10 Sep 2023 10:26:53
A reason to sell Salah is because £200 million is more than we would accrue if we won the league, Champion's league, FA Cup, League Cup, Super Cup and World Club cup, which we won't win even with Salah. Maybe one or two of them with him.

Swings and roundabouts.

1.) 10 Sep 2023
10 Sep 2023 11:02:21
We’ve won them all with Mo before, why not again. From a fan’s perspective football is about the game, not the bank account.

2.) 10 Sep 2023
10 Sep 2023 12:16:55
@bakedbeanboy

For fans, winning trophies isn’t about earning competition money though is it?

Winning trophies is about watching your team achieve greatness and enjoying the wins.

3.) 10 Sep 2023
10 Sep 2023 12:24:03
I don't see the need for use of "half-baked" statistics based on incorrect assumptions. Why not use total revenue for the year, which is the true measure of any point that you're trying to make? We "accrued" 600 Million pounds revenue in 2021-2022, and 595 Million pounds in 2022-2023. The club's revenue is not from only player sales; that's the impression you're trying to give. And also the fact that the club is not going to take the 200 Million for Salah and just sit there with the money. They'll have to spend it, otherwise the tax liability on the 200 million is huge; not to mention the lower overall performance of the team if Salah's goals are not adequately replaced.

4.) 10 Sep 2023
10 Sep 2023 13:01:36
How are we still talking about this?

5.) 10 Sep 2023
10 Sep 2023 13:02:09
Remember the year when we had profit margin of 7.8 million before tax when most of the league were floundering around 5.5 million? That will live long in the memory. Good times, good times.

6.) 10 Sep 2023
10 Sep 2023 13:50:57
Oddly enough there were those that had no problem talking about saving on players wages . In fact a lot jumped on the band wagon when an Ed mentioned it, a hot topic of conversation for many months. Hey. We’re football fans, why should we care about money in the bank ?.

{Ed001's Note - you are missing the point, saving on wages wasn't about money in the bank. Saving on wages meant we could spend more money on players - as this summer has shown when we offloaded a bunch of high earners. Just shows that it is pointless talking on here as an editor or somebody just has to be a dick and twist your words to have a snide dig.}

7.) 10 Sep 2023
10 Sep 2023 13:53:44
ArAY,

I didn't use any statistics in my comment and I didn't assume anything either. I made a point - which I don't agree it's something we do, I would rather keep Mo than get the money - it was a discussion point is all. My point was that we are very unlikely to win all of those titles in one season (estimate if we did would be a winning about 180 million I think).

8.) 10 Sep 2023
10 Sep 2023 15:31:25
You don’t think selling Salah for £200 mil was an assumption? You might want to look up it’s definition mate.

9.) 10 Sep 2023
10 Sep 2023 16:48:30
I would sell Salah in January if £200m was offered. I believe if not January he will leave at the end of the season anyway. It’s good money for an ageing player.
Szoboszlai to take Salah’s position and Andre to come in and probably a centre back. Bastoni would be good.
Also get rid of the tactics we are playing and revert to the ones that were successful.

10.) 10 Sep 2023
10 Sep 2023 17:19:55
Selling him this summer without replacing him would have been a massive step back from the direction we want to be traveling in.
It would have made the season a long and difficult one and we could have probably said goodbye to champions league again. Replacing top players is easier when your on the up, not on the way down.
It’s nice the club is in a position that it feels it can turn down a £200m offer, then again we are Liverpool not Bolton.

11.) 10 Sep 2023
10 Sep 2023 20:52:08
Question. When did we have the opportunity to turn down £200m? We had one informal offer, the rest is pure speculation.

12.) 10 Sep 2023
10 Sep 2023 21:03:19
Bakedbeanboy. There's no issue or problem with your subject of discussion. I was just trying to point out that your method of calculation of the benefits of a Salah sale were incomplete.

We had Salah all season long last year and yet we won nothing; played well below par. We could have sold him this past window and therefore not have him for this season, and yet somehow still win everything. This is football, you never know. But what I do know for sure is based on what I have seen the past 6 years. The man is a demon football machine. He takes hits and fouls and gets right up without any drama. Never gets injured. Delivers 25-35 goals every season. Rarely shows any attitude and is probably well liked by all around him. And the worst behaviour I have seen is that strop he threw for being taken off; something which is very natural in a man who wants every club record and probably wants to be known as the best ever for the club. He and his agent are always on the lookout for the best deal for himself? Why not, aren't we in 2023? Or is the Henderson episode already forgotten?

If we sell him for 200 million, and everything else (accounts wise) remains constant, then a third of the 150 million profit gets paid in taxes. A replacement will cost 100 million at the least. Doak, Szoboszlai and Diaz are not replacements; they don't have 25-35 goals, each, in them. So that leaves a net of around 50 million. You save a little more because I don't see the club paying wages of 350K per week to his replacement. You then make a decision; do you take the net 50 million after selling him, or do you keep him and go for the approx 180 million from winning everything (as you have stated)? I keep him.

13.) 11 Sep 2023
11 Sep 2023 08:56:45
We were offered £100m plus add ons up to £150m total. The only part that is guaranteed is £100m so £200m is a made up number that proves no point whatsoever.

@bakedbean so presumably your point is would you have sold Salah for £100m?

14.) 11 Sep 2023
11 Sep 2023 14:24:33
Indeed, @Ed01. Same old stuff. Mocking others for no reason at all, just for giving an opinion on a topic. Only to find out they know nothing about the topic itself so essentially, mocking others from a position of complete ignorance of the topic itself. Hence, embarrassing themselves on the internet for free. Pathetic mentality, IMO.


@Bakedbeanboy based on my minute knowledge of footie finances, buying and selling players is a part of generating revenue for the club that you can reinvest elsewhere in the club or on transfers. Same goes for clearing your wage bill so you can pay the wages required to attract the players you are willing to sign which is where a lot of a club's money gets spent, IMO. Now, you can do all this effectively, and still not win a thing or win anything of note. Just ask Utd. Peace and Love.

15.) 11 Sep 2023
11 Sep 2023 15:11:30
We don't win trophies for the monetary value.

We win them to bring hope and joy to millions of Liverpool fans lives.

500 million / 1 billion wouldn't replace winning the league.