Topic: LIVERPOOL TRANSFER THREAD - WELCOME, 'A PLAYER'!!

[Hazell]

Pearce:


James Pearce
@JamesPearceLFC
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Liverpool in advanced talks to sign Olympiakos left-back Kostas Tsimikas for around 13million Euros after failing to agree a fee with Norwich City for Jamal Lewis #LFC

[Oskar]

Feel sorry for Jamal Lewis, he'd have been a good signing and by most accounts he was desperate to join Liverpool.

Norwich won't get what they're demanding for him.

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

Love how ruthless we are.

I wonder if Tmiskas' performance against Wolves swayed us in any way? Obviously it's difficult to gauge how good someone is playing against Greek teams week in, week out, but he was very good the other day as he has been against Spurs and Arsenal.

[Dim Glas]

Melissa Reddy reporting medical will take place next week

[kloppagetime]

That's a fucking bargain at that price brilliant signing if it goes through

[Samie]

DON'T PISS OFF MICHAEL EDWARDS!

[Red Cactii]

If we do sign him, Ejaria and Grujic won't be impressed after just returning from successful loans, so for that reason, I'm out.

Not sure Ejaria will mind given he went to Reading on a loan with obligation to buy for £3m

[Oskar]

That's a fucking bargain at that price brilliant signing if it goes through

How much have you seen of him?

[Ghost Town]

Pearce reporting the same, 13 million euros. feel bad for Lewis.

Yeh feel sorry for him, but if this pans out it will show other clubs how bad ass we can be when clubs try and be cute or frivolously hold out for more than we think a player is worth.

He'll be looking daggers at the PTB at Norwich

[HeartAndSoul]

The Greek fella looked good against wolves. Impressive at the price quoted. Lewis will be fuming about this. Imagine Norwich turning down a dream move

[Ghost Town]

How much have you seen of him?

His hands, face and part of his left leg

[kloppismydad]

Signing Tsimikas over Jamal Lewis just means our homegrown quota has become increasingly important and this will be something I'm sure Klopp will have in mind when he's taking a look at Wilson during pre-season. Klopp will want to keep him around most likely now.

Our failure to sign Jamal Lewis also means we're highly like to sign Ben White since he's home-grown.

[paisley1977]

That's a fucking bargain at that price brilliant signing if it goes through

Did he play against Wolves ?

[Ghost Town]

In fact if we do land Tsimikas for 11m, then being bad-ass with Norwich may already have bourne fruit. If Olympiakos had had any thoughts of holding out for more they may have quickly revised that...

[kloppagetime]

How much have you seen of him?

Got a really good mate who supports Olympiakos and he's been raving about him for a while. He's been saying he's right up there with the best left backs that aren't playing in Europe's top five leagues. From what I've seen of him in the Champions League and the Europa League he's always impressed me especially against Wolves where he kept Adama Traore fairly quiet.

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

Signing Tsimikas over Jamal Lewis just means our homegrown quota has become increasingly important and this will be something I'm sure Klopp will have in mind when he's taking a look at Wilson during pre-season. Klopp will want to keep him around most likely now.

Our failure to sign Jamal Lewis also means we're highly like to sign Ben White since he's home-grown.

We're not keeping Wilson because we're signing Tsimikas, we're signing Tsimikas because we're keeping Wilson!

[s_andrews89]

Signing Tsimikas over Jamal Lewis just means our homegrown quota has become increasingly important and this will be something I'm sure Klopp will have in mind when he's taking a look at Wilson during pre-season. Klopp will want to keep him around most likely now.

Our failure to sign Jamal Lewis also means we're highly like to sign Ben White since he's home-grown.

Not sure the 2 will be linked at all. Yes it's an issue, but I see us just submitting a smaller squad before we sign a player 'for the home-grown quota'. overall, it's not something we need to worry all that heavily.

[peachybum]

Any idea why Wijnaldum hasn’t signed a new contract

Surely we can't keep him this window if this doesn't get done. Not after letting Emre Can leave for nothing and having to spend £50m to replace him with Fabinho. I mean if we were someone like Arsenal and letting quality players worth £30m+ run down their deals we'd be a complete laughing stock. But we did it with Can and now potentially with Gini and everyone's seemingly fine with it.

