According to the sun

1st instalment?

Utter rubbish.

That might pay for his gloves.

How long is he contracted for? Has he renegotiated his pay with his elevated status?

IF TRUE! -any links?

- he would probably like to go..

Although as we rescued him from [near] obscurity, he might show some loyalty.

[not knocking NP in any way]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football ... gen-klopp/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It's all a ploy to get the price down for Butland.

hampsteadclaret wrote:IF TRUE! -any links?

- he would probably like to go..

Although as we rescued him from [near] obscurity, he might show some loyalty.

[not knocking NP in any way]

£30m, done deal. We're sure to get a couple of year's quality service from Tom and should be able to bring another 'keeper through in that time

We'll be lucky to get £15 million for a keeper whose distribution is so poor!!

Devils_Advocate wrote:We'll be lucky to get £15 million for a keeper whose distribution is so poor!!

Well actually we wouldn't need the £15million.

boatshed bill wrote:Well actually we wouldn't need the £15million.

Think you've quoted me by mistake, I never said we needed anything???

After the CL final, this was ALWAYS gonna get reported.

Might be some truth in it, might just be typical lazy arsed journalism. Either way, for £15m, you can poke it.

Devils_Advocate wrote:Think you've quoted me by mistake, I never said we needed anything???

Not really, i'm emphasising that £15m isn't enough to sell for. Distribution is not an issue.

boatshed bill wrote:Not really, i'm emphasising that £15m isn't enough to sell for. Distribution is not an issue.

It's a pointless discussion as can't see any other team offering that amount based on the fact he can't kick a ball straight

Devils_Advocate wrote:It's a pointless discussion as can't see any other team offering that amount based on the fact he can't kick a ball straight

Our Player of the season, wasn't he?

fidelcastro wrote:Our Player of the season, wasn't he?

Don't understand the link between him being our player of the year and someone paying £15 millions for him.

Dyche has convinced us that hoof ball is great if it delivers the results and Pope epitomises that vision as good as anyone

Devils_Advocate wrote:Don't understand the link between him being our player of the year and someone paying £15 millions for him.

Dyche has convinced us that hoof ball is great if it delivers the results and Pope epitomises that vision as good as anyone

I'm guessing you don't bother attending games then?

Same shite, different day.

fidelcastro wrote:I'm guessing you don't bother attending games then?

When Leeds aren't playing I watch every game...just ask Lauren12

Devils_Advocate wrote:When Leeds aren't playing I watch every game...just ask Lauren12

That explains a lot.

This appears to be a problem with klopp. He doesn't take the role of keeper seriously enough. Pope is nowhere near the standard required of a team hoping to be English and European champions. Klopp is with keepers like Wengers attitude was to defenders.

Devils_Advocate wrote:Don't understand the link between him being our player of the year and someone paying £15 millions for him.

Dyche has convinced us that hoof ball is great if it delivers the results and Pope epitomises that vision as good as anyone

He hasn't convinced me. I'd need to watch hoofball to be convinced. I don't watch hoofball, I have a ST at Turf Moor where I watch Burnley play intelligently, and with hard work and skill, using whatever tactics are deemed necessary to frustrate and outwit their opponents.

Where are you getting your hoofball information from?

bobinho wrote:He hasn't convinced me. I'd need to watch hoofball to be convinced. I don't watch hoofball, I have a ST at Turf Moor where I watch Burnley play intelligently, and with hard work and skill, using whatever tactics are deemed necessary to frustrate and outwit their opponents.

Where are you getting your hoofball information from?

You're brainwashed but you seem happy so I'll leave you to it

Devils_Advocate wrote:You're brainwashed but you seem happy so I'll leave you to it

Don't forget the 22 pass move against Everton..

Ignore the fact that at the time Everton were the worst defensive side in the country..

Brainwashed? I don't think so, it's not like I think we're Real Madrid or owt.

Its YOUR team that thinks they're so much like RM, they even dress up like them...

Japebe43 wrote:Don't forget the 22 pass move against Everton..

Ignore the fact that at the time Everton were the worst defensive side in the country..

How could we forget it as it was such a freak occurrence hence you remembering it so vividly. You couldly hardly pinpoint the thousands of occasions we aimlessly hoofed it to Barnes and Vokes over the last few years

never going to happen, he is the best keeper in the UK and is worth around 50 million at least.
the sun is bog paper, and their sports journalists are cretins.

bobinho wrote:Brainwashed? I don't think so, it's not like I think we're Real Madrid or owt.

Its YOUR team that thinks they're so much like RM, they even dress up like them...

You don't and won't realise it just like the religious nutjobs are oblivious to it but forget I even brought it up and just be happy in your own foolish beliefs

WAH WAH WAH WAH ,
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Same faces, another topic.

