#transfer talk

1. Trent leaving Liverpool and heading to Madrid. Sad? Mad? Happy?

The best transfer business the club’s done all summer. 😂😍😍 #GetItGirls

Commentator: I think instead of looking at Jadon Sancho Manchester United are going to be looking for a new center back.

Mbappe 2021 😉

Liverpool paid just shy of ₤26M / $33M to bring in Thiago Alcantara (a central midfielder) to play in central midfield. Chelsea, on the other hand, paid just shy of ₤76M / $97M for Kai Havertz (a central midfielder/winger) to play him as a center forward... um, what?? I will never understand why managers and clubs go out of their way and splash significant cash to pick up top players just to shoehorn them into positions that utterly ruin them. Another glaring example of this: N’Golo Kanté.

He was the league’s best defensive midfielder in the 2015-2016 season that saw Leicester City win the league, leading the league with most tackles won. And what does Chelsea in their finite wisdom do? They play in him in the outside position of a three-man midfield with him frequently making attacking runs into the opposition box. There was a moment early in their loss to Liverpool when Werner and Havertz set up a brilliant counter attack, but at the end of it the ball landed at the feet of Kanté and I was screaming at my TV, “That’s not the player you want in that position!” Sure enough, he couldn’t get the ball out of his feet and the play died. Credit to him, he does what the manager wants him to do, but that’s not where he’s at his best. Meanwhile, Liverpool just continued to pass circles around Chelsea all game. If only they had a top-class midfield destroyer who could’ve broken up that play by playing centrally and staying deep... They have a plug-and-play player and they’re wasting time trying to configure him for a system he was never compatible with.