That’s why I wrote about currently difficult circumstances.
But on the other hand, the red mancs, Cheaty and Chelsea have been spending money on new players like drunken sailors since more than a decade, and we have still managed to stay competitive, with admittedly a few bumps along the way.
It should be noted that we have spent our good share as well. Those who say that we haven’t are ill-informed. Our wage structure for instance is now one of the most expensive in the league.
The reality this misses is that there are WAY more elite level footballers than any single club can buy, and what the trajectory of formerly “elite” players looks like once they sign for one of these mega wealthy clubs that overpays players.
Which is a valid point if there’s only one mega money club.
That was the premise I was responding to.
Ok, I’ll re-phrase. If all of the oil clubs actually run competent businesses rather than acting like small children in a sweet shop.
far from the truth. they can dump as much money as possible into their clubs, but at the end of the day they’re just plastics and we’ll never go away. we’ll never die.
Let them create their own LIV-equivalent of football, look what’s happened to CR7 now playing in Saudi without any sense of moral compass.
it sucks that we have to rely on a corrupted FA to protect the league we love, because we know the brown envelopes really do speak volumes
fortunately for us, they can only put 11players on the pitch at once. and we saw last Sunday what good coaching will do against shitty attitudes.
Then they would be run much like us.
The difference over the last 10 years is they can make as many silly buys as they want.
We can’t make mistakes or errors our players have to hit.
mate.
the clubs not going to go bankrupt. FSG have an asset worth 3-4 billion by thier own valuation which they have no money outlayed on by my understanding.
even if im wrong, and the original money invested is has not been repayed to them, they can still double that and not struggle.
throughout my other posts ive acknowledged how they have run the club well, but am suggesting the landscape has changed just as the greatest need for replinishment has become due…its not hard to draw the conclussion from all of my points that i think theyve done a good job to date…of course, if you were to snip one paragraph and quote it, i can see where you might come to a different conclusion.
if i sound entitled, its in my writing skills, not my mindset…i guess im trying to say if they want to consistently be at the level they have been for the previous half a decade, they might need to input more money…in reality, thats what id like to see…but im a supporter, i dont think its entitled to want that…, but as @sweeting has posted elsewhere, IF we dont do that, id like to see this club go full on down the developmental route…(which im really pleased with the results that are there right now)…a team full of Bajetics, Elliots, TAAs, Kellehers…etc etc…it just means we probably wont end up with a hell of a lot of silver…the journey would be fun though.
fair enough
You can accept that reality and still prefer to do things the right way. I’d rather win one PL/CL in a decade than become City or Chelsea
Wasn’t aimed at you, hence the reason I didn’t quote you, or anyone in particular.
Just a generic statement.
Looks like we are keeping to the same model of transfers, no big spends like a chelsea, im fine with this, i would love gavidol but it would seem we would not be willing to spend on the finished gavidol, he will now probably end up at the highest bidder most probably chelsea , but if this is our model we need to rearrange our scouting operation and start getting the gavidol’s before they get to germany, the Rafael Leão before they get to milan etc, pick these talents up at a low rate, same with the young talent that has left the premier league, players like hudson odoi, now gone to germany on loan i would look at getting him, diamond in the rough so to speak get jurgen to polish them up and turn them into superstars.
Can’t agree with this one. Klopp has often (even when not prompted or when unnecessary) talked about his joy of developing players rather than buying the biggest names.
That isn’t to say that he isn’t human, and at times covets a certain player and wants to do a bit more. But he is overall very much in line with the ownership’s approach. Probably would like some tweaking but more in line than not.
A 2 year extension in the spring, when he would have been already fully aware of the summer plans, is all the proof you need. Do you think he wouldn’t have any offers to go to a club that can give him £500m per window to spend?
Remember g+h?
You asked what we should expect from LFC owners, and I gave you my answer. In my book, they’ve done their job pretty well since they’ve come in town, and to be honest, I struggle to understand how anyone could come to another conclusion.
This is how I see it, hence why he came here to us. Best of both worlds because most true fans don’t want to win through financial might.
The point i was trying to make in my earlier post is that we should be the RB Lipzing of the premier league if we are of a limited budget, look to get these players before they become big and make them stars, look what Jurgen done with Lewandowski! then we can compete but in a clever way.
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For most clubs, 50% of transfer spending is money flushed down the toilet. It certainly will be at Chelsea. It has been at Utd.
A while ago, back on TIA, when we had had one of these ‘how do we compete’ existential crises, my response was that if we can get our hit rate up to 80-90% we can compete fine. That’s what we’ve done under FSG. We appear to spend little, simply because we don’t fucking waste what we do spend, which is partly the maddening thing about arguing with the ‘FSG out’ melts out there. They seem to want us to be literally worse at this stuff. They’d be happier if we’d spent twice the money to be exactly where we are.
I still feel the same way. There are 2-3 clubs in this league, and a few more across Europe who would love nothing more that football becoming a straight shoot out between who can spend the most money. We should avoid playing that game at all costs.
If we can keep our scouting, coaching and analysis spot on, we can comfortably compete with the oil clubs on 50% of the budget. I firmly believe that, I think the record shows it to be the case, and if it’s proven untrue, then fuck it - I’m done with football anyway.