I have seen countless situations where a player says yes but then the paperwork doesn't get signed. Because its a very different thing to say yes and then literally signing a document that is unbreakable and commits you to it. There
will almost always be in every instance a period of time between 'lets do this' and 'paperwork signed'.
And it is exactly for this reason. All parties will want the player to take a pause, think about this, talk it through with his family, really grasp how big the decision is
and what it will mean to his life.
You don't want to rush a player into making a decision he can't get out of that he will regret. That he wasn't prepared for. That his family wasn't willing to do and therefore he will do it alone.
Its not that teams didn't see world class potential with Mane pre-Southampton, it's that they couldn't give that guy minutes to keep progressing. Southampton could.
And there are lots of players at that age and level that don't progress.
Huijsen needs to play football. Coming to Liverpool and watching Virg, Quansah, Gomez and Konate eat all the minutes and getting run outs in the cup will do nothing for him.
So far in his career, almost all his minutes bar ~5 x 90s is at youth or Italian 3rd tier level. That is
the final Pro-level of football in Italian football pyramid and fed by semi-pro teams from Serie D.
He really needs serious minutes at a top level now. Which is why he ends up at a club that can offer him that NOW. Not in a few years. Not through a repeating pattern of loans.
related performance metrics - they are big issues.
You are trying to find the point at which their value to you starts to dip below their cost. When their body can no longer perform at this level consistently.
Those are problems you can't give time to or solve later.
People will hate it, but I suspect the only two forwards we have that aren't up for a conversation are Gakpo and Nunez.
At just 24, 4 year deals and their full output peaks ahead of them, plus on low salaries relative to their numbers (based on numbers I seen at least) there
The amount of pathetic false equivalence I am seeing from people desperate for the club to be used to wash away the blood of a genocide or civilians being disappeared or executed for being dissidents of a despotic regime is depressing.
Yes, billionaires likely aren't entirely
ethical.
No, they are not all the fucking same. People who are committing genocide, dismembering journalists, executing kids, imprisoning/murdering people for being gay - these people are worse.
I don't know how absolutely morally bankrupt and repugnant a human being you need
to be that those words need to be said to you but fuck me.
If the club is bought by a sportswashing vehicle then those midfielders you are publicly wanking yourself off for will be bought for the sole purpose of buying your goodwill and praise to wash away the blood of innocents
I can only answer on the level he is at right now - but he is one of the best passers of the ball in Brazil, is exceptionally busy in games and has more to his game that simply keeping the ball but also stays behind the ball so isn't appearing in goals & assists too often.
There is a tonne of quality there. Looks a lot like Arthur before he left Brazil - and I say that as both a compliment and a warning. It is a very different style and speed of play in Europe compared to Brasileirao matches. He definitely has the talent to step up a level but
whether he can make the leap to EPL football is another question.