Every chance. I still worry about how clinical we would be however, so I'd still like a decent 9 coming in, even if it's the backup
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I believe the Messi-Ronaldo era have completely skewed up everyone’s notion of a great attacker. I also wonder if due to youtube and the proliferation of streaming services, the mystique associated with some of the top strikers or for that matter any player playing in other leagues have gone down.
Even with those caveats, we are in a rut with respect to gifted attackers.
The loss of the mystique is something I've talked about a lot with friends. Previously we used to only see these talked about players on late night highlights shows, infrequent international tournaments and maybe some European football. It's definitely a major contributor.
But as you said, even with caveats, we're still in a rut. Prior to Messi / C.Ronaldo, we had the likes of Ronaldo (real), Ronaldinho and Zidane.
We don't have anyone that gives you that level of excitement right now. Mbappe was meant to be the one but that's not worked out.
Yamal is the chosen one
Let alone Ronaldinho, Zidane - do we have attackers of the tier below those - Raul, Suarez, Batigol, Figo, Schevchenko?
I guess there is Mbappe, Salah, Lewandowski, Yamal.
This just showed up my YouTube feed:
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/Oog2lNMIy5Q
My God, imagine if we had striker like him in the current team.
View: https://youtube.com/shorts/Oog2lNMIy5Q
My God, imagine if we had striker like him in the current team.
View: https://x.com/atletiuniverse/status/1924153856537039352?t=kYVZ3Qq05BU8HB1ANxz4BQ&s=19
Apparently Alvarez can hit a free kick.
Does anyone really think we're going to sign Alvarez? I mean, he's a good player, a top player. But they signed him for £81M. They'll want £100M+ for him. Is he worth it? Could play Salah in the middle next year, Szobo on the right, bet we'd be no worse off. £100M is a lot of money.
No, I don't think we'll sign him. Good player but not worth that kind of money.
Just a good free kick and we've been linked to him, however spuriously. (Which is not to say Spurs-iously.)
I hope not because I've been trying to think of a good The Thong Song joke for like two years and still haven't come up with one.
It's only a matter of time before we do. I'm just a little bit skeptical that he's the one we should have.
I would have been okay with spending it on Bellingham or Caicedo but they're really the only players we've been linked to that I could have justified it.
(Yes, Bellingham is a bellend. In before someone replies to point that out.)
Why not?
Price framing. He wants one for 80 mil rising to 99.99
Because the whole business has gone mad. Look at what A.Madrid got for playing that for Felix.
Yeah but 100m is the new 70m.
There was a time when I thought the Mancs were completely insane to get Rio for £30m
I think that you and Slot are looking at different lists.
Then we have a choice - we can be sensible and never spend really big on players and accept the consequences.
Using Euros rather than £ - Real, Barca, Atletico, Juve, City, Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea & PSG have all broken the €100m mark.
Bayern are just under at €95m.
So, eventually we join them or we set ascent de any delusions of being a team that dominates England or Europe and accept we’ll win something every now and then.
Besides, surely it’s about the right player rather than the amount.
It's inevitable, true.
But the right player can also be a fucking Nunez in disguise.
True - but that’s were you have to trust the data nerds that weren’t keen on Nunez.
(Even though they picked Kieta).
Not much in life is certain and the complaints in past have always been too conservative and risk averse in transfers.
Just every now and then, I’d love us to act like a pissed up sailor in a whorehouse on payday.
Even if there a chance of picking up a Darwin-like clap.
It's worth noting that the player the nerds wanted instead of Nunez was Nkunku, who's been just as big a disaster for Chelsea.
Absolutely not. This is what we used to do before Klopp arrived, and it contributed to our decades as also-rans. There's a saying that "Near enough is good enough" - well, it isn't, not for Liverpool anyway.
Exactly.
I think we should sign a 9 who no-one else knows about for a ridiculously low fee who turns out to be brilliant.
