Or just keep a good wage structure, dont lock in to players who might drop off… how is chelsea doing huh, not too good. Keep em on their toes, get all their worth till the end, but taa doesnt wanna stay let him leave he will play worse otherwise just being fed money
@@gijsw8681Chelsea has massively improved, and will likely secure European football for next year. Possibly better if a few things go our way. Don't talk about us like we're United or Tottenham sir. We are the youngest team in the prem, are in our first season with Maresca, and have not figured out our defenders and goalkeeper, as these defenders are so awful at playing Marescas style of footy. We got unlucky vs Ipswich. Penalty was bogus, Felix offsides by an inch, Cole Palmer hit the bar thrice, and Nico Jackson offsides by an inch. And the defense embarrassed itself in front of the world and showed the front office where we need reinforcements. One world class CB, and a competent GK who can play from the back (Sanchez is a disaster with the ball), and we're easily set for 5 years
The downside is that if the player ends up being shit/a complete liability, it's gonna be hard to get rid of them if they decide to just sit out their contract.
@@spinyslasher6586but this is only true with players with bad contracts like sterling or rashford at man utd. All of Chelsea’s contracts are now manageable and bargains making them easy to transfer.
Only Real Madrid can really do this. Every other club must fear someone else snatching the player, if they do nothing but wait for two years for a contract to run out but because apparently everyone wants to play for Real Madrid this seems to be no issue for them. I don’t know how much Liverpool can be blamed here: I am sure they approached him for a contract extension but if he didn’t sign it and refused to move, what is Liverpool supposed to do?
not really why would TAA approve a transfer? Unless he wants to be super loyal to Liverpool which he might. But normally why would they leave for a free and take the transfer budget for yourself.Mbappe bonus was 163 mill that is 40 mill less than Ronaldo career earning. TAA signs for Madrid he likely gets 60+ mill and top RB salary.
@@jonbolton491the source is the way they conduct business. The owners and board are well-known for how stingy they are, why would they want to let trent leave knowing they would then have to spend big money to replace him.
@@jonbolton491 Common sense tbh. If they actually never even spoke to him before he went into the last year of the contract, sure they are absolutely to blame but I am not aware of a source saying that either
Chelsea signing everyone for like 8 years makes a whole lot more sense when you see what's happening. Like Cole Palmer is probably signed until he's 40.
It would suck to lose Trent, but having Bradley as his young understudy would make the blow hurt less. The kid's passing prowess and vision is nowhere near Trent's level (idk if anyone's is, honestly), but he can play lights out. Just look at the performance he put on against Real Madrid.
Bradley is a better defender and better workrate imo, trents passing is a gift but bradley excels in different aspects, i feel like we could handle losing trent if we get someone else back to stand in too, especially if his heads is starting to be somewhere else
My problem is we don't know how long Perez has been tapping him up. It could be that the day he signed his last contract Perez reached out and said "don't sign another one, play this one out and we'll give you more than they offer" because he knows they can afford to while Liverpool are going to be stuck paying millions to replace him. We don't know if for the last several years Liverpool have been offering a new deal and he's been saying no.
Is there not some element of tampering? If he is contacting players, which he must be, before their contracts run out saying...you could play for real madrid in a year...just run down your contract.
New FM challenge unlocked: You aren't allowed to sell players, you can sign players, extend/renew contracts but no selling.... they play out their contract and stay forever and retire or leave on a free. I figure you are really banking on that European competition money with that challenge. Do you think it would change the way you scout if you weren't considering a future sale in the deal?
Trent planned to do this way back when he signed a 4 year deal instead of the 6 year deals his teammates were agreeing to. He planned this just in case a club like Madrid came knocking, and in case things didn’t work out at Liverpool (Klopp, FSG, their ambition, etc). He’s kind of a snake in that sense. We see how often he sets up pap-walks. He wants superstar status, not to be a Liverpool legend. Still FSGs fault though in many ways. But how can you say the player is not at fault at all? If he wanted to leave, he should at least get the club a good fee. Instead, he wants a hugeee sign on bonus under a free transfer.
