Whatever the reason behind it, they're all there now and money tends to follow. The gentrification was already in overdrive as it was, I can only imagine the smashed avocado and kale sales skyrocketing now.

History has nothing to do with it. The main thing that swings players is money pure and simple. Location I think plays a part at times with families but more often than not its simply about wages.

Man City started to sign great players because they paid them. PSG sign top players because they pay them. Italian clubs fail to attract top players because they cant pay them what others can.

Club history is a night idealist thought into thinking why a player may sign for any club but it doesn't pay the bills. It's all about the hard cash.

Money, playing time and potential success are huge factors in determining club attraction.

Sanchez almost certainly joined Arsenal for higher wages, more playing time and competing for trophies. Arsenal regularly feature in the Champions League and Liverpool do not.

Location may play a factor but if you're a millionaire, living in London or Liverpool probably doesn't really make all that much difference, both have their advantages and disadvantages. In London there is less privacy and more congestion, which doesn't appeal to all. Living in Liverpool you can certainly get a far nicer house for the money.

Regularly playing in the CL and getting KO in the last 16 every year isn't appealing to anyone.

Plenty of clubs play in the CL every season. I think the appeal of the CL is for the sides that have genuine chances of winning it rather than just competing.

Getting knocked out early is still more appealing than not playing in the competition at all.

Clubs that have a greater chance of winning it like Real Madrid and Barca are more appealing hence why all the best players want to join them but if you've got a choice of joining an English team who regularly plays in the champions league and an English team that doesn't then the former will prove more attractive.

Not for less money though and that's what counts.

A player would gladly choose Man Utd or Liverpool over Spurs or even Arsenal if there being offered significant difference in wages.

I would love to know how many players tell there agents to treat CL football as a higher priority than wages as I cant see there being many.

The selectiveness on here is interesting. So Liverpool are the only club to cite history as a means to attract players? I've lost count of the times I've said to a United fan in the last few years why they expect to attract the top players if not guaranteeing CL football and they've said "Because we're Manchester United". How is that much different? All clubs use (rightly) their percieved status to attrack players. It's called selling yourself. Even if delusional, clubs/fans have every right to do this - how exactly does it affect other clubs? Maybe because it works occasionally?

Equal money, then champions league will make a difference.

It was someone in the club who confirmed Sanchez was offered more money by Liverpool but still chose to go to Arsenal.

There is definitely a location bias which has grown as players become more and more part of the elite uber rich.

Well you can see why London for the super rich is damn attractive place to live. It's one of the top cities in the world.

I think there is something to be said for potential, and the potential ability to win a league title, we have now gone three years without a league title, but that is smaller than Liverpool's 26 years without one, so in that sense we have a better ability to put forward a case as to why a player should select us to play for.

No club in this country is guaranteed to finish in the converted top four, unlike in other countries, as the competition is just so fierce, as you could make a case for up to seven, maybe even eight clubs for those places.

So a lot will come down to wages, location, and potential ability.

And commas

I think we would all like to be in the converted top four.

That doesn't mean anything. Leicester went 106 years without one.

Man Utd as it stands have as much chance of Liverpool of winning the title.

How many players have you got left from that last title win? And do you have the same or a better manager? Which of the two teams have come closest to winning the title in the last three years? Consider all that and it all adds up to.... What a load of cobblers.

A feeble attempt or simply a thinly veiled dig.

Potential is looking to the future not the past. Man Utd's potential to win the league next season or the season after has nothing to do with it being three years since they last won one.

Liverpools managerial situation is an advantage they have over Man Utd currently as a draw for a player, on the other hand Id guess Man Utd have bigger budgets. Its swings and roundabouts in that respect as things stand right now.

Hopefully your cloth cap falling over your eyes and those clogs didn't hinder you trying to get onto your cart on the way to picking up your daily Hovis loaf en-route to the mill Jo.

E-ooop chuck.

I'm not sure the less privacy is true. I'm London born and bred and you see famous people all the time and no one gives two shits.

Footballers mainly live in a bubble anyway, so I'd go with the highest wages argument myself. Money talks. Nice location - that's just a bonus.

Didn't realise Jo was from Yorkshire. Then again, I didn't realise Middlesbrough was in Yorkshire either. Not that I'm comparing Jo to Middlesbrough - smoky and filthy but she's good to the kids etc...

I dunno - anything North of London is the same to me.

Signed Codeblue of Chelsea

Well tbf with all the rain we have in Manchester a boat is the preferred method of transport, not to disimiliar to a channel crossing.

The privacy view is true in some cases just as the money aspect is true.

A player may join a club because it is in the champions league, it really depends on the player's circumstance and preference.

A player may choose to play for Man Utd for a significantly lower salary than West Ham.

It was not ment as a dig at all, sorry if it came across that way.

Look most players are going to go to the top clubs that are in London because of the attraction and plus they think it is a better place to live,but some players not bothered about that and just go way the money is

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