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Master bait
Liverpool signed two defenders on the cut-off day: one from Championship Preston for a small fee and another from Bundesliga club Schalke in the basement for an initial loan fee of £ 1 million and a call option for £ 18 million. at the end of the season.
Such is the power of the propaganda machine in Merseyside that the Mirror describe Ozan Kabak’s signature thus: ‘Liverpool sporting director Michael Edwards appears to have landed another transfer masterstroke after the club struck a deal for Ozan Kabak. ‘
No one has seen Kabak play for Liverpool yet, but this is still considered a “transfer masterstroke”. It can only be Liverpool.
And then to Express website, which proclaims this headline:
‘Liverpool’s head of transfers Michael Edwards has sealed a £ 12 million masterstroke in the Ozan Kabak deal’
And what is this £ 12 million masterstroke? We think it would cost £ 18 million.
Bundesliga expert Chris Williams says it’s £ 12 million lower than the fee Liverpool quoted for Kabak in September alone, after Dejan Lovren left for Zenit St. Petersburg, but before players like Virgil go Dijk and Joe Gomez will suffer long-term injuries. ”
Williams also describes that price as’ an an idea of Schalke’s financial woes that a player is being sold for such a low fee ‘, which sounds less like a masterstroke and more like sheer luck that the German club is in dire financial straits, and is Things are likely to get much worse if they are relegated as expected.
Master stroke, indeed.
More master bait
The day after Takumi Minamino left Liverpool on loan to Southampton, it should be noted that the signing of the Japanese forward was listed as one of the ‘5 transfer masters Michael Edwards has landed in Liverpool ‘for him Mirror. The ‘masterstroke’ was activating his release clause, apparently.
Oh, and as recently as June, the Minamino signing was described as a ‘Liverpool transfer masterstroke’ by the Echo of Liverpool. At the time, he had scored exactly zero goals for Liverpool and looked exactly comfortable zero.
So excuse us if we wait before passing judgment on this latest transfer masterstroke.
Transfer doppelganger
In today’s Echo of LiverpoolIt’s not just the Ozan Kabak deal that is a sign of genius, but the signing of Ben Davies from Preston.
‘Michael Edwards could have repeated his best transfer trick to Liverpool’
Yes, because signing Davies, a 25-year-old defender who has never played above Championship level and would be barely recognizable outside of Preston, for £ 1.6m is absolutely comparable to signing Andrew Robertson, a Scottish international from 23 year old who had played two seasons in the Premier League for £ 10 million.
Almost interchangeable, you might say. Or, alternatively, you could say that some are clinging to gold-painted straws.
Deflector ticket
‘Man United, Leicester, Chelsea, Spurs…. all drowning to a greater or lesser degree at the very moment when everyone begins to speak of them as true challengers, ” writes Stan Collymore in the Daily mirror.
‘I am puzzled why so many people are drawn to this, year after year. Several of the top eight teams build well past their season after some good results as we look for a possible surprise at the top. ”
Collymore is ‘baffled’ that people are ‘drawn’ to team up way above his station, and yet this is the man who really guaranteed early january that, given two or three years of patience, ‘Lampard will build a team capable of winning the title. ‘ Technically, we can never prove him wrong.
Every little help
It’s a real dilemma for the tabloid website that hardly attracts Liverpool fans and therefore needs to take advantage of the Manchester United angle. What the heck is he doing on the day of the transfer deadline when manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has made it clear that he won’t be signing any? Follow him to the store, of course. Duh.
‘Man Utd boss Solskjaer goes shopping on the day of the transfer deadline … to Tesco’
Tell us Sun that ‘MANCHESTER UNITED boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer made sure to get his deadline day shopping fix, by going to his local Tesco ‘and Solskjaer’ had little else to do today, instead of a regular, mundane chore like going to the store ‘. And it seems that The Sun had little more to do than follow him there.
Already in the fifth paragraph, they have resorted to nonsense, frustrated by the fact that Solksjaer was just grabbing a can of Pepsi Max that breaks the narrative.
‘He will hope not to forget anything, just as he hopes United will have enough in their ranks to continue fighting for the title. ”
And was getting Solskjaer, Man Utd and the transfer in the headline enough to attract those precious clicks? Can someone from The Sun inform us at the usual address? We guarantee anonymity and offer the substantial reward of a can of Pepsi Max.
The old news is good news
Obviously The Sun online are fans because the real kings of clicks are the Mirror football equipment. His attempt to get United clicks on a quiet transfer deadline day was a) wildly successful and b) absolutely brazen. We have no choice but to bow in amazement.
In short, they pretended that exciting things that happened in the past were happening now. So easy. So effective.
So the url is https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/man-utd-transfer-deadline-day-23423100
There are no clues there.
And the headline?
‘David de Gea Transfer Collapse, Man City Kidnapping Attempt and Man Utd’s Latest Signature Turn Bitter’
Inspired, right?
Only when you click do you realize that this is’A LOOK BACK ‘and at that point, frankly fuck you because they have your click.
There’s a fine line between genius and, well, being a total jerk. At the Mirror, they practically skip that line.
The rule of three
In another part of the Mirror...
‘Man Utd’s Broken Transfer Promise, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s U-turn, and Ed Woodward’s Lawsuit ‘
And that would be a ‘broken transfer promise’ for Facundo Pellistri, a ‘U-turn’ on Phil Jones in the Premier League call-up and a ‘demand’ for a midfielder this summer.
All dressed to look like more than shit, it all happened. Genius / dickish.
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