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apparently...    we've triggered the £7 million release clause in Demba Ba's contract for him to join us in January.

Roger Red Hat » Sun Oct 14, 2012 1:47 am wrote:apparently...    we've triggered the £7 million release clause in Demba Ba's contract for him to join us in January.

The £7 million release clause expired this summer.  The release clause has risen to £15 million.

someone better tell the BBC then cos they've just reported what I posted.

Liverpool are ready to activate the £7m get-out clause in Demba Ba's contract to buy the Senegal striker from Newcastle in January. The Reds have made Ba their top target after being told South Korea frontman Son Heung-min is not for sale by Hamburg.

but they'll be wrong

Roger Red Hat » Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:30 pm wrote:someone better tell the BBC then cos they've just reported what I posted.

Liverpool are ready to activate the £7m get-out clause in Demba Ba's contract to buy the Senegal striker from Newcastle in January. The Reds have made Ba their top target after being told South Korea frontman Son Heung-min is not for sale by Hamburg.

but they'll be wrong

Sounds good to me for 7 million. I'd bring back Andy Carroll as well, but I'm pretty Rodgers won't if he can get another striker in.

Roger Red Hat » Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:30 am wrote:someone better tell the BBC then cos they've just reported what I posted.

Liverpool are ready to activate the £7m get-out clause in Demba Ba's contract to buy the Senegal striker from Newcastle in January. The Reds have made Ba their top target after being told South Korea frontman Son Heung-min is not for sale by Hamburg.

but they'll be wrong

Yea all the Newcastle fans were sitting in anx for deadline day because that's when his clause expired.  Obviously they could be wrong, but they believed it was kept on the dl because the club didn't want people to know that option would end and if somebody decided they did want to come in for Ba, it would be 15 instead of 7.

Like I said, could be wrong.  Probably shouldn't have said it in such a factual way the first time 

mate, wouldn't be the first time BBC have got a headline wrong though.

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:55 pm wrote:

Benny The Noon » Sat Oct 13, 2012 4:12 pm wrote:

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:40 pm wrote:in scottish football hooper has shown he knows where the net is but lets face it the teams we are hoping to compete with (the city`s, chelsea` and united`s etc) wouldnt sign him in a million years.
if we dont bring anyone in apart from hooper in january then this club has settled for mid table obscurity.

We aren't competing against the likes of City etc and we can't get the players they are looking to get

Would you take Jelavic for example

if we arent competing against the top teams then we have already settled for mid table obscurity.

Hang on a second, aren't we consistently in the top 3-4 teams in terms of spending? I don't think the problem is not having financial muscle but more how we have been p1ssing away that money in recent seasons.

More  David villa rumours please.

heimdall

Hang on a second, aren't we consistently in the top 3-4 teams in terms of spending? I don't think the problem is not having financial muscle but more how we have been p1ssing away that money in recent seasons.

apparently we were the 5th biggest spenders last season which isnt anything to write home about considering we are one of the top 2 biggest sporting institutions in this country.
even without CL football deloitte had us down as the 8th biggest earners on the planet.
a club of our size, prestige and fanbase should be spending money.
and re possible january signings i`m not keen on signing ba, he`s just average imo.
i`d rather give the likes of ngoo a chance than sign more mid table mediocrity.
once the likes of ba become our transfer targets then it really is a case of how fall the mighty.

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:05 pm wrote:

heimdall

Hang on a second, aren't we consistently in the top 3-4 teams in terms of spending? I don't think the problem is not having financial muscle but more how we have been p1ssing away that money in recent seasons.

apparently we were the 5th biggest spenders last season which isnt anything to write home about considering we are one of the top 2 biggest sporting institutions in this country.
even without CL football deloitte had us down as the 8th biggest earners on the planet.
a club of our size, prestige and fanbase should be spending money.
and re possible january signings i`m not keen on signing ba, he`s just average imo.
i`d rather give the likes of ngoo a chance than sign more mid table mediocrity.
once the likes of ba become our transfer targets then it really is a case of how fall the mighty.

Demba Ba is a very good striker who would certainly get us goals, if you think he's average then you know very little about football imo, mind you you do rate Carroll don't you? 

