Its mad, and what I can’t get over, the lack of physicality. You know yourself being involved in teams, there’s a baseline for it and United are way below. Its why they have looked so bad against Newcastle the twice this season, they are literally just being ran over. And none of the guys up front can get a hold of the ball to give a breather, it just comes straight back. And the passing is so aggressive, all the time. Trying for the silver bullet pass every time and then don’t see the ball for 5 minutes.
He really wanted Van Dijk. Even met up with him for a go off the ferris wheel in Blackpool and got in loads of trouble over that. Added about 15m to the transfer fee in the process.
The Salah one gets thrown back at it him a fair bit but he does have the final sign off. Worked out great thanks to the top class laptop nerds Liverpool had/ have. Think he wanted Alisson alright. The nerds wanted Oblak but he was too expensive
They were supposed to have been laughing at Salah in Cobham. Mad the way things can change. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a better debut season than Salah’s.
Few could have predicted how good Salah was going to turn out in fairness.
That’s no disrespect to the two posters above as I certainly didn’t expect Salah to be what he turned out to be. We’d one top football fan who recognised that Andy Robertson was an exceptional piece of business
It was Groningen he was with. I suppose he was only 21 or so when he left there. I read before that he was out for a few months with them with some illness that he was hospitalised for and ended up losing a few stone. Maybe they weren’t sure of his long term strength etc.