Icy Gull
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Didn’t most of the Saints players throw hissy fits and threaten to down tools? VVD and Lallana I seem to remember did, but I wasn’t following it all that closely
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[Albion] Are we destined to become a 'selling club'?
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Didn’t most of the Saints players throw hissy fits and threaten to down tools? VVD and Lallana I seem to remember did, but I wasn’t following it all that closely
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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This. Never be a better summer season to do an upgrade from the sooper dooper database off the back of all that Selling Money sloshing around the club
If only we had signed more players like Locadia, Andone, Jahanbaksh then this problem wouldn’t exist. #BloomOut #BarberOut #PotterOut #SackTheBoard
GT49er
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..... and didn't USG have some South African guy we should have snapped up ...............?
Southern Scouse
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We have been a selling club since as long as I can remember. Ward, Stephens, Lauro, Robinson etc, etc.
However, which club isn’t a selling club? It’s a fundamental part of the game. Only difference is, can the club survive without sales or can a club afford to run down a contract to nothing?
We don’t NEED to sell but we do, because we cannot afford to lose a player on a free, we don’t have the squad to bench a player for a season and we can find someone to fill the spot.
Very few clubs can afford to the the above, but why should they do that? No one throws away money unless it’s out of spite.
However, which club isn’t a selling club? It’s a fundamental part of the game. Only difference is, can the club survive without sales or can a club afford to run down a contract to nothing?
We don’t NEED to sell but we do, because we cannot afford to lose a player on a free, we don’t have the squad to bench a player for a season and we can find someone to fill the spot.
Very few clubs can afford to the the above, but why should they do that? No one throws away money unless it’s out of spite.
sydney
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we are the pic and pay to the likes of spurs but i hope we **** them over at least once next season ....i really don't like them and i know 3 or 4 of their geezer fans who are propper shitespagles.
Brok
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I'd have thought superb expressions like this should be saved for the Palace thread?
Tom Hark Preston Park
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I expect the recruitment team of the time had zero experience of their equivalent of a major lottery win. Hence, like many major lottery winners, they just pissed it up the wall
sydney
tinky ****in winky
i only know one Palace fan and he's just a crack smoking div who has caused me no end of grief when i have left him to do rudimentary stuff that your average chippy would eat , his apology was to give me two 150 watt B&W speakers and an Onkyo amp , 3k worth ....strange bloke , it's amazing what crack does to your brain.
palace are a bit strange , yids are orrible , tight arse . loud mouth twatts ....to a man. in my experience.
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That’s exactly it. To me the expression “selling club” means HAVING to sell your best players, even if you don’t want to and can’t afford to in footballing terms, in order to survive.
I think most people would agree we have improved and developed greatly most players who have come to us. If Cucurella were to leave, it would be because Citeh pay what we want to receive, and noises are beginning to come out that they will be put off by £50m. The BBC gossip thing this mornings Adidas much, then went on to link Citeh with another left-back.
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I agree with this. It's all a bit Magna Carta. They don't care about the peasantry.
Justice
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Granted he scored a few trouble is he doesn’t improve, you could stick him in the Man City squad and he would still score eight goals a season.
CaptainDaveUK
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Until White and Bissouma, I don’t think we’ve sold a first team player since Ulloa in about 2014. We’re now in a position where we only sell first team players for a top price, and to be fair, even Ulloa was top money at the time (10M from memory). Truth is every club is a selling club if a player either runs down their contract or refuses to sign a new one, and are then offered a bigger pay cheque. UTA.
worthingseagull123
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And even then Barcelona or Real Madrid will poach from the so called big six.
Cheeky Monkey
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The very top of the tree, and was nice to see Liverpool getting a taste of that with Suarez and Coutinho.
True, I honestly believe that Liverpool didn’t want to sell Mane.
Southern Scouse
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Yes we were well happy…
I believe we got Alison, Virgil, Fabinho and Mane in exchange ��
GT49er
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Suarez was moved on in disgrace after after another biting offence at the world cup. Liverpool always have moved players on and refreshed the squad - Kevin Keegan, Robbie Fowler and Michael Owen, for example, all in their prime, as were Fernando Torres and Coutinho.
I'm not so sure.
Their front 3 is coming to the end of their natural cycle.
Shirley it's better to rinse and repeat one at a time - evolution not revolution.
Southern Scouse
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You are spot on. Liverpool are not like city, united, chelsea etc. They will not break their wage structure for anyone. We didn’t want to lose Mane, but we were not prepared to pay neatly 400k a week for him, which is why we bought Nunez in. The same reason Salah will go next season. He wants 400k a week but he won’t get it. He will wait and get a £30m signing on fee, maybe. It’s ok, the Reds will love them both forever, but will move on.
As mentioned in another thread, that’s the reason why Liverpool are not a selling club out of need, just when it’s best for the club.