What exactly is the change? Sol Campbell left Spurs for Arsenal in 2001. PSG got Messi, Donnarumma, Ramos, and Wijnaldum all in the same window in 2021. The change was Bosman's legal case in 1995. Edgar Davids was the first high profile player to benefit when in 96 when he left Ajax for Milan
Hate to break this to you bro but Beppe Marotta has been building teams like this for close to two decades already. Did it first at juventus and won the Italian league 9 years in a row by mainly signing free agents. Now he’s doing the same for inter Milan.
This is another example of why you should never let a player go into the final year of a contract, it leaves the club completely powerless. Also Liverpool totally asked for this because why would you wait until the last season to try and renew your most valuable asset?
It’s odd you talk about Trent but not Salah, the assist leader and very obviously golden ball candidate for this year. Both have the ability to leave but I think it’s deliberate.
I don’t follow closely to baseball, but is this how FSG runs Red Sox? Like being so straight and a tough negotiator when dealing with upcoming free agents?
“A player can just run their contract down and their’s little the club can do about it” “This is the club’s fault” Imo those statements cannot coexist, even if I wouldn’t really speak of “fault” in a situation like this
Liverpool knew beforehand about klopp leaving that's why they didn't deceive mo, van dijk and TRENT into signing a new deal and to give them a chance to see the future with new manager.
With Mo and Virgil there is also their age to consider. Last Season there were already doubts if Salah was starting to get washed up, nobody could expect that by the new year he almost has a much scorer points as he did the entire last season. While Liverpool is a top club in the PL they don´t pay the highest salaries compared to the other top clubs like Chelsea, City or even United as far as i´m aware. Real and the Saudis can pay more
At what point does an investigation of tapping up players before the allowed time in contractual obligations become a factor for Madrid? This is the 5000th time
Speaking of one of the best fullbacks in the prem, can you make a video on Jedi Robinson and Christian Pulisics race to become the first ever American world class player
This is nothing new, Sol Campbell did it years ago, even worse since he went to their direct rivals. No idea why people are so surprised by this situation, it has happened before and will continue to happen
The 1 party's whose fault it isn't is Liverpool's. From the moment Trent signed his last deal, he has all the power and say over whether he wants to sign another. There's nothing, in the real world, that Liverpool can do to force him to do so (unless he has acquaintances like Gerrard) So Liverpool will just have to bite the bullet.
Trent just scored and did a special celebration. He's said himself that the talks will go on in private as have his other renewals, and so alot of people have been asking how reliable the source of "Macca" is.
There is literally zero blame to go around here - Liverpool can't match what Real will offer and Trent has known that since 2022. Trent will take the money and Liverpool will pay Bradley 15% of what they would have needed to keep Trent. Nobody is to blame, it's just football
Barber shop? Dude, all you need is a hair clipper, number zero.. invest in a good razor if you wanna go shiny. And.. now I'm visualising Zealand being perfect for a live action Megamind!
I bought a pair of clippers ten years ago mate, best £30 I’ve ever spent. Probably saved over £4800 over that time period. ( £20 a haircut twice a month )
8:17 Liverpool went from "We're going to convince Bellingham to come over to Liverpool, we can convince him through his best friend Trent" to "We're Losing Trent to Real Madrid" in one and a half year. I'm very sure communications between Jude and Trent convinced the latter to move to Real. Remember, in 2021, Carlo Ancelotti, while managing Everton, was on the telephone with Florentino Perez because Carlo wanted to buy some Real Madrid players for Everton. The phone call ended by Ancelotti promising Perez that he would become Real Madrid manager at the end of the season. The rest is history. Florentino Perez didn't become uber-rich without some convincement skills.
As a Liverpool supporter i have to mention klopp leaving as a factor in this. Klopp announces hes leaving January 2024. So in 2023 when Liverpool are probably renegotiating they cannot do it in good faith. Uncertainty around the new manager then leaves us where we are.
