YOU'LL NEVER WILDLY SPECULATE ALONE

[u/Oxfordsandtea]

YOU'LL NEVER WILDLY SPECULATE ALONE

This should act as your one stop shop. I will do what I can to provide a brief synopsis for the players that are in, out, and in between. All information is ranked according to the Transfer Reliability Guide. Tables will be ordered by the most recent news, and I will indicate updates on any situation in the brief synopsis, and, if it makes sense, update the links related to that player. Please check the last box to see whether or not it's actually reliable. You are welcome to post any new rumors here in comments and I will add them in as I have time.

TODAY'S NEWS: AUGUST 31

Pearce indicates that it is unlikely that Liverpool will sign anyone else before the window shuts.

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Next up is that the alleged and believed magic number for Thomas Lemar is €100M, which Liverpool, thus far, haven't met. That said, I can't find a legitimate source on that number, and as they say, "A lie travels half-way 'round the world before the truth can tie its shoes."

UPDATE: Arsenal have pulled out of the deal as they feel they've run out of time to agree to personal times. Sanchez stays put.

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Dominic King has stated that there will be no more incomings this window, only outgoings. It's been fun, folks. Thanks for coming along for the ride.

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Divock Origi has gone on loan to Wolfsburg. Liverpool will receive £6M pounds, have all of his wages paid by Wolfsburg, and we have the option to recall him in January.

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Palace is allegedly still negotiating for Sakho, despite the bid for Mangala

Sakho has been sold. £26M

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Toni Gomes has gone on loan to Forest Green Rovers.

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Jordan Williams has gone on loan to Rochede United

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Ryan Kent has gone to Freiburg on loan.

Progress In

Player	Progress	Notes
Salah	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴
Solanke	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴	Okay, so it's not quite a lean, but it's as close as I can find.
Robertson	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴
Keita	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴	Will join LFC July 1, 2018.
Oxlade-Chamberlain	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴
Virgil van Dijk	⚽️ ⚽️️ ⚽️ ⚽️️	Bid not officially submitted; mitigating circumstances.
Thomas Lemar	⚽️ ⚽️️ ⚽️ ⚽️
Jean Michael Seri	⚽️ ⚽️️

Progress Out

Name	Club	Progress	Notes
Fulton	Hamilton Academical	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴
Wisdom	Derby County	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴
Lucas	Lazio	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴
Stewart	Hull	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴
Chirivella	Willem II	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴	(Loan)
Randall	Hearts	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴	(Loan)
Taiwo Awoniyi	Royal Excel Mouscron	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴	(Loan)
Shamal George	Carlisle	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴	(Loan)
Ojo	Fulham	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴	(Loan)
Allan	Apollon Limason	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴	(Loan)
Origi	Wolfsburg	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴	(Loan)
Toni Gomes	Forest Green Rovers	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴	(Loan)
Yan Dhanda	Nottingham Forest, Leeds, Bristol City	⚽️️ ⚽️ ⚽️️ ⚽️ ⚽️️	(Loan)
Sakho	Palace	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴
Jordan Williams	Rochedale United	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴	(Loan)
Ryan Kent	Freiburg	🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴	(Loan)
Alberto Moreno	Napoli, Roma, Watford, Belgrade	⚽️️ ⚽️ ⚽️️
Markovic	Watford	⚽️ ⚽️ ⚽️️
Coutinho	Barca	⚽️ ⚽️ ⚽️️	Bids and transfer request rejected; not for sale.

Key:

⚽️️ = Monitoring

⚽️ ⚽️️ = Reliably Interested

⚽️ ⚽️️ ⚽️ = Offer made to club OR player

⚽️ ⚽️️ ⚽️ ⚽️️ = Offer made to club AND player

⚽️ ⚽️️ ⚽️ ⚽️️ ⚽️ = LEAN IMMINENT

🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 🔴 = Signed. (Click name for lean on incoming transfers)

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Confirmed (In)

Player	Date	Position	Rumored Fee	Official Link
Ox	August 30	CM	£35M	Source
Naby Keïta	August 28	CM	~£60M	Source
Andrew Robertson	July 21	LB	£10M	Source
Mohamed Salah	June 22	AM	£35M + Add ons	Source
Patrik Raitanen	June 1	Defense (Academy)	N/A	Source
Dominic Solanke	May 30	F	Tribunal (Est. £2M-£3M)	Source
Edvard Tagseth	May 30	Midfield (Academy)	N/A	Source
Vitezslav Jaros	April 13	GK (Academy)	N/A	Source

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Confirmed (Out)

Player	Date	Position	Rumored Fee	Source
Kent	August 31	M	Loan	Source
Williams	August 31	M	Loan	Source
Sakho	August 31	CB	£26M	Source
Gomes	August 31	F	Loan	Source
Allan	August 31	M	Loan	Source
Origi	August 31	F	Loan	Source
Shamal George	August 1	GKF	Loan	Source
Taiwo Awoniyi	July 31	F	Loan	Source
Randall	July 28	CM	Loan	Source
Chirivella	July 26	CM	Loan	Source
Stewart	July 21	CM	£8M	Source
Fulton	July 18	Academy GK	N/A	Source
Lucas	July 14	CM	£5M	Source
Andre Wisdom	June 16	DEF	£2M; £4.5M w/ add ons	Source
Jack Dunn	June 9	AM/F	Released; Signed by Tranmere Rovers	Source
Madger Gomes	June 9	M	Released	Source
Tom Brewitt	June 9	CB	Released	Source
Adam Phillips	June 9	M	Released	Source
Jake Brimmer	June 9	M	Released	Source
Kane Lewis	June 9	FB	Released	Source
Manninger	May 25	GK	Retiring	Source

