Will the Kylian Mbappe to Liverpool links ever go away? Probably not any time soon.
The Frenchman’s ongoing impasse over a contract renewal with PSG has led to such reports resurfacing again, with his contract set to expire this summer.
Rickie Haywood-Williams has warned the Merseysiders against trying to complete a deal, however, noting the potentially devastating financial ramifications.
“I don’t know the finances of FSG but if you go by the model in which Liverpool do their business, it’s just not what we do,” the presenter warned on the Footballer’s Football Podcast (via BBC Sport).
“We buy players on the cusp of becoming great players, they get moulded by Klopp and then he moulds them into great players. We don’t buy the finished article and it would just send everything about our club into disarray if you were to bring in someone of that magnitude on those wages, because what do you do then? What do you do with Virgil van Dijk and Mo Salah? They’re going to want even more wages and then it’s just going to mess everything up.
“As much as I would love Kylian Mbappe at Liverpool, it just annoys me that it gets put in the press every single transfer window.”
The World Cup-winning midfielder has been in prolific form in Ligue this term, notching 22 goals in 23 appearances this year.
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A deal on our terms or nothing
Don’t get us wrong. Would we want to see Kylian Mbappe in the famous red shirt, smacking in about thirty million goals a season in front of the Kop?
Christ alive, would we!
He’s a terrific footballer and goalscorer but the reality remains that it’s just not a deal we’re likely to see completed on our terms.
Unless Mbappe’s willing to take a salary on Merseyside that comfortably fits within our current wage structure, it’s quite simply not going to happen.
And we’re okay with that, to be completely honest.
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So what he is saying is that if Liverpool had the money, Mbappe would be a terrific acquisition for LFC….it’s about the money NOT the quality of player he is!!! Let me summarise all this this way….Manchester City WILL WIN the EPL title AGAIN because they SPENT on good quality players giving them depth to become serial EPL title winners!! In modern football, you don’t spend you don’t win, esp at a time when Liverpool have THE BEST Manager in the world in my view. In sport winning is everything, that’s what GREATNESS is measured on!!
If you don’t know the state of FSG worth WHY do you comment ??
No one that actually knew the finances of the club would comment on this. He’s only being honest by saying he doesn’t know but, knowing what he does this is his opinion. Fair shout I think,,,,
If salah goes 150m we get mbappe free , 5 Yr contract say 600,000 a week plus saving mo waged of 350,000 the 150m for mo will cover his wages ,then shirt sales ,so won’t be ad bad as it looks ,but I don’t see mbappe comming I’d a link to make head lines
Is this man telling us that Liverpool is poor?? May be he is arsenal fan,
Liverpool will still bring mbappe to anfield
It’s true there’s no way the pool could afford his wages I think he’s getting a million a week,??hes a fantastic talent would love to see him the red shirt watching him bang goals at the Kop End the rest of the big names there I think we should stay making our own gems