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:05 pm wrote:

heimdall

Hang on a second, aren't we consistently in the top 3-4 teams in terms of spending? I don't think the problem is not having financial muscle but more how we have been p1ssing away that money in recent seasons.

apparently we were the 5th biggest spenders last season which isnt anything to write home about considering we are one of the top 2 biggest sporting institutions in this country.
even without CL football deloitte had us down as the 8th biggest earners on the planet.
a club of our size, prestige and fanbase should be spending money.
and re possible january signings i`m not keen on signing ba, he`s just average imo.
i`d rather give the likes of ngoo a chance than sign more mid table mediocrity.
once the likes of ba become our transfer targets then it really is a case of how fall the mighty.

How do you measure us being in the top 2 sporting institutions in the country ?

Which money should we be spending ?

heimdall » Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:41 am wrote:

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:05 pm wrote:

heimdall

Hang on a second, aren't we consistently in the top 3-4 teams in terms of spending? I don't think the problem is not having financial muscle but more how we have been p1ssing away that money in recent seasons.

apparently we were the 5th biggest spenders last season which isnt anything to write home about considering we are one of the top 2 biggest sporting institutions in this country.
even without CL football deloitte had us down as the 8th biggest earners on the planet.
a club of our size, prestige and fanbase should be spending money.
and re possible january signings i`m not keen on signing ba, he`s just average imo.
i`d rather give the likes of ngoo a chance than sign more mid table mediocrity.
once the likes of ba become our transfer targets then it really is a case of how fall the mighty.

Demba Ba is a very good striker who would certainly get us goals, if you think he's average then you know very little about football imo, mind you you do rate Carroll don't you? 

Newcastle have always had a style that benefits one striker, who will score goals.  First it was Andy Carroll.  Then it was Demba Ba.  Then it was Cisse.  Now it's Ba again.  It's their style.  However, Ba and Cisse did score a decent amount of goals at their former clubs.  With that said, Ba has a shoddy knee, and spending more than a few on him could be an extremely risky investment.  And at this point there's really no reason for him to come.

heimdall » Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:41 pm wrote:

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:05 pm wrote:

heimdall

Hang on a second, aren't we consistently in the top 3-4 teams in terms of spending? I don't think the problem is not having financial muscle but more how we have been p1ssing away that money in recent seasons.

apparently we were the 5th biggest spenders last season which isnt anything to write home about considering we are one of the top 2 biggest sporting institutions in this country.
even without CL football deloitte had us down as the 8th biggest earners on the planet.
a club of our size, prestige and fanbase should be spending money.
and re possible january signings i`m not keen on signing ba, he`s just average imo.
i`d rather give the likes of ngoo a chance than sign more mid table mediocrity.
once the likes of ba become our transfer targets then it really is a case of how fall the mighty.

Demba Ba is a very good striker who would certainly get us goals, if you think he's average then you know very little about football imo, mind you you do rate Carroll don't you? 

when we bought carroll we were taking a chance on potential, when he fired the goals to get newcastle out of the championship and then backed that up with 11 goals in 17 appearances in the prem a lot of people thought he may be the next alan shearer.
at 20/21 he was scoring goals against top sides like liverpool, arsenal and chelsea and the north east has been producing great players since the dawn of time - jackie milburn, albert stubbins, bobby charlton, peter beardsley, paul gasgoigne, ray kennedy, bryan robson, alan shearer etc etc
it looked like carroll might be the next player off that north east production line
i`ve got no problem with liverpool taking a gamble on potential, what i dont want is us buying average 27 year old players.
if they are average at 27 they arent going to get any better.
to me ba is the type of player that should be leading the line at a club like west ham or newcastle or villa.....not liverpool

Benny The Noon » Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:54 pm wrote:

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:05 pm wrote:

heimdall

Hang on a second, aren't we consistently in the top 3-4 teams in terms of spending? I don't think the problem is not having financial muscle but more how we have been p1ssing away that money in recent seasons.

apparently we were the 5th biggest spenders last season which isnt anything to write home about considering we are one of the top 2 biggest sporting institutions in this country.
even without CL football deloitte had us down as the 8th biggest earners on the planet.
a club of our size, prestige and fanbase should be spending money.
and re possible january signings i`m not keen on signing ba, he`s just average imo.
i`d rather give the likes of ngoo a chance than sign more mid table mediocrity.
once the likes of ba become our transfer targets then it really is a case of how fall the mighty.

How do you measure us being in the top 2 sporting institutions in the country ?

Which money should we be spending ?

name 2 bigger sporting institutions in this country than liverpool fc and manchester united fc.

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