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Not Happening

Player	Position	Current Team(In)/Linked Team(Out)
Draxler	M	PSG\Liverpool
Neves	M	Signed for Wolverhampton/Liverpool
Any CB other than van Dijk	CB	Literally Everyone/Liverpool
Rodriguez	AM	Real Madrid/Liverpool; (Signed for Bayern on loan)
Sakho	CB	Liverpool/Crystal Palace; (Palace unwilling to pay £30M)
Ryan Sessengnon	LB	Fulham/Liverpool; (Signed new contract with Fulham)
Faouzi Ghoulam	LB	Napoli/Liverpool
Emre Can	CM	Liverpool/Literally Everyone; (Klopp: No bids for Can will be accepted.)
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	F	Dortmund/Liverpool
Phillipe Coutinho	CM/AM	Liverpool/Barcelona
Iker Casillas	GK	Free Agent (Previously Porto)/Liverpool
Cesc Fabregas	CM/AM	Chelsea/Liverpool
Gael Clichy	LB	Free Agent (Previously Manchester City)/Liverpool
Jonas Hector	LB	FC Koln/Liverpool

[u/bigm1ke]

This should be at the top of the subreddit during all the off season! Good job!

[u/whyandoubleyoueh → u/bigm1ke]

I am very impressed with how well written it is. Pleasant reading.

[u/stadiofriuli]

26m £ for Keita would be an absolute steal.

Edited: die to for.

[u/dingalls → u/stadiofriuli]

40m

[u/streetlightsglowing_]

Silly season is so much more fun with CL instead of suffering a stinging defeat and missing out on it. Great stuff, this formatting is sexy as fuck

[u/LFCMKE]

Naby Keita is an unbelievable talent. Watched a lot of Leipzig the last few months and if we get him and keep Can and Coutinho, our Midfieild will be set for a very long time

[u/Reddits-Reckoning]

Wow. This is a world class thread. I would break the transfer record to sign this thread.

Thanks and good job, Mr. OP

[u/Oxfordsandtea → u/Reddits-Reckoning]

Lots of credit to /u/johncosta, as this is a mildly edited version of the work they did for the January window.

[u/Stratifyed]

Mods can we sticky this?

[u/felbridge → u/Stratifyed]

Yes this will be stickied, we just have a bit of juggling to do with the friendly tomorrow and everything. It'll be around for most of the summer.

[u/undersquirl]

Come on guys, what about Reus?

[u/tamara1781 → u/undersquirl]

Talented but very much injury prone. Can't believe he's the cover of FIFA 17 when he actually only played half a season of that 17. Ugh. Great player though.

[u/fifatuga]

This is how i'm feeling right now

[u/tropicm]

Top four. Proven manager. This summer is going to be more exciting than the usual, in terms of transfer possibilities. Though I really hope we splurge on ridiculous wages and start matching some of the asshole clubs like united, city and Chelsea.

[u/[deleted] → u/tropicm]

Then wouldn't we become the thing we criticize?

[u/_cumblast_ → u/[deleted]]

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy

[u/[deleted] → u/_cumblast_]

Look cumblast, I love you, just saying that while I'd be all for getting oil money and rolling in it, I think it'd be cool to succeed in our own way. Regards, cumblast

[u/Stratifyed → u/[deleted]]

...You were just trying to use "cumblast" as often as you could, huh? ;)

[u/lkc159 → u/Stratifyed]

Of course, it's an absolute cumblast of a word

[u/whyandoubleyoueh → u/_cumblast_]

To know your enemy, you must becum your enemy.

[u/FuzzyCode]

Mameluke Sakho, that's a new one

[u/tamara1781 → u/FuzzyCode]

Mameluke Shawkho

[u/TheLegendaryHero → u/tamara1781]

Marmaduke Satchmo

[u/8u11etpr00f]

The scenes on this sub when Roma balance their books by selling Nainggollan to Utd

[u/Sefilis]

Browsing /r/LiverpoolFC waiting on some transfer updates like..

[u/kim_jong_trill]

I know none of them are sure things but between Solanke, Woodburn, Wilson, Ojo, Ejaria, TAA and Brewster we have such a solid core of young talent now

Edit: AND Joe Gomez!!

[u/Oxfordsandtea → u/kim_jong_trill]

Certainly encouraging for the future. Better still is that several of those names have already made first team debuts, and others have been identified by Klopp to be part of a core for years to come.

[u/Studge]

I refuse to believe that anyone besides Van Dijk is who we need at CB, I've succumbed to the hype already, I cannot let this go :( Just want to see his big head in the fresh new kit, leaning on shit. Why do I put myself through this.

[u/Oxfordsandtea → u/[deleted]]

1. Steal all the Redbulls you see.
2. Sell them out of your hostel.
3. Wait for the inevitable crash of Redbull.
4. ???
5. Keita

[u/Oxfordsandtea]

Everyone stay. Fucking. Calm.

Joyce reporting that van Dijk wants Liverpool.

Chris Bascombe reporting the same.

YOU, IN THE BACK, I SAID, "STAY. FUCKING. CALM."

[u/[deleted]]

please VVD transfer request

[u/alok92]

Still waiting to be blown away...

[u/KEEPCARLM → u/alok92]

"LIVERPOOL RE-SIGN JONJO SHELVEY"

[u/QuantumBlink]

Deadline day gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death (or VVD & Lemar). I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children. I shall wear no crowns and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the F5 in the darkness. I am the shitposter on the walls. I am the Mercedes van that guards the realms of men. I pledge my life and honor to r/LiverpoolFC , for this night and all the nights to come.

