Spain's senior team in the Nations league now hasn't he? 12months or not, he is wanted but Barca are unwilling or unable to pay that much and yet Sheffield United somehow are?
 
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Says it all when bottom half clubs are trying to outbid each other to buy Liverpool's favour with VAR and other politics behind the scenes this season. Bet it's how the Rags gained so much influence under Slurgie.
 
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