31 Aug 2023 08:04:57
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new player profile about, Nathaniel Phillips

1.) 31 Aug 2023
31 Aug 2023 08:28:27
Why is it proving such an arduous task to sell him, Ed?
If Phillips is sitting on 50-60k a week and doesn’t want to move, I’d fully understand. But otherwise, are we pricing him out of a move or what?
As a player, all I will say is that Nat Phillips never let us down, and despite his obvious limitations will be remembered fondly by Liverpool fans.

{Ed001's Note - we priced him out, but his wages are no doubt a hindrance too.}

2.) 31 Aug 2023
31 Aug 2023 08:43:02
Who has given Phillips a contract that’s worth 60k a week! That is crazy.

3.) 31 Aug 2023
31 Aug 2023 08:51:49
When is his contract end Ed? Next year right. Him leaving on a free is more likely than us selling him i would think. It feels like we have been trying to sell him forever and nothing happen.

{Ed001's Note - 2025.}

4.) 31 Aug 2023
31 Aug 2023 09:28:08
He's a strange case. Bizarre decision from Edwards to offer him a long-term contract, equally bizarre decision from Nat to actually sign it.

Most common sense move for all parties would have been for him to leave on a free when his last contract ended.

5.) 31 Aug 2023
31 Aug 2023 09:45:08
Fahmee, if you think we've been trying to sell him for forever just remember Phil Jones, donny VDB and martial.

6.) 31 Aug 2023
31 Aug 2023 10:08:40
Thomas194 - There was nothing bizarre about signing it from Phillip’s perspective. If your employer offered you legally-binding, way-over-the-top wages for a minimum period of time, you’d sign it in a heartbeat. We offered him a daft extension, just like we did with Lovren, Mignolet, and tried to yet again with Milner this year. Ridiculous.

7.) 31 Aug 2023
31 Aug 2023 10:05:24
He might have been rewarded for helping us qualify for the CL.
Up the workers!

8.) 31 Aug 2023
31 Aug 2023 09:56:07
Do you see him moving this late in the window Ed? It feels like we have put a stop in his career instead of letting him go and try to make it at other clubs.

{Ed001's Note - I think he will go out on loan.}

9.) 31 Aug 2023
31 Aug 2023 10:45:24
I reckon there’s 3.3 million reasons why Phillips stays every year.

10.) 31 Aug 2023
31 Aug 2023 10:47:07
Thomas194, I hear you but if he is on the type of wages that is deemed to be a hindrance to him moving elsewhere then, there is nothing strange about him staying put and signing the deal he signed and for its duration.

Also, keep in mind that Phillips was on his way to the States to study at a university (I think, South Carolina) before he got his chance during that dreadful injury crisis in 20/ 21 so to go from there, to playing PL footie and signing a deal on very good wages is understandable. Another brilliant piece of know-how by Edwards, I might add.

11.) 31 Aug 2023
31 Aug 2023 11:09:57
Got to feel bad for Nat Phillips. The club have severely not helped him and he really could have had his career on the go now given he is a more than capable premier league player.

12.) 31 Aug 2023
31 Aug 2023 12:34:19
The club has shown that if a player really wants to leave, the club would not stand in their way. So if Phillips is still here, it implies to me that he is still okay playing a bit-part role with us.

13.) 31 Aug 2023
31 Aug 2023 14:01:05
Apparently off to Celtic until January.