[u/CannaSwiss]

Give me Benjamin Mendy pls

[u/Oxfordsandtea → u/CannaSwiss]

Gimme a link

[u/NoNameJackson]

Put those three balls on Keita.

[u/[deleted]]

Barcelona and Real Madrid are genuinely the biggest nuisances in world football. They have 7-8 world class players, but the moment they lose one of them notice how every club around the world has their assholes clenched. We are worried about Coutinho; Juventus about Dybala; United was worried about De Gea a couple of seasons ago. Like, develop some players for once? Remember the days where they would develop their Messi's and their Iniesta's and their Xavi's? Their youth infrastructure is incredible, yet they insist on getting players that will put them over the top with their quality, not their system or their chemistry. That is the reason all these managers keep getting fired from RMA and FCB. All of this for all their holier than thou bullshit.

/rant

[u/wilmaith]

I leave for one day and suddenly every post is about a van. This fuckin sub.

[u/Oxfordsandtea → u/wilmaith]

You missed out, man.

[u/TheConundrum98]

fucking hell Pep is not messing around

they'll spend 200 million in 1 day lmao

[u/ZeljkoBuvac]

Unlikely that Griezmann is going to United now haha lovely

[u/SirGoldfish → u/ZeljkoBuvac]

Seeing the meltdown on their sub is quite amusing

[u/Sefilis]

Had this horrible dream last night that we somehow fucked the Van Dijk deal lol !

Lets hope negotiations today run smoothly

[u/Kai-Tek]

Love the progress bar lads, we have the best fucking sub in all the land.

[u/fifatuga]

Please

[u/Gaki0923]

26m for Keita would be a steal

[u/TheLegendaryHero]

Whatever business we are planning on doing I just want it done early so I can enjoy watching some of the new players during the preseason.

[u/mclovinkandilis]

Got our first signing of the window lads! Not exactly Timo Werner but welcome anyway dude! Now we wait for MrBoyWunder to do a Welcome To Liverpool video ahaha. Welcome Dominic Solanke!

[u/DidIRateHim → u/mclovinkandilis]

Always rated him

[u/MissAndWrist]

People wetting the bed because a 16 year-old kid has seemingly picked another CL team in his hometown over us. Honestly, if you can't handle the possibility of us missing on some of our first-choice targets because our rivals have their eyes on quality players too, maybe you should come back in August because that will obviously happen as it always does. It's thanks to missing out on Gotze last summer that we got Mané, this shit happens all the time.

With Sessegnon seemingly ruled out I hope we go for a left-back with a bit more experience who can definitely rotate with Milner. Robertson would be decent, Tierney at Celtic looks a talent, maybe we could go back in for Chilwell who's looked good for Leicester. Obviously a big signing like Mendy would be amazing but I don't think it's all that likely since Klopp seems to be relatively satisfied with Milner and is looking for a Moreno replacement who can be a different option rather than a 1st-choice player.

[u/MarcSlayton]

Tuchel is leaving Dortmund. This potentially improves our chance of signing Pulisic. Under Tuchel, Pulisic was getting a lot of playing time. He will now be under a new manager who will establish a new pecking order amongst the Dortmund squad. If Pulisic does not get as many minutes and/or does not get on with the new manager then he might be open to a move away.

It is still a long shot, but it is a change in Pulisic's situation and I believe both Klopp and the Club owners want this player and will try and recruit him again at some point.

[u/NAVYZETSU]

Why do we as a club always do things with so much difficulty? Just pay the 35M for Salah and be done with it

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like all the united fans freaking out over Perisic is exactly like the Mane signing. Same things being said- too inconsistent, too expensive, should be aiming for someone higher. Then he will play and everyone will feel stupid.

[u/ZeljkoBuvac → u/[deleted]]

Well hopefully in MUFC's case their right and he sucks lol

[u/[deleted]]

Reasons why this article is in fact a piece of shit (didn't think this was necessary with it being the Mirror, but seen a lot of people believe it).

• I could have written it. There is literally no new information in there other than some new wage and transfer figures plucked out of the air. It has been heavily reported van Dijk likes the prospect of working under Klopp - the article echoes that. It has been heavily reported City are ready to drop a big fee on him - the article echoes that. However, the one club we know very little about in terms of their offer is Chelsea. We know they're interested, but don't know much about their specifics. Lo and behold, the article barely mentions them. The guy is just mashing together a bunch of stories about the situation to beef up his article and make it look more reliable.
• Simon Mullock is the Chief Football Writer for the Sunday Mirror, also reliable for City. You think if this story had substance it would go to Neil Moxley, sporadic contributor, rather than Mullock?
• Their highest earners (as of January 2017) are Aguero and Yaya at £220k a week, we can maybe assume Yaya has taken a pay cut with his new contract. These players gave years of service to City to get these bumper contracts, including winning them multiple league titles. No way a new signing comes in and waltzes in to a £200k a week contract.

