Pizy

Don’t think it’s been made official yet, has it?

Yep, unless Xavi’s signing depends entirely on us selling Nkunku first. Or George. Then we could be stalled for another week or two…

Surely Xavi happens within the next couple days with all of these sales happening.

We’re going to be supplying lots of smaller PL teams with some very good players this summer. That’s another great move for us and the player in Ugochukwu.

Either of the clubs KDH has been linked with so far (Fulham and now Everton) would be great moves for him. You can count me as someone who actually thought he’d be a pretty big player for us and would play really often in the PL. He was solid as a squad player in the end. Wonder how much we’ll be able to get for him.

With the ego on this kid he probably thinks Spuds are beneath him.

Liverpool gonna get zero stick for any inflated fees they get from Saudi. That only happens with Chelsea.

Excellent signing for great value.

Wonder where to. Haven’t really been any recent credible rumors. Just that Inter could be interested if Lookman fell through. But now Lookman has put in a transfer request and put pressure on Atalanta so I assume that gets done. Wonder if he’d agree to return to Leipzig.

George gonna be sacrificed for the arrival of Garnacho. That’s pretty fucked up, tbh. He certainly needed a loan because I didn’t see where he’d have played outside of League Cup games. But I can see a permanent sale with buy back option or right to match option.

I guess personally I just kind of put more stock in being the dominant PL era club than Liverpool winning a bunch of titles a hundred years ago. You don’t go 30 years or whatever it was without winning the league if you’re the biggest club in the country. They are the second biggest of course.

That, or he and his representatives have made it crystal clear to any other enquiring clubs that he ONLY wants us so they shouldn’t bother. As bang average as I think he is, he’s still only 21 and PL proven at the biggest club in the PL. Plenty of clubs around Europe including big ones would probably love to take a punt on him. But someone at our club has clearly convinced him that he needs to come here.

I really hope we find out quickly who is behind this push for Garnacho if we end up signing him. Whether it’s board/hierarchy driven or is it primarily Maresca driven? Is it the business people who love buying low and selling high soon after that’s pushing for him or is it the manager seeing a player who could explode in better circumstances? Because if this is Maresca really fancying Garnacho and baskin himself and the player to really take off then I can be slightly softer on this move. But if this is another situation where the club are basically just getting him with future profit in mind it’ll be fucked.

I don’t have much doubt or worry about Xavi taking to the PL for a couple of reasons. Firstly, his technical ability is superb. Excellent dribbler, excellent at receiving the ball under pressure, and is just generally very tidy. And secondly, he isn’t one of those attacking players who only fancy doing the fun stuff going forward. He gets stuck in and seems to like the physical side as well. He just doesn’t striker me as the sort of player who’s going to come to the PL and be overwhelmed by the step up. He seems pretty tailor made to it in fact.

Looks like Simons and Sesko have done the same thing. Pulled out of the Leipzig squad to try to push through a move.

Tbf, that’s what he and others have been saying for 2 weeks. “Talks advanced.” The big change now is Xavi taking things into his own hands and sitting out training. He’s desperate to come here. We have to hope now that things get pushed more strongly from our side and that 1) Xavi skipping training doesn’t piss Leipzig off and 2) Newcastle/Man United bidding for Sesko doesn’t complicate things.

Nice, hopefully things finally move forward over the weekend.

Agree. I never really got the excitement with him. Looked a solid prospect before all the injuries but I don’t recall ever thinking he was a super talent who would become a worldie or anything.

Bruh, if we’ve actually got £25m for Broja they need to create some sort of award for our sporting directors.

So same as a week ago, then. Wish we at least knew specifically who needs to go in order for this to move forward. Can we not sign Simons until Nkunku is sold? Chukwameka? Sterling? George out on loan? Because depending on who needs to clear out before this signing is made, some of these will go down to literally midnight on deadline day.

When I look at Simons I see Odegaard from 2 years ago when he was amazing. That’s who he reminds me of. There’s a reason he has been linked to Arse alongside us this summer.

Isak is great but that’s just an insane overpay for me. And that’s not even enough for Newcastle apparently. They’ll probably hold out for £130-140m. He has a pretty extensive injury history over his career as well.

I’ve seen Liverpool & Newcastle fans here and there talking about Nuñez potentially going the other way if Isak is sold. They get Nuñez + Wissa and I think that slams the door shut on Jackson leaving this window unless some surprise club out of nowhere suddenly find themselves needing a striker.

I get the feeling Jackson is staying. Newcastle is really the final possibility when they miss out on Sesko, I guess. No clubs outside of the PL are going to come near our asking price for him.

Called this scenario yesterday. If United rush in now and hand Leipzig €75m for Sesko will they then say they want to keep Xavi for another season or until January? Or simply raise his asking price now to something well walk away from? If so we’ll look like absolute fools for negotiating for 2 weeks+ and coming up empty handed over a few million £.