Philippe Coutinho

[Tatterdemalion]

We were told we had a £150m for the last transfer window alone from the increased revenue. And next transfer window that revenue remains and we have additional CL money coming in. So yeah stingy *******s.

Would you be happy if we just gave some random club £200m for some random idiot? Because if all you care about is net spend that should do it.

[MrMichael]

We are being stingy compared to our rivals. And it's true in the wage side as well.

That is just empirically untrue. Check the stats for our wages as % of turnover.

Most recent accounts we had the 5th highest turnover in the league but the 3rd highest outright wages and the highest % of turnover out of the top 6. We paid more in wages than City did ffs.

Link - https://www.theguardian.com/football...s-club-by-club

[Alex]

Net spend is bollocks. Need to look at wages and signing on fees in all of t too.

[Norbs]

https://twitter.com/__charliethomas/...42379284926466

Spoiler tags perleeese. Watched that with the Mrs sitting opposite and she's convinced I'm watching porn now

[Shaggy]

Was reading the IPad on the loo and turned the volume to listen to this, my Mrs heard it and asked what I was watching.

****ing Shaggy

Spoiler tags perleeese. Watched that with the Mrs sitting opposite and she's convinced I'm watching porn now

[Red_Polo]

Spoiler tags perleeese. Watched that with the Mrs sitting opposite and she's convinced I'm watching porn now

Very nearly pressed play on that at work whilst a patient was behind a curtain getting changed ffs

[Tatterdemalion]

That is just empirically untrue. Check the stats for our wages as % of turnover.

Most recent accounts we had the 5th highest turnover in the league but the 3rd highest outright wages and the highest % of turnover out of the top 6. We paid more in wages than City did ffs.

Link - https://www.theguardian.com/football...s-club-by-club

imo those stats demonstrate that our turnover isn't high enough. We could 1) charge overseas fans for merch & tix 2) charge local fans for tix or 3) get more for tv rights.

I'm sure most of us would say option 1 (option 3 is too transferable to other clubs as a strategy to imply any permanent gain), but that means non locals paying premium prices for tix, which locals can't afford. There's no easy option. I don't think the owners are being mean, but I do think they're being realistic, which is not that palatable when we haven't dominated European football for a while.

[Shaggy]

[ame]https://twitter.com/AnfieldHQ/status/949002694169153536[/ame]

[peekay]

https://twitter.com/AnfieldHQ/status/949002694169153536

That base payment of around 100 million is way too low for him. Also agree with everyone on the disruption to our season by selling him in January. About how we hold all the aces with the contract length etc.

But I think this transfer is happening because Klopp values team spirit above everything.

Don't know if this is the correct approach as we can see the saga repeating itself in summer for Salah.

[Snigger]

Didn't think I'd see the day we'd be moaning at £140m for one of our players

[Snigger]

We should tell those Catalan cunts what our terms are and that they have to offer them before Monday or no deal - can see this dragging on all of Jan and us not having to time to replace him.

[Leyton388]

£100m **** off with that and if the club agree then their a bunch of *****.

We’ve spent years going on about how difficult it is to sign players in January, yet here we are, potentially selling our best player in January.

Utter madness and the reason why we never get anywhere. Could you see Chelsea selling Hazard or City selling Silva in January? Can you ****.

[MrMichael]

£100m **** off with that and if the club agree then their a bunch of *****.

We’ve spent years going on about how difficult it is to sign players in January, yet here we are, potentially selling our best player in January.

Utter madness and the reason why we never get anywhere. Could you see Chelsea selling Hazard or City selling Silva in January? Can you ****.

There's a difference between it being difficult to buy players in Jan, and a player who threw the kitchen sink at getting a move in the summer and clearly is doing again potentially (not actually yet) getting sold for more than the value of most entire actual football clubs. While it is always disappointing losing a great player this is hardly like the club are out there looking to sell, and acting like this is a simple, black & white thing that makes the club to be the "*****'s" here is verging on the ridiculous imho.

[Fredo]

There is nothing to suggest we are going to accept their bid apart from journo talk insinuating that could happen. I think if it happens and we accept a bid, it will be for him to leave in the summer, not this month.

[Norbs]

There's a difference between it being difficult to buy players in Jan, and a player who threw the kitchen sink at getting a move in the summer and clearly is doing again potentially (not actually yet) getting sold for more than the value of most entire actual football clubs. While it is always disappointing losing a great player this is hardly like the club are out there looking to sell, and acting like this is a simple, black & white thing that makes the club to be the "*****'s" here is verging on the ridiculous imho.

We should use the money to build something special at academy level. Up until recently we were dining at the 2nd tier, spending on average £20m on players. This money could elevate us and seeing that we've not really got much choice it's only worthwhile looking at the positives