Put a Liverpool contract on the table for every Basel player, at the same wages he's getting there, and see how many sign up Leighbo.
So we come back to this statement.
Are you seriously, honestly, 100% claiming that if you offer a player identical contract terms to play for either Basel or Liverpool, you think he's going to pick Basel?
Dude this is getting silly.
Nobody said Basel were rubbish at all either, you're creating strawmen now in desperation. Liverpool are just obviously a higher profile and more famous club around the world, and 99% of players would choose them any day of the week over Basel, no matter their success.
I'm going to slink out of this thread now, apologies to the other Liverpool fans putting up with this weird argument!
Basel apparently generate just 36 million pounds in revenue a year whereas for Liverpool it is 260 million pounds. I think that indicates along with Basel's results that some very good players are willing to stay in Basel for less money than they would get elsewhere. Liverpool's squad is currently far superior to Basel's but only because they pay their players more. Most players would pick Basel over Liverpool if the money was the same. Playing in a nice city, with Champions league football, at a lower intensity would be enough to counter Liverpool's fame for most non-English players.