“I spy with my little eye something beginning with L”
by Anon
Liverpool Football Club was once a great club, a club once recognised as the bastion of English football. Oh how times have changed.
Having been slowly whittled down to nothing more than a higher mid-table club, it appears that their league position is not the only thing that has gone downhill. Their much publicised pursuit of Clint Dempsey is indicative of the lack of morality that now is the essence of the club.
Dempsey has been the subject of interest from Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers for the duration of the summer. However, this “interest” hasn’t materialised into a transfer bid despite FSG posting on their own official website that the Dempsey deal was near completion.
It is evident that Liverpool are doing everything in their power to get Dempsey on the cheap which again has metaphorical qualities considering how cheap Liverpool has become. Their refusal to meet Fulham’s fair market valuation of Dempsey at 10 million has been the sticking point for the transfer so far not happening.
This is not the first time that Liverpool have treated fellow mid-table club Fulham with disdain and lack of decency given how they went about appointing Roy Hodgson, and certainly it isn’t the first time this summer that Liverpool has displayed their new moral code.
Having acquired Brendan Rodgers from Swansea, there was an agreement put in place that Liverpool wouldn’t go after any Swansea players for the next 12 months. The agreement didn’t last long. Rodgers tried to buy Gylfi Sigurdson despite having an agreement to sign for Swansea and then deciding that reneging on the agreement wasn’t enough and signed the Welsh side’s best player, Joe Allen. Classy.
So Liverpool, not content with disrupting Swansea’s season has now decided to disrupt a fellow rival club and obtain their best player for a pittance. The last 12 months has been a rocky road for Liverpool – from the poor handling of the Suarez affair to deliberately unsettling players from other clubs it is certainly a humbling time to be a Red.
There is no doubt that Dempsey will get the move he wants but it will be to the detriment of what is left of his legacy at Fulham. Liverpool will have acquired a superb player but their method of buying him leaves a lot to be desired.
You stay classy Liverpool,
A disgruntled Fulham fan.
This article is rubbish from start to finish. Firstly, the agreement with Swansea was that Rodgers could move for a Swansea player if another club made a move, which Spurs did for Allen. Regarding Dempsey, we made a verbal enquiry about him at the start of the window and we were quoted what our owners think is far too high a price for a 29 year old nearing the end of his contract and we have therefore NOT followed up our interest. What Clint Dempsey is doing now is his own doing and is for Fulham and him to sort out. It has nothing to do with Liverpool Football Club. If we dont want to meet your asking price, we dont have to. It has absolutely nothing to do with class, it is what every single football club around the world does if they think a player is expensive. If you dont want to lower your asking price then he will stay because it seems no other clubs are interested in paying the asking price either.
Dempsey is 29 and has only one year left on his contract and with these factors 10m is clearly to high for a player who also wants to leave the club, he has no major re-sale value because of is age so i think 7m would be a fair price for both parties. Brendan Rodger said that he would let Swansea speak to Sigurdson first and it was clear now other club were interested he wanted to a bigger pay day thus rejecting Swansea and Liverpool for Spurs and for the last point there was a deal in place but it quoted if it benefited both clubs then a sale could be made and although Allen is a good player 15m is a high price and a good piece of business for Swansea
In my opinion your article is poorly thought out.
£70,000 is more than sufficient for him.
shut ur mouth u little buet, welcome to football u idoit
Classy response, just what we’d expect from an inhabitant of Sesame Street
10m fair value for Dempsey??? LMAO!! Are one of the morons that think downing was worth 20?? or Henderson was was 18m?? or carroline was worth 35?? dempsey is worth 4-5 at most.. if fulham is stupid enough to think he is worth 10m then they deserve to be treated like morons…
You should watch your mouth, if it wasn’t for ex-Liverpool players that you got good deals on you would not have been as successful as you have been, also you can’t believe everything you read in the papers duh!
Just someone makes an enquiry doesn’t mean they have to bid after, otherwise they’d would just bid outright. It’s what the enquiries are there for. This article is a waste of internet space.
Sigurdson was a Hoffenhiem player not a Swansea player. Who does he play for now? Where was Sigurdson’s class? Allen had a clause in his contract saying if certain clubs came in with a £15 million offer he could leave and Liverpool was on that list which we exploited but didn’t break the 12 month deal! Sorry to break it to you but Dempsey wants to leave and is the one showing his lack of class by refusing to play! Didn’t your own manager say he was unimpressed by his own fans lack of respect to Dempsey? Where was your class yesterday? The abuse leveled at Suarez last season by your fans? Again lacking class!
Meh??? Your annoyed that our owners are not willing to meet your clubs valuation? As a Liverpool fan im more than happy owners are no longer being held to ransom over players who could turn out to be white elephants with no re sale value.
Stick that “fair” valuation where the sun don’t shine !
How is he 10 mil. player at 29 ? How was he ever 10 mil. player ?
By the way, it is Fulham who are without class. They knew the price for which they were willing to do business until Liverpool showed up.
His agent was informed about what kind of value Dempsey has but when Liverpool wanted him value sky rocketed !
Not being fool and refuse wasting money is no sign of being without class.
CommentI dnt lyk the way we are going abt our transfers,John.w.Henry and B.R pls u guys have to wake up and do some 2 or 3 things b4 the window closes pls.YNWA.
I walked into Comet the other day and liked the look of a 50inch telly. I asked how much it was and was told £1000. I’d seen a better one in Currys £100 cheaper. Martin Jol needs to realise there is no difference between this and an enquiry about Clint Dempsey. Seems as though a few Fulham fans need to realise the same. As for sigurdsson. The rule applied to Swansea players. He wasn’t a Swansea player. As for joe Allen. He had a 15m release clause I his contract. Thats why he cost us 15m.