It wasn't meant to be believeable, it was just meant to be a very obvious gag, as far as I can see
With 4 years to go on this current deal he had already stated this? I have a hard time believing that's true but it's also pretty odd timing to be giving better terms to someone with barely 500 PL minutes played and such a lengthy contract still to go. Which does then give that a bit of an air of credibility. His move to here from Fulham certainly shows ambition which is a double edged sword. I guess it depends on your definition of important. For me that's a key player that has to be on the field for the team to succeed and if that's what he is for this squad for this season then something went badly wrong.
It wasn't meant to be believeable, it was just meant to be a very obvious gag, as far as I can seeNow it's you joking, right? Because you know very well that the 500 PL minutes are nothing to do with it. I would suggest it's more to do with the role the player occupies within the squad. This new deal will remunerate him at a level more in keeping with his planned role, as well as tying him down for a longer period for contracting and amortisation purposes.
So we grossly underpaid him 12 months ago, that's what you're guessing at?
If you take amir serious on that then just beware of reading his other posts, as you will find them pretty disturbing.
So we grossly underpaid him 12 months ago, that's what you're guessing at? His amortization value is probably £1m at most considering the full £4.3m to Fulham is only due once he plays 100 times and has an England cap. The overall amortization bill is £108m so that doesn't do anything by extending him. I hope Elliott is the next Pele and wins everything but that doesn't make the timing of this a bit odd. The agents for Jones and Tsimikas could certainly make more realistic arguments at this point.
I imagine youth players for the most part coming out of LFC will be paid a fairly standard sum for their first pro contract regardless of who they are. And Klopp very likely will instruct the team to improve the contracts of these players if they have shown they can remain in the first squad as a valuable member. In fact, Jones signed one of these in 2020. He’s already on his 2nd pro contract.As for Tsimikas, he isn’t due until 2025. I imagine his first contract isn’t an entry level pro contract that needs to be updated.
Elliott wasn't a "youth" player in the normal sense of the word. We paid a record sum for a 16 year old, however low it seems, and I'm sure he was pretty highly paid considering that. He almost immediately signed a pro contract as well. This is now Elliott's 3rd pro contract since he joined in 2019. People can hand wave it away however they want but to me that's pretty odd.
First pro deals can only run a max of three years so it's pretty standard to sign two close together. We've nomidea on pay increases, bonuses etc to make a real judgement on a third. But keeping good players = good. And pretty sure we did the same with Jones and Trent
If you look for it you'll always find something odd because the club do things according to their own lights, using their own ideas and criteria which they don't publish or consult us about. We won't always understand everything. Why does it matter so much? We have a top young talent on a good, length contract and (almost) everyone is happy. I can tell you I've had worse days
Nobody has gotten to a 3rd contract that quickly is the point, not Trent and Jones is still on his 2nd contract. If it was the norm then there'd be nothing to say would there?Do you see me posting in every thread about the "odd" thing LFC did in this instance? At the end of the day it's an outlier to me and I find it interesting. Maybe it's a sign of things to come in that he's a very ambitions player with aggressive representation? Maybe it's not and this is the last contract ever gets at LFC? Maybe it's something else? Who knows? I can only speak for myself but finding something intellectually interesting instead of just drooling in the transfer thread isn't a sign of a bad day. Thankfully only another couple weeks to go before it's a game every 3 days until the World Cup and probably no time for myself or others to annoy you with such things.
Ain't that the truth.
Is it fuck,we have always rewarded progress.
You seem to have omitted the part where in comparison to the other youth players such as Trent or Jones this is an outlier. Maybe we'll see monthly or weekly contract renewals based on progress next?
MOTM for us. A very special talent.Needs game time and now deserves game time.
Yep.But Nunez is a fucking prick. We had 3 points for the taking there.He needs to grow up and immediately.
It comments like this which is getting threads locked, why are even mentioning Nunez in the Elliot thread anyway?
"The key isn't the system itself, but how the players adapt on the pitch. It doesn't matter if it's 4-3-3 or 4-4-2, it's the role of the players that counts." Rafa Benitez
