So I don’t disagree with you but your talking as a member and to members of a forum supporting a football team and the majority of posters can have zero impact on that teams performance or results . The only ones that can , at best, can...
I’m not sure that’s how the transfer market works.
Usually it goes in order of team size, and as the mega clubs finish their business players have to go to other destinations.
Also, teams hold out for bids and when they don’t materialise them...
We all have different ways to memorialise a person, retiring a number forever is a great example of doing it, long after we are gone and the people at LFC the reason for retiring it will be known.
Isnt that kid gonna be inspired by him and his achievements regardless?
The kid isn't inspired by his shirt number and he can still get No20 on his Jota shirt, just not if he happens to one day play for them.