The Liverpool FC Thread VIII

If we go on assumptions i'd guess we'd be offering him around 40-50k pw? So thats like 15k extra spurs are willing to play. Can we really not afford that?

It's not a strangely low offer at all, it's a sensible offer. If he wants to move to Spurs for the extra money then **** him, he isn't worth signing.

It's not a strangely low offer at all, it's a sensible offer. If he wants to move to Spurs for the extra money then **** him, he isn't worth signing.

And with that attitude we'll end up signing nobody. Money is what talks, no footballer would turn down wages a third better than what we offered them.

No we won't. I'd rather have a player who wants to play for Liverpool Football Club rather than playing for an extra 20/30k. We've been screwed over by players for wages for ages, Carragher, Cole, Jovanovic, Aquilani, all players who are/were on 90k+ per week with us because we didn't get hard on wages, 3 of them still at the club. I'm glad the club is getting sensible and offering sensible wages for a player who's still only 22 and the biggest club he's consistently played for is Swansea ****ing City!!!!

No we won't. I'd rather have a player who wants to play for Liverpool Football Club rather than playing for an extra 20/30k. We've been screwed over by players for wages for ages, Carragher, Cole, Jovanovic, Aquilani, all players who are/were on 90k+ per week with us because we didn't get hard on wages, 3 of them still at the club. I'm glad the club is getting sensible and offering sensible wages for a player who's still only 22 and the biggest club he's consistently played for is Swansea ****ing City!!!!

No we won't. I'd rather have a player who wants to play for Liverpool Football Club rather than playing for an extra 20/30k. We've been screwed over by players for wages for ages, Carragher, Cole, Jovanovic, Aquilani, all players who are/were on 90k+ per week with us because we didn't get hard on wages, 3 of them still at the club. I'm glad the club is getting sensible and offering sensible wages for a player who's still only 22 and the biggest club he's consistently played for is Swansea ****ing City!!!!

But the likes of Cole Jova and Aquilani can be put down to poor scouting.

I agree with you for a player like Sigurdsson, but I can see this being a problem with other signings too. The fact we're Liverpool FC isn't really a major pulling factor anymore, as much as people like to believe it is. In this day and age it seems most players look a clubs recent form and success and not what their history is. If you look at us over the past 3 seasons, we've haven't looked like a team that should be in the upper echelons of europe so that obviously puts players off.

This is all my opinion ofcourse, feel free to disagree, but if we want to sign the calibre of players which will get us back up there we need to be prepared to spend a little more on wages to get them.

We don't know exactly what's been offered so it's hard to judge - However, coming from Swansea he must be on a relatively low wage.

You refer to all the mistakes we made spending extra money, but then look at the extra money we paid for the likes of Torres, and the extra money we didn't pay for Cristiano Ronaldo. £80million later he's a good investment.

I just think this guy has so much potential. Player of the season at Hoffenheim, Swansea and Reading all in his first season and just 22.

But then I have faith in Rodgers and I'm sure he'll be able to judge having managed him last season.

What tells you that Sigurdsson will work out as a success?

I'm not disagreeing that he'll be a good signing, I'm just disagreeing that we should throw an extra money at him. Make him work for it if he wants it, if he wants to go somewhere else for the cash then **** him, he wasn't worth the interest in the first place.

Brilliant player, I'm still hoping that Arsenal will sign him out of the blue sometime in the near future. Only a year and a half left on his contract, so it is likely he will be available within the next 6 months/year.

Surprised to hear Sigurdsson is favouring a move to the spuds. Wrong decision imo (if it's true, of course) to move to a manager-less team that to replace one of 2 of their most influential players/midfielders; Modric and Van der Vaart. Liverpool seem more like a team on the rise than Spurs, but we'll reassess that view once Rodgers has actually spent some time with the team.

I'm not disagreeing that he'll be a good signing, I'm just disagreeing that we should throw an extra money at him. Make him work for it if he wants it, if he wants to go somewhere else for the cash then **** him, he wasn't worth the interest in the first place.

I completely agree with what you mean and back it wholeheartedly. For too long we have rewarded players for signing for Liverpool, even last season why the hell were Downing, Henderson, Adam and Carroll given massive pay rises to play for us? They should have been given a ~£10,000 a week bonus with a pay review after every 2 years or earlier if they perform in a spectacular manner.