Mohamed Salah

[Assassin]

Annoyed bras

[Alex]

Just mentioned because I see he was linked. Follows an illogical path. So I went for it.

[Muddled]

This is also possible but how difficult is it to establish how much someone wants for someone and then decide if you want to pay it?

Us:Hello how much do you want for Salah?
Them:£12m
Us:Ok we only want to pay £8m,would you take that?
Them:No
Us:Ok bye.

And move on to next target.

Recent reports stated we only made an official bid this week.Why the wait.

I think it's more to do with Basel squezing as much value out of Salah. Basel's valuation of Salah will be the opposite end of the spectrum to what we value him at. If we've approached Basel and expressed an interest, there will be a conversation until a mutually acceptable transfer fee is reached before an official offer goes in for further negotiation.

It will be in Basel's interest to stall the deal and leak to the press our interest to weed out other clubs who may be interested. The delay in purchasing the player could be out of our hands.

Say we had been negotiating for your house and I'd been around the £100,000 mark and you wanted £150,000. We'd slowly been talking towards the middle, but all the while we've been getting our chat on, you've been whoring your house out to the area when a rich property developer comes in and says that once he's sold one of his other houses, he'll give you £200,000. The terms are that you have to delay me and once that sale has gone through, £200,000 is yours, then you'd go with the latter.

[cream]

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[Assassin]

The Liverpool Bender on the ball as usual

[john316]

****ed over again - Salah is deranged if he thinks he's making their first team. Apparently Chelsea will pay £16m so good luck to them on that front.

[Alex]

I dont think its really his choice. If they want to pay the money, and the club wants to sell him to Chelsea and not accept our bid. Then thats his option.

[Sarb]

****ing 16m. Double our bid

They can have him for that. Id be annoyed if we spent anywhere over 8m on a non priority position

[G]

I think it's more to do with Basel squezing as much value out of Salah. Basel's valuation of Salah will be the opposite end of the spectrum to what we value him at. If we've approached Basel and expressed an interest, there will be a conversation until a mutually acceptable transfer fee is reached before an official offer goes in for further negotiation.

It will be in Basel's interest to stall the deal and leak to the press our interest to weed out other clubs who may be interested. The delay in purchasing the player could be out of our hands.

Say we had been negotiating for your house and I'd been around the £100,000 mark and you wanted £150,000. We'd slowly been talking towards the middle, but all the while we've been getting our chat on, you've been whoring your house out to the area when a rich property developer comes in and says that once he's sold one of his other houses, he'll give you £200,000. The terms are that you have to delay me and once that sale has gone through, £200,000 is yours, then you'd go with the latter.

All makes sense Mudds but we seem to be caught this way time and again.Keep getting our pants pulled down and it's annoying. My point is if they want more than we are willing to pay then there's not much point dicking around for weeks trying to haggle them down,especially when you could be gazumped.Make a bid,see what happens,if they say no you can walk away or improve your bid. Which is exactly what Chelsea did for both Willian and now Salah-made a bid,it got rejected and they improved it,all in the space of a few hours while we apparently spent weeks trying to tease Basel down from their asking price before we even lodged a bid.

We have a limit we can bid so have a go at a lower offer,then increase if you want until you reach you maximum bid and be done,that shouldn't take weeks it should take days.if someone outbids you so be it but at least you haven't wasted weeks trying to do a deal.

There are many nuances but we seem to take an age getting deals done.Even United got Mata within 2 days.There will be no delay in any transfer if you are willing to pay the asking price,if you're miles apart then don't even bother.

[danperkins]

Gutted to get outbid again really is.. but yup we have other priorities.

[Muddled]

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[danperkins]

[Muddled]

All makes sense Mudds but we seem to be caught this way time and again.Keep getting our pants pulled down and it's annoying. My point is if they want more than we are willing to pay then there's not much point dicking around for weeks trying to haggle them down,especially when you could be gazumped.Make a bid,see what happens,if they say no you can walk away or improve your bid. Which is exactly what Chelsea did for both Willian and now Salah-made a bid,it got rejected and they improved it,all in the space of a few hours while we apparently spent weeks trying to tease Basel down from their asking price before we even lodged a bid.

We have a limit we can bid so have a go at a lower offer,then increase if you want until you reach you maximum bid and be done,that shouldn't take weeks it should take days.if someone outbids you so be it but at least you haven't wasted weeks trying to do a deal.

There are many nuances but we seem to take an age getting deals done.Even United got Mata within 2 days.

A fair post, Gee.

There does seem to be an element of our transfer dealings that seem to get dragged out for reasons unbeknown. The Mata transfer is a good example, but who's to say we had any interest in Salah that was concrete?

It's football. On to the next one.

[danperkins]

All makes sense Mudds but we seem to be caught this way time and again.Keep getting our pants pulled down and it's annoying. My point is if they want more than we are willing to pay then there's not much point dicking around for weeks trying to haggle them down,especially when you could be gazumped.Make a bid,see what happens,if they say no you can walk away or improve your bid. Which is exactly what Chelsea did for both Willian and now Salah-made a bid,it got rejected and they improved it,all in the space of a few hours while we apparently spent weeks trying to tease Basel down from their asking price before we even lodged a bid.

We have a limit we can bid so have a go at a lower offer,then increase if you want until you reach you maximum bid and be done,that shouldn't take weeks it should take days.if someone outbids you so be it but at least you haven't wasted weeks trying to do a deal.

There are many nuances but we seem to take an age getting deals done.Even United got Mata within 2 days.There will be no delay in any transfer if you are willing to pay the asking price,if you're miles apart then don't even bother.

[Fredo]