Including ours
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Yes - although Iām too geographically removed to know how significant that amount is. I do sense a growing fatalism though.
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You surely are not suggestion the escalation of transfer fees is similar to the price of household goods.
We got Mo Salah just before PSG obliterated the transfer market. Since then fees have what, Trebled? Quadrupled?
They tried a couple of years ago but the fans went apeshit.
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Pasta has doubled in the last year.
No Iām not, Iām merely pointing out that the concept that this is unsustainable and will all come tumbling down is nonsense.
Opinion driven by Sky and fueled on social media. The idea was perhaps flawed but the ppremise had/has merit imho. When we start seeing the major rivalry in the league become City and Newcastle we will all wonder how we let it come to that.
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Worse still: the only way clubs will be able to challenge at the very highest level will be to find nation states of their own.
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I also wonder if there wasnt a trick missed with the way the Chelsea sale was handled. It was reported that the club owed Roman nearly 2 billion quid at the point he was removed from the club. The sale to Bohly appears to have wiped those out, and so not only has there been no punishment for using outside dirty money to establish themselves as a major player, theyāve essentially had the benefit of that spending twiceā¦once to spend it and twice to not have to account for it.
There has to have been a different scenario where those debts were treated seriously, in a way the club suffered, possibly even sinking back into the mediocrity from which they came, and that served a warning sigh to other clubs willing to sell themselves to entities who might one day find themselves being treated as pariahs the way Abramovic did.
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You are right, but that is against the logic of all people currently deciding things in football : their only goal is to get in as much money as possible in the shortest lapse of time.
Anything else is totally irrelevant to them.
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I take Kloppās words at face value. The team has a budget and he has to work within that budget.
To extrapolate that to believe that heās either upset about it or happy with it is silly. I have little doubt that Klopp would be thrilled to have Jude Bellingham or Kylian MbappĆ© or anyone else in that stratosphere of cost if the owners were willing to spend what it took to bring them in. But he recognizes reality, and thereās no point from his view of complaining about it. Any owner should be happy with how heās presented his perspective to the media.
I am disinclined to use those words to drive a narrative about whether FSGās approach is fair or right or reasonable. I think thatās a separate question.
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Major squad investment needed and i donāt see it happening, if next season carries on like this Jurgen will walk and then the fun starts.
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No bias whatsoever in that article.
Not really Kloppās style.
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7 years at Dortmund he resigned. 
At the end of the season. He wouldnāt quit mid-campaign just because its not going well.
We have to wait and see, hopefully a few new signings they gell quickly and we near the top of the league.
āJude Bellingham was at the top of Liverpoolās midfield wish list for around 18 months, with the understanding earlier in the season being that Dortmund would sell at the end of the season for around Ā£80m plus add-onsā from Jonathan Northcroft in the sunday times.
Wow, how naive were Julian Ward and FSG?
It would appear not naive at all. Liverpool supposedly drops out of the ācontestā that had a price tag of ~Ā£130M+. leaving it to the likes of Real and the petroclubs who could afford that escalated price. Within a week or so there are stories saying that Bellingham does not wish to move this year. He will have just a year left on his contract in another season, inherently pulling his fee down - quite possibly below that Ā£80M number.
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Out of interest @Notasuperfan would you be happy if tomorrow we were bought by Brian āThe murdering gay hating slave trading oil mogulā Smith? Who then drops billions into the club?
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