The point I was trying to make is that if this is a player Klopp wants (and most reliable journos say it is) and we could get him now even overpaying why do we care about the fee, why can't we just try to wrap it up now, we have the money.
that's... a ridiculously simplified way of looking at things though isn't it? what do you mean "why do we care about the fee, why can't we just wrap it up now?" how do you know we "have the money"? maybe we don't have the money. maybe we want to sell Benteke first and then use the cash from that to immediately spend on another player because we have a lot of money delegated to a lot of areas already. the accounts of Liverpool Football Club are obviously taken care of much much more thoroughly than "who cares about the fee, why can't we just wrap it up now".. some people think "we just got a new kit deal worth X so that X goes in the kitty let's go buy Y cos he costs X" but that's just ridiculous.
why don't you go across town and buy stupidly expensive loafs of bread for 20 pounds a loaf? the guy is yelling about how you can buy it for just 20 pounds, everyone says his bread is awesome, you read about it every day.. would you just go spend the money? what if you get perfectly good bread around the corner for 4 pounds a loaf? just because you "have the money" you're going to go nuts wasting it all on one loaf of bread? you don't even NEED that bread, it just sounds fancy as F**k. plus your old man at home (manager Jürgen klopp in this analogy alright) knows how to get the best flavour out of the bread you already make in your own backyard, he has his own philosophies on bread and certainly would never waste 20 F***ing pounds on a loaf! especially when it's just being overadvertised so they can try and sell it, what if you see it in 6 months half price? you'd feel pretty stupid for wasting all that money!
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