You just like everyone else on the forum don't know the inner workings of LFC never mind how a transfer deal is carried out.
I do not think that there is anyone in this forum that has come out and said that they know the inner workings of the club. What people are forming an assumption/educated guess/conclusion on is history and what gets reported in the media.
How do you know we don't have alternative targets?
Just because we are holding out for what seems like is our primary targets is something posters have consistently berated the club over walking away from big transfers.
Florentino Perez in 2009 wanted Ribery as part of his galactico project, Bayern did not want to sell. I remember reading at the time that they had slapped an unrealistic fee of €100M, and Florentino Perez move on.
In 2011, Daniel Levy refused to sell Luka Modric to Chelsea, or any other team. The player gave an account of how the chairman broke a gentleman's agreement (whether true or false, we will never know) and Chelsea would go on and sign players like Meireles and Mata with Modric leaving for Real Madrid the following season.
Chris Bascombe wrote this on Leipzig's stance
The Bundesliga side have stated throughout the summer they are unwilling to sell their midfielder – and they are not interested in negotiating with the Merseysiders. Now the latest approach, almost doubling Liverpool’s current club-record deal of £36 million for Mohamed Salah, has been rebuffed.
Leipzig’s stance has never changed and the refusal to accept such an offer further demonstrates Jürgen Klopp’s difficulty securing his prime summer target.
Essentially, this was the stance that has been consistent with Leipzig since the start of the window. The only place we read of them encouraging Liverpool to bid was Twitter, it was also the only place we read of a supposed split in the hierarchy over a potential sale of the player. None of that in the media.
So, at what point does a team move on?
No doubt there is timelines when the club will look at other targets, Klopp has said as much.
No one would expect anything different. Question is, how good are the alternatives to the priority targets? I am not talking price, big name etc, just overall quality.
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