Sir Ralph

Is three years the maximum a 17 year old can sign?

Seems like this guy is intended to be back up. That’s fine as long as we use our surplus funds for a LB and defensive midfielder. If Perraud or Romeu get injured we are in trouble. I think a lot of the problems we had last year was missing the holding player and physicality that Romeu has and we need to be able to replace that when he isn’t playing.

Kid is great. Reminds me of SHAW at same age.

Agree he is underrated- when did he last make an error that cost us? He’s only got one year left too

Really good performance- better team against one of the the potential title contenders (albeit an outside one). Romeu, JWP, Stephens, Adams and Tino all good. Walcott was gash. maybe Ralph had clicked by changing things at half term.

I had an email from the club confirming you can share a ticket when I asked the question. Think they would struggle to prosecute after that!

maybe but still no excuse. There is a QR code option which also doesnt appear to work

Ticket office manager should be fired. Completely incompetent.

My initial reaction was Phillips would be a bad move. However, read this on the Liverpool Fans Forum - maybe we are underestimating him. https://forums.liverpoolfc.com/threads/404968-Nat-Phillips/page42 £15m would be too much

If we finalise this, the window is starting to shape up for us. Sell Vestegaard, get replacement CB, back up LB and CM (the Ox). if we achieved this it would be the first season that Ralph mainly has players that he wants in his team which gives me more optimism. To date he has been working with a group of players, most of whom are not his aquistion.

If Armstrong is our No1 target, this is pretty poor bearing in mind we have £28m for Ings. Need to pull something pretty special out of the bag if we are going to lose out on Armstrong over a couple of mill.

Awful midfield play and defending 2-0

If obafemi was part of any deal for Adam Armstrong he wouldn’t be playing today. Another indication he is off to palace. Would be hugely underwhelmed by sorloth.

Well done Danny - got your champions league team then. Don’t make me laugh. He moved for £ and nothing else. overall not a bad deal for us if we reinvest in two decent strikers

This Thread is the example of why kneeling is bad. People start kicking lumps out of each other. Bad idea PL

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Waste of time will cause more division- link arms don’t kneel

Sounds like a cracking deal from what people are saying about him. This is why we didnt sign Williams.......maybe using similar money to sign this guy full time instead.

If anything if they lose grealish the pressure will be on the villa board to now complete the JWP deal

Fair point

Completely agree it was £38m in total (with £5m add ons). If we get dont get around the £50m mark we will have been caught with our pants down.

Another thought - Villa paid £33m plus £5m add ons for Buendia (£38m in total). If thats his value, they must at least pay £50m for JWP or our Board will have negotiated badly compared to Delia.

If you could get £40 - £50 for JWP, this is a substantial amount. For example (and I know this is a bit Football Manager) but based on press reports you could buy Armstrong £15m, Delaney £10m and Edouard £20m. So if we got that type of money would it be that bad, if we could but quality to replace and expand the squad? I appreciate there are wage considerations in that comparison too.

Imagine losing Vestegaard, Ings and JWP this summer................

I agree - tella does deserve one. I can’t imagine he is on much a week so increasing his wages to keep him would surely be worthwhile in risk terms bearing in mind potential shown. Djenepo is only 23 and one year older than tella - I think he is worth keeping as he has shown flashes. Losing him next summer at a reduced rate I think would be bad business.