Liverpool Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread Summer 2014 - Mod Warning post #6893

Dickerty wrote: »

And we will get some spare change from selling Reina,

I bet we don't. his wages are prohibitively high. It's very unlikely any club will pay us a transfer fee for the pleasure of being able to give him £100,000 a week in wages if that's what he's actually on.

Reina and Johnson are both in the same boat in terms of transferability. There mght be clubs out there who would like to have them but why would the player agree to a transfer on lower wages when both have the option of staying on the payroll with LFC and running down their contract at which time any club signing them won't have to pay a transfer fee and can therefore spread the money saved on a transfer fee over the life of the contract as "extra" wages.

If we want rid of Reina or Johnson this summer we're likely to have to pay off their remaining contract and/or give them a free transfer. These guys are professional players not fans, they (quite rightly IMHO) look after themselves first and put the interest of the club second just as the club puts its own interest first and looks after players second when the time comes to release loyal players now deemed surplus to requirement.

It's a dog eat dog world in the football business. Don't ever confuse what you'd do as a fan with what you'd do if you were a professional player.

Ben

all this linking to articles promotes an atmosphere of mistrust.

If I said the Pat Fenlon to Southhampton rumour was gathering pace, you would demand some sort of link?

Its like you dont trust me Im offended

Shaw may be better as some point out but Moreno seems to be quality, and at approx half the price of Shaw i could live with the small loss in perceived quality if 15m can be spent elsewhere.

NukaCola wrote: »

Shaw may be better as some point out but Moreno seems to be quality, and at approx half the price of Shaw i could live with the small loss in perceived quality if 15m can be spent elsewhere.

Exactly, he isn't as good but Liverpool would have an extra 15 million to spend elsewhere.

As Liverpool showed last season you don't always need the best available to be successful, Gerrard isn't the best DM in the league but he is effective in the system. Moreno should be a good LB for a Premier league team

Getting good solid players all over the pitch should be Rodgers' aim now, when you get to that point then you can start getting in the luxury players like Shaw and spending that bit extra

Rayne Wooney wrote: »

That proves nothing

As goal and assist stats on their own always do

But you no doubt have the stats that prove Shaw is a better defender and attacker? Stats that are much more important than goals and assists?

DaveSuarez wrote: »

It's like a playground in here, "THE LB WE HAVEN'T SIGNED IS BETTER THAN THE ONE YOU HAVEN'T SIGNED"

Waaaaaah!