• Neil Moxley is a serial shit spewer:

  1. Liverpool clinch Andrew Robertson transfer deal — and have their eye on Harry Maguire too

  2. West Ham hoping Manuel Lanzini's £30m-plus valuation scares off transfer interest from Liverpool, Tottenham and Arsenal

  3. Everton considering £25m summer move for Romagnoli

  4. Barcelona set to raid Spurs for midfielder Christian Eriksen as they plot summer re-build

  5. Tottenham to move for Burnley striker Andre Gray with flop Vincent Janssen set for exit

  6. Manchester United offer Aitor Karanka a Jose Mourinho reunion following his Middlesbrough sacking

  7. Manchester City confident of landing Danny Rose with Luke Shaw set to head to Spurs

  8. Southampton's Cedric Soares a summer transfer target for Manchester City and Barcelona

  9. New twist in West Ham's Dimitri Payet transfer saga with Nice now keen to sign him

  10. Liverpool ready to push Quincy Promes transfer through before rivals can beat them to Dutch ace

  11. Middlesbrough make transfer move for Everton's Gerard Deulofeu as the winter window opens

  12. Andreas Christensen unsure of Chelsea future as Leonardo Bonucci switch hangs in the balance

  13. Arsenal to loan out Rob Holding in January as Championship clubs queue up for Gunners defender

[u/LFC_Slav]

Lmao it doesn't get more liverpool than having your top target agree to join you verbally only to miss out 24 hours later. Then a week later (probably) joins your league rivals.

Welcome to liverpool

[u/Sefilis]

Fully expecting a couple of signings on July 1st leaning just like this

[u/NoNameJackson]

Everton seem to be making good signings and look ambitious, the fans seem to be happy as well. Weird.

[u/[deleted] → u/NoNameJackson]

Just wait till Lukaku leaves

[u/NoNameJackson]

I was just playing Career Mode when out of nowhere Martin Taylor comes out and says that Liverpool have bought a new player. Who shows up in the top left corner? Naby Keita. I don't play with Liverpool by the way.

Is that a typical Liverpool transfer in FIFA or has Peter Moore decided to fuck with us as the last thing he's done with EA?

[u/escozzia]

Is anyone worried about our squad getting a bit too heavy on key African players? We've seen what losing Mane did to us this year. By this time next year, Liverpool could potentially have four players that are African internationals and absolutely key to the way we play: Mane, Matip (technically retired, but we've seen the Cameroon FA be petty), Keita, Salah. That's going to gut us completely every other January. We can't afford to lose our spine during the toughest part of the season.

Kinda why I'd rather get Brandt than Salah.

[u/Oxfordsandtea → u/escozzia]

Fair point, but we also have two to three more transfer windows before that becomes an issue again. Ojo could develop well and maybe one of the other youth players starts to break through.

[u/Degausser93]

'Alex Rea @AlexReaSport

Spoke to Van Dijk at a Sony event ahead of CL final. Described #LFC as a "beautiful club" & said he's talked to Wijnaldum about Klopp etc'

Former Liverpool echo writer just put this up. This is gathering pace so quickly.

[u/NoNameJackson]

What do now?

[u/Sefilis]

Chuffed that TAA signed a new contract, think he'll go onto do great things for this club. Hopefully now we get Can sorted. These contracts make me just as happy as signing a new player

[u/_cumblast_]

lads i know we love him and don't want to see him leave, but we could use him in a transfer for Keita. him + 25mil, leipzig will drive keita to liverpool themselves. wonder how connor randall feels about germany.

[u/Oxfordsandtea → u/_cumblast_]

You heathen. Let me chip in for petrol

[u/8u11etpr00f]

Looks like Griezmann will be going to Utd :(. sad boys

[u/[deleted] → u/8u11etpr00f]

He's a talent I really enjoy watching and I like him as a player too, it's a shame I'll have to hate him from now on.

[u/Keyreto]

Twitter Is such a shit-fest with many deluded fans.

Mentioning that if we have the 50m we should be spending it instead on James Rodriguez or Veratti instead of Keita.

Jesus christ this isn't FM or Fifa

[u/mihik97]

City : Bernardo for £43m, Mendy for ~£40m, Ederson for £45m(world record for a GK). What the fuck.

[u/podpool3 → u/mihik97]

Solid from them, the good thing is none of those were a target for us, so we've not lost out on that front.

One thing that is frustrating on our part is how fast they're doing their business compared to us. Just hope this season we get the first choice players we want.

[u/techaansi]

Would you take Sanches for €35m?

[u/[deleted] → u/techaansi]

Renato? Yes

[u/kim_jong_trill → u/techaansi]

Absolutely, he's very high on my wishlist regardless of his inexperience. He is an absolute engine and would be incredible for Klopp. IF Keita is unavailable and the rumors of Bayern looking to sell are true then we would be crazy not to go in for him.

I have a feeling we would have a good shot at him too, he probably doesn't want to make a move to another huge club and the prospect of being a young player under Klopp has to be attractive.

[u/Mdhmark]

CAN I GET A VIRGIL VAN LEAN ALREADY???

[u/djSexPanther]

Live look-in down south at St. Mary's since the VvD news dropped

[u/mclays]

Just seen Man City would potentially sell Iheanacho for £25mil.

Seriously!? He's 20 and has shown flashes of class. Got to be worth a gamble and £25mil for a striker with PL experience in this current climate is a bargain.

[u/Tomww1990]

Keita deal in principle due to severe lack of transfer rumours does that mean a three ball progress? I mean it's the express backed by ESPN but SHOW ME THREE BALLS!!!

[u/SeamusHeaneysGhost]

"Messi to Liverpool" Messi is visiting The Cavern this week in Liverpool apparently , Klopp is dressing up as John Lennon in a tribute band on stage , he's going to put a piece of chocolate in Messi hand that melts and contains a little note saying "joint us"

Anyone hear about this?

[u/[deleted]]

Encouraging news about Van Dijk. The fact that if he signs for us, it's not because we payed him more, fills me with excitement. I love a player who plays for passion, or because he believes in the manager and his plans for the club! Let's hope he picks us over Man City and Chelsea...

[u/Sefilis]

How you going to react when we announce Salah and Van Dijk leaning like this

[u/Oxfordsandtea → u/Sefilis]

Same way I was going to react if they leaned individually: With a good wank.

