Liverpool are in danger of making the same \u2018huge mistake\u2019 which \u2018derailed\u2019 Jurgen Klopp; the champions cannot continue to trust one liability in particular.<\/p>\n
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Maybe do nothing? Reports are suggesting that Brentford want \u00a370M for Mbeumo and have raised that price recently, no doubt \u201cchallenging United to go as high as they can\u201d. That is perfectly reasonable from their perspective. Crack on lads, you do you. A part of me says United should move on immediately and sign a striker. But if you\u2019ve scouted a player and you\u2019re confident enough that he\u2019s your man you waste 40 days trying (and failing) reach a deal with his club, then you might as well keep going to the end of the window.<\/p>\n Will we miss out on other players? Definitely. But it\u2019s not certain that will be a problem for us in the long term. If anything, our problem has been panic buying players that have ill-fitted our system (whatever it might be) after we have spent all summer trying to sign the likes of Fabregas and De Jong (Fellaini and Casemiro were the alternatives). I say wait it out and worry about it in January or next Summer.<\/p>\n I would however take an entirely different with the Manchester United 5 as they now seem to be known. Tyrell Malacia I would not worry too much about. Let him train with the team and if an offer (any offer) comes in then accept it and move on. It\u2019s not his fault he got injured (it is quite possibly the clubs though).<\/p>\n Jadon Sancho we are also going to have to take a hit on<\/strong><\/a>. Just get it done. Whether that\u2019s a lower fee or a bigger pay off to him, he needs to go. Both parties have failed each other, forget about the money and let everyone heal. Considering the payoffs to Ten Hag and Ashworth last year, this wouldn\u2019t be the wort thing INEOS have done and won\u2019t be their fault at all.<\/p>\n For Rashford and Antony get the back in training. Until (if we do) we sign Mbeumo we are short on the right side and Antony is a right sided player under contract with the club. He\u2019s not great but he\u2019s shown at Real Betis that he\u2019s not terrible. Keep until a suitable offer arrives. Similar for Rashford, he scores goals which we lack. He does little else but it\u2019s still more than Hojlund does. We don\u2019t have a good striker and can\u2019t sign one until we sell some players. Makes sense for Rashford to come back into the fold, albeit temporarily.<\/p>\n And for Garnacho, keeping him out of the squad makes the least sense. He must be a complete ball sack for it to have even been considered. He\u2019s on the lowest wages of the five, I think, and arguably is one of the highest producers in the entire squad. Bring him back into the fold and tell him he\u2019s not being sold unless someone comes in with a big enough bid (including massive sell on clause).<\/p>\n And to the players themselves I would point out it\u2019s a World Cup Year. If you have any desire to make it, you\u2019ll want to be playing regularly at a high level throughout the season. So get your heads down and represent the club you\u2019re at properly until you manage to find a move away.<\/p>\n If United had taken this approach, they may have found people more willing to take a punt on these clowns. Except for Malacia and Sancho maybe. \u00a0<\/p>\n Sith and tired Now imagine that you\u2019re Isak, and you believe (or people are telling you) that you\u2019re now on par with the other elite number nines and forwards in world football.<\/p>\n So you\u2019re looking at Mr Harry Kane at Bayern, Mbappe and Vini Jr at Madrid, Lewandowski at Barca, Alvarez at Atletico, Salah at Liverpool and Gyokeres joining Arsenal soon, and you\u2019re thinking that\u00a0all of them are playing for clubs fighting for the titles. Wouldn\u2019t you then tell yourself that I need to be playing for clubs fighting for the titles too, and not 4 or 5 years down the road.<\/p>\n You know it, I know it, the whole footballing world knows it. Isak is coming to Liverpool.<\/p>\n \u201cSearch your feelings lads, you know it to be true.\u201d \u2013 Lord Vader \u00a0<\/p>\n Liverpool\u2019s defence While I am delighted with the two full backs and Wirtz, and it looks like either Isak or Ekitike are going to come, I would like to see another centre back come in. The main reason being Joe Gomez. He\u2019s never let Liverpool down on the pitch, ever. One of my favourites. But he can\u2019t stay fit. His body simply won\u2019t let him. It\u2019s such a shame, but it\u2019s a fact.