Gettin’ Guehi with it
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Don't sleep on Joey G.
Think there were internal politics at play - the manager clearly wanted to keep him with Parish preferring to receive some value rather than risking the free transfer option next summer. Obviously the manager is in a strong position following an excellent season last year and will be very popular with their fans.
I feel a bit of Guehi, as it seems he’s been a bit of a pawn in their power battle.
Yeah, need to do better
Not for me. Not enough balance. We needed a top drawer CB. We’re a couple of injuries away from a bad run. And good old internationals coming up too.
It's clearly been because they wanted him for the European qualifier, and then their manager understandably didn't want him to go, especially without replacements. I know it's cool to hate on our club, but this ones not on us.
Glasner's position the last few days has been that he told the club he wanted a new guy in for pre-season if he was going to agree to a sale of Guehi, that was agreed, it didn't happen, ergo Guehi should not have been for sale.
Where he / Parish have been dicks is not saying that (publicly at least) 5 or 6 weeks ago. As it stands, they've basically been prick-teases and have been ignoring this issue for weeks, when they should have confronted it and said the lad wasn't for sale ages ago. It's mad (and unprofessional) that they waited until the end of deadline day to thrash it out decisively.
Presumably Parish thought he'd sign a great player at the last minute and Glasner would relent, but it was always going to be a dick-measuring contest, with Glasner having most of their fan base on his side because he's a good manager who has delivered success and which set of fans cares about finances? They want their best players to stay at the club, and would reason they should be loaded after selling Olise last year.
Where he / Parish have been dicks is not saying that (publicly at least) 5 or 6 weeks ago. As it stands, they've basically been prick-teases and have been ignoring this issue for weeks, when they should have confronted it and said the lad wasn't for sale ages ago. It's mad (and unprofessional) that they waited until the end of deadline day to thrash it out decisively.
Presumably Parish thought he'd sign a great player at the last minute and Glasner would relent, but it was always going to be a dick-measuring contest, with Glasner having most of their fan base on his side because he's a good manager who has delivered success and which set of fans cares about finances? They want their best players to stay at the club, and would reason they should be loaded after selling Olise last year.
The qualifier wouldn't have been an issue if we'd signed him weeks ago because they'd have had a reasonable expectation of signing a replacement way before it.
Glasner is in the final year of his contract too. And may even take the Leverkusen job.
Madness.
Everyone and their cat knew he wanted to leave, it would have been done earlier if they were happy with him leaving before those games, it's obvious that they weren't, we respected their wishes, and it's been widely reported everywhere that that was the fact. This is a weird hill to die on.
Whatever the reason we've ultimately failed to get the deal done, we wasted a whole month sitting on the wall like humpty dumpty when we should've been following in on the conditions of the deal being concluded, poor miscommunication with maybe a touch of borderline arrogance. "We're Liverpool, we'll do the deal on our terms, when we want, how we want, and you gotta agree to it"
I'm not too fussed about this but the idea Glasner is a massive cunt and the club blameless is a load of old tosh, we can still make amends by renewing Ibou's contract now.
I'm not too fussed about this but the idea Glasner is a massive cunt and the club blameless is a load of old tosh, we can still make amends by renewing Ibou's contract now.
It's been reported all summer that he didn't really want to leave actually but Palace wanted him gone.
You've got no evidence at all for your theory.
Oh it’s not the quality of CBs, it’s injuries. Age and prior history doesn’t fill me with confidence.
Wasn't it reported all summer that he wouldn't sign a new deal? And that's why Palace wanted him gone. At least the money men at Palace, anyway.
Nor do you, and you're the one challenging the accepted narrative.
Yeah but it's not the accepted narrative.
This is boring, let's agree to disagree.
Yeah that's right. Palace wanted to sell to get cash but he was happy to stay and see out the last year. That's beeb reported all summer.
Ah, ok. But, he's obviously happy to leave also, else he'd have penned a new deal.
Sakho's pills were all hype.
