Now that the dust has settled on the two titles it occurred to me to compare the two winners of the top divisions. Manchester City are reckoned to have spent somewhere in the region of £1 billion on assembling their title winning side. By contrast the whole Norwich team has cost less than £20 million - less than 2% of the cost of the Guardiola outfit. Just wondering what is the bigger achievement? Which looks the better buy, Sterling at £50million or Pukki for nothing?
I think its kinda hard to directly compare. We finished 20 places behind them in the overall pecking order. We and anyone spending less than 50% of what Citeh have, can hardly dream of winning the PL. This season has been exciting in one respect with Liverpoo pushing Citeh al the way, but the sheer distance between 2nd and 3rd and again between 6th and 7th just illustraites what a mountain lays between us and further glory. Our success looks better value certainly, we certainly trumped other clubs who spent more in the championship, but the PL is a different footballing world. Would Citeh have won the title with Pukki instead of Sterling? Look at the fee for Pogba and tell me Sterling wasn't better value on the evidence of this season. Citeh have the resources and have used them to very good effect. OK arguably having failed in Europe not full value has been realised, but with a second title win, I don't think their owners will feel short changed. The biggest budget with one of the very best managers will see anything short of the title as a failure, they didn't fail domestically but seeing off Liverpoo was some achievement. Their football is also very good too. On face value we definitely look to have achieved more for each pound spent, Pukki is more of a bargain, but the goals and competition were very different. I'd like to see PG actually win with a lesser club, could he take a Leicester to a title? I strongly doubt it. Bah!
First class analysis General. I agree re how PG would fare at a club with less skilful players and I'm not sure he would succeed - JK on the other hand!!! As I said on another thread yesterday, if Liverpool had won JUST ONE of the games they drew, then they would have been crowned Champions!!!
And if my sister...they didn't so Citeh worthy champions. I grew up with Citeh being pants and as such have not found any real hatred for them yet, even with obviously buying the title. They ain't the first and won't be the last. I just enjoy Liverpoo failing again. I take some degree of satisfaction each year they fail domestically. They certainly haven't been the most successful during my football supporting lifetime, but I really can't find a set of fans less deserving of success then their mob. Plastic scousers everywhere just like United, but some how just more deserving of ongoing misery. Bah!
I guess Liverpool is my 2nd team, so a tad disappointed that they didn't win the title. As you quite rightly say, Citeh have 'bought' the title and at least Liverpool have Tren Alexander-Arnold who is 'one of their own!!'
I think that if we are being perfectly honest about this the Champions League is the big one. I think most clubs, given a choice of a treble of Premiership, FA and Mickey Mouse cups or the CL most would opt to win the latter. Many clubs don't even bother putting out their strongest side in the cup competitions. Assuming that Citeh win the FA cup then it's still a season of mild failure and it will remain so until they win the big one.
I think the irony is that Liverpoo and Citeh would quite happily trade seasons with each other. For Liverpoo the league is the great unobtainable after so many years of failing, it has stung them no end to be caught and passed by Manure. They are the most successful uk side in Europe already with 5, I think the league is what they truly crave, the Liverpoo fans I know are more desperate for it (Though they are mainly plastics who have rarely been to Liverpool let alone Anfield). For Citeh the champions league is what's needed to truly validate their rise to the top. They're clearly there domestically but they need a champions league win to start crowing about being the best. Bah!
