06 Sep 2023 04:29:27
Have to say I'm disappointed in the amount of people who say we can't survive without Salah.

We now have a midfield capable of goals and instead of a despondent and ineffective mane and an injured Bobby we have a left winger who scores goals and three CF who can all score as well. And the effort is there with all of them.

Will any score 20 goals? Probably not but they don't need to. They just need to score 20 goals between them to replace salahs goals. Pretty sure they can do that. And what's better since they all score it's much harder to defend against us now and often it gives Salah extra room.

200m (if they actually offer that) can rebuild the entire defence. And then we are done for a few years, no transfers needed and the rebuild is complete.

Anyone thinking we can have him this year and sell him in a year for 150m is deluded. One year less on contract and one year further into his decline his value will maybe be 50-60% of the current bids. And that's assuming they don't buy someone in his place which they might.

Now salah will be missing for a month anyway and the last time he went to afcon he was very poor upon returning for almost two months.

Imagine he comes back the same, tired and dejected at another failed trophy hunt and then plays badly for two months. His value will be even lower then as people will make the argument that he's over the hill.

I'm not saying rush out and sell him, I'm just saying some fans on here are wildly unrealistic. It's sell now for 150m or get significantly less later. There won't be a 'turn it down now and get the same bid later'.

1.) 06 Sep 2023
06 Sep 2023 06:42:39
ineffective mane, really? He was prob the best finisher out of the 3.
200m is crazy money but Salah contribute so much more then just goals and assists. If we going to sell do it in January so we can get a replacement.

{Ed001's Note - I think he was referring to Mane's final season when he was struggling badly for us because he wanted out.}

2.) 06 Sep 2023
06 Sep 2023 06:42:55
on the same note he could also do really well, win afcon and come back and win us trophies. a game of ifs and buts here.

i am indifferent tbh, if he wants to leave then i say let him leave. but if an offer comes and salah isn't pushing to leave, i see no reason to accept it either.

3.) 06 Sep 2023
06 Sep 2023 06:44:39
The issue is
Can we last till Jan or even summer with our 4 front line players? They are good but not great yet
And for those mooting Szboslai to play on the right, wouldn’t we be cutting his effectiveness since he’s much better in CM?
Yes, money is important, but trophies are even more important
I did rather we sell him for lesser next summer and we can properly replace him than to risk going half or full season without someone of his quality and miss out on winning

And who’s to say his replacement will bed in quickly and do as well? Too much risk.

4.) 06 Sep 2023
06 Sep 2023 07:04:06
Selling Salah now would mean we accept not challenging for the league this season. If we are sure we can’t challenge for the league even with him, then we may as well sell him for that absurd amount as I think we have enough, barring injuries, to challenge for everything else on offer. We will get top 4 without a doubt.
I don’t want to sell Salah, however, just because he’s been and continues to be an utterly incredible player for us - easily our best ever player in the PL era (yes, above Gerrard) . He owes us nothing, however, and whatever he does I will wish him well. Icon.

5.) 06 Sep 2023
06 Sep 2023 07:24:15
However you dress it up the 4 remaining forwards are not top level. They are all decent but not at Salah’s level or even close. They don’t have to just get 20 PL goals and a further 15 assists to replace Salah. They need to get those numbers on top of their own contribution. The 4 atm probably need north of 45 PL goal’s between them for us to challenge and now you’re asking them to get a min 65 PL goals. No chance.

6.) 06 Sep 2023
06 Sep 2023 07:25:38
Yup. Please don't sell him now. Wait for the next transfer window, then replace him with Vinicius haha.

{Ed001's Note - Vinicius will not leave Madrid, that is his dream to play for them. So long as they continue to show him support over the abuse he will stay.}

7.) 06 Sep 2023
06 Sep 2023 07:26:51
Nevada, Mane scored 23 goals in his last season, hardly ineffective. While our new goal scoring midfielders have scored 1 . I do agree that £200 million is a lot of money to turn down tho.

8.) 06 Sep 2023
06 Sep 2023 07:48:25
If people had the (theoretical) option of the following 2, which would you choose.

1. A really close title challenge, maybe winning the league if luck goes with us.

2. Selling Salah and only just challenging for a UCL spot.

Difficult to quantify Salah's worth to the team, but I suspect it will be the difference between an extra 10 - 20 points with thek ey goal and assists he gets.

9.) 06 Sep 2023
06 Sep 2023 08:11:39
Me just dreaming Ed01. I really like him.

10.) 06 Sep 2023
06 Sep 2023 08:13:19
Who has said we can't survive without Salah? Do we want to just survive anyway?
If we sell Salah we should do it when we have a replacement or replacements. Diaz, Jota, Nunez, Gakpo, Szob or Doak are not replacements because we already have them.

11.) 06 Sep 2023
06 Sep 2023 08:43:43
I couldn’t give a hoot about the money on offer, Salah is an elite player who we are lucky to have honestly we must be the only fans concerned with balancing the books and scraping top 4 as opposed to challenging for the title.

These reported figures are also so wide of the mark. we will never get £200m because the Saudis offers are nothing close to that, last offer was reported as £150m however only £100m was guaranteed with the rest in rediculous add ons like winning the world club cup.

Even on the preface that we got this phantom £200m what do we do with it? Window is now closed and the level of players which we should be targeting is not going to be available in Jan and there are no guarantees in the summer that we will be able to offer champions league football or that elite players will want us over others.

Also I would be very suspicious of these owners, if we had £200m in the bank you can be damn sure that there hand wouldn’t reach there pocket for the next 3 years and we would be operating on the transfer fee alone and not having any additional transfer kitty on top! This would not be some sort of windfall this would be a get out of jail free card for FSG to no invest.

12.) 06 Sep 2023
06 Sep 2023 09:01:45
If players like Dom and Alexis can be scouted, bought and integrated into the first team as they have, then anything is possible, especially with 300m and a decent youth set up.
Mo is an elite player, although not at the pre afcon levels, which was on par with Ronaldo and Messi.
FSG's M. O means they have to consider a large fee for a player that will otherwise leave on a free.
Mo will get even bigger wages if he waits until the end of the contract, so for him it likely doesn't matter.
This situation is going to require kid gloves.

13.) 06 Sep 2023
06 Sep 2023 11:43:03
Take the £150m and offer Brighton £100m for Ferguson. Put Ferg up front and move Nunez to RW.

14.) 06 Sep 2023
06 Sep 2023 12:42:50
Whydo you wish to move Nunez to RW when he is at his deadly best playing through the middle and between the defenders RedTed.

15.) 06 Sep 2023
06 Sep 2023 12:59:58
Didn't Nunez score 2 from inside right channel the other week? Wing would work IMHO.