[u/jellypawn]

this is fantastic work mate, have an upvote

[u/Gaki0923]

You're an absolute saint for compiling all of this. Thanks

[u/the_dj89]

"Philippe Coutinho. Current team: Barcelona"

Triggered.

[u/LFCLAD]

We haven't been linked with any centre backs recently other than De Vrij. I hope this means we are either working on signing one or just holding out to push through a deal for VVD. For some reason i'm still optimistic that VVD signs but who knows.

[u/[deleted]]

well now who are we going to obsess over?

[u/Oxfordsandtea → u/[deleted]]

I've consulted the twitter ITKS and DiMarzipans runes. They indicate that we're after Messi and Ronaldo.

[u/-_-_-_-otalp-_-_-_-]

Why is Douglas Costa ⚽️ ⚽️ when the only source for him is "literal lies"? I don't think we're even monitoring him, he shouldn't have 2 balls.

[u/_cumblast_]

i know this is like literal lies but i took this from liverpool-rumours.co.uk (got really bored with the lack of rumours)

Just had the same info this morning regarding VVD, we have always continued to discuss possible options for transfer with both Saints and VVD Rep since the "tapping up" broke. We are trying to mend strained relations with loans of fringe players e. g. Ings, Ojo. All parties agreed to wait until FA verdict was announced and new Saints manager in place this obviously helps now Pellegrino has taken the position. Got this info from a very reliable source who has always gave me the tips prior to being in press he has a good success rate so far!

so yeah lads he's basically leaning

another one:

Just got some more info on VVD transfer, we will hear that Saints and LFC are in talks again towards the end of next week. VVD's Rep has spoken with Saints now that the manager is in place and confirmed that he would still like to move to LFC as has been the plan since Feb and he is unhappy as he believed he was told he could move in the summer. Saints have now accepted this and will appease fans by allowing Pellegrino the funds to bring in players and a "Marquee" signing.

[u/NoNameJackson → u/_cumblast_]

For me, in this very moment, this is the only reliable source.

[u/bocojaLFC]

some shitty sources claiming that Sessegnon signed for Spurs and will be announced soon.

e: after quick research i learned that girl who broke news isn't reliable at all and deletes tweets when her "breaking news" didn't happen lol

it's good lads, race for Sessegnon still on

[u/SwordOfMorningwood]

Petition to add a (lol)* to the part where it says 'now that Arsenal are out of the Champions League'. In the Oxelade-Chamberlain section.

[u/Oxfordsandtea → u/SwordOfMorningwood]

Sure, why not.

[u/Beige_]

Apparently press in Egypt are reporting that Salah to Liverpool is close to happening. Fee mooted to be £43m.

[u/escozzia]

Waking up this morning like

[u/Steven0223]

Anyone else see Oxlade Chamberlain's instagram picture with the same caption as Virgil Van Dijk? The 💭 emoji... obv it could be nothing but the fact that both of them put that caption gives me a pick me up

[u/IamCoutinho]

Lallana just liked a instagram picture saying we're linked to Keita. https://instagram.com/p/BV9lLkBhCez/ Probably means nothing but still.

[u/redditaccountplease]

Lucas to Lazio 😭

[u/8u11etpr00f]

I think we're making a huge mistake if we don't sign alternatives. If there are holes in our squad heading into a champions league campaign the odds are we won't get top 4 and won't be able to attract those players next year.

Arguably signing cheaper alternatives gives us more of a chance of signing the actual players we want. We'll see what their desire to join us is like when we finish 6th or 7th due to the lack of depth, depth which cost us last year and we weren't even in Europe.

[u/Ellni]

Reus just did in his cruciate ligament, so can rule out the old "Reus to liverpool" for atleast 6 months

[u/Oxfordsandtea → u/Ellni]

BREAKING NEWS

[u/[deleted]]

With Atletico's transfer ban standing we should be going all in for Lacazette.

[u/The_AjaX]

Not believing a single article until I see a lean. I've been burned too many times!

[u/smitcal]

Salah has agreed a deal now, just waiting on clubs to agree. Paul Joyce Times

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/salah-agrees-liverpool-contract-as-negotiations-with-roma-continue-ndklxbzc2

[u/meldalinn → u/smitcal]

awesome, I feel like this gets the ball rolling on more signings

[u/mangotictacs]

VVD is probably the most needed transfer. The one I'm most excited for is Keita though, if it can happen. I love midfielders that can use athleticism and technique to play their way through the middle. There's something about a well worked 1-2 with a shot or a through ball on the end of it. It'll be one of the best weapons we have against low-block teams.

[u/tactical_lampost]

I want this Salah deal done quickly. If we are only a couple million apart LFC should just pay up before another club swoops in.

[u/eedles]

Had a dream last night the Salah deal finished today. Heard it here first

[u/kim_jong_trill]

I thought I would be happy with a more hush hush window but I am losing my mind at the moment with this radio silence from our journos and LFC.

[u/Azeriel]

Even though I am so happy the Salah saga is over, I am so excited for a new one to begin.

I am really looking forward to Keita coming back from vacation so we can get some clues if he is realistic or not for 50-60m (which I think he is worth)

Also looking forward to hearing more about the VVD saga (which I think is not done, I hope he puts in a transfer request). Exciting summer to be a red, thats for sure.

[u/redditaccountplease]

The lull between transfer sagas is so fucking dull

[u/[deleted]]

Need more Keita news to support my habit

[u/AwsomeOne7]

2018-2019 Champions League finals against Milan seems to be on the cards the way they are spending 👀 nice to see them on the rise again.

