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Originally Posted by escobar43535
I know hindsight is 20/20 but if we would have cashed in 2 years ago we probably wouldn’t have been any worse off as a team and would have received north of £100m for Trent. I can understand him wanting to try something new but its the walking out on a free that’s frustrating 
The problem for me isn't with Trent, it's with the club for allowing a situation like this when we have 3 top players out of contract. |
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021...ol_F.C._season
Cashing in 2 seasons ago meant selling him in the summer of 2022. That's the season after we won the League cup and FA cups (thanks to Minamino), losing the league by 1 point to Man City and losing the CL final to Real Madrid (where our fans were locked out). The season where we were aiming for the Quadruple. I can't see how Liverpool will survive the backlash from the fans from selling a Scouser after such a wonderful season.
Liverpool always have a difficult time on transfers with Scouse players. When they leave, the most commonly acceptable reason is they do not get enough playing time and they are leaving to a lesser team to play more. Like Stephen Warnock.
If the Scouse player is a regular starting 11, even if we receive a big offer, it's hard for the club to sell a local boy. Steve Mcmanaman left on a free, Owen for £8m pounds, TAA on a free. Gerrard put in a transfer request but thankfully didn't leave. I can't recall which regular starting 11 player we had sold for a big fee. I think the club's hands are tied when it comes to TAA.