Mar 26, 2025 -- 10:16AM, rothko wrote:
good luck to the lad Been at Liverpool since he was six and has given everything to the clubHopefully the supporters will give him a great send off
Won't get a great send off from me. Think he has handled himself very badly this season. Didn't try one jot against the Mancs, been pulling out of tackles at various points throughout the season, clearly because he knew he was going to Real Madrid and didn't want to get injured. Not done a single interview as vice captain all season.
He has made it so blatantly obvious he is going without having the balls to own it. Could have done what McAllister did and signed a new contract with a very low release clause if Madrid came calling, but has decided he doesn't give a **** about the club. He's just another mercenary for me who has been spouting bollocks for years about it meaning more.
To suggest that us not getting a fee is down to the club is just beyond belief. You don't surely believe that do you rothko?
Mar 27, 2025 -- 6:42PM, duncan idaho wrote:
agree POP FSG were distracted in the summer by the key appointments and appeared to drop the ball on the 3 contracts be amazed if that was true...company that runs top-class sports clubs simply falling asleep on the contract status of 3 of your biggest assets?..nah, dont buy it
I don't see any other explanation. Remember last season we were also in the title race till pretty deep. We had bigger fish to fry. As stated above, the time to re-negotiate was Summer 2023. Maybe Klopp himself was distracted or at least a bit burnt out. But once that window was missed the next few months were put on the back burner as they completely re-structured the management team. And you always have to check if a manager likes a player or if they are compatible (the reason we didn't go for Amorim). There's a parallel universe where we gave them bumper deals and then got a new man in who couldn't get a tune out of them and they were doing a Casemiro for a few years.
If Trent always did want to leave (bit odd that it's only now the stories of him learning Spanish come out) then the club would surely have known and maybe should have sold him on. Or maybe they calculated keeping him for these two years would be better value. Or maybe they just thought they could convince him and failed.
Doesn't really matter in the end. It's how the game works. Great players come and great players go. And they'll always be replaced. That's just how it is. Him being a local lad is immaterial really. He's got the same career as everyone else. We'll all be very understanding if Isak or Branthwaite decide to join us in the summer and how they're putting their career first so it's a bit hypocritical to be upset at one of our players making the same choice.
I wish him good luck.
But I'll always hate Madrid. Horrible club. Hope this league title is the last thing he wins for a long time, at least till he moves on from them.