I’m having an existential crisis.
But I sure as fuck want that Prada backpack.
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Manbag confessions!
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Billionaires need not exist but here we are eh.
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Given he was on loan at Wolves last season and therefore they technically only signed him this summer I don’t think he can even be sold to another club this window.
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Mixed feelings about this, because the amount of money we are spending is ridiculous, no player is worth £130 million + no matter what arguments going to come this way , it simply is a load of bollocks trying to justify it, we are basically giving a green light to the likes of city , saudi and psg to say we understand that you are sportswashing and we reject what you are doing to the sport but since you have premier league, uefa , fifa and national governments in your pockets we are effectively legitimising the hyper inflated prices that they started to bid on players just so they can join the succesful historical clubs around Europe.
Isak is not worth that money and we should not be entertaining it especially when viewing the clubs socialist background standards.
If fsg have that sort of money to invest, then invest it in the local area and maybe even setting up better footballing projects in an around deprived the country/world and develop a new fanbase not only on who we are as a club, but one that will find ways of not being pulled into the oil states tactic of legitimising them.
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Sadly none of this will change without a fundamental overhaul of the league and maybe even the collapse of one or two clubs where the benefactor pulls out.
Would be nice to win it on a whim but we have to spend to remain competitive they we’re going spend big money. At least we can point to having earned it.
Look at the list of transfers over last 7 years, we are like 10/11th in the list. This has only pushed up to about 8th.
We will effectively bring our net spend down anyhow when 3-4 players exit. It will probably come in around 100m-150m and for what is effectively an outlay over 5 windows that isn’t a lot.
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I very much disagree with this point. The issue you refer to here is more about the source of the money being used, and to what end. There is a clear difference that our club is using money derived from the club itself, not sovereign wealth funds.
As to your other point and the club’s socialist background, I think that is definitely worthy of discussion - however, not all fans of the club are socialists and not sure any of our owners have been either. Even Shankly didn’t appear to have a problem with the club spending on players.
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Just to clarify, its not really a dig at the club, but we are seeing the effects of what city and most notably psg have done to the market, if PIF continue to buy fifa and the corrupt bastards there…this really will get worse once PIF can spend at will, more so than the others mentioned .
Just think when we have players like mane who builds hospitals etc ( think salah has done something as well )…then FSG could take a leaf out of their books and say fuck it , isak we aint paying that money, but we will spend some of that money on a hospital / school etc just because it shows like our players present and past we too care about development of poorer communities .
I know its not going to happen, and its wishful thinking , but at least it aint going to PIF funds etc.
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If Liverpool spend £150m on Isak, that fee would be amortised over five years (the maximum under Premier League and UEFA PSR), meaning only £30m would hit the accounts this year.
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Sure but thats the same as any deal. It doesnt change that 150m is 150m
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David Blaine has given up his controversial stunt of spending 44 days in a box doing nothing after hearing the record is currently held by Emile Heskey at 4 years
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I remember when Trevor Francis moved for £1million. It just felt inherently wrong.
Adjusted for inflation, that would be £5million now.
If you bought a top rated player for £5m now it would be regarded as the bargain of the century. We got double that for a player with a month left on his contract this summer.
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Players are worth what the market dictates.
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Transfer inflation is getting real. I’ve seen all sorts of numbers as high as £80 million for Sesko. How much was this guy before all this? I’m glad we got Ekitike done. I hope Isak numbers don’t get too crazy.
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The 2nd parag here makes zero sense to me. What is the whole Anfield redevelopment all about if not precisely this?
Due to immense, undemocratic, pressure from the mods, I have relented and changed my 0% prediction to 1%. I sincerely hope that this satisfies you, now please stop shoving dog shit through my mail slot. My cats are traumatized.
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