[DonkeyWan]

[Tobelius]

DON'T PISS OFF MICHAEL EDWARDS!

I can hear him just going 'NEXT!' on the phone after Norwich tried to get more for Lewis 

Have a feeling Leicester will be needing a new lb soon so maybe Lewis goes there.

[El Lobo]

Signing Tsimikas over Jamal Lewis just means our homegrown quota has become increasingly important and this will be something I'm sure Klopp will have in mind when he's taking a look at Wilson during pre-season. Klopp will want to keep him around most likely now.

Our failure to sign Jamal Lewis also means we're highly like to sign Ben White since he's home-grown.

[Asam]

The club has its valuation and will stick to its guns, Lewis will be playing in the premier league next season I’m sure of it, goes without saying that this is a marker to any team that thinks they can play us in the window

[jc2002]

Just a thought - if we don't go for another CB is this a sign we're in for Thiago? It's clear we're in for a LB and that'll take the Lovern money & more (maybe in the form of saved wages). If Origi and/or Shaq go we'll need another wide forward (Taki & Brewster both play through the centre). If we don't go for another CB then we're going to have to use Fab as cover at CB. Then, provided his wage demands aren't excessive, we could use whatever we get for Wilson and Grujic for Thiago's fee.
Given a compressed season we're going to have to rotate midfield like mad next season. 3 of the back 4 are set in stone as are the front 3 so I don't think we can keep asking Hendo, Fab, and Gini to keep playing 3 games in 8 days. We could use them as our 'dogs of war' midfield with Naby, Thiago +1 as the 'unpick the lock' one with Ox, Millner, & Jones also rotating.

[rocco]

Surely we can't keep him this window if this doesn't get done. Not after letting Emre Can leave for nothing and having to spend £50m to replace him with Fabinho. I mean if we were someone like Arsenal and letting quality players worth £30m+ run down their deals we'd be a complete laughing stock. But we did it with Can and now potentially with Gini and everyone's seemingly fine with it.

Why we shouldn’t let deals get below 2 years to go

[BER]

Any new links to Tiago or just more fantasising going on?

[MD1990]

Tsimikas performance vs Traore must have pushed him ahead of Lewis I feel. He was very impressive.

Very good full back on that performance who can challenge Robertson.

[s_andrews89]

Just a thought - if we don't go for another CB is this a sign we're in for Thiago? It's clear we're in for a LB and that'll take the Lovern money & more (maybe in the form of saved wages). If Origi and/or Shaq go we'll need another wide forward (Taki & Brewster both play through the centre). If we don't go for another CB then we're going to have to use Fab as cover at CB. Then, provided his wage demands aren't excessive, we could use whatever we get for Wilson and Grujic for Thiago's fee.
Given a compressed season we're going to have to rotate midfield like mad next season. 3 of the back 4 are set in stone as are the front 3 so I don't think we can keep asking Hendo, Fab, and Gini to keep playing 3 games in 8 days. We could use them as our 'dogs of war' midfield with Naby, Thiago +1 as the 'unpick the lock' one with Ox, Millner, & Jones also rotating.

Nah, I think Thiago is irrelevant of all other deals. If you have the opportunity to sign one of the best midfielders the game has seen over the last 5-8 years you don't take it lightly. FSG always said they will pay out for the best players - they have 100% with Ali and VVD. They also said they will pay our best players a fair wage according to their value - they do. Thiago fits both those brackets, he would undoubtedly be one of our best players. If we can afford it, both fee and wages, he'll be a Liverpool player. If it's too much, he won't.

I can't see them putting that deal alongside others. It's clear we're after a centre half. We'll get one.

[UntouchableLuis]

We aren't operating in the same financial league as City. 20 million on a back up left back is nothing to them, they can spend 40 odd million on squad players if they want. If Klopp rates this other left back then I'm all for it.

[BER]

Surely we can't keep him this window if this doesn't get done. Not after letting Emre Can leave for nothing and having to spend £50m to replace him with Fabinho. I mean if we were someone like Arsenal and letting quality players worth £30m+ run down their deals we'd be a complete laughing stock. But we did it with Can and now potentially with Gini and everyone's seemingly fine with it.

