It's $igurdsson's Loss

With the completion of the signing of Gylfi Sigurdsson by Tottenham came rumours that the reason that the deal with Liverpool fell through was because Sigurdsson's financial demands were too high. For purely footballing reasons it would seem more sensible to join Liverpool than Tottenham, Liverpool are one of the biggest clubs in the World, have a manager that Gylfi knew well and look to have a long term plan to bring success to the club. Tottenham on the other hand only appointed a new manager a few days ago and the transfer dealings between Gylfi and Spurs seemed to begin well before André Villas Boas took over.

These rumours about Gylfi's financial demands have been confirmed in an interview by Brendan Rodgers. Rodgers stated that Sigurdsson wanted more than the deal that he had already agreed with Swansea. Rodgers refused to pay any more and I say good on him, I know footballers are all on ridiculous amounts of money but frankly a reasonable wage and the pride of playing for the club should be enough. If Sigurdsson was willing to accept an amount of money to play for Swansea the lure of the same amount of money at a bigger club should have been enough.

Personally I say it's Sigurdsson's loss not Liverpool's. Yes the Icelandic midfielder looks to be an exciting prospect but there's always another option and quite frankly there's got to be a reason that Hoffenheim don't want him. I believe that playing under Brendan Rodgers would have guaranteed Sigurdsson a certain amount of success as Rodgers is a manager who knows how he plays and how to get the best out of him. Signing for Spurs is a big gamble.

Anyway Liverpool must move forward with trying to get their other transfer targets. Brendan Rodgers seems to me to be the type of man who would have a plan for every scenario and therefore I assume that backup targets will already be in place and talks will begin for these players in the coming weeks. Hopefully any other targets for Liverpool are players who would be proud to pull on the shirt.