Delighted for Joe. Seems a great lad and is always quick to give credit to the club. Deserves his place in a fantastic side and is only going to get better playing more alongside van Dijk.
Do we get a bonus for Liverpool winning the league? I'm fairly sure there will be a sell on clause (unless we've sold the sell on clause).
Meire would have negotiated the sale on Charlton's behalf, so the spoils of Joe's League success are considerable: Meire herself gets the bragging rights in the Belgian media for us having seen a Premiership star of tomorrow, today. Yesterday. Mowgli gets to upgrade his cv, his Championship Manager status and his collection of Pokemon Shinies; when he meets up with his Larpin mates he can boast that he once shook Joe's hand and without his input Joe Would probably have wound up playing for Dulwich Hamlet. Meanwhile, her friend Sue gets immunity from Covid, free entry to any Premiership game of her choice and a napkin stuffed full of vol-au-vents to eat on the way home. The club receives a hefty financial windfall, almost enough to fill up a Range Rover with diesel. It's a wonderful life.
I still can't believe we sold him for 3.5M. I knew when I first saw him as a sixteen year old that he would go on to better things. I was hoping it would be with us. Well done Joe and well done Liverpool.
I think Charlton got £250k when he got his first England cap, I wonder if the club the had the same amount in the transfer deal for winning the premier league?
Championship clubs Hull and Charlton are also in line for payments as part of the transfers that took Andrew Robertson and Joe Gomez to Merseyside, respectively.
Would be interesting to know Van Dijk's opinion on who is better, Gomez or De Ligt.
De Ligt surely
Gomez isn't even an automatic starter at the moment at Liverpool
When he's been fit he's been 1st choice
Indeed he is. In fact the team that started against Palace is their strongest and contains the X1 that have started the most PL games this season. He offers pace and allows TAA to operate as a winger in all but name.
Here's a stat though - in the 28 games that Joe has started in the PL over the course of the last two season Liverpool have conceded just 8 goals and only once did they concede twice in a game. You don't tend to lose many matches doing that and this record compares favourably with their overall PL against tally this season of conceding 21 in 31 matches.
It is hard for him to do so given that he doesn't go up for set pieces but wouldn't it be great to see him score his very first goal for club and country?
Some rumours that Liverpool are planning a bid for Napoli centre back Koulibaly. If true, not good news for Joe as surely Van Dijk & Koulibaly will be first choice
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Gomez isn't even an automatic starter at the moment at Liverpool
Well done Joe. Fantastic stuff!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/06/26/southampton-poised-cash-liverpools-premier-league-title-win/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8464613/Liverpools-Premier-League-glory-sees-club-faced-paying-10MILLION-bonuses.html
Here's a stat though - in the 28 games that Joe has started in the PL over the course of the last two season Liverpool have conceded just 8 goals and only once did they concede twice in a game. You don't tend to lose many matches doing that and this record compares favourably with their overall PL against tally this season of conceding 21 in 31 matches.
It is hard for him to do so given that he doesn't go up for set pieces but wouldn't it be great to see him score his very first goal for club and country?
Obviously Lovren is 4th choice
Amazing if true and amazing at probably how quick the money will dissappear...
Some rumours that Liverpool are planning a bid for Napoli centre back Koulibaly. If true, not good news for Joe as surely Van Dijk & Koulibaly will be first choice