St_Tel49 Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Why are we selling key players before we have appointed a manager?
shurlock Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Very strange move if true, why would Pool who I presume are going for the title next year be looking at a player at the end of his career? Still if true then all the best to Rickie, been one of our best signings ever - couldn't begrudge him a final pay day and he'll get a warm welcome at SMS whatever happens. So that would leave us with what, a crocked player, a kid and a want-away Italian? Are we doing a total football 4-6-0 formation? He's better than Aspas, their 4th striker.
Hopkins Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Not sure it's that bad a deal for us really. Last chance we were going to get any money for him and we can go out and (hopefully) get a younger replacement. Chuffed for Rickie, getting a dream move. Liverpool get a good striker to come play the Sheringham role. We lose a good striker and obviously a legend so on the face of it, it's a blow, but in terms of pure business, it's probably not that bad a move. Still not convinced it's true mind.
macca155 Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Really cannot see how they can spin this. The funny thing is that halfway through the season when Sir Rickie was labouring I wouldn't have been surprised to have seen him sold. He rallied at the end of the season but JRod and Lallana had a lot to do with that. He is in extra time with his career and is in a hurry but why do this now. Rodgers is mad, you have Suarez, Sturridge, Stirling and probably a whole crop of youngsters coming through... and you buy a 32 year old striker from a team that finished below you. Hope Rickie enjoys cup games...
aintforever Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 ****ing typical, we are owned by the only female in the world who doesn't like spending her father's money.
ALWAYS_SFC Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Perhaps we have a new manager but not yet revealed and he is agreeing to sell everything our success was built on...... Seriously thought we had moved on to new level where we dont sell all our best players but it seems as though we are just like we were at the dell...where we had no choice... Fastly becoming a laughing stock in media and with other fans...
alpine_saint Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Don't lie. Your 'speculation' (which you only ever present as fact) is purely about you, not real events. Whether football or otherwise, it's just the panic and anger of a very frustrated and nervous man. Oh, well. If it makes you feel better to blame me..
Georgie Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 I much prefered it when Cortese was here Agreed. I couldn't give a flying fig if we have striped shirts, certain ex-players were liked by Cortese or books are stocked in the club shop. This summer is going to be horrendous by the looks of it.
Lallana's Left Peg Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Why are we selling key players before we have appointed a manager?
Saint Garrett Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 4m and 5m if they win the league in next 3 years? It's nothing as that's not going to happen.
hypochondriac Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 When we get 60 odd million just for turning up, why are we selling our only fit striker for a poxy 4 million?
doddisalegend Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Mind you maybe the club don't rate rickie as much as the fans? After all the rumours were that NC was close to aggreing a deal for Lambert to WHU in January which only stalled because NC left.
trousers Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 I hope its true. The guy has been an absolute colossus for Saints. Putting aside whatever is going on at our club, Lambert to Liverpool is his dream move and would be a second lot of icing on the cake (after his World Cup call up) for his astounding rise through the ranks. Good luck to him. There is no one more deserving. As much as I'd love Rickie to end his career here, I have to agree with this. If anyone deserves a 'fairytale' end to his career its Lambo. Saints legend.
edprice1984 Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 For Sir Ricky I am happy, his career will have gone full circle and would be the icing on the cake. For me though this would be worse than losing Lallana or Shaw. I wanted Ricky to retire with us, I wanted him to win a proper trophy with us. This whole thing is like a slow motion car crash, I am just clinging on to the hope that this is a Twitter wind up but I know in reality it is probably going to happen anyway. Gutted, just gutted
doddisalegend Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Very strange move if true, why would Pool who I presume are going for the title next year be looking at a player at the end of his career? Still if true then all the best to Rickie, been one of our best signings ever - couldn't begrudge him a final pay day and he'll get a warm welcome at SMS whatever happens. So that would leave us with what, a crocked player, a kid and a want-away Italian? Are we doing a total football 4-6-0 formation? Didn't Spain win the last world cup with that formation?
alpine_saint Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Is anyone else worried that Katrina is just going to sell all our players, pocket the money, and fly back to Switzerland and spend it all on cake? Yes.
hypochondriac Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Not sure it's that bad a deal for us really. Last chance we were going to get any money for him and we can go out and (hopefully) get a younger replacement. Chuffed for Rickie, getting a dream move. Liverpool get a good striker to come play the Sheringham role. We lose a good striker and obviously a legend so on the face of it, it's a blow, but in terms of pure business, it's probably not that bad a move. Still not convinced it's true mind. How is 4 million not a bad deal? It's pathetic considering what he represents to this club.
Heisenberg Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 I simply cannot believe this is true. 1) Why would we sell? 2) Why would Liverpool want him? 3) WTF 4) This is a nightmare surely 5) WTF
alpine_saint Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 My nipper is utterly gutted. SRL is his 1st footballing hero, akin to Phil Bowyer to me. Boyer.
Batman Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 How is 4 million not a bad deal? It's pathetic considering what he represents to this club. with rodriguez out and Osvaldo clearly not wanting to be here it is going to cost £20m to replace what lambert brings to the team. even then, we probably wont get that right
corky morris Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 I have been pretty relaxed about all this gossip, but am now starting to get worried. In fairness I could not criticise Rickie leaving for Liverpool. It's his boyhood club. The fee us a worry though. £9m - Great, £4m - Average. Who could we get to replace him? That's the real worry.