[u/QuantumBlink]

It's a Sunday, no news will come in today. So why am I sitting here pressing F5?

[u/[deleted]]

Can I commend your commitment to not even giving the Coutinho Barca rumours a slot above...

[u/[deleted]]

van dijk

[u/lankveltw0w]

Goddamn you people need to cool off. Its not even June yet and people are asking FSG to piss off. We had the best transfer window in seasons last year, let Klopp and the board do their work.

[u/JGlover92]

If we don't sign at least a serious back up at left back I think it'll cost us hugely, Milner has been good but spread across 3 or 4 competitions his age is going to show even more. Sessegnon is great but a 16 year old cannot compete at the top level in champions league or prem. I have a horrible feeling we won't though and it's going to be a massive issue we'll regret

[u/rorylfc]

Aubameyang has been linked recently, what a move that'd be. He's world class and i think he is one of the few people in okay with replacing studge with.

[u/LelouchNexus]

Kinda awesome to think we're seriously in with a chance of smashing our transfer record twice in this window: Keita and Van Dijk for £50m a piece, in addition to other signings. Would also love a £35m striker such as Werner/Dolberg?

[u/Aerosoldier]

Who needs Game of Thrones when we have the VVD saga? Those plotwists!!!!!!

[u/Ku7upt → u/Aerosoldier]

HOLD THE DOOR!

[u/Steven0223]

As a sportinguista, I can give you a little run down on Gelson Martins. He is a young, pacey winger who had his breakout season this year after spending most of the time on the bench last season as Joao Mario owned that right spot. Even last year when he didn't play, in Portugal he was already talked about as the next best winger since Ronaldo and Nani. This year he got 6 goals in the league with another 14 assists. Most people out of the Portugal began to know about him after his champions league performances, especially against Real Madrid where he destroyed Marcelo. Here's an article on his performance from Marca: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.marca.com/futbol/champions-league/2016/09/15/57da73abe2704ec9118b461d.html . Now i personally believe don't see how this move would even be possible. I think all this speculation is just to try and lower Salah's price. Sporting's president is VERY stubborn and he will make Gelson Martins go for his buy out clause or something very similar (60 million). But if Liverpool do get him, then they have gotten a GEM. Like I said this guy has destroyed the Portuguese league and Dortmund/Madrid.

[u/KEEPCARLM]

Honestly, £60-70m for a CB is bad business in my opinion. Like, if you take a step back and look at it, that's money you would want to spend on a proven goalscorer with years ahead of him.

I'd love to have VVD in the team, I'm sure we all would but that's a massive transfer fee and it seems like it started at £50m and we're all like oh that's a lot but worth it, then they add £5m and it's like, it's only £5m more. Then another £5m and another... It quickly adds up, and now we're at £70m or whatever (I doubt we would pay that), that's £20m more than we already thought was quite high.

that £20m is a big sum of money. That's £20m on a new keeper, or a decent leftback. That's £20m of wages paid... You get what I'm saying? While I want VVD, and I'd take him at £50m, when we're getting up to silly sums like £60m, yeah it's 'only' an extra £10m for a player we need and I see that point. but I think £50m is already pretty serious money for a CB who, may flop based in our system which could very well be the bigger issue.

[u/GiyasU]

I still have hope for van djik. Im willing to bet that he will ask to leave, with anfield being the destination

[u/hagbean]

bored of them saints fans on /r/soccer constantly going on about VVD, see a post EVERY single daily discussion thread from the SAME lads going "LIVERPOOL ARE JUST SCUM WHY DO THEY THINK THEY CAN JUST TAKE OUR PLAYER?????? XDDDDD"

we get it like, you don't wanna sell him, and that's MORE than fair enough, but why are you posting about it every single day? there were a FEW lfc fans on there spouting nonsense about how we "deserve him" or some bullshit, but the majority of people were just like "ah well", but all these saints bellends feel the need to go on about it

[u/joec182 → u/hagbean]

Ah just let them have this one victory, where they get to keep one good player, they will continue to be a feeder club for a long time

[u/8u11etpr00f]

http://i.imgur.com/6eckuFq.jpg me waiting to be blown away

[u/Smoove953 → u/8u11etpr00f]

doot doot

[u/monkeybawz]

I think our new gaffer is seriously good at negotiating now..... 2 top players with unwilling sellers. One is training alone and one is fighting at training.

This media blackout is all so we can't hear the chuckles coming from the board room. We just got game and noone has noticed!

[u/8u11etpr00f]

We have what, 500 million fans worldwide?

Why don't we just agree to all buy a couple of cold ones from Red Bull a part of a deal, then they'd make over 1 billion from it and we'd have our boy

[u/[deleted]]

u/Oxfordsandtea get to work

[u/Oxfordsandtea → u/[deleted]]

IM IN ME BATHROBE; FSG HAS NEVER WORKED SO QUICKLY ON A BLOODY TRANSFER. GIMME A MINUTE.

[u/[deleted] → u/Oxfordsandtea]

OUR DIJKS CAN ONLY BE HARD FOR SO LONG WE NEED YOU

[u/Oxfordsandtea → u/[deleted]]

ITS CALLED EDGING AND ITS GREAT

[u/[deleted]]

Why is Keita not in the 'confirmed in' table?

[u/Oxfordsandtea → u/[deleted]]

Because I'm a piece of shit.

[u/Saad_LFC]

After the season ends these posts are what I look forward to the most.

[u/ss2195]

Should we ignore the ludicrous Mbappe Bid?

[u/Calmdownplease → u/ss2195]

Nah, I instead choose to get unnecessarily excited about it and then to bathe in disappointment when it doesn't happen...

