You are making up a scenario and then using it to attack FSG.
If you are doing that, why not go for it.
What if Salah leaves, and what if FSG don’t replace him, and what if they just they just take the money to buy another John Henry another yacht, and what about if they decide that the Premier League is too much bother, and they just wind up the club and turn Anfield into a Tescos?
Surely that will depend on their performances and that of the team as a whole?
About 20 years ago Arsenal fans feared losing Henry, a similarly generational talent to Mo, but they barely missed him, not because they bought Henry MK 2 but because their play was no longer dominated by one senior player and others like Fabregas stepped forward.to share the burden.
Admittedly, they came to depend on Fabregas in a similar way but that’s a different story
I agree and one of the things I am excited to see is how Slot handles this. At his previous clubs he had no problem switching up how his teams sought to attack other teams - one year scoring most of their goals from assists from out wide, the next driving assists through the middle.
I imagine that will be a factor along with increased wage costs and fees the Local Authority or Police have in place. Also, would energy costs also fall under match day costs in that reference (its also mentioned elsewhere in the piece)
Article mentions it being down to an increased number of matchdays compared to the previous period.
It does give an idea of the considerations the club has to factor in before doing something like give three players enormous contract extensions. Not saying we can’t do it but clearly the club doesn’t create enough money to just throw any kind of salary at any player.
You might as well ask “what if they decide to change our home shirts to blue?” because that’s also a scenario that won’t occur but is a fun made up way to take a bash at the club.
theres every chance Salah leaves and we havent signed anyone…that was the question…
its not whether we have replace Mo by september the 1st, its whether we have signed someone before hes off
its a moot point anyways.Salah will leave the club one day, and we will never replace him with an individual player unless with freak some transfer…it just wont happen…
however, we may replace his contirbution, accross the team…
That loss is startling, because it shows that despite years of prudent management, it just takes one bad campaign for the club to have a very poor year financially. I am actually surprised, financially the club is not on as firm footings as it was in Klopp’s early period. LFC is essentially locked into needing a top 4 finish every year.
I will be curious to see the actual numbers (don’t see the financials on Companies House yet), but it appears that matchday costs have risen much faster than matchday revenues. I don’t think there is a great deal of choice but to increase ticket prices.
I believe they did, and I assume they will honour that for 25/26. It just cannot last, and it would appear that the next round will need to catch up on a few deferred years. A club in the current competitive landscape cannot swing to a loss that large by missing out on a top 4 finish. Perhaps a loss, but not on the order of ~10% of turnover.
Inflation has taken its toll on finances, with matchday costs increasing by almost 80 percent in eight years and forecast to top 100 percent by 2027, utility bills more than doubling in three years and administrative expenses increasing by 88 percent from £320m to £600m since 2018.
Perhaps this is also a further insight into why the club was so willing to move on youngsters such as Bobby Clark last summer, and an indication that we might see a trimming of the squad wage bill this summer.