Hightown Phil

Unless they request a transfer, yes.

If you aren't sure how we're great at selling people then I can only assume you've not been paying attention for the last five years. Having not sold a couple of players by the 28th of July for to do nothing but placate what appears to be your impatience doesn't change that. We're liable for it anyway. That's how contracts work.

Being good at transfers is a contributing factor to winning things so we already do.

Think we just put the trophies we've won on there instead you know.

As someone who backed him player of the tournament and top scorer at hundreds to 1 I'm still pretty annoyed he didn't start 3 of the first 4 games. Think he's a perfect fit for our style.

So would I, if they aren't I'll live because we'll be signing them on 4-5 year contracts so who really cares about a couple of weeks? If the players we've got can't build momentum and win points then the players we bring in, who won't be considerably better if at all, probably aren't going to change too much. Selling Origi for £1m now is panic selling, selling him for £15m isn't. We've been excellent at selling players for years now. Pretty much unbeaten in world football, so I dunno what the issue is with just letting them crack on with it. Especially given it isn't even August yet.

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Who knows. We aren’t signing them on a short term loan either way. We’ve got loads of capable players we can play in whatever timeframe it is.

Players don’t bed in to what we do in two weeks. If we sign someone tomorrow you would be unlikely to see them this side of September anyway. There’s really no need to panic sell for another month.

Yeah if a club is in that position and they have a player we want we should do. And maybe that’s exactly what we’ll do that in a month. Why we need to do it now I’m not sure. The difference between 10m and 15m is the wages of a reasonably good player for a whole year after all.

Right, but we don’t currently need to sell anyone if we don’t plan to buy anyone, which is what we appear to have briefed a journo yesterday. We only need to make someone think it’s true while we sell them someone.

My excel portfolio is extensive.

Actually on balance, I think you can use it for either. I’ve checked and I once claimed a 95th minute Liverpool winner made my head fall off and also that Ronald Koeman’s head fell off after he’d lost a derby. Conclusive evidence for you there.

No, John Henry isn’t putting the Liverpool squad together so we’re ok on that one. I’d have said the opposite. Always used it as a positive.

Let’s hope that these people we’re negotiating with are incapable of going on the LFC Wikipedia page and counting to 25 then. Fingers crossed!

Not a sausage I’m afraid brother.

After the window closes.

I just assumed in great forum tradition it was one amount.

Yeah, I get all that, but I'm not talking about replacing players. I'm talking about the mechanics behind players leaving and the financial implications of having more players than you can register ergo it being a financially negative decision to buy before you sell. So to bring your different point in to it to explain mine; if we use Chamberlain as an example and we decided that we wanted to replace Chamberlain then we'd need to sell him first, regardless of if our back up goalkeeper was called Adrián or Adrian, because we'd devalue him by signing the player first because we already have 25 players and that's how many we're allowed.

I believe so yeah.

Yeah I know. The point is that we have 25 players regardless of nationality.

You can put the kid's pass on your phone.

Right, but we'd still have a 25 man squad so you haven't really freed up anything. To actually free up said foreign space you'd need to sell Nat Phillips or Ben Davies.

Pretty much, you can only use your own ticket if you have one of them from what I've read.

Wouldn't do that. You can't have a single ticket transferred to you if you're using a photo card over the phone.