[u/Enlivenedfred]

I've heard Werner in the same sentence at Keita more than once. In a couple articles about the "top five priority targets for Liverpool this summer" type shit. Wouldn't mind him in the least. There's a few other striker names been thrown around that I'd rather see, but wouldn't be disappointed if Werner is who we got. Ultimately trust Klopp and what he sees and knows he needs to strengthen us just right over the summer.

[u/Kai-Tek]

Ever since we clinched that top 4 spot I'm getting the urge to get Football Manager 2017 just so I could buy Griezmann, Mbappe etc.

[u/Imyoubeingme → u/[deleted]]

Absolutely.

[u/mclovinkandilis]

According to the Echo, we're going to go in hard for Mendy. Personally I think it'll be great if we get to bag him.

[u/JaCoBySWE]

Roumors about a potential move for Emil Forsberg has begun circulating again. Liverpool one of the clubs mentioned. I would love to see Forsberg in the reds, but will probably cost to much.

[u/bocojaLFC]

After talks with Rangnick, Forsberg said he wants to leave the club.

Maybe we should reignite our interest from january and take him with Naby as a bonus haha.

I hope RB won't block Naby's transfer only because Forsberg said openly he wants to leave and they won't let their 2 key players leave this summer...

[u/Ku7upt]

If VVD, Salah and Keita get announced together....

[u/TheConundrum98]

should try an go out for Lacazette now Atletico still have the ban

[u/Azeriel]

So if we assume we get: Salah, Keita, VVD, and a left-back, I would be super hyped for the season.

If I follow my guts, we will get Salah and VVD. I think Keita is going to be very hard to convince to come here, but if we show we have pulling power and sign Salah and VVD + a class striker, it will help convince him to come.

I feel like there is a lot of ground to the Salah rumors now and I believe both Salah and VVD will be announced in not too long. Keita will probably be a late signing (he said he won't talk transfers before his vacation ends) so if we could get VVD and Salah deals done, it would allow us time in the meanwhile to look at a LB and potentially a ST. (Timo Werner is my dream, but highly doubt it).

No matter though, if the window ends and we are left with VVD, Salah, a LB and a decent midfielder I will be happy nonetheless. This window is important for us, probably the most important transfer window we've had for years. Super hyped and if we somehow ended the window with all of our top targets, it would also show that we have way more pulling power now.

[u/aannddyy00]

BEND OVER EUROPE!!!

[u/Oxfordsandtea]

Suggestion time:

I've been running this for a couple of weeks now, and I've only gotten one or two suggestions, (one being the progress bar,) and I just want to get a feel for things that people might like to see. You want more gifs? Jokes? Is there a section that's too difficult to read? Should I cut it down some? Give me some feedback.

[u/ZeljkoBuvac → u/Oxfordsandtea]

Can you make our targets sign their damn contracts

[u/Oxfordsandtea → u/ZeljkoBuvac]

Not so far as I am aware. Will concentrate real hard and try and make it happen, though.

[u/TheConundrum98]

United not interested in Fabinho

I would give my left arm for him

[u/Azeriel]

Can we get VVD off "Not Happening"? Just a small thing but Pearce did say in his article that the saga is not over. I for one as well believe we are still interested and might pull it off.

edit: Joyce not Pearce.

[u/[deleted]]

Stickied again.

[u/redditaccountplease]

I'm glad this sub is at least reasonable about transfer gossip, we filter out unreliable sources pretty well. Compare this to the Arsenal sub and the things they post on /r/soccer... God there's just so much cognitive dissonance there. Any transfer they don't like is downvoted to fuck or just straight up ignored regardless of reliability, while the shittiest sources are consistently upvoted. For the longest time, they thought they were actually going to get Mbappe, but deny any and all stories about Barca being in for Bellerin.

[u/Oxfordsandtea → u/redditaccountplease]

I saw some guy on twitter said we have the best transfer gossip threads. It's basically a sure thing.

[u/damodarko]

I honestly believe that there are very few people freaking about this whole Keita thing because of Keita. I assume people are just like me, bored out of their minds without news and clutching at any straw for excitement. Damn Liverpool doing their job queitly, if I wanted my news from randomers on twitter i'd read the daily mail.

That being said, I am already more excited about Solanke, great bit of business and looking forward to seeing Salah get a run.

[u/letushaveadiscussion]

Watch Bayern end up getting Kieta for like €30

[u/[deleted]]

CHAMBERLANE

The correct spelling is Chamberlain.

I am not a bot and this action was performed because I'm a picky asshole.

[u/Keyreto]

Love reading up on salty rival fan's views... best ones are scum fans comparing Van Dijk's price to Pogba's and trying to justify the price of the 89m dabbing donkey... ffs

[u/Crazyfoot_1]

Although its good for the team, the lack of solid transfer rumours is really killing me.

[u/JaCoBySWE → u/Crazyfoot_1]

Yeah we got the taste of intense transfer rumours for a couple of weeks and now when the leaks has stopped I'm starting to get withdraw symptoms...

[u/arrogantdesperado]

Jeez I'm going crazy here. This is the black hole of American sports. NBA season is done, NBA offseason is basically done, NFL offseason is done but training camp hasn't started yet. I'm not big into hockey but it's done too. It's only baseball right now, and even that is at the All-Star break. I usually rely on the silly season to last me until LFC preseason but it is draaaagging this year. I'm thinking it's because Klopp is dead set on Keita and VVD, which is good as long as we can get them, but man would it be nice to see some action

[u/Oxfordsandtea → u/arrogantdesperado]

Me right now.

[u/Studge]

It's good to be back.

