The Unreliable Rumours Thread

[Walshy07]

Interesting if true as isn't Matip out for 6 weeks?

Is he? Not heard that?

 

[ptt]

Mail reporting Lovren could be off to Roma.
Didn’t even get on bench on Friday.

Roma still want to sign Liverpool and Croatia centre-back Dejan Lovren, 30. (Corriere dello Sport - in Italian)

 

[redfanman]

Is he? Not heard that?

I thought I read it somewhere last night....but may have just dreamt it - hopefully the latter lol

 

[NJLFCJake]

Depending on the severity of Allison's injury, we could possibly get Karius back right? Since he's just on loan.

 

[Walshy07]

Depending on the severity of Allison's injury, we could possibly get Karius back right? Since he's just on loan.

Why bother? We have Adrian and a Youth keeper will do as back up.
There is talk of us asking FA to let us sign the keeper who came to the US with us for 2 months.

 

[Scott Jones]

Klopp would've mentioned Karius has an option had he been an option,he didn't.

 

[Neukolln]

Some groundswell of hysteria on the socials in the last hour regarding the severity of Alisson's injury. The club is making an official statement on their website (if they haven't already).

 

[Kopstar]

Depending on the severity of Allison's injury, we could possibly get Karius back right? Since he's just on loan.

We can't bring him back outside of a transfer window so he's not an option until January [to clarify this is not about the ability to do emergency loans but about what has been agreed with Besiktas]. I certainly hope Alisson's not out until then!

 

[Red over the water]

We should be OK with Adrian and Kelleher. If we sign Lonergan it will be a short term deal to cover us should we get another injury in the keeper department while Alisson is out.

 

[igor_piss_can]

Hearing some horrific rumours out Alisson. Arse is twitching in work, here. Checking Twitter every 30 seconds waiting for some (hopefully good) news

 

[Neukolln]

We should be OK with Adrian and Kelleher. If we sign Lonergan it will be a short term deal to cover us should we get another injury in the keeper department while Alisson is out.

This is another point that is making everyone crazy today regarding the signing of Lonergan, related to Ali's injury. @Kopstar would probably know the rules, but bc the club is choosing to sign Lonergan for a year, they are taking that as a bad omen. I have read that the rules stipulate either one month or one year. There is no such thing as 'short term' contract. Again, I don't know that if it true or not.

 

[igor_piss_can]

This is another point that is making everyone crazy today regarding the signing of Lonergan, related to Ali's injury. @Kopstar would probably know the rules, but bc the club is choosing to sign Lonergan for a year, they are taking that as a bad omen. I have read that the rules stipulate either one month or one year. There is no such thing as 'short term' contract. Again, I don't know that if it true or not.

I may be going a bit 'Football Manger' here but are rolling contracts still a thing? If so I presume we could have signed him up to a 1 month deal & let it roll on to the next month if needed

 

[Neukolln]

I may be going a bit 'Football Manger' here but are rolling contracts still a thing? If so I presume we could have signed him up to a 1 month deal & let it roll on to the next month if needed

Makes sense to me but not sure how it works.

 

[lfc.eddie]

Judging by us moving for another keeper would suggest that Alisson might be out for quite a long time. Till end of the season?

 

[norwegian wood]

Could be. Or maybe a couple of months. Either way I think it makes sense to get Lonergan in.

 

[Sweeting]

Judging by us moving for another keeper would suggest that Alisson might be out for quite a long time. Till end of the season?

Guardian podcast said 4-8 weeks but I don't think anyone is sure yet.

 

[lfc.eddie]

Guardian podcast said 4-8 weeks but I don't think anyone is sure yet.

I am hoping it's 4-8 weeks. That would probably see him missing 8-9 games at best. Can live with that.

 

[redfanman]

Unless they have totally misdiagnosed the injury then 4-8 weeks would be the most likely time frame we are looking at.

 

[Kopstar]

This is another point that is making everyone crazy today regarding the signing of Lonergan, related to Ali's injury. @Kopstar would probably know the rules, but bc the club is choosing to sign Lonergan for a year, they are taking that as a bad omen. I have read that the rules stipulate either one month or one year. There is no such thing as 'short term' contract. Again, I don't know that if it true or not.

It's just the minimum period for which you can sign a player (the time between two consecutive transfer windows) so with the summer one already closed you're looking at until the beginning of the summer transfer window next year.

 

[Sweeting]

This is the least reliable thing in this whole thread but... there is an agent on linkedin claiming to manage Connor Randall and trying to get him a move to the MLS but doesn't have any links with the league so is having a hard time of it.

If it true it is remarkable that Randall has allowed his career to be managed by someone that incompetant.

 

[Kopstar]

This is the least reliable thing in this whole thread but... there is an agent on linkedin claiming to manage Connor Randall and trying to get him a move to the MLS but doesn't have any links with the league so is having a hard time of it.

If it true it is remarkable that Randall has allowed his career to be managed by someone that incompetant.

Blimey...I could put him in touch with some people. Who is he?

