Pep Lijnders has lifted the lid on how we successfully stole Luis Diaz from under Tottenham's noses in January.
“I was on a skiing trip with my wife Danielle when, during dinner, our sporting director Julian Ward called me. You and Jurgen have to speak with Luis Diaz in five minutes. We’ve just agreed with Porto but Tottenham are all-in as well’.
“I joined the call and Jurgen was explaining to Luis how he would fit into our style and that we would help him. He said in reference to me joining the call, ‘But you will hear this guy much more often!' To which I immediately said: ‘But I will explain things more calmly than Sergio Conceicao, the Porto manager!' To which Luis laughed.
“I told him: ‘We want you desperately and have been pushing for the last one-and-a-half months with our owners and our sporting director, but you know that these kinds of transfers are not easy to accomplish.
“‘The good thing is you will train with Virgil, Robbo and Trent and they will make you so much stronger. Our idea is to create and score; you will have to tear these guys apart each day in training, which will make you better’.
"His agent translated Jurgen’s message and Julian Ward said: ‘These two will make you a better player'."
Diaz was then shown the club’s trophy cabinet to seal the deal.
"Julian then walked with his phone to the trophy cabinet at AXA and finished with: 'We want to add to this and that’s why we want you.'
“If the boy wasn’t convinced, he would be now. What started as a bad adventure on the slopes ended with an incredible signing. We signed the one we wanted. My crazy day couldn’t have ended better. Would he be the difference-maker for the rest of this season? We hoped so."
So now we know why Diaz signed for us as we showed him something Spurs couldn't.
Diaz was then shown the club’s trophy cabinet to seal the deal.
Why Diaz signed for us
posted on 31/7/22
comment by palmers_spur (U8896)
posted 24 seconds ago
comment by Robbing Hoody - Legacy Fan (U6374)
posted 11 hours, 9 minutes ago
There are loads of really good Spurs posters, we all know that, but good grief you absolutely have a huge number of mefs on here, you really do. Probably more than any other club if we're honest.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Likewise, some great Liverpool lads. But faaack me, are any of you lot actually from liverpool ???!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
A fair few actually. I was born there but I wouldn't call myself a scouser.
It's also 2022 so...
posted on 31/7/22
Congratulations
I genuinely think you’re the first
posted on 31/7/22
Nah, Fields, KLS, Scouseheart all from the city. There actually used to be more like Knotty, WessieRoad.
It's not like there are no Liverpool fans in Liverpool you know.
posted on 31/7/22
Doesn't KLS live in Manchester?
posted on 31/7/22
comment by Robbing Hoody - Legacy Fan (U6374)
posted 35 minutes ago
Nah, Fields, KLS, Scouseheart all from the city. There actually used to be more like Knotty, WessieRoad.
It's not like there are no Liverpool fans in Liverpool you know.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yep, agreed, there’s a few
posted on 3/8/22
So basically he's a glory hunter like 99% of their fans!
posted on 3/8/22
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 12 minutes ago
So basically he's a glory hunter like 99% of their fans!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
So looking at your username I assume you’re a Birmingham City fan?
posted on 3/8/22
comment by Terminator1 (U1863)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 12 minutes ago
So basically he's a glory hunter like 99% of their fans!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
So looking at your username I assume you’re a Birmingham City fan?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subtle difference being, that having supported Chelsea since 1964 and following us all over the country In Division 2, it obviously was nothing to do with Chelsea's success was it!
posted on 3/8/22
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 55 minutes ago
comment by Terminator1 (U1863)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 12 minutes ago
So basically he's a glory hunter like 99% of their fans!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
So looking at your username I assume you’re a Birmingham City fan?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subtle difference being, that having supported Chelsea since 1964 and following us all over the country In Division 2, it obviously was nothing to do with Chelsea's success was it!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Why does it actually matter to you why someone started supporting a team? If someone starts supporting a team when they’re a child and stay with that team for their whole lives, then it’s pretty irrelevant what that initial reason was, or where they live.
posted on 3/8/22
comment by Terminator1 (U1863)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 55 minutes ago
comment by Terminator1 (U1863)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by BrummieBlue! (U3487)
posted 12 minutes ago
So basically he's a glory hunter like 99% of their fans!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
So looking at your username I assume you’re a Birmingham City fan?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Subtle difference being, that having supported Chelsea since 1964 and following us all over the country In Division 2, it obviously was nothing to do with Chelsea's success was it!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Why does it actually matter to you why someone started supporting a team? If someone starts supporting a team when they’re a child and stay with that team for their whole lives, then it’s pretty irrelevant what that initial reason was, or where they live.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Well when you hear them taunting you for being a plastic fan, when you know a huge swave of them would not be Liverpool supporters if it wasn't for X amount of league titles and Y amount of European Cups I find it sort of amusing!