Baird of the land Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Not sure it's that bad a deal for us really. Last chance we were going to get any money for him and we can go out and (hopefully) get a younger replacement. Chuffed for Rickie, getting a dream move. Liverpool get a good striker to come play the Sheringham role. We lose a good striker and obviously a legend so on the face of it, it's a blow, but in terms of pure business, it's probably not that bad a move. Still not convinced it's true mind. Clearly not true IMO. If it was 4m would be a terrible deal. We lose a key 1st xi player for tiny fee for which we'd never be able to buy a player of similar calibre. Add ons for a 32 yr old are a meaningless joke.
Lallana's Left Peg Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 How is 4 million not a bad deal? It's pathetic considering what he represents to this club. Exactly. Even if he was only good for another season he is still worth £4m to us. Pathetic how we are selling him. Absolutely pathetic. One of the worse things the new Board could do in the circumstance - not having a Manager, stating 24hrs ago no players would be sold until we had a new Manager, talk of respecting the club and the fans etc. And then they do this. They would just appear as bare faced liars and a lot of trust and goodwill would be lost.
ALWAYS_SFC Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Its not the fact that we are selling Rickie although he will be a big blow, its the fact that ti seems that the successful team/squad from last year is being dismantled.. As a fan it is hard to watch it again like we used to in the dell days
aintforever Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Maybe a few people will take their heads out of the sand now over the "difficult financial position" comment.
Lallana's Left Peg Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 And just in case you weren't worried, Ben Smith has said that Liverpool are still in "talks" for Lallana and Lovren as well. ****s sake.
alpine_saint Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 If there is ever a time for SFC to make a early response to its fans.. It is now "early" ??? Are you for real ?? I am guessing that deals are in place for most of first XI and they are going to come like bolts out of the blue over the next few weeks. Maybe we WONT have any players at the WC after all.... They didnt even wait to see if the WC pushed their values up. This is a f**king fire sale. Liebherr wants out with as much cash as she can get.
Jonnyboy Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 How is 4 million not a bad deal? It's pathetic considering what he represents to this club. Admit it, you want Cortese back.
S-Clarke Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 And just in case you weren't worried, Ben Smith has said that Liverpool are still in "talks" for Lallana and Lovren as well. ****s sake. They will get them as well.
Sergei Gotsmanov Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 How much will it cost to replace somebody who would have scored 12-15 goals next season?
Saint George Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Anyone still wondering why Pochettino got the hell out of dodge?
Saint_clark Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Maybe a few people will take their heads out of the sand now over the "difficult financial position" comment. We've just made £80million and are guaranteed to boost that up to £150 million by the end of next season. If we're in a difficult financial position after that, with the lowest wage bill in the Prem, then I will bite off my own penis.
St Chalet Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Seeing lots of reports of bids, none that we have accepted.
mcjwills Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 This is turning into my worst nightmare, everything I have love about this club is reportedly being sold. Hopefully I will wake up and find out its all a dream.
doddisalegend Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Clearly not true IMO. If it was 4m would be a terrible deal. We lose a key 1st xi player for tiny fee for which we'd never be able to buy a player of similar calibre. Add ons for a 32 yr old are a meaningless joke. Thing is we have had reports of 10 million to 4 million you'd think the press could get the price right at least
aintforever Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Admit it, you want Cortese back. What the **** has he got to do with anything? If the owner wants to sell players we could have Jesus himself as chairman it wouldn't make the slightest bit of difference.
norwaysaint Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 I wonder if he had a clause allowing him to leave cheaply if Liverpool came in for him? Would've seemed unlikely at the time, but could have been on his mind as a red. I'm sure he'd love to finish his career at Anfield and we can all respect that.
Lallana's Left Peg Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 They will get them as well. If we're willing to sell our best striker for £4m then of course they will get them.
Batman Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 seriously, after losing MP if we sell, lambert, lovren and lallana (not mentioning shaw or morgan) we will do very very well to stay up
Wade Garrett Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 How could this be true after Ralph's comments yesterday? Not yet convinced that this is real.
Jonnyboy Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 with rodriguez out and Osvaldo clearly not wanting to be here it is going to cost £20m to replace what lambert brings to the team. even then, we probably wont get that right The vast majority of the season you were saying how awful Lambert is and how he's finished and needs to be sold.
John Boy Saint Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Mind you maybe the club don't rate rickie as much as the fans? After all the rumours were that NC was close to aggreing a deal for Lambert to WHU in January which only stalled because NC left. Stalled because Osvaldo punched Fontes lights out!
aintforever Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 We've just made £80million and are guaranteed to boost that up to £150 million by the end of next season. If we're in a difficult financial position after that, with the lowest wage bill in the Prem, then I will bite off my own penis. It depends how much profit KL wants to make.
Didcot Saint Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Yes it's a dream move for SRL but wt actual f... are the board doing selling our talisman two days after MP left. Don't they care about the fans? Are they just totally clueless, liars or plain thick. Funny thing aswell, st renewal deadline has passed.
Batman Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 The vast majority of the season you were saying how awful Lambert is and how he's finished and needs to be sold. indeed. but not when we have no one else
Baird of the land Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Thing is we have had reports of 10 million to 4 million you'd think the press could get the price right at least They are testing the water to see what lie is more believable. Filthy bunch of jackals the lot of them, trying to fill time in the columns till the World Cup with nonsense.
charliemiller Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Liverpool lost the PL because of the 3 points we took from them at Anfield , they are just making sure doesnt happen again by buying our team ...
doddisalegend Posted 29 May, 2014 Posted 29 May, 2014 Seeing lots of reports of bids, none that we have accepted. This is a good point bids don't automatically mean sales I mean no one thought we were going to get through the summer with no bids for our players did they?
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