Not much we can do. If he's eying the money then he's going to play out his contract and cash in next year.

[Working Class Hen-Pecked Hero]

I can hear him just going 'NEXT!' on the phone after Norwich tried to get more for Lewis 

Have a feeling Leicester will be needing a new lb soon so maybe Lewis goes there.

Yeah feel he will be off to Leicester as well. You'd be absolutely gutted if you were Lewis though, potential move to us not coming through. I think he still looks a player, better than the championship

[Hazell]

We aren't operating in the same financial league as City. 20 million on a back up left back is nothing to them, they can spend 40 odd million on squad players if they want. If Klopp rates this other left back then I'm all for it.

I think what swung it was that he asked Mr. Klopp to be the Godfather to his child.

[Clint Eastwood]

Signing Tsimikas over Jamal Lewis just means our homegrown quota has become increasingly important and this will be something I'm sure Klopp will have in mind when he's taking a look at Wilson during pre-season. Klopp will want to keep him around most likely now.

Our failure to sign Jamal Lewis also means we're highly like to sign Ben White since he's home-grown.

Disagree with both points. Wilson wouldn’t play a minute next season if he stayed.

If anything we are less likely to sign Ben White as we’ve proven that we won’t spend £20 million on a young player who hasn’t proven much.

[rebel23]

@JamesPearceLFC

Feel for Jamal Lewis. Was desperate to move to #LFC and would have been a great addition but just too big a gap between Norwich's valuation and what LFC were willing to pay for him.
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That's  what happens when you fuck with Edwards. Condemned to the Championship instead of potentially playing in the CL. Can't see him being too happy !

[Samie]

Medical next week Melissa Reddy is reporting.

[Samie]

Kevin Palmer saying

I'm told that Michael Edwards met with Olympiacos General Manager Mrs Lina Souloukou on Thursday in Wolverhampton

[Simplexity]

Signing Tsimikas over Jamal Lewis just means our homegrown quota has become increasingly important and this will be something I'm sure Klopp will have in mind when he's taking a look at Wilson during pre-season. Klopp will want to keep him around most likely now.

Our failure to sign Jamal Lewis also means we're highly like to sign Ben White since he's home-grown.

What role would Wilson fill in this squad exactly? Would you be genuinely happy to see him come on to change the game in favor of Sadio or Salah?

[JasonF]

I'm sure we'd have preferred the home grown player for a backup position, but we've seen in the past that our first choice players aren't necessarily better than the second choice, it's not unusual for us to pay more for the second choice than we were willing to pay for the first choice.

You've got to feel for Lewis as Norwich have cost him an opportunity to work with this team and potentially improve as a player, but Tsimikas looks the more ready to step in and compete with Robbo from the off.

[JackWard33]

Wouldn't feel too bad for Lewis... there's a very decent chance he wasn't good enough for us and he'll still have a career most 'want to be pros' can only dream of
He was definitely a project for us and because we pulled it off with Robertson doesn't mean it would've happened again 

[Red Cactii]

Surely we can't keep him this window if this doesn't get done. Not after letting Emre Can leave for nothing and having to spend £50m to replace him with Fabinho. I mean if we were someone like Arsenal and letting quality players worth £30m+ run down their deals we'd be a complete laughing stock. But we did it with Can and now potentially with Gini and everyone's seemingly fine with it.

Yes and no, I mean I think Fabinho is far superior for what we needed in our midfield so I’m not sure you can make and eye-for-an-eye comparison between the two. I think the club has managed contracts quite well which is why we’ve only really seen Can go on a bosman thus far. If you start automatically selling players with 12 or 24 months left on their deal, it just sets a dangerous precedent. Sure, the club could maybe get £20m for Wijnaldum be selling him this summer  but is that worth more to us than his contribution this coming season?

[spider-neil]

Signing Tsimikas over Jamal Lewis just means our homegrown quota has become increasingly important and this will be something I'm sure Klopp will have in mind when he's taking a look at Wilson during pre-season. Klopp will want to keep him around most likely now.

Our failure to sign Jamal Lewis also means we're highly like to sign Ben White since he's home-grown.

More like Brewster won't go on loan.