Liverpool Thread - Premier League Champions* 2019/20

Back to charlie adam, when is his contract up?

I've just done some digging. I was curious too.

He has 18 months let on his contract. He came from Rangers where he spent half of his time loaned out to St Mirran and Ross County. In 2009 he was loaned to Blackpool who 6 months later decided to buy him for a [Blackpool] record of $500k. That was only 18 months ago for a championship side. 6 months into his Prem debut Blackpool value him at $14m.

I can see from Blackpool's point of view why he's so highly rated, he's performing streaks above his team mates and he's helped them to mid table. From Blackpool's point of view our $4-5m bids have been disgraceful but let's not forget he was only worth $500k 18 months ago and Blackpool paid top dollar for him. $4-5m is probably a fair price but to take a teams top player from them part way through their prem return I can understand a premium being added. Let's say $6.5m should get the deal done.

$14m is a "not for sale" number and they won't ever get that for him. They need to way up whether they cash in now and risk relegation (which I don't believe will happen) or hold on to him and lose him at the end of the season for his fair price. Also Adam needs to way up what he wants, this may be his one and only shot at a 'big' club. Interesting to see if he can force it through. We may have bigger fish to fry come the summer.

I've just done some digging. I was curious too.

He has 18 months let on his contract. He came from Rangers where he spent half of his time loaned out to St Mirran and Ross County. In 2009 he was loaned to Blackpool who 6 months later decided to buy him for a [Blackpool] record of $500k. That was only 18 months ago for a championship side. 6 months into his Prem debut Blackpool value him at $14m.

I can see from Blackpool's point of view why he's so highly rated, he's performing streaks above his team mates and he's helped them to mid table. From Blackpool's point of view our $4-5m bids have been disgraceful but let's not forget he was only worth $500k 18 months ago and Blackpool paid top dollar for him. $4-5m is probably a fair price but to take a teams top player from them part way through their prem return I can understand a premium being added. Let's say $6.5m should get the deal done.

$14m is a "not for sale" number and they won't ever get that for him. They need to way up whether they cash in now and risk relegation (which I don't believe will happen) or hold on to him and lose him at the end of the season for his fair price. Also Adam needs to way up what he wants, this may be his one and only shot at a 'big' club. Interesting to see if he can force it through. We may have bigger fish to fry come the summer.

...I have the inside word that Suarez is still on!!

I see Suarez didn't play this morning in Ajax's Dutch cup fixture. Is he still banned for the biting incident?

Any picks on what number he'll get? Is 16 available?

Edit:
16 is the Greek.

No. 7? Or is it too risky? Been a bit jinxed lately, we should just retire the number.

11?

Not sure why he'd want to go to Europa League side Europa League side Chelsea at the moment. He's been asking the club to make an effort with transfers and players for the last 18 months and now that we can and have made changes that will benefit both him and the team I can't see him walking. Europa League side Europa League side Chelsea look like they need to do some rebuilding like us anyway, so why not stick with the Reds? It's all speculation at the mo, possibly a ploy to unsettle him for the Feb 7 clash at Stamford?