£20 million sale of Rhian Brewster is complete madness
Selling Rhian Brewster is madness by Liverpool.
Telegraph journalist Mike McGrath wrote a piece that said the club would be willing to listen to permanent offers for the forward.
This would be wrong and incompetent on so many levels, and it could be the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Fans are already frustrated at the economic model owners FSG have brought to Liverpool. While it’s worked well up to this point, we’re seeing other top sides spend while market values have depreciated and that gives them an economic advantage.
Selling one of the brightest prospects in England would place immeasurable strain on the relationship and we could see a backfire like the one West Ham are going through because of their decision to let Grady Diangana move to West Brom.
Liverpool are still selling to buy. In normal times, that’s all well and good because the squad has a number of high-value fringe players.
Harry Wilson, Marko Grujic and Xherdan Shaqiri would go for £60 million between them, which would give sporting director Michael Edwards and manager Jurgen Klopp room to move in the transfer market.
It would also open up two additional foreign player slots on the roster, which might have enabled the move for Thiago go have been completed by now.
Liverpool transfer news. Liverpool to sign Jadon Sancho – ‘surprise’ if deal doesn’t happen. light
But these aren’t normal times, and normal rules don’t apply.
Which brings the Rhian Brewster issue full circle. Letting him leave for a price that exceeds £20 million is complete madness. If the only way that the club who won the Champions League and Premier League in consecutive seasons can go to market is by selling their best young player, then something’s broken.
You don’t get ahead in football by cutting your nose off to spite your face, and any short-term gain that might be granted by this move would be swiftly swallowed by the marching sands of time.
Brewster has an incredibly high ceiling, you saw that in the manner he dismantled the Championship, but that potential is hard to quantify right now and that’s what could make £20 million an attractive offer.
Next. Corey Whelan on Arizona, versatility and playing the Liverpool way. dark
Fans love to see Academy players doing well and we’ve been excited about this man for years. It would be incredibly shortsighted to throw that away because someone flashed a few quid in our face.