09 Jun 2017 21:36:00
Okay, this is bad.

This is really, really, really bad.

Yahoo have just revealed the extent of our meddling regarding Van Dijk, and Klopp is definitely implicated in the whole thing. What the hell was he playing at!?

Not only did Klopp stage one-on-one talks with the player but he also sent video messages detailing how he would be used if he joined Liverpool. Klopp did all of this without Southampton's knowledge and consent. That is tapping up, that is illegal and our manager was the man heavily involved with it. Did no one talk to Klopp, explain to him the does and don't of negotiations!? Is this acceptable in Germnay!? No, so why the hell did Klopp think it was such a good idea to get involved with this behaviour!?

Yahoo's story doesn't end there though, apparently personal terms had already been agreed between Liverpool and Van Dijk. Before Southampton were even brought into the conversation.

People blaming FSG need to fic their glasses and recognise that they are the ones with the money, not the final decision on transfers or how to conduct business. Edwards, Moore and Klopp are the ones who should be being criticized, in my opinion. I know FSG is a really easy scapegoat but let's actually use our brains for once and recognise the people at fault.

Also, Yahoo tells us that Van Dijk 'kicked up a fuss' in order to be sold to Liverpool. The man has five years left on his contract, and he is pulling this.

If we had just conducted business properly, informed Southampton of our interest and then gone from there, I think 50 million might have been enough. But, because we went behind Southampton's back, and they got really pissed, they raised their valuation.

Hopefully, from this moment on, Liverpool go by the book and purchases the quality players we need in the team without resorting to underhand methods. Salah is someone we appeared to be aiming for, but something tells me that deal will come to nothing. Cannot wait till pre-season starts, enough with the transfer season, it is doing my head in.


1.) 10 Jun 2017
10 Jun 2017 01:30:41
lol yahoo how very credible.


2.) 10 Jun 2017
10 Jun 2017 09:43:11
Klopps meeting with VVD has been widely publicised and maybe Klopp has taken tapping up to the extreme but if you think we are the only club doing this you are badly mistaken. Every club does it and has done for years. In this case the info was leaked to the press by some idiot at the club and of course they had a field day with it.
Obviously we will have to be whiter than white now but hopefully the powers that be will be watching other clubs also.
If this event helps to clean up the game maybe some good will come of it. To be honest I do not think the other big clubs, especially those just across the M6, will give a damn.