This IS the way. Loving the big green ears 
Itās like taking the mortgage money to the casino.
Thanks for your POV.
Let me then give you the example of Bayern Munichā¦
If the market is as buoyant as you suggest why can we not get so much as a nibble for Grujic, Wilson, Origi or Shaqiri?
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What about Bayern Munich?
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@sgs you are wasting your time my friend.
This is not a fan forum. Neither it is a place for free thinking. Questioning the obvious is a taboo here.
This is a very sophisticated and high-functioning PR machine and I canāt overstate the machine part. The posters you are arguing with are mostly bots.
Please, please, please. Preserve your sanity and run away. Donāt make the same mistake I did. I tried my friend, trust me, I tried. Now Iām just one of them.
Go, save yourself while you can.
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Look at the transfer dealings so far, faced by the challenges posed by the pandemic.
Then look at Dortmund.
Bayer Levā¦
True, we have outliers like Chelsea. But most fall in the category that is not entirely conservativeā¦
Its not that serious broā¦ 
Have you had an upgrade? We didnāt programme this kind of emotive response into your algorithm.
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Can you take a minute, look at the final standings in the PL last season and then come back please? Then if you still want to see spending and new players and basically transfer action (for the sake of it) then we all know where we are. Thanks.
Throw in the possibility of having to play the whole of next season behind closed doors, and youāre looking at the possibility of having to ask the players to take a pay cut to balance the books. Much more easy to sell if you havenāt just added ca. Ā£6 million per year to the wage bill. 
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But donāt let common sense get in the way for the NEED for signings.
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And never let the truth or facts get in the way of a good story.
No different from the scenario facing Bayern Munich, or Dortmundā¦to name a fewā¦
Donāt believe I have asked for spending for the sake of it. If anything, I admire Kloppās preference for growing a team by developing it.
However, that should not in any way conflict with targeted spending and following up on identified targets. The club identified Werner. The club also identified a need to fill the vacuum left by Lovrenā¦
Thatās not spending for its sakeā¦
Let me explain it.
There are two parties in the market:
- a buyer
- a seller.
The conditions faced by the parties are often never the sameā¦
There is a reasonable argument that the deflated market is worth a punt. Football will ultimately return to normal and prices will go back up. Today? Tomorrow? Next year? No idea. Lockdown flu cases go through the roof next week (after schools opening) and the start of the season could be delayed. Then clubs will be haemorrhaging at scary rates. No crowds, no sales, no tv money, clubs shut permanently. Whatās our weekly expenditure on 1st team salary alone? Cool million? Per week? How long can we keep this up? Not long I absolutely guarantee you. And thatās excluding all the other bills and theyāll be beyond substantial.
If, IF (like any business) we can survive this trough (the opposite of surfing a wave) then the other side will be very rosy. Iām happy to miss out on a few players this window on a very much āLetās see what happensā basis. Nobody had any idea whatās going to happen next week or next year. In that situation, you donāt gamble on a ridiculously unstable future.
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Total employment cost about Ā£5.7 million per week.
Maybe 20 weeks before we exhaust our credit facility.
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You could have fooled me.
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All of those things will be lost in time. Like tears in rainā¦
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