Yup. He wanted us to lose more than anyone else on the planet. He's essentially on strike. I really wish we had the money buy a replacement then to say f*ck you, go sit in the stands and watch your World Cup dreams slip away......
We are not going to get 4th with or without him unless we radically improve on midfield attitude to defending..so... let him rot or not is up to club but as I said he would be gone already under me but I would have insisted on the best deal... now that's not the 130mil. It'd be 120 total. As I said if Horn =15mil Höwedes =20mil Keita stance is softening 70mil Well.... i just then take a 50mil bid to psg for draxler and thats our summer off to a good start 2 weeks ago. Keeper, cb, cm, lw as I said..then with expectation of shifting can, sahko and markovic late on for something like 50-60mil depending on the desperation I'd be well able to break even and chase the no 6. If Jimmy finds one... he's gotta get off the ****ing fence I'm alt-lfc director
You are on expenses.... just make sure what you file is general enough to avoid too many questions. Will you carry the 50mil in your boot? Brown envelope for the agent too.
So the best thing you can say about FSG is that they're not H&G? Go back to October 2010 and you'll hopefully remember that Horton of RSB 'gave' the club to the then NESV for the knockdown price of £200m (plus £50m stadium debt, which was effectively a loan) because they had 'imminent' plans and resources to build the new stadium or develop Anfield. It was five/six years before they put a spade in the ground. The club was valued by Forbes at £600m a year before the distressed sale (indeed, Hicks had stopped Gillet accepting a £500m bid from DIC just a year before), and now it is valued at £1.2bn. Enough ****ing forelock-tugging on that score. That said, and even if it did force Ford to show his hand, I was a s pleased as Punch that FSG made that statement on Friday. Just hope they don't back down now UNLESS they can get £135m and Jurgen okays it. Btw, what was our transfer net sum in 2014? I seem to remember the £65m we actually got from Barca never got us Sanchez - it delivered Mario Balotelli (and don't forget to add at least a £50m transfer budget to the equation, unless you think FSG should be allowed to run the club on a zero sum transfer budget).
Great til you then see gross incompetance aloowed and actually encouraged. Markovic.. balowanky et al.. 3 years ruined from stupidity. Then they promoted some of the msin actors...
Sooner rather than later the stadium clause in their knockdown deal to purchase the club will be on the agenda bigtime especially when Everton begin building their new stadium, Prem club's up and down the country have either rebuilt or refurbed their grounds in recent years(not including City and Wet Spam who were given new stadia on a plate), our club is stagnant on that subject at the moment sadly.
Draxler available for £45m. You just know he'll end up in london cos we're utterly **** at this transfer malarkey...
I don't think so. If they further increase the capacity then they could easily (and rightly) argue that it doesn't make sound business sense to invest £600m+ into a new stadium with a mere 10,000 increase in capacity. If they did that, they'd most likely take out a loan which would be paid back in instalments covered by club revenue which again, they would argue, could be better spent on improving the team. Even if they spent 60% of what they would end up repaying over the years - that's a pretty substantial sum and I think they'd be right in that decision. Having said that, I think they'll argue all that because 'business sense' here translates as how taking out a substantial loan would reflect on the club's market value (fine balance between appealing stadium 'asset' and cold-hard profit). This of course, wouldn't do them favours in terms of their long-term plan to sell the club for a profit.
It's not about business sense though Jatt, it's about keeping an agreement and keeping their word, they were all for rebuilding the Anfield Rd end until the supporters complained about the extortionate prices they put on certain seats in the new stand. In other words they were cheekily prepared to let the supporters pay for the new Anny Rd stand instead of FSG themselves.
They've just strengthened their financial muscle with the Chinese partnership though haven't they dribs? In which case they can afford not to sell him anyway.
