Money grabber! Greedy git! Liverpool fans react to Emre Can deal
By David Gate
Liverpool fans are not holding back on their thoughts over why Emre Can left Liverpool at the end of his contract. His Juventus deal is only about the money!
The suspicions of most Liverpool fans were confirmed today. Emre Can signed a 4-year deal with Italian giants Juventus with a reported £14 million signing-on fee. That is on top of his £220k-a-week salary.
The news has led many Reds to take to social media and declare the former Liverpool midfielder to be only motivated by one thing:
Emre Can got a signing on fee of 14 million. what a money grabbing knob
— ellis (@ETDesigns_) June 21, 2018
Emre Can getting a 16m EUR signing-on fee is the latest evidence to re-inforce my theory that 98% of pro footballers are motivated only by money
— Dan Kennett (@DanKennett) June 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/Salaholics/status/1009827799513948165
Anyone wondering why Emre Can left @LFC for Juventus: he will be earning a minimum £11m a year for the first two years of a four year contract in Italy. That's £220,000 a week, which would have made him Liverpool's highest earner. By some distance.
— David Maddock (@MaddockMirror) June 21, 2018
His agent has played a blinder working such a huge signing on fee – almost half of what he will receive in total. With Liverpool fresh from reaching the Champions League final the feeling is that he has left a team on the up.
While competition in midfield has been fierce at Liverpool, it will not get any easier in Turin. Juventus already have Sami Khedira and Miralem Pjanic as their midfield duo.
The Reds will be fine in central midfield next season with Fabinho and Naby Keita joining Jordan Henderson, Gini Wijnaldum, James Milner and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain as the key options. They also have Adam Lallana and Marko Grujic to fit in.
Liverpool are also keen on Xherdan Shaqiri and may still complete a deal for Nabil Fekir despite it being sidelined through injury concerns. Losing Emre Can will not hurt Liverpool on the pitch. The only loss is that he left on a free transfer and the Reds missed out on a sizable transfer fee for an international heading into his prime.
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We shouldn’t be surprised that money is such a huge factor. To be fair to Emre Can there is no way he was getting anything close to that at Anfield. It is smart of the Liverpool hierarchy to let him walk if these are his demands.