12 Mar 2016 10:26:25
Anyone sniffing around Firmino? I do think he is our best player and will be one of the best in Europe and the World. Has it all. Great feet, smart head, loads of energy, loves playing. Would remind you of someone but for the fact he doesn't get his teeth into the opposition.

{Ed002's Note - Not at this time. Obviously he has improved recently but admirers he had in Germany last year when he played consistently well were not interested at the €25M they could have purchased him for (before Liverpool paid €41M rising to €50M). Interest from Manchester City went due to his cost. Inter didn't have the money to get close to buying him, and none of the other interested parties (Atletico Madrid, Shakhtar Everton and Dynamo Kiev) dropped their interest - again probably due to the money.}


1.) 12 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 10:57:45
Well I bet those clubs will be kicking themselves now especially as if he was on the market today it would be around the 60 million mark. Shrewd investment.


2.) 12 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 10:51:12
Silly question Ed - why couldn't we get him for €25m?

{Ed002's Note - That was his release clause and interested clubs in Germany (Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg) had no interest in him at €25M.}


3.) 12 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 11:01:57
I wouldn't got that far.


4.) 12 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 11:41:19
Deluded Acered!


5.) 12 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 13:06:44
Great players cost great money. If all the German clubs passed on Firmino for 25m€, then there is a lot of clueless clubs there. He has been consistenly good for several seasons there. Some time after he was ready for liverpool i was talking to a player he played with in hoffenheim, he said Firmino was the best player he had seen, teqnically very good and the most hardworking guy in there team. Every training session he said he was doing incredible stuff and always working he's sucks off, he said no doubt he will be one of the best players in England if he can settle in there.


6.) 12 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 14:02:09
He is a very good player and chuffed to bits for having him BUT we still overpaid for him and that is still a fact.

{Ed001's Note - I have never seen it that way, we paid what it takes and he has been worth every penny so far.}


7.) 12 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 14:06:17
Irish rover why is that deluded David Luis left Chelsea for 50 mill! ?


8.) 12 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 14:27:44
If he delivers the goods productively then how the hell can you say he's overpriced?


9.) 12 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 14:59:24
At the end of the day a player is only worth what someone else is willing to pay.

Even if we did over pay at least the club went out and got the player they wanted. Also I'm not arsed because it isn't my money there spending.


10.) 12 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 12:42:17
€50m is nearly £39m. Actual transfer fee was £21m potentially rising to £29m.

{Ed002's Note - No. The fee was €41M potentially raising to €50M.}


11.) 12 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 13:22:16
Cheers ED002. Good news.


12.) 12 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 16:23:44
He's delivered the goods and gets better each game. A match winner and genuinely gifted. Certainly looks a better signing that Depuy.


13.) 12 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 16:30:44
So we paid £32 million for Firminho initially. Same price as Benteke. Let the words do the talking.


14.) 12 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 18:18:08
I love how things have changed on this forum.

Only a month or two ago, I remember myself, and others (including Ed1) constantly defending Firmino from people slating him on here, day in and day out.

Now we're worried someone is going to snap him up for 60m.

I suppose that just comes with the territory, when you're not only in-form, but you're one of the best and most prolific attackers in the entire EPL-- which Firmino is right now. Decidedly so.

I remember quite well people slating him, and insisting Benteke should be starting over him. Thank God for Klopp.


15.) 12 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 19:16:59
Would that fee not make him our most expensive ever (potentially)? I'd have thought the board would be singing it from the rooftops if so.


16.) 12 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 19:46:12
He is worth EVERY euro spent! Acered is not deluded at all, he has been a fantastic signing and has shown serious quality. With a 1 more intelligent player around him the team will be so much better, he has shown his quality alongside Couthino and even Lallana has been linking up well lately. We got him for a price that they wanted from us for the sale. Same way Liverpool wanted £50m for Torres and £49m for Sterling. Firmino is a quality player and will only get better.


17.) 12 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 23:34:09
for me firmino has always had this in him, he just needed to get uswd to the prem and how fast and physical its been for him he's our top scorer at the time of this post so that's saying something about how good he really is also for me he still has not got a 100% used to the prem, next season he will be some player for us and that's when all the clubs will come sniffing around for him, let's hope he likes liverpool fc andthe city and klopp being his manager because i don't want to lose him, and what we paid for him he will repay that back with his goals for us in the coming seasons, it might even be seen as a cheap buy if he continues to get better and keeps scoring, as I've said before in many of my posts i can't wait for the summer transfer window to see who we get in and who wants to come to us, and if we are very lucky we could get into the top 4 so champs league will be a big bonus and draw for the top players.


18.) 13 Mar 2016
12 Mar 2016 22:08:04
€50million is £39million
I thought AC was the most expensive player.


19.) 13 Mar 2016
13 Mar 2016 11:20:56
Transfermarkt has the fee as £30.75 million. Which is going rate for a talented goal scoring midfielder/ forward. End of the day he's not let his head drop, he's toughed it out and he's got on with it by working hard to adapt. He'll get in to double figures the way he's playing and that's a fantastic return for someone in their first season in a new league.

{Ed002's Note - The fee was in Euro and was exactly as I have said.}


20.) 13 Mar 2016
13 Mar 2016 13:22:47
Wouldnt mind if we get back suarez with 20 mil + Firmino offer to barca.


21.) 13 Mar 2016
13 Mar 2016 20:19:18
While the fee is obviously somewhat inflated, I agree with Ed001. We paid the price required to get him, his release clause is inconsequential. The fact is that in this season he has grown into one of our most important players, along with the most creative EPL player this year, and the fact that Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg were not interested in paying that money makes no odds to me; in a way I'm glad.


22.) 14 Mar 2016
14 Mar 2016 07:47:30
could it be that originaly people where judging hi
m playing under Brendas instruction which would make any player look off the mark?