Doeboy » Mon Jan 16, 2017 10:40 pm wrote:ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Mon Jan 16, 2017 6:31 pm wrote:I was having a whinge about this to my brother today (us not spending any money) and he just said it's obviously down to the right players not being available. As he said if Dortmund would have said to us we could have Pulisic does anyone believe Jurgen wouldnt have got the chequebook out? Same with Draxler, if Draxler would have said in the papers that he preferred to come here instead of Paris does anyone believe that deal wouldn't have been done?
As my brother said yes it's frustrating and yes we are in a title race but Jurgen is obviously planning to be here for many title races and he's looking at the long game, he doesnt want any arl shyte cluttering up his squad. When the right players become available, he will buy them.
Definitely is part of the problem. I mean, if a club doesn't want to sell, not much you can do. Trying to buy a player off Dortmund when they want to keep hold of that player is a lot different to buying one of Southampton. Similarly, if a player wants to join another club, not much we can do really as we found out with Alexis Sanchez.
Got to admit, when I heard how we lost out on Dele Alli after apparently agreeing a fee but then going back to his club and trying to bring the price down and hence the deal falling through, did make me think wtf are FSG playing at. I mean the way the market is going, they would have got their money back if it didn't work out but more likely made a profit and now spurs have a player who is probably worth x10 the fee they got him for
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... -week.htmlThe journey towards Liverpool’s and Tottenham Hotspur’s contrasting present positions began around this time two years ago when Brendan Rodgers implied he wouldn’t follow Spurs by wasting £100m on duff players. The next afternoon Liverpool thrashed Tim Sherwood’s team; setting Sherwood on a direct course for the sack and Liverpool, seemingly, to the title.
Six days later Rodgers met Dele Alli in London and did not have to work too hard to convince the player that Anfield was the place for him. Alli’s manager at MK Dons was Karl Robinson, a Merseyside native, a Liverpool supporter and someone who began his coaching career under the legendary Steve Heighway on the windy fields of the club’s academy in Kirkby. Alli’s hero was Steven Gerrard.
When Alli later travelled to Liverpool for a grand guided tour of the Melwood training complex, however, Gerrard did not know he was there because he was sleeping ahead of a game and nobody present considered it prudent to wake him.
The process of the transfer proceeded to drag for months, with Liverpool not willing to meet the asking price. When an agreement was finally reached in November 2014, the deal would earn MK Dons around £3million.
Suddenly, though, someone at Liverpool decided it was worth trying to negotiate the offer to club and player down by half and with that, discussions stalled again. The line of contact soon fell quiet, much to Robinson’s and MK Dons’ frustration and disappointment.
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Sherwood’s successor, Maurico Pochettino, appreciated he was behind Liverpool in the queue for Alli and yet, he stamped the midfielder’s enlistment with priority status. Alli’s subsequent development has made the £5m fee that took him to White Hart Lane seem like loose change.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... -week.htmlFormer Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has recalled how 'frustrating and disappointing' it was that the club failed to sign Dele Alli despite prolonged negotiations with the player, with Tottenham clinching his bargain £5million signing from MK Dons.
However, it is understood Liverpool's American owners regarded Alli, quickly emerging as one of the stand-out stars in the Premier League, to be just a promising Under-21 prospect and were going to pay him accordingly — about £4,000 a week.Alli, still only 19, instead joined Spurs in January 2015 before heading back to MK Dons for the remainder of last season and helping them to win promotion to the Championship.