Its this simple. one guy makes sure he has the very best players and money. the other builds it. Coaches shouldn't just be judged on the resources they get handed, that way you end up seeing people like mourinho get job after job as they slide down the scale It'd be the equivalent of giving kevin phillips 200k a week cos he once score 20 league goals in the prem. Guardiola on a budget would be like arteta. angry and jumped up and hopping about. Klopp on a budget would be like klopp. laughing and joking and being ruthless behind it all.
As much as you’re ‘building’ your definitely ‘buying’ aswell when you’re spending north of 50/60 mill on a player. regardless of how the Money got there. Its not as though Pep buys and Klopp just plucks out youngsters from the youth set up or shops in the Championship. You’re latest addition was the best player at one of the top 2 clubs in Portugal
One thing we're doing now that we didn't do pre-Klopp... Yeah, we're buying expensive players but we're only buying one at a time. In times BK (Before Klopp) we would buy three or four players who were all "cheap" but add up to more than the one at a time big player Klopp is pulling in. It drives people crazy in the transfer window, but I prefer the low volume trading we do now. (Obvious cheap in all this is relative. "Cheap" at the top of the table is "Expensive" at the bottom)
And this is where the net spend thing comes in though. At the time we didn’t have big enough squad so would sell 1 player for £50m then buy 3 or 4 for £10m-£15m each in hope they work out plus strengthen their squad. At situation now where first team is strong enough that you can just buy 1 player for £40m because you don’t need to fill 4 or 5 places, just slowly adding to the squad. If Norwich just went and spent £50m on a player may improve but no guarantee would be enough to make them survive so you hope to get 2 or 3 players to improve whole squad.
yes we do. We just shop in the distressed and bargain buckets Carvalho - championship player Elliott - Championship kid Gordan - poached. Doak- poached from celtic just recently van den berg - <2mil playing in championship now Clark - also poached yes we can buy. we buy out of our own resources AKA profits made on real revenues. We gambled on thaigo, jota and tsimikas based on extended payment terms and then when cords came back we bought diaz and konate. 4mil total loss on the worst financial year in football memory. not bad. Fully expect a big profit this year even accounting for konate and diaz buys as we sold a good amount too. Our Squad: world class and 64mil Alisson Club grown Kelleher Club grown Trent Club grown Neco williams (soon to be sold 3mil gomez - From charlton 34mil Konate - rb leipzig reserve Free Matip world class and75mil VVD 10mil and relegated Robertson 12 mil Tsimikas from lesser league 47mil and worth every penny fabinho 12 mil henderson 20 mil thiago club trained jones 5mil poached elliott free transfer milner 52mil waste keita 40mil waste ox 36mil bargain salah 28mil firmino 34mil bargain mane 47mil diaz 12mil origi 45mil jota 7.5mil minamino also poached from lesser league the facts are that LFC have had 1 single solitary season where we spend 120mil thrown at us as an accusation of buying the league when in fact we've offset it by spending nothing the year after and making massive profits. our net spend most years is quite low and the club makes a profit when things are "normal" guardiola can get who he likes when he likes from revenues that magically appear with emirates government stamps on the contracts just cos. Our sqaud has maybe 2 players we didn't do well on the transfer. The thing is Pep has just as good a success rate as well. (unlike say man utd who spend as much but badly)
This season net spend 40mil - why? we accelerated buying diaz to fend of spurs and did porto a favour on grujic payment terms which will put 10mil in our pockets next july. 21/22 Net spend +40mil 20/21 net spend +70mil on paper but actually jota fee is split over 4 seasons and thaigo over 2. 19/20 net spend -30mil 18/19 net spend +125mil 17/18 net spend -10mil 16/17 net spend - 5mil total: 190mil 2021 profit -4mil (covid) 2020 profit -41.5mil (covid) 2019 profit +39mil 2018 profit +106mil 2017 profit +39mil 2016 profit -21mil total: +117.5mil guess what.................. we make money we invest it. we don't make money we try to avoid investing what we don't have or seek longer terms. we have already invested 40mil of this years expected profits
Following Liverpool’s progress to the FA Cup final and Champions League semi-finals, the Premier League clash at Southampton is yet to be given a new date. The Reds are in the final throes of a monumental campaign, and with just over a month left to go, they are still in with a chance of three more trophies. April 19 – Man United (H) April 24 – Everton (H) April 27 – Villarreal (H) April 30 – Newcastle (A) May 3 – Villarreal (A) May 7 – Tottenham (H) May 10 – Aston Villa (A) May 14 – Chelsea (N) May 17/18 – Southampton (A)* May 22 – Wolves (H) * Date and kickoff time TBC When postponed Southampton vs. Liverpool clash could be played - Liverpool FC - This Is Anfield
Other than the sheet intensity of games coming up and already played... I don't think that fixture list looks terrible (at least not if it were spaced out more). We mostly likely won't... But it would be possible to finish the season without dropping points as long as we play like we're capable. FA Cup final is by far the biggest challenge left. Plus United and Everton may step up their game because it's us. Spurs... Who knows what Spurs shows up.
Fulham promoted again. Expect them to be relegated this time next year. Yo-yo team like Norwich. Too good for the Championship, not good enough for the Prem.
For a season? Good parachute payments makes it very profitable Why the **** has no big team ever taken Mitrovich
because Marco Silva was the manager who took over from my home team Hull City after they binned Phelan. He didn’t keep them up but the it was chalk and cheese with what happened under Phelan. I like him.
