mikeyp102 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 It makes me laugh people on here saying Liverpool can **** off with their derisory offer... I'm sure they never expected to have the offer accepted, but you have to test the water, it makes business sense... Man city have done the same with them over sterling. Hell when you buy a house you don't go straight in at the value the seller wants you try to haggle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 It makes me laugh people on here saying Liverpool can **** off with their derisory offer... I'm sure they never expected to have the offer accepted, but you have to test the water, it makes business sense... Man city have done the same with them over sterling. Hell when you buy a house you don't go straight in at the value the seller wants you try to haggle. Agreed but you also want to be taken seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punkiller1981 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 I am bored of reading all this rubbish in the papers about benteke, it's been going on since the first season he played for us and in all that time has anyone even mad a bid for him? Spurs might have a couple of years ago and Liverpool might do now but for all the talk in the paper you would think a bid a day was coming in for him. I would love him to stay but realistically I think he is too good for is at the moment and if he is going to go it needs to be very soon and for the right money not going cheap so we have time and plenty of money to replace him. I feel slightly optimistic about the future but I don't see the Beast being part of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan81 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 It makes me laugh people on here saying Liverpool can **** off with their derisory offer... I'm sure they never expected to have the offer accepted, but you have to test the water, it makes business sense... Man city have done the same with them over sterling. Hell when you buy a house you don't go straight in at the value the seller wants you try to haggle. not realy no because if its been stated any club would have to match the clause then surely you would know 22-23 what ever below 32.5 would be rejected.2 years left on his contract we dont have to sell how serious are the being and what impression are they giving to Benteke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 The Times claims "Liverpool are still keen on Aston Villa forward Christian Benteke but will only step up their pursuit of the 24-year-old if Aston Villa are willing to compromise on their £32.5m asking price". They are happy to throw money around to buy other players but think they can bully us into accepting a bid that is lower than his worth to us! Just tell them the price is £32.5m and not a penny less and why not add that you suspect the player would not see a move to beaten FA Cup semi-finalists as a step up in any case? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 The Times claims "Liverpool are still keen on Aston Villa forward Christian Benteke but will only step up their pursuit of the 24-year-old if Aston Villa are willing to compromise on their £32.5m asking price". They are happy to throw money around to buy other players but think they can bully us into accepting a bid that is lower than his worth to us! Just tell them the price is £32.5m and not a penny less and why not add that you suspect the player would not see a move to beaten FA Cup semi-finalists as a step up in any case? cool so we don't compromise and they don't step up their pursuit 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan81 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 boring summer of plop wanting one of our players but not willing to pay what we want Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Liverpool can do one The price is 32.5 mill pay up or fock off I do not see them budging on Sterling's asking price why should we They paid 20 mill for Downing the least i'd expect for Benteke is 32.5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan81 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 also 35 for the Geordie Gypo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilS Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Haha. Why would we put a release fee in, and then not stick to it the first time our resolve has been tested. Why is it Liverpool seem more than happy to splash their cash around to all and sundry, apart from when it comes to our players when they look to get them on the cheap (see Barry), will they ever learn? Stump up the cash or jog on. Also to add, why do they always do their transfer dealing through the press, it is really disrespectful. Since a week or two before the cup final all we have heard is how Liverpool want Benteke and they are going to come in for him this summer but they don't want to pay the release fee. Well it has been over a month now and they still haven't bid anything. If I were Benteke I would be wondering if they were that serious about signing him? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastEndVillan Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 (edited) We should offer to swap Benteke for Stirling, and then for us to sell Stirling immediately to either Man City or who ever, everbody wins. As Liverpool wouldn't have to give QPR the 25% sell on fee, they'de be effectively be getting £41 million for Stirling. If we sold Stirling to MC for £37.5m, then we'd be effectively getting that for Benteke. MC would be quids in, as they would be paying less than if they purchased direct from LFC. Only people who would be out of pocket would be QPR - and balls to them. I know it doesn't work like that, but it's a neat solution where all parties win. Edited June 26, 2015 by EastEndVillan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 We should offer to swap Benteke for Stirling, and then for us to sell Stirling immediately to either Man City or who ever, everbody wins. As Liverpool wouldn't have to give QPR the 25% sell on fee, they'de be effectively be getting £41 million for Stirling. If we sold Stirling to MC for £37.5m, then we'd be effectively getting that for Benteke. MC would be quids in, as they would be paying less than if they purchased direct from LFC. Only people who would be out of pocket would be QPR - and balls to them. I know it doesn't work like that, but it's a neat solution where all parties win. That's some NHL stuff right there. In theory it could work but we'd obviously have to have an agreement with both Stirling and Man City that we agree to sell him to them and for what price. Shame this stuff doesn't workout that way. Good idea though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 "Liverpool are still keen on Aston Villa forward Christian Benteke but will only step up their pursuit of the 24-year-old if Aston Villa are willing to compromise on their £32.5m asking price" Well we aren't willing, so **** off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted June 26, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted June 26, 2015 We should offer to swap Benteke for Stirling, and then for us to sell Stirling immediately to either Man City or who ever, everbody wins. As Liverpool wouldn't have to give QPR the 25% sell on fee, they'de be effectively be getting £41 million for Stirling. If we sold Stirling to MC for £37.5m, then we'd be effectively getting that for Benteke. MC would be quids in, as they would be paying less than if they purchased direct from LFC. Only people who would be out of pocket would be QPR - and balls to them. I know it doesn't work like that, but it's a neat solution where all parties win. ...or we could just say we wont deal with you dirty bottom feeders! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 You know the price you dirty thieving scum - pay the £32.5m or **** off. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Has he now been linked with every single club ever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Interesting comments. I personally think we will let him go for less than the release fee this window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwpzxjor1 Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 My Liverpool fan friend is adamant that 25m plus Lambert has been accepted. He has no sources, so I'm guessing he's just reading the Liverpool forums. That would mean they value a 32 year old striker they don't want at 7.5m. I hope Villa ain't stupid about that. For 32m we can invest well, we don't want their overvalued cast offs thank you. My Liverpool fan friend is adamant that 25m plus Lambert has been accepted. He has no sources, so I'm guessing he's just reading the Liverpool forums. That would mean they value a 32 year old striker they don't want at 7.5m. I hope Villa ain't stupid about that. For 32m we can invest well, we don't want their overvalued cast offs thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy_Lion Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Firstly Benteke has been great for us and I believe if he were to stay he would carry on doing a good job. A few things that bother me though. I don't think he wants to be at the club, this can't be good for club or player. He also started to get found out a bit towards the end of last season,many clubs just doubled up on him. When they did this we hardly saw him, so for him to stay and be useful we would really need to buy quality around him to so they could excel while he got heavily marked or for new threads to worry clubs and then let Benteke get more space. So I don't want to lose him but if he doesn't want to be here I would take around 30 Million for him and hopefully we can start to rebuild. I'd actually probably be ok with a deal around 27m with say Borini, but I really have no interested in having Lambert in our side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikantcpell Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Would be fun to see the reaction from the villa faitful if he returned to Villa park as a liverpool player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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