While you are ranting on this Barcelona spent 55M for Olmmo this summer, now lose him on a free AND need to pay him the wage value of the remainser of his contract (approx 60M) 😂
I will say it's hilarious that you used Coutinho as the spending 140m example and then immediately reference "a guy who sits out and won't play matches" which Coutinho also did at Liverpool. He somehow committed every sin in one transfer - force your way out, be priced absurdly high, ultimately be shit
maybe im tripping but recently a lot free agent signings have almost perfectly lined up with players retiring/getting injured in their position. Its like some crazy voodoo by club managers
As a Liverpool fan what I'm worried about is Real needing a right back now and could test the waters with a nominal fee instead of waiting for the summer
“people have just discovered they can run their contracts down” - and yet Steve McManaman made this exact move on a bosman in this exact same way in 1999 lol
Of the 3, VVD-Salah-TAA, I'd say Trent is the only one I expect to leave. VVD from what I've seen thus far has not really made any notion about wanting to leave and especially with the success of the team right now and the Dutch influence in the team, I would be shocked if he left Salah really seems like he is wanting to just stay with the club and be given something reasonable. His statements in interviews really comes off like he is wanting to stay and wants to work it out. I cant imagine him wanting to consider something elsewhere, as he seems to be loving his time right now and is clearly someone who plays with legacy/stats/records in mind and wants to further cement himself as an all-timer at the club. I think it's absurd that the nothing has been agreed upon at this point unless it later comes out that Salah was asking for Saudi wages. Keep him the highest paid player for another 2-3 years. I mean, he's in better shape than 99% of players, rarely gets injured, and he's 32 years old. Trent on the otherhand, and this is purely subjective and from my viewpoint does not seem to have nearly the same interest as the others. I think for 2 reasons: the first being he's obviously great friends with Jude and is interested in playing with him. Jude had rumors of a chance of going to Liverpool but that didn't turn out clearly. I think him along with it being Madrid is quite the big pull. I mean, it just feels like Madrid is constantly getting elite players on frees, and their influence just outweighs any team. The 2nd reason on Trent is even though the team is currently performing far better than I think the vast majority of people expected both in the Prem and in CL, I genuinely think Klopp having left will make it easier for him to consider leaving. He's spent his entire career at LFC and has repeatedly stated and shown how much reverence and gratitude he has for Klopp and I feel like his departure will be playing a part in making it easier for him to justify leaving as well.
It's tough for Liverpool and every club other than Real Madrid. I'm sure Liverpool can match the financial part of the contract. But if the player simply wants to another challenge there is nothing you can do. And why would Madrid pay a transfer fee if they know every player will crawl to them whenever their contract is up. Another thing that is still unclear is that whole situation with the Lass Diarra contract, a lot of clubs are taking less risk.
Sometimes a man just wants to play for Real Madrid. No amount of titles, academy history, or memories matter, at that point. Good for Trent for choosing his own path, if this is true.
Player power has been a thing since the Bosman ruling. This isn't slave owning US sport. With the advent of £100M+ transfers, contract expiration deals were always going to become more common, especially when "tapping up" happens everywhere, all the time, despite the rules.
I feel like clubs will probably start adding a clause where they must discuss contract renewal a year before the contract runs out to counter this problem, not sure if this is already a thing but it seems like this would be a viable solution on the football clubs’ part in order to prevent this from happening continually.
Chelsea already does this - if a player is not renewing with 18+ months on your contract, they will stop playing you and force a sale. It’s what happened with Gallagher and with Acheampong (he recently re-signed and started playing again)
So what's the solution? What are Liverpool and other teams supposed to do? From where I'm standing it seems like tapping up rules are completely pointless because Perez is allowed to declare interest in a player well over a year before his contract runs out, let alone 6 months. Hell, he had a known desire to sign Mbappe on a free before his LAST contract renewal at PSG, let alone 6 months before his contract ran out. Mbappe to Real was a watershed moment that told the world there's no point in tapping up rules because they will never be enforced, and when Real are the biggest team in the world... Perez can get any toy that he wants, free of charge.
Very interesting.... I still feel like he's gonna end up staying, despite the rumours and articles. But i guess it's simply because i love Liverpool and Trent and as a Barcelona fan, having Trent join Real Madrid would be an absolute nightmare. Fingers crossed 🤞
I think fans get really angry and sometimes cross lines even (see Marcus Rashford and man utd fans) with homegrown, local players who came through the academy leaving or underperforming etc. because the fans see them as a surrogate. Most of these fans would give everything to play one match for their team, and they see this guy who’s done it all for Liverpool from youth willing to leave that and give it up and it makes them react intensely and even irrationally.
FSG like to spin contract extensions as a transfer of some sort. We heard this from them many times before. "We signed this one guy and extended 2 contracts so it's like 3 transfers. Now it might backfire.