 

[legalalien]

From BBC rumours page:
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp wants English midfielder Herbie Kane, 20, to feature in their Carabao Cup campaign, ending the hopes of Portsmouth, Sunderland and Coventry of signing the player on loan. (Portsmouth News)

 

[gasband]

Jadon Sancho reportedly sign a new contract that brings him to 190k per week. And i would be surprised if there is not a release clause upwards of 200mil pounds. This would probably not be our type of player to buy then, pity I thought he would be a perfect competition/replacement for our forward line. Guess that wouldn't stop the irrational spenders though.

 

[GermanRed]

Jadon Sancho reportedly sign a new contract that brings him to 190k per week. And i would be surprised if there is not a release clause upwards of 200mil pounds. This would probably not be our type of player to buy then, pity I thought he would be a perfect competition/replacement for our forward line. Guess that wouldn't stop the irrational spenders though.

With Sancho i get the feeling that he already knows exactly which english club he wants to join.
'I'll sign the 190k contract and you'll let me leave for 140mil pounds next summer' Something like that.

 

[Zinedine Biscan]

@Kopstar

Reds 'battle' for £91million Havertz
The summer window may have slammed shut a fortnight ago but we start the day with a huge transfer rumour for Liverpool.

According to reports in Germany, Liverpool are eyeing a move for £91million-rated Bayer Leverkusen ace Kai Havertz.

The attacking midfielder, 20, netted 20 goals in 42 games last season.

Sport 1 claim that the Reds are battling for his signature along with Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal Chelsea and Spain’s big two Barcelona and Real Madrid with the wonderkid expected to push for a big move next summer.

 

[Hope in your heart]

@Kopstar

Reds 'battle' for £91million Havertz
The summer window may have slammed shut a fortnight ago but we start the day with a huge transfer rumour for Liverpool.

According to reports in Germany, Liverpool are eyeing a move for £91million-rated Bayer Leverkusen ace Kai Havertz.

The attacking midfielder, 20, netted 20 goals in 42 games last season.

Sport 1 claim that the Reds are battling for his signature along with Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal Chelsea and Spain’s big two Barcelona and Real Madrid with the wonderkid expected to push for a big move next summer.

They also say that Bayern will have the biggest chance to sign him because they have an excellent and long-standing relationship with his representatives. He'll go to Bayern imo, like most German supertalents. The fact that Klopp is German won't change much to this. Also, a bidding war with all European top clubs would make the player exceedingly expensive, and we know that the club will never sanction a £ 90m-150m move for that lad.

So, if I was you, I wouldn't hold my breath regarding Havertz, mate. Our next superstar will likely come out of the blue, like Firmino, Mané and Salah did, coming as a relative unknown from a mid-tier club for ± £ 25m, and then exploding under Klopp.

 

[GermanRed]

They also say that Bayern will have the biggest chance to sign him because they have an excellent and long-standing relationship with his representatives. He'll go to Bayern imo, like most German supertalents. The fact that Klopp is German won't change much to this. Also, a bidding war with all European top clubs would make the player exceedingly expensive, and we know that the club will never sanction a £ 90m-150m move for that lad.

So, if I was you, I wouldn't hold my breath regarding Havertz, mate. Our next superstar will likely come out of the blue, like Firmino, Mané and Salah did, coming as a relative unknown from a mid-tier club for ± £ 25m, and then exploding under Klopp.

He will have two years left on his contract next summer and for me it's pretty obvious that there is no clause and Leverkusen are entertaining a bidding war which Bayern won't be able to win against english clubs.

 

[Zoran]

Not sure if Bayern have the holy right/financial ability to pick all young players from other German clubs anymore. Things have changed in last years, Bayern wouldn't end up with a pretty old side (up to not long ago) if they could collect them so easily. Of course, they remain German's superpower, that will probably never change, they will still take a good number of them, but other top European clubs have gone a step up and are looking more at Germany, earlier and before "they all end up at Bayern". I sort of feel they might still return for Sane next summer. Depends how he is when he gets back fit, but he'll have a year left with City next summer. Not sure if they buy Coutinho what would still mean an absolutely huge fee that Barca are demanding (it only needs one piece of the puzzle to move, a Neymar or an Mbappe next summer for Coutinho to maybe end up at PSG). As for Havertz, we'll see. Who knows who is the manager of Bayern by that time, what structure do they play, etc.

 

[Dave-D]

Is Werner a free transfer in the summer and can German teams sign pre contracts with players in the same league in January or do they have to wait until May before pre contracts can be signed.

 

[Kopstar]

Is Werner a free transfer in the summer and can German teams sign pre contracts with players in the same league in January or do they have to wait until May before pre contracts can be signed.

If they can't that would mirror the PL rules but it's not a FIFA dictat so it's up to the individual leagues although it potentially undermines the integrity of the league. I seem to remember Bayern announcing they'd agreed to sign Gotze as a free agent before the German season was over though...think it was right before they played Dortmund, in fact. Was it before a Cup final or something?