I agree for £13m he's a real bargain. Not sure why no one else was in for him. Maybe the alure to come to Liverpool was greater than coming to other clubs.
There just isn't enough upside to Shaquiri to me. If we are doubting that Ozil can do enough defensively in Emery's system to make it, then Shaquri is the same with a worse assist contribution. Quite frankly, I look forward to playing a Liverpool team with Chamberlain, Shaquiri and Sterling in it, they are not going to win **** in the midfield.
I would sooner field Perez than Shakiri. Sterling plays for Man City. But yep I agree about Shaqiri and Chamberlain. I actually think Lucas Perez would give us more than Shaqiri and even he cant make our starting 11. With Ozil, Auba, Laca, Mkhitarian etc.. i dont think there's a need to add more 'forwards' to the squad unless they are 1. World Class or 2. young players for the future.
1.well since Sterling as Bear has pointed out plays for Man City it aint going to happen but even if he was still with us we played him up front. 2.We all think Shaq has been bought to cover the front three. 3.AOC plays as the AM of 3 for us. apart from that your post was spot on
that really shows how tired I was when I wrote that. Well that I my point, and the problem we had last season. If you play too many of these sort of attackers (that don't score many goals), and sort of midfielders that can't defend, you don't win **** in midfield.
The assumption is that our first choice MF will be Keita , Fabinho , Henderson so on paper we should pretty solid though obviously have to wait and see how Fab & Keita take to LFC & PL.
How are Liverpool affording to pay £67m for a goalkeeper? £80 million last Season for a CB. Where is this money coming from?
we found it down the back of the sofa. seriously our net spend before this window was pretty much level despite if Klopp really wanted someone it looked like we would pay pretty much whatever it took to get them. Have to say i'm more than a bit surprised particularly as still strong rumours linking us with Fekir.
Ah the old 'net' spend. Fabinho was what £43m Shakiri £13m Allison £63m Thats £120 million right there. Plus what another £50-60m for Fekir and the £52m paid for Keita. You are looking at well over £220m.
Balance that out with the sale of Coutinho and it isn't as bad as you think. Plus they, as well as us, have surplus players that we need to move on which will get some money. I think the tired old rhetoric of "buying the title" is long gone. Even we've been splashing the cash for the past few years to stay competitive, just imagine not buying our big marquee players that cost loads like Ozil or Sanchez? We would be mid-table at best. As good a manager that Emery is, he still needs the top players that we have to be competitive, without them, he wouldn't be able to do jack.He might not have bought big this time, as Wenger already did recently, he will in the proceeding seasons to stay with the hunting pack.
Our fitness coach was his coach at BM - I think that had a lot to do with it. For 13mil it's an absolute steal. He won't be a starter but very useful to have on the bench or to rotate later on in the season. 13mil doesn't get you anything these days. I'm very happy with it.
In total including sales Klopp has spent 147mil in 3 years. Also...We earnt 75mil in the CL last season, plus all our other money coming in. People think we've gone mad with money but if you actually look at the figures it's surprisingly low.
50mil a season he's spent. Fact. Plus I expect some outgoings. You pay Ozil 350k a week ffs (Loving the rival butthurt btw)
Beginning to sound like a Spud there mate. Your club are even spunking their money from selling your best player like them too
Mourinho complaining about not being backed in the transfer market and smaller clubs outspending him is absolutely hilarious. Especially because he's saying this stuff without a hint of irony. Pogba - £90m Bailly - £30m Mkhitaryan - £27m Lukaku - £75m Matic - £40m Lindelof - £31m Fred - £52m Dalot - £19m That's roughly £364m spent on those players' transfer fees, and he had to fork out extortionate wages for Ibrahimovic and Sanchez too... If there's one excuse Mourinho cannot have, it's "I've not been supported in the transfer market". Maybe this Summer he hasn't been financially supported as much as he'd have liked, but look at their current squad: They have De Gea, Martial, Rashford, Mata, Lingard, Valencia, Herrera etc... The point is there is enough talent in that team to compete and play decent football. If he keeps saying he needs to spend big and can't work with the talent he already has, it's no wonder Ed Woodward refused to give him a blank cheque to buy whoever he wanted.
I agree with all of this. It is a source of mild amusement to me to watch, from a distance, someone who has obvious talent yet appears to want to be hated by everyone. Is it that borderline genius/madman thing? Or a bizarre attempt at mind-gaming? I am just glad he is not our manager.