I’m just pleased that my side Walsall have a chance of going 15-18 points ahead of 2nd place if they win their next game. I’m displeased with the entire existence of Charlton Athletic.
This is nothing new for John Henry and FSG. As a Red Sox fan this is basically exactly what happened with Mookie Betts a player who was developed through the Red Sox farm system since he was an unknown prospect until winning an MVP and a World Series for the team. FSG didn’t want to pay him so we traded him in a deal where the main goal was to get a different players horrible contract off the books. And got a bag of chips back where 1 of them is a semi serviceable role player l. This is nothing knew for the penny pincher John Henry and FSG
"The blame is on the club" Why does their have to be blame at ALL? If TAA leaves, he was an amazing servant to the club who won literally EVERY trophy. If he leaves, I have faith FSG will sign someone (or just promote Conor Bradley) and the team will continue to compete for titles etc. I don't understand this mentality of "WE MUST BLAME SOMEONE". I think in most of our lives we wish we could have our pick of jobs, and TAA's interest in Real Madrid makes sense from multiple levels. The only way there should be "blame" is if A) They muck up the finances of the club B) TAA's form craters after January and he costs us multiple games. Otherwise it's just a fact of life, no blame.
Yeah it´s incredible rare these days to have player with a career at one or two clubs (once they are settled) these days. Players move costantly and i can understand that TAA might want to play for another club especially if it´s Real Madrid. We don´t know when or how TAA, Mo or VvD were approached and it´s still possible that Mo and Virgil resign who knows. As for B) Conor Bradley has been doing well so far and Joe Gomez is at least decent if he has to help out as RB so i´m not too bothered if Trent would crater.
The camera angle, the colorful collared shirt, the messy hair. Cinema.
😂 yeah definitely 8/10 videography
One of my favorite comments of 2024 😂😂😂
shaky cam
Half the collar tucked inwards!
ITALIAN cinema!
You look like the retired detective from every crime movie tryna get him to do one last mission
Zealand P. I.
and his name is Jack
But reaaally retired lol
funny as hell OP ^^
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"leave the hairline before the hairline leaves you."
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Haha Zealand Casemiro 😂
Nah. Zealand is just one IRL video about Istanbul's football teams away from winning the fight!
That's tuff...
This fallen brother needs to give up on his hair like the rest of us and either get a buzz cut or just shave it off completely
That one scout with Caribbean knowledge I assign to the region and never get a single report from in over a decade
Floored me with this one
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evil professor look goes hard
Lol Z looks like he went on a 4 day bender
the inwards-facing collar is the piece de resistance to this mona lisa of a vid
it's called inverted collar and it's a homage to new positional shenanigans
Liverpool clearly Didnt watch sys to learn how to keep your best players locked to long 8 year contracts
Or just keep a good wage structure, dont lock in to players who might drop off… how is chelsea doing huh, not too good. Keep em on their toes, get all their worth till the end, but taa doesnt wanna stay let him leave he will play worse otherwise just being fed money
@@gijsw8681Chelsea has massively improved, and will likely secure European football for next year.
Possibly better if a few things go our way. Don't talk about us like we're United or Tottenham sir.
We are the youngest team in the prem, are in our first season with Maresca, and have not figured out our defenders and goalkeeper, as these defenders are so awful at playing Marescas style of footy.
We got unlucky vs Ipswich. Penalty was bogus, Felix offsides by an inch, Cole Palmer hit the bar thrice, and Nico Jackson offsides by an inch.
And the defense embarrassed itself in front of the world and showed the front office where we need reinforcements.
One world class CB, and a competent GK who can play from the back (Sanchez is a disaster with the ball), and we're easily set for 5 years
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You made my new yeaes with this joke
So Todd is right by giving player 10 year contract. Dude really was a revolutionary.
The downside is that if the player ends up being shit/a complete liability, it's gonna be hard to get rid of them if they decide to just sit out their contract.
@@spinyslasher6586but this is only true with players with bad contracts like sterling or rashford at man utd. All of Chelsea’s contracts are now manageable and bargains making them easy to transfer.
Zealand is paying an homage to his state's tornados with this hairstyle
Louisiana is actually the tornado state.
