A transfer saga where the Reds came up short…
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00:00 Liverpool, starting with Liverpool, what exactly has gone wrong with the transfer saga with
00:05 Moises Quesada? Because a lot has come out every day as well as Romeo Lavia. What can
00:11 you tell us to try and calm the situation?
00:15 It started off so well, didn't it? The transfer window for Liverpool. All the midfielders
00:22 left and then they go and get Alexis McAlister first by a million and a few more, they go
00:28 and get Tom Ixson-Bosley. I think Liverpool are sore. Obviously, Liverpool had to react
00:32 to sales of Jordan Henderson for B and O and they haven't replaced him yet. As you say,
00:36 it's been pretty shambolic considering Liverpool's business over the past six, seven years has
00:42 been pretty much immaculate, the way they've gone about things really. Shrewd fees, sold
00:49 players for a decent amount of money. This summer, it's almost like the changes that
00:57 have happened in the backroom have caught up with them. Michael Edds was left last summer,
01:01 Julian Ward come in and Julian Ward leaves after a year and is posted as director of
01:06 football. Jord Schmeichel comes in and Jürgen Klopp maybe has to take a little bit more
01:10 of a front foot into negotiations. I'm not saying Jürgen Klopp's fault, I'm not saying
01:15 Jörg Schmeichel's fault or FSG's fault, it just seems like it's been a bit of a perfect
01:19 storm really. You have to look at it and think why have Liverpool sold both Jordan Henderson
01:25 and Fabinho before they've got a replacement in? Because that's what Liverpool's policy
01:29 is not usually like. It's what a lot of clubs' policy isn't usually like. You look after
01:33 yourself there. I know Jürgen Klopp, he wants to show a little bit of, I don't want to say
01:42 loyalty would be the wrong word, but he wants to give these players who've done so much
01:47 to him, he wants to be willing to let them say if they want to leave, then he'll say
01:53 'fine, you want to go, I don't want players who don't want to play for me'. But was that
01:57 the wrong decision? Now as you say, coming in for £110m for Casedo. It was funny because
02:03 at the press conference Jürgen Klopp said we've had a bit of acceptance but he never
02:07 was clear whether Liverpool were going to get him, he just said 'I don't know more than
02:13 that'. And then after the Chelsea game when he said Chelsea usually get what they want,
02:17 it was a clear indication to me that it wasn't just Casedo they were going to get, it was
02:21 Lafayette. It's not good for Liverpool from both the outside and probably the inside as
02:27 well I'm sure. John Henry was there at Stamford Bridge on Sunday and he's not probably too
02:33 happy with how things have played out. We've got two weeks left of the window and now Liverpool
02:39 are scratching their arm for a defensive midfielder. The problem is now the clubs know that they've
02:45 got £110m to spend. It's not like Liverpool have bought Brighton's price tag and gone
02:52 there's absolutely not a chance that we're paying that because Liverpool have been willing
02:56 to pay that. So they've firmly shown their hands and that is something that has not happened
03:01 in the past, certainly in the Jürgen Klopp era. And it's a real concerning situation
03:07 to be honest.