Borini - £10 million buy out clause


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Why would Liverpool keep him when they could loan him out, save wages and potentially set up a summer transfer? The only reason they would keep him is because they need him for games which would be what he wanted in the first place.

As for the point about Italy and wages - there's no suggestion at all that Borini would want £90k a week to move to Italy. He demanded that because he wasn't overly keen on going to QPR.
Was a game of Brinksmanship which Liverpool lost!
 
Might be possible, but highly unlikely he's ask for the same money from a club that he'd actually want to play for.

My point is that he's priced himself out of a move to QPR and that a move there could have been worse for his career than a few months sat on Liverpools bench (or even in the stands).

I think it's also unlikely that he'd drop his expectations by c. £1m a year just to play in Serie A.

I also think that a permanent move to QPR for £50k a week but with a £10m buy out clause would've got him the move and benefitted his career more than earning the same money to play for Liverpool reserves.

Was a game of Brinksmanship which Liverpool lost!

Liverpool seems to conduct themselves fairly imo. Accepted our offer and QPR's, and were crystal clear with Borini too.
 
I think it's also unlikely that he'd drop his expectations by c. £1m a year just to play in Serie A.

I also think that a permanent move to QPR for £50k a week but with a £10m buy out clause would've got him the move and benefitted his career more than earning the same money to play for Liverpool reserves.



Liverpool seems to conduct themselves fairly imo. Accepted our offer and QPR's, and were crystal clear with Borini too.
We'll see.

I think his ego probably has taken a bit of a kicking over this when it was only ourselves & QPR who were prepared to meet liverpools fee.

I suspect theres going to be a bit of a reevaluation all round in January.
 
We'll see.

I think his ego probably has taken a bit of a kicking over this when it was only ourselves & QPR who were prepared to meet liverpools fee.

I suspect theres going to be a bit of a reevaluation all round in January.

I think he has been taken to the cleaners by his agent. His comments on Twitter suggest that he's opted for denial over an Odemwingie-style purge.
 
If thats true then yes, not surprised at all that they pulled the plug. So they pay 10m+, have to pay far more than hes worth as a weekly salary and dont even have the comfort that if he does well they can sell for a big profit. The term wanting to have your cake and eat it springs to mind, Fabio. That deal would be a non starter purely from a financial standpoint, even before considering the fact that it suggests a huge lack of commitment on the players behalf.
Wait until January when the novelty of doing his little goal celebration In front of two men and a dog wears off. He'll be begging to come back. (I'd tell him to fuck off like).
 
I think it's also unlikely that he'd drop his expectations by c. £1m a year just to play in Serie A.

I also think that a permanent move to QPR for £50k a week but with a £10m buy out clause would've got him the move and benefitted his career more than earning the same money to play for Liverpool reserves.

Maybe something will happen in the coming matches which means Borini gets a chance and he takes it? The same thing happened for Henderson who Rodgers tried to get rid of to Fulham in order to bring Dempsey in. How foolish a decision does that look now yet Rodgers is hailed as a genius at the moment.
 
Reading into the comments now being made by his agent and himself on Twitter it would appear he was only after money. Agent critical of Liverpool insisting no loan deals when he could have got him into a "top European Club" on loan. He's decided he'll sit tight on his Liverpool salary and ride out his remaining two years, or Liverpool give up on paying out for nothing and try farming him out again in January. Time will tell, but not even getting on the bench is going to somewhat limit any fee or salary hike for him .......
 
I think you're missing the point over the wages. If, for example Roma came back in for him, do you think he'd ask for the same amount he was asking from QPR?
If he's looking for a move to a big Italian club, he'll get it.

but no big italian club bid for him. the lad has been for sale all summer
 
Maybe something will happen in the coming matches which means Borini gets a chance and he takes it? The same thing happened for Henderson who Rodgers tried to get rid of to Fulham in order to bring Dempsey in. How foolish a decision does that look now yet Rodgers is hailed as a genius at the moment.

Perhaps it was the boot up the arse the lad needed.
 
but no big italian club bid for him. the lad has been for sale all summer
Not to buy him, no. As has been said, there's not as much money in Italian football now.

If the only sides that can afford Liverpools fee are clubs in England that Borini doesn't want to go to, he'll either have to lower his expectations or Liverpool lower their fee - and we know who holds the power now.
 
Maybe something will happen in the coming matches which means Borini gets a chance and he takes it? The same thing happened for Henderson who Rodgers tried to get rid of to Fulham in order to bring Dempsey in. How foolish a decision does that look now yet Rodgers is hailed as a genius at the moment.

It's possible, and he will get chances in the cups etc. He's very far down the pecking order though, and Rodgers' comments would suggest that it'd take a a minor miracle for him to be considered for league matches.

He could be at QPR now, living in London, playing for a decent team who are likely to stay up, enjoying a small pay rise. Seems like a better option than fighting Sterling, Balotelli, Lambert, Coutinho and Markovic for a first team birth, and that's before you get into the other squad filler that he'll be lumped in with. Plus in the long term, there's Origi and Aspas to contend with too.
 
He intentionally priced himself out of moves because he didn't want to join a Sunderland/QPR from Liverpool. He was obviously holding out for a decent Italian side (or other) coming in for him and if not, he'd stay where he was.

The bloke is delusional if he thinks he'll break into that Liverpool side.
What's worse is Liverpool must hate him right now. They had £10 million in the bank and him saying no means that Liverpool have to run his contract down or sell him cheaper in January as no club decent is going to watch him in the reserves and think "we should bid £10 million quid for that guy"
 
I'll be sounding like a broken record..... but we dodged a bullet here.

We've spunked enough money on average cocky players in the past, we did well to hang fire with this one.
 
He's said all along that he wants to stay at Liverpool, and - guess what - he has.
Goodness knows why we pursued him for so long (the cynic in me has an idea), and I honestly believe he priced himself out of a QPR move on purpose to stay put.
I'm sure both us and QPR were willing to up his Liverpool wage, but again, he'd sooner be there on less money. I fail to see how that makes the lad greedy.
 
He's said all along that he wants to stay at Liverpool, and - guess what - he has.
Goodness knows why we pursued him for so long (the cynic in me has an idea), and I honestly believe he priced himself out of a QPR move on purpose to stay put.
I'm sure both us and QPR were willing to up his Liverpool wage, but again, he'd sooner be there on less money. I fail to see how that makes the lad greedy.

Sitting out his contract and drawing a wage from a club that have no intention of playing him. The height of altruism.
 
Borini is on c. £2.6m a year. Loaning him out in January would save around £1m, assuming the other club picked up the entire tab. £1m is absolutely nothing.
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Great innit, how out of touch with real world is this game that we like to watch:lol:
 
Great innit, how out of touch with real world is this game that we like to watch:lol:

Transfer Deadline Day sums it all up. They present the fact that £800,000,000 has been spent as brilliant news, as it's it's Comic Relief or summat.

I wonder if they do this in Germany or Italy?
 
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