I love putting your videos on, it's very soothing to listen to
POV: Your uncle gets drunk on New Year's eve and rants
*"Utter Woke Nonsense/Game's Gone"* ahh video title
Only Real Madrid can really do this. Every other club must fear someone else snatching the player, if they do nothing but wait for two years for a contract to run out but because apparently everyone wants to play for Real Madrid this seems to be no issue for them. I don’t know how much Liverpool can be blamed here: I am sure they approached him for a contract extension but if he didn’t sign it and refused to move, what is Liverpool supposed to do?
not really why would TAA approve a transfer? Unless he wants to be super loyal to Liverpool which he might. But normally why would they leave for a free and take the transfer budget for yourself.Mbappe bonus was 163 mill that is 40 mill less than Ronaldo career earning. TAA signs for Madrid he likely gets 60+ mill and top RB salary.
@@aaronnilestoussaint5672Ronaldo did not make 200 mil, he is way way way above that
How can you be sure they approached him with a contract?
They delayed extensions for their 3 top players. Who is your source for this speculation?
@@jonbolton491the source is the way they conduct business. The owners and board are well-known for how stingy they are, why would they want to let trent leave knowing they would then have to spend big money to replace him.
@@jonbolton491 Common sense tbh. If they actually never even spoke to him before he went into the last year of the contract, sure they are absolutely to blame but I am not aware of a source saying that either
Your barber committed a war crime on your hairline Z.
Chelsea signing everyone for like 8 years makes a whole lot more sense when you see what's happening. Like Cole Palmer is probably signed until he's 40.
It would suck to lose Trent, but having Bradley as his young understudy would make the blow hurt less. The kid's passing prowess and vision is nowhere near Trent's level (idk if anyone's is, honestly), but he can play lights out. Just look at the performance he put on against Real Madrid.
Bradley is a better defender and better workrate imo, trents passing is a gift but bradley excels in different aspects, i feel like we could handle losing trent if we get someone else back to stand in too, especially if his heads is starting to be somewhere else
video starts at 2:03
if trent specifically refuses to sign new contract and wants to leave for free from his boyhood club - he will be cursed and i will not be sorry
My problem is we don't know how long Perez has been tapping him up. It could be that the day he signed his last contract Perez reached out and said "don't sign another one, play this one out and we'll give you more than they offer" because he knows they can afford to while Liverpool are going to be stuck paying millions to replace him. We don't know if for the last several years Liverpool have been offering a new deal and he's been saying no.
Is there not some element of tampering?
If he is contacting players, which he must be, before their contracts run out saying...you could play for real madrid in a year...just run down your contract.
New FM challenge unlocked: You aren't allowed to sell players, you can sign players, extend/renew contracts but no selling.... they play out their contract and stay forever and retire or leave on a free. I figure you are really banking on that European competition money with that challenge. Do you think it would change the way you scout if you weren't considering a future sale in the deal?
Wenger predicted this development
Wenger almost signed TAA before he was born.
Nice asymmetric collar formation
Bro is like giving his last speech before nuclear meltdown 😂
Trent planned to do this way back when he signed a 4 year deal instead of the 6 year deals his teammates were agreeing to. He planned this just in case a club like Madrid came knocking, and in case things didn’t work out at Liverpool (Klopp, FSG, their ambition, etc).
He’s kind of a snake in that sense. We see how often he sets up pap-walks. He wants superstar status, not to be a Liverpool legend.
Still FSGs fault though in many ways. But how can you say the player is not at fault at all? If he wanted to leave, he should at least get the club a good fee. Instead, he wants a hugeee sign on bonus under a free transfer.
Bro's hairline is set to park-the-bus💀
What exactly is the change? Sol Campbell left Spurs for Arsenal in 2001. PSG got Messi, Donnarumma, Ramos, and Wijnaldum all in the same window in 2021.
The change was Bosman's legal case in 1995. Edgar Davids was the first high profile player to benefit when in 96 when he left Ajax for Milan
Hate to break this to you bro but Beppe Marotta has been building teams like this for close to two decades already.
Did it first at juventus and won the Italian league 9 years in a row by mainly signing free agents.
Now he’s doing the same for inter Milan.
So very kind of you to upload a video right after surfing a hurricane
This is another example of why you should never let a player go into the final year of a contract, it leaves the club completely powerless. Also Liverpool totally asked for this because why would you wait until the last season to try and renew your most valuable asset?
