Seems nuts that Man Utd. don't just take the hit, pay up his contract and wave goodbye, looks even worse when they will give Slabhead a chunk of cash to disappear.
I am hoping we get long time back burner Alzate playing to his potential, Moder fit and performing, and Undav and maybe Sima out on loan scoring loads.
We have a little bit of cachet in Argentina for bringing Mac Allister on, and giving him a nice reception on his return from World Cup glory. If we do it again with this lad, I reckon Calleri might finally want to sign for us.
Being able to make loans to the club when finance could not be raised from investors has been important, but it's the vision of how a club should be run and operated that is the most important. We are damn lucky to have Tony Bloom whichever way you look at it though.
Some big clubs are rumoured to have made enquiries, and may yet go for him, just is maybe further down the list for those clubs that can look at players with £100M price tags.
We also have picked up players from major leagues, Joel Veltman, Pascal Gross, Pervis Estupinian, Mahmoud Dahoud, are these all not good enough because a big 6 side didn't want them at the time we brought them in?
Better for the agents, he will get sold again within 3 seasons, at Liverpool they dont churn players anything like as much, just get occasional contract renewals or improvements for the next decade.
So only becomes a legend if he overcomes adversity, like having to take a new squad on, in a new counrry where he doesnt speak the language, after the season has started, have his top goal scorer throw a hissy and have to be offloaded mid season, star player beg to be sold mid season, suffer bad...
I can't see that Caicedo warrants a boo from us, he hadn't put a transfer request in as Cucurella did, but has maybe been a bit too honest with people when asked about his future, if he had grown up in a PL academy he would have had media training and been a bit more discreet.
Tapping up is only looked at if a club makes a complaint, but because every club does it to some extent, complaints are rare. Chelsea made noises about making a complaint against Liverpool's approach to Colwill, apparently because Klopp was calling him directly.
I an sure the club has been through longer and tougher negotiations in recent windows, we have just had a tidbit of info from Ornstein that has given us some hope that it was nearly there. It just seems to me Kudus has agents that are doing their job and trying to secure the best deal possible...