<\/p>\n If Slot is going into the season with designs on him being 3rd choice CB, then he is making a huge mistake. He must replace Quansah, otherwise he\u2019s trusting to luck.<\/p>\n Klopp tried something like this in 20\/21. He had Van Dijk, Matip, Gomez and treated Fabinho as his utility fourth choice. The first three got season ending injuries and Fabinho eventually picked up knocks as well. It completely derailed the season.<\/p>\n I\u2019m pretty sure that the club will act on this before the window shuts, they have been heavily linked with Guehi<\/strong><\/a>, but if they don\u2019t\u2026..well they can\u2019t say they haven\u2019t been warned. \u00a0<\/p>\n Al\u2019s email had me wondering if he really is a Liverpool fan.\u00a0 Allowing the new VVD to leave! If Quansah really is that good (I do rate him btw) and achieves anywhere near VVD\u2019s level, then Liverpool get to buy him back for \u00a350mil<\/strong><\/a>, less than they paid for the real VVD 7 years ago. Arne Slot is aware that the squad needs an addition but also may fancy 3 at the back with Gravenberch able to sit in.<\/p>\n What\u2019s going on at the club?\u00a0 TAA had thoughts about leaving a long time ago (having been tapped up) and Klopp leaving probably reinforced his decision due to uncertainty about the new \u201cunknown\u201d manager.\u00a0 This probably had an influence on VVD and Salah delaying signing new contracts. Diaz has been told that he won\u2019t get a contract renewal\/extension and is therefore looking for as big a pay packet he can get due to him only having 2-3 years at the top left.\u00a0 I believe Konate is bluffing a little as RM have just spent \u00a350mil on a centre back. The above and the new signings show that there is little or nothing \u201cwrong\u201d with the backroom staff and money men.<\/p>\n Nunez wouldn\u2019t score 30-40 goals in the Conference League, he\u2019s not unlucky, however if Al is right, then 40 goals is more than half of both Arsenal\u2019s and City\u2019s total goals last season and if he did then we could probably win the league with Ragnar Klavan and Ozan Kabak in front of Woodman and MacAllister marking the oppositions tallest player at all set pieces.<\/p>\n Al, stop worrying, and the queen is in the middle.<\/p>\n Also Andrew M, there\u2019s no \u201ce\u201d in Shankly! \u00a0<\/p>\n Come again? It seems the premise is of the article is not a breaking news story but actually that Will Ford has imagined that\u00a0 Arsenal have not won something (unclear what) next season, and then that Arteta has blamed this on a lack of net spend, and then that he gets fired because of it.<\/p>\n What are you on about mate? None of that has happened.<\/p>\n Slight side track I am surprised that Arteta is seen outside of Arsenal to be someone who always blames things on external factors. From the millions of wasted hours I spend listening to the man talk I think he very rarely does this. He always talks about being \u2018excited about the challenge\u2019 of x\/y\/z circumstance. Example: in the quote about the league cup ball he says \u2018 you have to adapt to that\u2019 twice.<\/p>\n Anyway, I am shouting into the wind. Hacks will be hacks I guess. \u00a0<\/p>\n Looking into our Crystal ball I can appreciate the excitement after winning the FA Cup and the buzz of being in Europe this coming season.<\/p>\n But, be honest, does anyone genuinely think Palace could win the Europa League? I\u2019ll await the bullets\u2026.<\/p>\n I do understand the financial implications though.<\/p>\n Surely they now have a very good chance of winning the ECL (like West Ham did). This way, Palace could win another trophy and \u2013 assuming no rules are breached \u2013 then be in the Europa League the following season.<\/p>\n Yes it\u2019s a bitter pill now, but might it work out for the best?<\/p>\n Or am I just an entitled Arsenal fan who can\u2019t appreciate how others club\u2019s supporters feel?<\/p>\n Yeah, might be that one\u2026 \u00a0<\/p>\n MORE FROM THE F365 MAILBOX \u00a0<\/p>\n Big Six: it\u2019s the money Cash, cold hard cash,<\/p>\n The big six are not (necessarily) better, more historic, more loved or more recently successful, they\u2019re just wealthier.