Go for a pint... finish it in the car park if needed

Wile E Coyote wrote:never going to happen, he is the best keeper in the UK and is worth around 50 million at least.
the sun is bog paper, and their sports journalists are cretins.

Best keeper in the UK? Err no.

Devils_Advocate wrote:How could we forget it as it was such a freak occurrence hence you remembering it so vividly. You couldly hardly pinpoint the thousands of occasions we aimlessly hoofed it to Barnes and Vokes over the last few years

Sounds like he's on your side of this discussion, not ours.

I swear devils advocate and kbrfc are the same person

Japebe43 wrote:This appears to be a problem with klopp. He doesn't take the role of keeper seriously enough. Pope is nowhere near the standard required of a team hoping to be English and European champions. Klopp is with keepers like Wengers attitude was to defenders.

Aren't burnley looking to be european champions?? With "the tour"

Ric_C wrote:I swear devils advocate and kbrfc are the same person

Yeah they are both Yorkshire cock suckers! Who if you ever meet in the street you would drop them asap!

Claretuk wrote:Yeah they are both Yorkshire cock suckers! Who if you ever meet in the street you would drop them asap!

Don’t tarnish us Yorkshire folk with the faux ******** that DA is spouting! Do that and it’ll be me dropping you in the street, sunshine

Devils_Advocate wrote:How could we forget it as it was such a freak occurrence hence you remembering it so vividly. You couldly hardly pinpoint the thousands of occasions we aimlessly hoofed it to Barnes and Vokes over the last few years

If we hoofed it to Barnes and Vokes, then it wasn't aimless, was it? I don't expect you to talk sense in footballing terms, but try and talk sense in English language terms please.

dsr wrote:If we hoofed it to Barnes and Vokes, then it wasn't aimless, was it? I don't expect you to talk sense in footballing terms, but try and talk sense in English language terms please.

If you think putting two big guys up front and lumping it in their general direction is anything better than aimless in the context of football you have very low standards

You should stick to pedalling blatent lies on political threads that supports your abhorrent beliefs as you excel in that area

we have an option on a 3rd year so he has 2+1 left before he is OOC. £15million seems about right to me.
£15million per year of contract outstanding plus his wages over the next three years.

Maybe we could do a deal for their other target and we can throw Tarks in as a sweetener

"You should stick to pedalling blatent lies ..... "

I used to pedal a Raliegh.

Devils_Advocate wrote:We'll be lucky to get £15 million for a keeper whose distribution is so poor!!

Did his “poor distribution” cost us a goal this season ?
£30m Pickford and Butland both gave away a number of goals this season through trying to be too clever or just poor kicking as did plenty of other keepers in our league.
Given the season Pope had and his statistics for actually stopping goals it’s very strange that you decide to focus on an area of his game which is nowhere near as bad as people make out.
Do you think the fact that he can’t kick a ball like Ederson is more important than for example the fact that he is one of only a couple of keepers in the league (other being Courtois) who actually catches the ball from crosses rather than punches it ?(and give back possession)

It's a slow Sunday.

Devils_Advocate wrote:Don't understand the link between him being our player of the year and someone paying £15 millions for him.

Dyche has convinced us that hoof ball is great if it delivers the results and Pope epitomises that vision as good as anyone

If you attended matches you would admit that the football changed at different stages with injuries to key players. A lot more creative football until this point in the season and then what genius to switch tactics and grind out a top seven finish with depleted resources.

Patience is required as we slowly build up the squad to be able to survive as well as be good enough to ping the ball around on the deck at lightning speed. Dyche hasn't had to convince us of any thing he is now stood in legend territory. Whilst you need to convince that your actually a Burnley fan who has been to games this season and not in fact Owen Coyle sat in a bed sit.

If there was any truth in this they would never have picked such a ridiculous figure out of the air.
Just park it with the rest of the rubbish and move on.

Can we all stop being silly, what do you lot think you are playing at defending a Burnley player, anybody would think this is a Burnley FC message board. I mean come on folks, Pope clearly can't kick a ball a long, long way therefore he's rubbish, you lot are all blinkered and Devils Advocate is spot on (thanks for the earlier mention btw, nice to see you're thinking about me).

Forgot all that guff about his meteoritic rise from obscurity to becoming one the top performing keepers who has made unbelievable saves/ commands the penalty/ catches difficult crosses/ helped us win (?) however many points, etc, etc and now finds himself on the verge of a World Cup. Just stop it and forget all that. Cos Devils Advocate quite rightly keeps highlighting the fact he cant kick the ball.

15 million? That Kloppi is off his ******* head!

Can we just not boot the obvious non-Clarets off the forum please?

I pretty much believe in free speech but these tedious time-wasting tw@ts are just here on the wind-up, and trolling for the little they are worth.

In today's market it is a laughable offer. If it gets mid twenty million then who knows ?

Start at £40 million. He is the long-term future England keeper.