no i mean before the first bid, how could FSG be certain it would be rejected, how could they be 100% certain that £70 million would be rejected by RedBull, not rangnarok, but the club itself? Its a f**king lot of money after all so not beyond the realms of rationale thought that someone in the club would turn around and say "You know what, the player wants to leave, its a massive profit for us, lets sell Ja"?
Probably more like....
Liv: Hi this is Liverpool we've got 50 mil here for Kieta.
RB: Haha you cheeky bas**rds, add another 50 mil to that and we might start negotiations.
Now we already know what it'll take to start the negotiations we can safely go back in with another bid knowing quite well that it will be fu**ed off.
As for whoever said about a manager never being in a position where he can be accused of tapping up. It's spot on.
Klopp should identify targets and then the next he should hear is a phone call or something saying.. Jürgen we've just bid for/ asked Southampton if we can have VVD.
We've been given permission to talk to him.
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