Zealand with da batik
You mean football is healing,, reversing inflation
I really appreciate your attempt to recreate the classic "Aliens" meme.
It’s odd you talk about Trent but not Salah, the assist leader and very obviously golden ball candidate for this year. Both have the ability to leave but I think it’s deliberate.
you look like a retired skate boarder
I don’t follow closely to baseball, but is this how FSG runs Red Sox? Like being so straight and a tough negotiator when dealing with upcoming free agents?
AS and Marca is like Real Madrid's own Fox News
Nothing better than a zealandism while pooping at work
Got to love that hair zeeland
Ayt so next holiday instead of Turk-s you're going to Turk-ey and we resuscitating that hairline like Mo Salah did.
“A player can just run their contract down and their’s little the club can do about it”
“This is the club’s fault”
Imo those statements cannot coexist, even if I wouldn’t really speak of “fault” in a situation like this
They can and do exist next to each other, tho.
Liverpool knew beforehand about klopp leaving that's why they didn't deceive mo, van dijk and TRENT into signing a new deal and to give them a chance to see the future with new manager.
With Mo and Virgil there is also their age to consider. Last Season there were already doubts if Salah was starting to get washed up, nobody could expect that by the new year he almost has a much scorer points as he did the entire last season.
While Liverpool is a top club in the PL they don´t pay the highest salaries compared to the other top clubs like Chelsea, City or even United as far as i´m aware. Real and the Saudis can pay more
@@paha4209What a new hairline does to a man.
Imagine your academy building one of the best full backs in the game leaving your club for free in insaaaane
Full on vacation mode
His Hairline Is Changing
At what point does an investigation of tapping up players before the allowed time in contractual obligations become a factor for Madrid? This is the 5000th time
we need a drinking game for everytime he says hes on vacation or where he is lmao
Speaking of one of the best fullbacks in the prem, can you make a video on Jedi Robinson and Christian Pulisics race to become the first ever American world class player
Zealand the type of guy to stop going for runs and start going on the run
This is nothing new, Sol Campbell did it years ago, even worse since he went to their direct rivals. No idea why people are so surprised by this situation, it has happened before and will continue to happen
The 1 party's whose fault it isn't is Liverpool's.
From the moment Trent signed his last deal, he has all the power and say over whether he wants to sign another.
There's nothing, in the real world, that Liverpool can do to force him to do so (unless he has acquaintances like Gerrard)
So Liverpool will just have to bite the bullet.
Trent just scored and did a special celebration. He's said himself that the talks will go on in private as have his other renewals, and so alot of people have been asking how reliable the source of "Macca" is.
It's happened before, and it was more similar to this situation than it wasn't. Steve McManaman, anyone?
There is literally zero blame to go around here - Liverpool can't match what Real will offer and Trent has known that since 2022. Trent will take the money and Liverpool will pay Bradley 15% of what they would have needed to keep Trent. Nobody is to blame, it's just football
The zealand hair situation is changing
You've got to get u touch with whoever fixed Mo Salah's hairline. 🙏🙏🙏
You look like the cool middle school teacher
He had new contract offers, he turned down all of them. I won't blame the club entirely for the situation.
Barber shop? Dude, all you need is a hair clipper, number zero.. invest in a good razor if you wanna go shiny.
And.. now I'm visualising Zealand being perfect for a live action Megamind!
I mean Zep Guardiola was a thing. Genuinely thought that was his best look
I bought a pair of clippers ten years ago mate, best £30 I’ve ever spent. Probably saved over £4800 over that time period. ( £20 a haircut twice a month )
Id be more worried about having an anime profile picture than some guy on the internets hair dude
This is actually a good way of fixing the transfer market
Not really, only for Real Madrid. I hope they and Barcelona continue to get rinse with Brazilian duds
@@jjj8317 So Vini and Rodrygo don't exist? What duds? Endrick is young, vini didn't start out great, yet look at him now.
8:17 Liverpool went from "We're going to convince Bellingham to come over to Liverpool, we can convince him through his best friend Trent" to "We're Losing Trent to Real Madrid" in one and a half year.
I'm very sure communications between Jude and Trent convinced the latter to move to Real.
Remember, in 2021, Carlo Ancelotti, while managing Everton, was on the telephone with Florentino Perez because Carlo wanted to buy some Real Madrid players for Everton. The phone call ended by Ancelotti promising Perez that he would become Real Madrid manager at the end of the season. The rest is history.
