28-08-17, 02:56 PM
|
#1
|
Dressed up as Batman?
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 130,733
|
Naby Keita
__________________
Fucking chances, goals
|
|
|
28-08-17, 02:57 PM
|
#2
|
Shankly
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 9,821
|
Fuck me - just seen this on the beeb
|
|
|
28-08-17, 02:58 PM
|
#3
|
Shankly
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 9,821
|
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41075272
Liverpool have agreed a club-record deal to sign Leipzig midfielder Naby Keita, with the player officially joining on 1 July 2018.
The Reds have agreed to pay the £48m release clause that will allow him to move next summer, plus an undisclosed premium.
The 22-year-old had been one of Jurgen Klopp's primary targets this summer, but Leipzig had refused to sell.
The deal will surpass the £35m they paid Newcastle to sign Andy Carroll.
|
|
|
28-08-17, 02:59 PM
|
#4
|
Out Patient
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 3,132
|
Great deal. RBL wanted him for another year, but we never gave up - Great to secure this signing and will certainly shut up the anti-FSG mob - paying a premium on top!
__________________
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:01 PM
|
#5
|
Cuboid Humanoid
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 29,525
|
Baby Keith
__________________
3 Cups and the Champions League.
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:05 PM
|
#6
|
Meh
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 35,514
|
Fantastic. Gutted we've got to wait a season but we've got the guy we really wanted
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:07 PM
|
#7
|
Shankly
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 8,178
|
Fantastic
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:07 PM
|
#8
|
Donald Buzzworth
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 42,484
|
It must be incredibly hard for the player to have made this dream signing but know he has to return to his old club for the next 10 months.
That said, kudos to FSG for brokering this compromise deal for a player Klopp clearly wants.
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:08 PM
|
#9
|
Big Girl's Blouse
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 32,925
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy
|
Sweaty fucker
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:08 PM
|
#10
|
Donald Buzzworth
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 42,484
|
SKY Sports News have not even got a whisper of this on TV yet.
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:08 PM
|
#11
|
Shankly
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 7,236
|
I really didn't think I'd see this thread title this year!
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:08 PM
|
#12
|
Dressed up as Batman?
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 130,733
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Buzzo
It must be incredibly hard for the player to have made this dream signing but know he has to return to his old club for the next 10 months.
That said, kudos to FSG for brokering this compromise deal for a player Klopp clearly wants.
|
Quite amazing too that Keita is signing for us without any assurance at all of CL football next season. That's the pull of Jurgen.
__________________
Fucking chances, goals
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:09 PM
|
#13
|
Shankly
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,106
|
Doesn't sign until July 2018 mind, but fuck me, I'll take that, at the very least it means we won't lose out next year.
__________________
Vive la France
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:09 PM
|
#14
|
Pig hater
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 5,317
|
Didn't we have a similar deal with Auxerre when we signed Cisse?
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:09 PM
|
#15
|
Big Girl's Blouse
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 32,925
|
He'll well regret it if we fail to qualify for the CL by the end of this season
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:10 PM
|
#16
|
Shankly
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,106
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy
Quite amazing too that Keita is signing for us without any assurance at all of CL football next season. That's the pull of Jurgen.
|
In football there is no guarantee of a manager being here in 12 months time really is there? Its hard to get fully excited but RBL clearly wouldn't sell this summer and we've found a compromise!
__________________
Vive la France
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:11 PM
|
#17
|
The Normal One
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 10,027
|
Keita will know Klopp is planning to build the midfield around him. He's exactly the type of midfielder we need, to quicken the transition of attacks from our defence.
I expect Coutinho to be sold next summer anyway, so this will be a glorious arrival to cover that.
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:11 PM
|
#18
|
Shankly
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 8,178
|
Anyone else think he'll be here in January if they go out of CL?
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:11 PM
|
#19
|
Donald Buzzworth
Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 42,484
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy
Quite amazing too that Keita is signing for us without any assurance at all of CL football next season. That's the pull of Jurgen.
|
The best thing that has happened to the club in many many long years was securing Klopp.
I have absolute faith in him, win lose or draw. He is exactly the manager we need. Humble, funny, no bullshit, tough... plus about the only manager who looks like he'd be a decent laugh to go for a pint with.
I think we already play the best attacking football in the League, it beggars belief to imagine what we might be like by next year.
