Players have a lot of power but most clubs won’t allow a player of such high value to run his contract down and leave for nothing. Any smart club will offer players an ultimatum when they have two years remaining, either sign an extension or be sold. Funnily enough Liverpool have allowed Van Dijk, Salah and TAA to enter the final 12 months of their contracts which is stupid. It’ll be interesting to see what happens with those three.
Maybe now the international tournaments are over we’ll start to see more transfer activity, it has been a very quiet window so far. Liverpool need at least three new players to compete for the big prizes.
In Mbappe’s case I would say PSG were just too stubborn not to cash in on the player, this was a player that had his intention known of playing at Real Madrid. Madrid came with bida then which were rumored to be around $180M but PSG were just optimistic they were gonna keep their man . They even offered him contract extension with some uncalled bonuses which later caused them problems because they couldn’t pay them off. Once a player has a year left on his contract the best is to first trigger the one year to increase which is mostly in players contracts now and start working on a new one or his departure. Many players have been lost to free transfer with the parent club trying to keep them, the best is to move on and get them sold.
As for Liverpool, seriously they look like a team that is still far from the players they should. Liverpool are still strongly to find replacement for their attacking players like Mane and Firmino who left and now they’ve the likes of Thiago Alcantara and Joel Matip also gone. Although they have youngsters than have actually stepped in this positions but they need experienced players to actually challenge for anything.
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