This is key, for too long we've been comfortable being the stepping stone and that's it: happy to sell our best players because that's the 'business model'
The Branthwaite contract is for me the best bit of business we've done this window on...
We had 3 years of awful football, almost relegated twice had point deduction, nearly takeover by dodgy idiots and almost went bankrupt.
Yet here we are about to go in to a shiny new stadium with a very good manager and owners who have a clue and...
Was reading a piece in the The Athletic yesterday about how the profile of big money transfers has been getting progressively younger over the years.
Coincidentally enough, the high-water mark that they named was when a 33 y.o. CR7 moved in 2018...
I think we already enough Longstaff quality players , solid, dependable but unexceptional.
We need to be recruiting a level above that if we want to progress.
I dunno. A lot of overseas players would only properly know about the top few clubs and whether they’re playing champions league.
Most players probably join other premier league teams from agent advice. Are a lot of teams not struggling with...
Apparently Fabio Capello reckons he’s going to explode at his next club.
In a good way, one hopes.
Not seeing where the LFC links are coming from? Perhaps someone can enlighten.
And the ManU ones are old news by now - again just read that...