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:11 PM
|
#20
|
Paisley
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 15,496
|
shame that their group is piss easy, I think if they had nothing to play for by christmas, he could rock up here
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:12 PM
|
#21
|
The Wisp
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 20,528
|
If the wheels fall off their season, it wouldn't surprise me to see him join early in the Jan window.
__________________
Hello mert.
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:13 PM
|
#22
|
Benitez
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 602
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by fidget
Anyone else think he'll be here in January if they go out of CL?
|
Yes, totally!
__________________
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do but does not actually get you anywhere.
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:13 PM
|
#23
|
Shankly
Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 6,143
|
Risky as fuck, but even more exciting!!  Props to FSG, sort out the defence and Coutinho will see the future is at LFC
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:14 PM
|
#24
|
Paisley
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 15,496
|
cancel the loan when its their winter break, get 5 games from him and reloan in the middle of jan when their season restarts
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:14 PM
|
#25
|
Like a boss
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 26,211
|
We work bank holidays
__________________
The times they are a changin'.
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:18 PM
|
#26
|
aka liverpooltj
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 26,010
|
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:18 PM
|
#27
|
Paisley
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 15,496
|
live scenes from living room 
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:27 PM
|
#28
|
Smug
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 12,771
|
We are already having a terrific transfer window 2018, these are pretty exciting times all of a sudden
__________________
* The above is posted in my opinion. Feel free to disagree.
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:28 PM
|
#29
|
Micka "don't f*** with me" Wallace
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 16,413
|
Get the fuck in ha ha ha!!!
__________________
Klopp on LFC vs MUFC (March 9th 2016) - "This is why I love football. This is why we watched it when we were young. I can still not have enough of it." 
Always, keep your face to the sun, and shadows will fall behind you.
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:30 PM
|
#30
|
I'm only the bassist
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 14,272
|
Wow!
__________________
I saw a dead fish on the pavement and thought "what did you expect?"
There's no water round here stupid, should have stayed where it was wet
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:30 PM
|
#31
|
Out Patient
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 3,132
|
__________________
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:34 PM
|
#32
|
Daddy day care
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 22,229
|
the black souness
__________________
Champions of Europe and the World. removing all the weak links makes us stronger
too many gutless players, no beef or desire. pussies everywhere... sack them all, but not VVD or Alisson
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:34 PM
|
#33
|
Paisley
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 43,512
|
Just came to the site and saw this at the top of the LFC page and thought it was someone having a laugh, just checked the BBC and seen it on there!
Baby Keith
Shame he isn't coming in for another year but still, getting him for £48m rather than £70m seems like good business
__________________
The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:39 PM
|
#34
|
Martin Skrtel can win a game of Connect Four in three moves
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 36,760
|
Great signing, gutted he won't be playing for us until next season.
__________________
When in doubt, mumble.
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:45 PM
|
#35
|
The bear, he dances!
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 3,431
|
WTF is going on here. I nipped out to buy a Diamond tipped drill bit. So have we signed Keita and Lemar and Sanchez?
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:46 PM
|
#36
|
Dressed up as Batman?
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 130,733
|
__________________
Fucking chances, goals
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:48 PM
|
#37
|
Shankly
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,106
|
Still only 22 as well, if we get Lemar and a CB (VVD) then what a summer this has turned out to be. If we keep Coutinho and manage to reintegrate him too, then we have every chance at being successful.
__________________
Vive la France
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:48 PM
|
#38
|
Paisley
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 15,496
|
its mad hes agreed to this, how does he benefit? Us not signing someone else?
He could have the pick of the European elite next summer, and he's chosen to tie himself to us when there are about a dozen better clubs than us
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:49 PM
|
#39
|
Bite my shiny metal ass!
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 36,098
|
Fwiw i don't think couthino will stay .....imo these are replacements then he'll be sold....he's burned his bridges imo...but let's see
|
|
|
28-08-17, 03:51 PM
|
#40
|
Dressed up as Batman?
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 130,733
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Liverpool
its mad hes agreed to this, how does he benefit? Us not signing someone else?
He could have the pick of the European elite next summer, and he's chosen to tie himself to us when there are about a dozen better clubs than us 
|
I think legit early interest counts for a lot. Klopp apparently chased him last summer too and when a player knows a manager has that much confidence in him it it means a lot. I'm absolutely buzzing   
__________________
Fucking chances, goals
|
|
|
Thread Tools |
|
Display Modes |
Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT +1. The time now is 12:28 PM.
|