Thinking about the likes of Benteke and Markovic, where we obviously overpaid for them, and Klopp really doesn't want them, it makes sense to be 'flexible' and do everything possible to offload them before 1st September.
What I don't understand is why we seem to be holding out for such high fees. I know we want the most we can get for any player, as does any club, but as we're at the start of Klopp's reign and these are 'legacy issues' left over from Rodgers' time, surely we're better off getting what we can for them, saving on their wages, removing the difficulty of the manager having to include players at training sessions that he knows he's not going to use and the effect of that on the players themselves and any ripple effect their morale could have on the squad as a whole.
So even if we use the £32.5M and £20M (widely reported transfer fees) figures, Benteke's value (if we amortise it) is £32.5M divided by length of contract (5 years) multiplied by remaining time on contract = £26M.
Likewise, Markovic's value is £12M (having originally also signed a 5 year deal).
So looking at those two valuations of £26M and £12M respectively, and factoring in that we quite obviously overpaid for them (and you can't just expect the next buyer to overpay also to make up for the fact that we were stupid enough to), then surely offers of £25M and £10M wouldn't be so bad. When you consider Markovic's two below par seasons since joining us, £10M isn't really lowering his valuation by maybe as much as it should be.
It's hard to see how Benteke's value is £32.5M, when you consider it wasn't really that high when we signed him anyway, and he's not performed as well at our club as he did at his previous one.
We can either let them go for sensible fees this Summer, or we continue paying them for another year, getting no use out of them and value for the wage outgoings, and then take an even bigger hit on the their fees next Summer.