Florentino Perez didn't become uber-rich without some convincement skills.
Queen… Your shirt … It’s moiréing
Trent was offered 6 years when signing his last contract but he only wanted 4. This was always his plan. Not the clubs fault. He’s a 🐍
Chelsea was mocked for using this exact same logic on contracts 2 years ago….
As a Liverpool supporter i have to mention klopp leaving as a factor in this. Klopp announces hes leaving January 2024. So in 2023 when Liverpool are probably renegotiating they cannot do it in good faith. Uncertainty around the new manager then leaves us where we are.
While you are ranting on this Barcelona spent 55M for Olmmo this summer, now lose him on a free AND need to pay him the wage value of the remainser of his contract (approx 60M) 😂
I will say it's hilarious that you used Coutinho as the spending 140m example and then immediately reference "a guy who sits out and won't play matches" which Coutinho also did at Liverpool. He somehow committed every sin in one transfer - force your way out, be priced absurdly high, ultimately be shit
maybe im tripping but recently a lot free agent signings have almost perfectly lined up with players retiring/getting injured in their position. Its like some crazy voodoo by club managers
This feels like the NBA Free Agency where every Free agent goes to the Lakers. And it sucks.
Zealand you better still be running
I think bargaining power for players is good.
I didn’t know there are elephants in Turks and Caicos, what would we do without Zealandism
As a Liverpool fan what I'm worried about is Real needing a right back now and could test the waters with a nominal fee instead of waiting for the summer
You rocking that batik ❤
“people have just discovered they can run their contracts down” - and yet Steve McManaman made this exact move on a bosman in this exact same way in 1999 lol
Of the 3, VVD-Salah-TAA, I'd say Trent is the only one I expect to leave.
VVD from what I've seen thus far has not really made any notion about wanting to leave and especially with the success of the team right now and the Dutch influence in the team, I would be shocked if he left
Salah really seems like he is wanting to just stay with the club and be given something reasonable. His statements in interviews really comes off like he is wanting to stay and wants to work it out. I cant imagine him wanting to consider something elsewhere, as he seems to be loving his time right now and is clearly someone who plays with legacy/stats/records in mind and wants to further cement himself as an all-timer at the club. I think it's absurd that the nothing has been agreed upon at this point unless it later comes out that Salah was asking for Saudi wages. Keep him the highest paid player for another 2-3 years. I mean, he's in better shape than 99% of players, rarely gets injured, and he's 32 years old.
Trent on the otherhand, and this is purely subjective and from my viewpoint does not seem to have nearly the same interest as the others. I think for 2 reasons: the first being he's obviously great friends with Jude and is interested in playing with him. Jude had rumors of a chance of going to Liverpool but that didn't turn out clearly. I think him along with it being Madrid is quite the big pull. I mean, it just feels like Madrid is constantly getting elite players on frees, and their influence just outweighs any team.
The 2nd reason on Trent is even though the team is currently performing far better than I think the vast majority of people expected both in the Prem and in CL, I genuinely think Klopp having left will make it easier for him to consider leaving. He's spent his entire career at LFC and has repeatedly stated and shown how much reverence and gratitude he has for Klopp and I feel like his departure will be playing a part in making it easier for him to justify leaving as well.
Are we on the run again? Did you steal too many chocolate turtles again Zealand
It's tough for Liverpool and every club other than Real Madrid. I'm sure Liverpool can match the financial part of the contract. But if the player simply wants to another challenge there is nothing you can do. And why would Madrid pay a transfer fee if they know every player will crawl to them whenever their contract is up.
Another thing that is still unclear is that whole situation with the Lass Diarra contract, a lot of clubs are taking less risk.
Sometimes a man just wants to play for Real Madrid. No amount of titles, academy history, or memories matter, at that point. Good for Trent for choosing his own path, if this is true.
They don’t have a lot of barbers shops in a place that has the word “Turks” in its name?
I don’t believe you.
Also needs the words money and laundering though for it to work
Player power has been a thing since the Bosman ruling. This isn't slave owning US sport.
