Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

We should just bid 50m and be done with it. If Liverpool are annoyed and don't want to do business with us anymore then so be it, move the fuck on and look elsewhere. What the hell is going on? The season starts in 2 weeks, it's so typical that the one time we do have some cash to burn we even manage to balls that up. Awful club that needs to get with the times.

It's not like we do much business with each other anyway...

I doubt we'd really care if you paid what we were asking. I doubt we really care about the whole £1 business; we'll be more annoyed with the agent.

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Originally Posted by Josh_Gooner

By protocol, I'm not referring to the tenner bid.

I'm talking about taking steps to ensure we're not being duped, mislead or blighted by scum agents.

Apparently, that's what happened to us here, where we seemed to have gone by an agent telling us about a phantom release clause which led us to make an embarrassing bid which in turn ticked off the scouse ****s. For all we know, we could have been purposely deceived by the agent in getting us to bid an amount that wouldn't land Suarez, but at the same time hoping to draw Real's interest, who aren't known to be penny pinchers.

Massive pay day it would have been for the ****.

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Are you John Le Carre by any chance? Your analysis is plausible, entertaining and certainly intriguing JG - the only caveat for me is your "scouse ****" to be more precise it perhaps should read "American ****" or even "FSG ****" but that might just be me.

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Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga

I disagree, when you negotiate a contract with a clause like this it's because you've asked for it..otherwise the club wouldn't bother. On that basis you would know exactly what it represents.

There's actually no reason for Liverpool to insert a clause like this unless it's requested, how would it benefit them?

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It benefits Liverpool because they got Suarez to sign a contract extension and command a transfer fee of £40m. If he hadn't of signed his extension he'd be worth less and have less on his contract leaving them in a more difficult position.

The player and the agent think they have the clause but they're obviously not willing to challenge it legally.

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

We should just bid 50m and be done with it. If Liverpool are annoyed and don't want to do business with us anymore then so be it, move the fuck on and look elsewhere. What the hell is going on? The season starts in 2 weeks, it's so typical that the one time we do have some cash to burn we even manage to balls that up. Awful club that needs to get with the times.

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That's the logical next step. Bid £50m and see what happens. You can only really do that though if you're happy to let it drag on until deadline day and risk being left with Giroud as your only striker.

I'm not sure why we're not bidding for Lewendowski or whatever he's called. Sure... He wants to go to Bayern but Dortmund would surely be tempted in pushing him to us if they get £40m.

Ibrahmovic would also make sense.

Dortmund are adamant Lewandowski isn't for sale. They've sold a few already so obviously want to keep him.

I'm not sure I really want Ibrahimovic. The wrong side of 30 and on silly wages.

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Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga

That's true, however agents can and would know about a clause, it's a simple case of looking at the contract if you're not sure (they have to have a copy).

I didn't believe we'd bid that, as it turns out I was wrong and it appears we did, but I think you're underestimating the ability of the fans to forgive and forget as well, sure there will be a few moans of discontent initially (incidentally I do think we'll sign a couple players, but they will be the usual panic buys not up to the standard we need - but may well be enough for some who will claim they are just what we needed), but once the season starts it'll be forgotten and the stadium will be full and fans will just say get behind the players we have, we're stuck with what we have now.

I don't believe it's going to change, seen it too many times, last season was a very poor season despite getting 4th and yet it seems to be remembered in a positive way. Before Christmas we had some disastrous results and people were pandering for signings, a few results later and no signings made and it's all forgotten and we then end up stumbling to 4th with some overall woeful displays but people seem pleased enough.

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I don't think it has been remembered in a positive way. The best thing about the season was the misinformation spurs were fed during the final game of the season. And that is it. We are playing some of the most boring football I've seen ever.

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Originally Posted by Steve French

I don't think it has been remembered in a positive way. The best thing about the season was the misinformation spurs were fed during the final game of the season. And that is it. We are playing some of the most boring football I've seen ever.

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92/93 :bow:

We should kidnap some of the players comming for emirates cup, like hamsik, jackson martinez, etc... Only chance of getting some decent players before the season starts.

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Originally Posted by Grebbo

It benefits Liverpool because they got Suarez to sign a contract extension and command a transfer fee of £40m. If he hadn't of signed his extension he'd be worth less and have less on his contract leaving them in a more difficult position.

The player and the agent think they have the clause but they're obviously not willing to challenge it legally.

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Again though if you have a clause like that you know what it is as you would have requested it, the club wouldn't put that clause in otherwise.