re: tOfficial Liverpool 2017/2018 Thread: “Upgrades Incoming Edition: A Great Season!”

You’re not the only one cause I was thinking the same thing

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Liverpool held talks with Goretzka's reps but they believe he's on the brink of signing for Bayern Munich #LFC

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Sucks, but I wasn't thinking our chances were that high anyway if Bayern were in for him. Likely using us and others to get his Bayern contract higher.

Someone on the TAW podcast made a great point this week - he thinks, and I agree, that the sudden move to Karius is more about the fact that we just bought VVD.

To me, that makes total sense - VVD comes in, you want your true sweeper keeper in there because the line may move even higher at times, etc. Plus Karius is much better with distribution that Migs (hell, the first goal was caused by his kicking it up field much further than Migs does (and not out of bounds)) Either way, I'm happy Karius is getting his chance - hopefully he grows into the job with some confidence and we'll see what he can do.

Goretzka would have been fantastic but it’s always seemed like Bayern. I also think Pulisic has Spain in his eyes after BVB. We need to go and spend on a GK as if it’s VVD., and I think we will full court press Lemar. I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t sign Lemar now for the summer to put it to bed. I just think Klopp has him targeted and he wants to come here. I don’t think we sign anyone of significance that takes the pitch for us before the summer.

I think the hold-up on Lemar is that FSG (or Klopp) has a specific price in mind that they don't think he's worth more than. Arsenal came in and met Monacos valuation last summer, and thus, they are hesitant to come down to our price.

If CFC get Carroll and want to sell Michy, I'd be all over trying to get him here...

If Klopp has his eyes set on Pulisic or Lemar than I think we should probably pay for that and a GK. Unless we can pull a Mane or Salah out our arse again we are going to pay, especially with that Cou money that everybody we do business with knows that we have burning a hole in our pocket.

shite, we already spent 75 Million of it.

Is CP really even likely? Where does he fit in with us anyway?

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I dont think the VVD money was funded by the Coutinho sale...

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Yeah, I agree, I think that was from the summer budget though they may have only been budgeting around 50-60 then.

But I'm always more than willing to be effluent with FSG's dollars/pounds/euros, so lets go shopping!

I never get the feeling that Klopp’s man crush on CP is mutual, he would be absolutely perfect for us though. Looks like the James interest is real but he’s in the first year of a two year loan to Bayern.

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I agree, and he's still just 25, but damn that's a lot of money to spend on a keeper.

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If you're confident that the move will put you over the top in competing for trophies and championships, is it really?