With the advent of £100M+ transfers, contract expiration deals were always going to become more common, especially when "tapping up" happens everywhere, all the time, despite the rules.
zealand never beating the "on the run" allegations
7:00 dood i feel like u have some major bias against barca bc what was that for 😭
stop making me remember, im ded
Zealand, babygirl, I think your hairline is running further than you right now
I feel like clubs will probably start adding a clause where they must discuss contract renewal a year before the contract runs out to counter this problem, not sure if this is already a thing but it seems like this would be a viable solution on the football clubs’ part in order to prevent this from happening continually.
the inflated transfer values made this issue become what it is, one of the best ways to circumvent a risky investment a $100 million transfer would be
Chelsea already does this - if a player is not renewing with 18+ months on your contract, they will stop playing you and force a sale. It’s what happened with Gallagher and with Acheampong (he recently re-signed and started playing again)
So what's the solution? What are Liverpool and other teams supposed to do? From where I'm standing it seems like tapping up rules are completely pointless because Perez is allowed to declare interest in a player well over a year before his contract runs out, let alone 6 months. Hell, he had a known desire to sign Mbappe on a free before his LAST contract renewal at PSG, let alone 6 months before his contract ran out. Mbappe to Real was a watershed moment that told the world there's no point in tapping up rules because they will never be enforced, and when Real are the biggest team in the world... Perez can get any toy that he wants, free of charge.
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Very interesting.... I still feel like he's gonna end up staying, despite the rumours and articles. But i guess it's simply because i love Liverpool and Trent and as a Barcelona fan, having Trent join Real Madrid would be an absolute nightmare. Fingers crossed 🤞
Pray for us bro, I'd hate to lose Trent, especially for free!
I wonder if they can convince Trent to stay until the season is done. I think for the flow of the game for both squads it would be better.
God bless you for making these videos even tho people roast you, including me
Counter-point: Ray Bourque
Stop yelling at me zealapapa
I think fans get really angry and sometimes cross lines even (see Marcus Rashford and man utd fans) with homegrown, local players who came through the academy leaving or underperforming etc. because the fans see them as a surrogate. Most of these fans would give everything to play one match for their team, and they see this guy who’s done it all for Liverpool from youth willing to leave that and give it up and it makes them react intensely and even irrationally.
FSG like to spin contract extensions as a transfer of some sort. We heard this from them many times before. "We signed this one guy and extended 2 contracts so it's like 3 transfers. Now it might backfire.
I’m just pleased that my side Walsall have a chance of going 15-18 points ahead of 2nd place if they win their next game. I’m displeased with the entire existence of Charlton Athletic.
Is this the Lebron era of soccer? Play out your contract and make super teams with your buddies
That shirt must have been super expensive, the pattern is super complicated
Florentino is the master at rizzing players 😂
This is nothing new for John Henry and FSG. As a Red Sox fan this is basically exactly what happened with Mookie Betts a player who was developed through the Red Sox farm system since he was an unknown prospect until winning an MVP and a World Series for the team. FSG didn’t want to pay him so we traded him in a deal where the main goal was to get a different players horrible contract off the books. And got a bag of chips back where 1 of them is a semi serviceable role player l. This is nothing knew for the penny pincher John Henry and FSG
I should add that Mookie wanted to resign and we didn’t offer him enough money
"The blame is on the club"
Why does their have to be blame at ALL?
If TAA leaves, he was an amazing servant to the club who won literally EVERY trophy.
If he leaves, I have faith FSG will sign someone (or just promote Conor Bradley) and the team will continue to compete for titles etc.
I don't understand this mentality of "WE MUST BLAME SOMEONE". I think in most of our lives we wish we could have our pick of jobs, and TAA's interest in Real Madrid makes sense from multiple levels.
The only way there should be "blame" is if A) They muck up the finances of the club B) TAA's form craters after January and he costs us multiple games. Otherwise it's just a fact of life, no blame.
Yeah it´s incredible rare these days to have player with a career at one or two clubs (once they are settled) these days. Players move costantly and i can understand that TAA might want to play for another club especially if it´s Real Madrid. We don´t know when or how TAA, Mo or VvD were approached and it´s still possible that Mo and Virgil resign who knows.
As for B) Conor Bradley has been doing well so far and Joe Gomez is at least decent if he has to help out as RB so i´m not too bothered if Trent would crater.
Finally someone speaking sense
nostrils looking clear broski