Liverpool thread

[sir baconface]

Benteke thread on their Transfer Forum is now locked. They're about to pay £32.5m for (another) striker and the fans can't talk about it.

And some of you lot think we're terrible mods...

Cap duly doffed and forelock tugged, PB ;)

Out of interest, why do so many of their threads get locked?

 

[woolleyback blue]

For Benteke read Andy Carroll.

 

[yeah whatever !!]

Cap duly doffed and forelock tugged, PB ;)

Out of interest, why do so many of their threads get locked?

As Jack Nicholson once said ( A few good men).. "you want the truth??,you cant handle the truth" ;)

 

[mindmyp's_n_q's]

They lock all/most threads to make the forum stop posting like total lunatics. As it is a Lfc forum that happens quite a lot.

 

[yeah whatever !!]

Dippers have now met release clause..

 

[M18CTID]

I like Benteke and think he's a very good player but like many others I can't see him being a natural "fit" for the style of play that Brenton prefers. He'd be more suited to how United play, unless Rodgers is planing on changing the way they play to some extent.

 

[dickie davies]

Benteke thread on their Transfer Forum is now locked. They're about to pay £32.5m for (another) striker and the fans can't talk about it.

And some of you lot think we're terrible mods...

In footballing terms their mods are Bradbury and Taylor, ours are Corradi and Samaras

 

[bluemoon32]

Strange for both sides, sideways move for Benteke & Liverpool have overpaid for an average player.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

In footballing terms their mods are Bradbury and Taylor, ours are Silva and Aguero

I think your predictive text is playing up dickie so I've corrected it for you. That's how thoughtful we are.

 

[Matty]

Said it before so won't labour the point, but Benteke is a good player, he's just a player that isn't suited to Liverpool's playing style.

I do find it fairly amusing that, as with the profits for the Torres sale, and the Suarez one too, the profits from selling Sterling look likely to have been squandered on the wrong player. In fact what Liverpool have actually done is swap Sterling for Benteke, which is a pretty poor piece of transfer business if you ask me.

Sterling was sold for £49m, however £5m of that is "add ons", which will relate to appearances, performances, and success. So, with any look, they'll get the full £5m (as that means Sterling, and by association City, have succeeded), however they've not got a penny of those add ons yet. So that's £44m in cash they received. 20% of that needs to go to QPR as they had a sell on clause (interestingly that makes Raheem Sterling QPR's most expensive sale, despite it happening 5 years after he actually left the club!). That means £8.8m has been handed to QPR. £44m - £8.8m = £35.2m. Benteke's release clause is £32.5m, so £35.2m = £32.5m = £2.7m. So Liverpool have £2.7m left. However, if you then factor in Benteke's signing on bonus, and his agent's fees, then you can likely discount another couple of million as well. So, aside from maybe a few hundred thousand pounds, Liverpool's Sterling money is now in the hands of QPR, Aston Villa, Christian Benteke, and Christian Benteke's agent!