Klopptomaniac » Fri Feb 09, 2018 12:48 pm wrote:ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:16 am wrote:Klopptomaniac » Fri Feb 09, 2018 9:08 am wrote:We won't lose Salah. People need to chill out, he isn't going anywhere. He didn't go from 'is he Liverpool quality?' to 'he's definitely Real Madrid quality' in 6 months - it does my head in listening to some people, over the summer they were laughing that he wasn't good enough for us (Chelsea reject etc etc) and now he's good enough for Real. Revisionism is great isn't it?
I tend to agree, it's highly unlikely that we'll sell him this summer, It would be a PR disaster for the club to let both Coutinho and Salah go within 6 months of each other.
On the other hand though the club has shown that if someone is prepared to offer enough money then we are more than willing to sell, if Madrid comes in with a bid north of £100m and Salah starts acting up like say, Mahrez, then I wouldn't completely rule it out. Nothing would surprise me in football these days.
As I've said in the Salah thread, his numbers suggest this isn't a normal season for him, Real would surely wait to see if he can replicate this over another season or 2 before even considering him.
Additionally, if the new FFP rules get agreed (net transfer spend of £100m) then it would probably throw a spanner in the works anyway. If Salah was Latin American I'd probably be more worried, but he's at a club where he's flourishing and I expect him to know that.
Yeah his numbers for a wide forward are freakish, you'd imagine his form will drop off at some point which hopefully might put Real off.
Our problem though is that I think Real are under pressure to spend big this summer, after winning a couple of CL's in recent years I think the hierarchy at that club have come to the conclusion that their current team is at the end of its cycle, I can see them having a big clear out which might include some big names like Ronaldo and Bale.
I can see Real signing someone like Neymar or Kane to replace Ronaldo but I can also see them signing 3 or 4 other players and Salah would definately be in the mix for one of those other spots.
Let's face it FFP is not worth the paper it's written on, it was originally conceived back in the mid to late noughties when it looked like the money of the premier league was going to dominate European football (at one point 3 prem clubs were in the semi's of the CL) when that didn't quite materialise it was put on the back burner.
We have sold all our top players through one reason or another, Whether it be the lure of a big club, the chance to win something elsewhere or to play alongside the top players but the end result is always the same. We sell and don't replace them which is why we aren't winning anything.