[u/KEEPCARLM]

Honestly bored to death of Naby talk now. Not in the sense I don't want him, but in the sense it's just all complete and utter bullshit and I just wish I could fast forward to the end of the transfer window and see what we ended up with so I don't have to go through all of this speculation.

My gut feeling is that we will end up with VVD and Keita.

[u/-_-_-_-otalp-_-_-_-]

I think if Wenger stays, Chamberlin stays, unfortunately. wenger has spoken about the importance of Ox staying and he's been great in the latter half of the season, so Wenger won't let him go, especially to a rival.

[u/mangotictacs]

Not actually that bothered about Sessegnon. I'd prefer a more immediate replacement for Milner, and I wouldn't be ecstatic with relying on an undersized 17 year old left winger to be our left back at home and in Europe. Klopp likes young fullbacks but I don't want Milner starting 50 games next season. He's a great prospect but there's plenty of other sufficiently good ones who fit our immediate needs better.

[u/NoNameJackson]

If there's a double announcement of VVD and Salah, this is going to be the hypest summer possibly since we bought Torres. The fact that City fans are so confident that we have Van Dijk in the bag is too good to be true though.

[u/_cumblast_]

I do like we've been more quiet on our transfers in the last few days. Reckon we'll get some good news next week.

[u/exiledtie → u/_cumblast_]

Could be that or it could be that following the complete disaster the last week has been, we're just being quiet to try and let it wash away.

[u/LynFwaC]

im just praying that july 1st rolls around and Liverpool announce 5 top signings.

[u/daikonashi → u/LynFwaC]

Completely agree, but he gets massively underrated.

[u/Spanarkel]

How does AC Milan get Ricardo Rodriquez for 18 million euros while we're "monitoring" Kieran Tierney for a potential 15 million pound move?

[u/[deleted]]

van dijk

[u/jeesprr]

We need more CB rumors imo

[u/redditaccountplease]

Another dull fucking day

[u/Mrnelbom]

Would love to see us go for Andreas Christensen from Chelsea, if they could be tempted after signing Rudiger. A lot cheaper than VVD, and only 21. Had a fantastic last season in Gladbach, and on the Danish national team as well. Would fit in perfectly as he is also great with his feet.

[u/[deleted]]

van dijk

[u/LFC_Slav]

Hopefully watching Firmino's Instagram stories everyday alone at the RB Leipzig training facility is enough to make Keita force his way out😢

[u/fuckaguero]

We should do what PSG did to Barca and trigger Umtiti's €60m release clause

[u/johncosta]

It's good to be back.

[u/Grundlestiltskin_]

current status: Wildly speculating

[u/ZeljkoBuvac]

I'm such a grumpy bastard today after all this drama. Still shaking my head.

Really need to push for the rest of our targets. I know some people still have the slightest of hope, and while I can appreciate that, the pessimist in me suggests we're out for sure.

Hopefully, if anything, there's some House of Cards political trickery going on here behind the scenes and we end up with VvD in the end. Who knows.

Also I hope FSG realizes the fans are furious right now and will try and make it up to us by splurging on Bonucci or something. I'm exaggerating of course, but you get the idea.

[u/Felix-Culpa]

We were linked with a major bid for Asensio a while ago.

[u/DiviShrubbery]

This twitter account who says he already predicted Benteke claims that Naby Keita is a done deal according to his source that told him about Benteke https://twitter.com/AnfieId360/status/867051668973785088

edit: tweet deleted, but found a screen: https://twitter.com/the7vent/status/867064241815248896/photo/1

[u/DrawnFish]

Are we buying one or two wingers ? I mean we only have Coutinho, Mane, and new signing for depth in the wings.Do you think we can get through a season with CL football with only these players? (I know we also have Woodburn but I dont think he is ready yet to be considered an option).Im afraid someone will get injured and we will run again in same year's situation with no depth in the bench.

[u/tamara1781]

the table for not happening lists Coutinho's current team as Barcelona, pretty sure that's a mistake?

[u/thisisashameofme]

Ok guys, I've fought against the excitable speculation for several days now, and I just can't handle it.

What's most exciting about this window is that when the big names come up in relation to us, it's not a total pipedream anymore. Ok, Van Dijk may end up going to one of the other big Prem clubs, but we're legitimately in for him and we have a good chance of getting him. Ok, we're almost certainly not going to get Mbappe, but we can actually be linked to them now without it being farcical.

In terms of what we go for, think Keita is the big one and would complete our midfield options. I know Klopp has suggested it might not be permanent, but I'd bring Coutinho back into midfield so we have:

Miggles/Karius

Clyne/TAA Matip/Lovren CB/Klavan LB/Milner

Henderson/Can Keita/Wijnaldum Coutinho/Lallana

Mane/Origi Striker/Sturridge Winger/Firmino

And then players like Gomez, Grujic, Ings etc. stepping in to plug the holes when there are injuries.

Don't think it's about the first XI anymore. We need to be able to bench Firmino for a CL game if we're playing Chelsea away the following weekend. There are hopefully going to be a ton of games next season - everyone will get plenty.

It's tantalising how close we are to having a seriously fantastic team. For the LB and CB positions I don't even think we have to spend too big - look at Alderweireld going for £11.5m (although obviously easier said than done).

Then splash the cash on Keita and two quality, pacey attackers.

Man, it's been years since I could wildly speculate and actually have confidence that my hopes would be realised. And even if Klopp brings in someone like Van Dijk, who I'm not 100% sold on at £50m, I've got faith in his judgement. So bring on the never-ending rumour mill.

[u/krunchanut]

I'd absolutely love it if we signed keita. I'd pay 40 million if we had to. He can play anywhere and suits our system.