£50m bid

[Phil1]

Why not?

It may have been the price from the beginning and this past few weeks has simply been theatre.

That's pretty much my thinking and what I alluded to on the Sterling thread when I posted that all the toing and froing between clubs is just pantomime. There's every chance Liverpool were made aware that we're willing to go as high as £50million even as far back as March when this thread was made.
Whilst all the intricacies that are involved in a transfer of this magnitude are kept hush hush, and worked on behind the scenes, the press are given the snippets of info that they're interested in and more importantly their readership are interested in such as transfer fees and supposed astronomical wages.

My own feeling is that this transfer is done - the price will be £50 million and we'll have to decide for ourselves wherever this thread was spot on or not.

 

[FantasyIreland]

So you believe Tolmie was wumming us too then?

And why would I think that?

 

[Chi-town blues]

Re: City & FFP (continued)

We have a £50m offer in writing on the table for someone right now.

And no, it's not Ross Barkley ;)

There is absolutely no way the nature of our present business suggests a cap of any sort.

huh!!

 

[whipper]

Thought this was a new thread gone ballistic with 70 pages,then I realised its 3 months old.

 

[TonyM]

Is the 50m still on the table? If so where's there that table?

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Is the 50m still on the table? If so where's there that table?

The table won't have legs, it will probably be on bricks with those pesky scousers.

 

[johnmc]

It is a lot of monies

 

[robbieh]

I know there are many Tolmie fans who would see this as some sort of triumph. But while he may be ITK surely he is not clairvoyant. It's a bit disingenuous to suggest that the whole thing is some sort of theatre. We would have tried to get him for 40. The offer put down was more likely to be for Pogba. ie someone who was worth that or more.

 

[Tron Coltrane]

I know there are many Tolmie fans who would see this as some sort of triumph. But while he may be ITK surely he is not clairvoyant. It's a bit disingenuous to suggest that the whole thing is some sort of theatre. We would have tried to get him for 40. The offer put down was more likely to be for Pogba. ie someone who was worth that or more.

I'm not leaping to the defense of linking the original thread with Sterling in any way, because honestly I have no clue. But I don't think it's disingenuous or insincere to support the theatre theory. For me it's perfectly plausible that two clubs could sit down, quietly set a price and agree terms, and then start in on a calendar. "Okay, on June 10th will table our first bid of £25m. You'll reject it outright, and leak such and such demands through your preferred media outlet. The following week, we'll..." etc etc. If it's possible, and it benefits both parties, why wouldn't it be done?

 

[Phil1]

I know there are many Tolmie fans who would see this as some sort of triumph. But while he may be ITK surely he is not clairvoyant. It's a bit disingenuous to suggest that the whole thing is some sort of theatre. We would have tried to get him for 40. The offer put down was more likely to be for Pogba. ie someone who was worth that or more.

That's certainly not beyond the realms of possibility. It could easily have been for Pogba.
On the other hand football at the highest level is a huge industry with many components and moving parts, not to mention self interest. The need to keep the juggernaut that is the Premier league at the forefront of people's minds is high on the list of priorities in the off season. The papers still need to fill their back pages, the 24 hour sports channels and radio stations still have to broadcast and fill their slots with something worthwhile. It makes sense to me that the drip feeding of information is to keep the interest of the paying customer, even if what they're reporting is nothing much.
The other thing is 3 months isn't that long when transfers like this are taking place. The hard graft to get this done would certainly have to have started around then if we're hoping to complete it before preseason.