God damn it Matty! Now @aussielad, @SBYM and I are back to panicking
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(I actually have no idea if heās right, but I am enjoying the sentiment, all the same)
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Also other clubs could spendā¦ If they hadnāt wasted utter fortunes before on shit buys.
Liverpoolās transfer business has been on point largely with very few notable failures(if you can call the likes of Nunez/Keita/Ox as failures.
Not playing it safe like Arsenal and not scattergun like Chelsea.
The side is built on the back of its legally earned revenue. Not by inventing sponsors by gulf entities , not by someone writing off some billions in debt.
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Ox 100% not a failure.
Darwin Iād rate as just meh.
Naby is the only failure I see there.
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Naby is a failure but not in our process. I tend to think weāve learnt from that too. At some point of time , we were bound for things not working out. Itās a shame though.
Ox was a gamble, a rather expensive one though considering his injury history. A mid level signing all things considered. Maybe tending to the failure side of it.
Darwin is mid. Not a failure.
Nothing against the players , they did show in patches why we brought them. Just not enough of that quality coming through.
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Do think Thiago could be kept there in the mid signings too.
Immense player, clearly talented. But his injury history didnāt help him and us one bit.
Really wanted him to play some more matches with macca than he actually did end up playing.
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Yeah Iād suggest that Naby simply didnāt work out and we can be given a pass for not having predicted his injury and attitude situation.
Ox was a poor signing given his cost and injury history. Understandable as he was potentially a high level to which we were then only aspiring and showed a real desire to join us, but a signing we wouldnāt repeat today.
Thiago was also a gamble given his injury record but again was understandable given how brilliant he could have been.
Darwin was a poorer gamble given his cost and question marks about his record.
The signings of late that Iāve been disappointed with are the āno brainer/good valueā ones that prove to be false economies - the likes of Taki, Chiesa and Melo.
Taki helped us get those cup titles.
Chiesa , still remains to be seen. Itās a gamble nonetheless.
Melo , a last gasp hire that did fuck all. Was Edwards involved at all in that signing ?
Either way , none of the three impact us financially in any which way.
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opportunity cost.
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And those are what , 4 questionable signings over a 8 year period under Klopp. The other clubs routinely went through 2 of those opportunistic signings per season
Donāt think minamino did impact us on the lost cost fallacy in any which way. We got him on the cheap and he did what he was told to.
I think the bigger mistake was in renewing Origiās contract after the CL win. He clearly wasnāt the same player after the cunt Funes Mori kicked through him.
The renewal of Origiās contract didnāt hurt us too much in terms of financial wins/losses but in hindsight shouldnāt have happened.
He cost ~70% of what Dortmund paid his team-mate who was also available.
Anyway lets not split hairs too much. The clear evidence is that the transfer guys are clearly hopeless and we need to get in some professionals like the scouts ManUtd use; the negotiators at Newcastle and the contract renewers from Man Utd (again! - there is an outstandingly run club).
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Hope everything is ok.
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Not to mention the Chelsea 8 year contracts so they have to fake drug tests to get rid of the useless.
Mamardashvili will start tomorrow, I guess. Maybe we see Pecsi at some point in the second half, heās looked good from what I could notice in training clips.
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