<\/p>\n Delloite publish a rich list of the 20 richest clubs in the world, there are 9 entries from the Premier League, which is by far the most from any league.<\/p>\n 1. City \u20ac838m The gap between the poorest big six team (Chelsea) and the next team is over one hundred and seventy million euros.<\/p>\n Almost by necessity this extra revenue does mean on pitch success (except for Man Utd) but it\u2019s more a helpful byword for the 6 teams who can quite comfortably outbid any other team for a player and who rarely get outbid themselves. Spurs pinching Kudus from West Ham is a good recent example<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n United are terrible on the pitch, but only a fool would fail to see that there is still huge support for them even now and it\u2019s a big (if deeply unprofitable) club.<\/p>\n Newcastle\u2019s massive investment does almost certainly mean they\u2019ll get there, ffp means it\u2019s probably harder for Villa or West Ham to make it. There is another swiftly opening gap between villa to the smaller teams of around a hundred million, so maybe we need to talk about a \u201cmid three?\u201d (This debate never ends but your team not being \u201cBig six\u201d doesn\u2019t stop them being a big team or having a good history, it just means they\u2019re not rich at the moment)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Poor Villa Long time reader rarely contributor.<\/p>\n It was Kevin Villa\u2019s mail that irked me.<\/p>\n Is this not Aston Villa who are owned by billionaires?<\/p>\n Aston Villa who had 90% wages vs turnover last year so would have been a massive breach of PSR? Thank God they managed to sell their women\u2019s team to themselves for 55m!!<\/p>\n It\u2019s incredible to rail against something that your own club is actually doing!!<\/p>\n And I haven\u2019t even mentioned the 100m you got for Grealish!<\/p>\n Don\u2019t get me wrong I\u2019m loving the displacement of the traditional Top 6 but don\u2019t pretend you\u2019re some plucky underdogs like the Mighty Ducks!!<\/p>\n
<\/strong>As a United fan who is admittedly addicted to hope at the minute rather than anything tangible happening expectation of improvement, I understand the frustrations about United\u2019s window so far<\/strong><\/a>. But we really do need to suck this up for the good of the club going forwards.<\/p>\n
Ashmundo<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/strong>I\u2019m going to quote Star Wars here, \u201cSearch your feelings, you know it to be true.\u201d<\/p>\n
Veni (This is so going to bite me back.)\u00a0The Mighty Reds<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/strong>I think that Al \u2013 LFC makes a good point in Thursday\u2019s mailbox<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n
Andy H, Swansea.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
Howard (\u2018cos every little thing is gonna be alright)\u00a0 Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/strong>I tend to stick to the mailbox over the ever declining F365 website content but today I was baited into an article thinking some breaking news about Arteta being sacked had come in (it was early I had not had my coffee)\u2026\u00a0Arteta sack coming at Arsenal thanks to Andrea Berta, Liverpool and abhorrent fans<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n
James W\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/strong>Apologies if I\u2019m late to this, but in reality, is it not better for Palace to be in the European Conference League than the Europa League?<\/p>\n
Stu \u2013 Gooner still waiting\/hoping for the signing of a striker \u2013 France.<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/strong>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0Is Man Utd in the Big Six a \u2018three-card trick\u2019 or a Harlem Globetrotters circus?<\/strong><\/a>
\ud83d\udc49\u00a0Arsenal at \u2018low point in toxicity-optimism cycle\u2019 despite transfer success<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
<\/strong>This debate runs and runs in the mailbox, mainly from fans of other prem teams who feel left out. What everyone is missing is that there is a very clear reason why we talk about the\u00a0 \u201cBig Six\u201d<\/p>\n
2. Utd (!) \u20ac770m
3. Arsenal \u20ac717m
4. Liverpool \u20ac715m
5. Spurs \u20ac615m
6. Chelsea \u20ac546m
7. Newcastle \u20ac372m
8. West Ham \u20ac322m
9. Aston Villa \u20ac310m<\/p>\n
Steve, Spurs<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/strong>Hi,<\/p>\n