Transfer Window Speculation

[Barnesy_10]

Pogba allegedly needs an operation, so he’s likely not going anywhere til the summer.

his 'people' apparently said he needs the operation... 

[kop205]

his 'people' apparently said he needs the operation...

His 'manager' has said it as well based on 'scans' they've done...

Edited January 2, 2020 by kop205

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

More press speculation about Real chasing up Mane. Zidane meant to have called him. Who are Le10Sport? Another BS hit chaser or someone with decent sauces?

No doubt Zidane would like him, but I think it’s unlikely he would want to go or we would want to sell him.

 

Leave the best team in the World for the 2nd best team in Spain?

[New York Red]

Herbie Kane out on loan to Hull.

[Boca]

Swansea journo on Twitter -

 

Understand Rhian Brewster’s loan to Swansea from Liverpool will be confirmed tomorrow.

Clubs agreed deal over last couple of days. Liverpool wanted Brewster to be available for Everton FA Cup tie. He’ll join up with Swansea early next week.

Gentle first game to ease him in

 

https://twitter.com/stujames75/status/1213936602956926976?s=21

[Dominus Maximus]

Funny thing with Pogba. Leaving for free at 18, returning for 100mil only to stink and then refuse to play for a year just to leave again. He might be my favorite all-time Manc.

[Barnesy_10]

Funny thing with Pogba. Leaving for free at 18, returning for 100mil only to stink and then refuse to play for a year just to leave again. He might be my favorite all-time Manc.

Think mine of recent times has to be Phil Jones... Own goals, missed penalties in shoot outs... Comedy faces.. Lovely stuff

[Jonesy]

Funny thing with Pogba. Leaving for free at 18, returning for 100mil only to stink and then refuse to play for a year just to leave again. He might be my favorite all-time Manc.

Don't you dare say it was free to a manc! They'll bite your head off and tell you they got 500,000 for him.

[honourablegeorge]

Hmm

 

Liverpool fans are excited at the prospect of signing Ousmane Dembele, after the 22-year-old Barcelona and France forward liked a mocked-up picture of him wearing a Reds kit on Instagram. (Daily Express)

[Walrus]

Think mine of recent times has to be Phil Jones... Own goals, missed penalties in shoot outs... Comedy faces.. Lovely stuff

Jesse Lingard is a favourite.

[Cunny]

David Ornstein in The Athletic

 

Wijnaldum could leave Liverpool at end of the season

With Liverpool expected to be relatively quiet during the January transfer window, plenty of attention will focus on the business they might do next summer. A clue may well be found in the man who is likely to prove their only winter acquisition: Takumi Minamino.

The Japan winger, 24, has been among Europe’s leading attackers this season and Liverpool took advantage of a £7.25 million release clause in his Red Bull Salzburg contract. The Premier League leaders have also been linked with huge-money moves for the likes of Borussia Dortmund winger Jadon Sancho and Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian Mbappe.

But it is probable that neither Sancho nor Mbappe will end up at Anfield for the foreseeable future because Liverpool have little interest in sanctioning the necessary levels of spending on players whose desire to start every game cannot be assured by manager Jurgen Klopp.

Minamino, by contrast, agreed to join in the knowledge that he would be swapping guaranteed first-team football for a fierce selection battle and was prepared to face the challenge. The strategy of sporting director Michael Edwards is set to lead Liverpool on a similar path going forward and it is believed they will seek more Minamino-type recruits than, say, Sanchos.

Although key players such as Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane are now world stars, they came to Merseyside while still developing and/or with a point to prove. That is how the club intend to continue operating and, as one source puts it, Liverpool’s vision would be to sign the Mbappe who left Monaco in 2017 rather than the one who eventually leaves PSG.

The high-value purchases of Virgil van Dijk and Alisson were exceptions because Liverpool had a pressing need for game-changing personnel in those specific positions — and it has been justified — but the club hierarchy do not anticipate making such outlays a regular occurrence.

They have also tied the majority of Klopp’s most important squad members to long and lucrative contracts, the exception being Georginio Wijnaldum. The 29-year-old has 18 months left on his current deal and there is said to be particular interest in him from teams in Italy and Spain.

Both parties are comfortable with the situation and potential scenarios: recommitting, leaving as a free agent in 2021, or departing at the end of this campaign if a suitable offer is submitted. Liverpool would be happy with the first option and content with the second, given the value Wijnaldum has presented since arriving from Newcastle for £25 million in 2016. The final option is the least conceivable as Liverpool do not want to lose the Dutchman and would demand a high fee.

 

[Swagger]

Ornstein is usually sound, but I cannot see Klopp letting Gini go this summer. I am sure we'll see him sign a new deal sooner rather than later. 

[Leo No.8]

So we don’t want to lose him and would demand a high fee this summer, but would be quite happy to let him go on a free the summer after?

[AE]

So we don’t want to lose him and would demand a high fee this summer, but would be quite happy to let him go on a free the summer after?

Yep, I read the same contradictions in that last bit, either very poorly worded or some line filler to get his column filled

[Ed the Wool]

Hadn't realised Gini was as old as that. Can see them moving him on before his legs go, or running his contract down. Guess it depends if he angles for a move and a big contract now? 

[Kid Klopp]

So we don’t want to lose him and would demand a high fee this summer, but would be quite happy to let him go on a free the summer after?

Makes sense to me.

 

Don't think it is "quite happy", but sounds to me like Gini doesn't want to sign a new contract and the club has accepted that rather than spit their dummy out over it.

 

Same as with Can really, where the fans where aching for him to be punished or not used or whatever, and Klopp kept using him as he would any other player that wasn't leaving at the end of season.

 

Basically, I reckon Klopp (and by extension, the club) has come around to seeing and treating players as employees, rather than the trading assets they tend to be seen as.

Edited January 6, 2020 by Kid Klopp

[rednotdead]

Think this is agent talk, looking for an extension to be sorted out quickly.

[Gethin]

It’ll be Gini’s last big contract - and I don’t think we’d offer the length or money he coild get elsewhere. Mind you I said that about Matip and he still re-signed

[Hassony]

So we don’t want to lose him and would demand a high fee this summer, but would be quite happy to let him go on a free the summer after?

Not sure what Minamino has to do with anything either

[Stevie H]

Hadn't realised Gini was as old as that. Can see them moving him on before his legs go, or running his contract down. Guess it depends if he angles for a move and a big contract now? 

 

He's one of the world's top centre midfielders playing at about the peak of his powers. We'd be foolish to sell him. And 29 isn't old, Ed.

[Hightown Phil]

If they’re going to have Jones being more involved then someone’s gonna have to leave you’d think. Always a good idea to keep things fresh anyway.

[Conrad]

I’d like us to keep him because he’s been a huge part of our success and we’d be poorer without him

Also a very good record injury wise

[Hassony]

He's one of the world's top centre midfielders playing at about the peak of his powers. We'd be foolish to sell him. And 29 isn't old, Ed.

We'll have to spend 80m+ on a similar replacement

If they’re going to have Jones being more involved then someone’s gonna have to leave you’d think. Always a good idea to keep things fresh anyway.

Lallana and Shaqiri

[Hightown Phil]

We'll have to spend 80m+ on a similar replacement

 

Lallana and Shaqiri

I wouldn’t describe them as having been involved much this season.

[Benzo-13]

So according to Ornstein we ain’t signing Mbappé or Sancho cos they want a constant starting role.

That’s a proper reach isn’t it?