It seems to have been melded, for reason, with my thread about Arsenal (shaming themselves, yet again).
Actually, it looks like two of my Mousers threads were merged into this one:- http://www.not606.com/showthread.ph...-has-to-show-his-hand-against-his-own-players!
Liverpool, Chelsea, same thing... ...both of them got UEFA to change the rulebook to allow them into the Champions League.
Still banging that drum, eh? Spending £100m to beat Cardiff on penalties isn't something to pretend is a big deal. So shut the **** up, and go away.
Naturally, you made a few errors in that blanket statement: * We made £70m in player sales * We had to buy a whole new strike force * We made £50m with our strike force departing, and the new one cost £35m * We made £7m profit on Robbie Keane in the space of six months (remind me, who lost £7m on him in that time?) * The players we spent £100m on justified the cost (Bentley aside) - unlike Downing, Henderson or Adam * That £100m worth of signings qualified for the Champions League the following season - can you say that Liverpool's £100m worth will?
Transferleague's a load of bollocks, though. Defoe's transfer can't have been more than £10m or it would've been declared on the stock market, which it wasn't. Gomes cost £7.8m and not £10m. Chimbonda, Tainio and Lee Young-Pyo actually went for millions (roughly £8m) and not nothing, the first two being part of a package with Malbranque. The figure that you quote for Liverpool is actually £35m too, so why the attempted 'massage'?
Enough of the accountancy battling. Both clubs would not normally consider the League Cup a successful season, even when we perrenially inhabited mid table. The FA Cup yes but never the League Cup. We finished 4th and you finished 8th. The League is what mattered and until this year, when conveniently in your rapidly changing world, (Martinez? Honestly. Who are you going to have as DOF, Neil Warnock?) the League Cup became the trophy of choice. Holding up your penalty win against Cardiff as a triumph just goes to show how far you have fallen and your choice of manager (or so it seems) will do nothing to arrest that fall. Keep patting yourself on the back fella, except for comedy value, your club is becoming an irrelevence.
I didn't say that £20m was nothing, I said that it was wildly inaccurate and I illustrated why. If you trust the transferleague figures, then you had a net spend of about £57m more than us this season. Were you happy with the progress that this expenditure brought you?
To be fair to Liverpool, last season they had probably the worst manager in Premier League history...the bloke gave Jay Spearing a game. On a side note, Jay Spearing has probably played his last ever Premier League game now that Dolegleish has been made obsolete.
If you don't qualify for the CL this coming season, you cannot compare. There's also two key differences: * We spent £100m to improve the entire squad, you spent £100m and ended up with Adam and Henderson who simply won't * Most of the players signed that summer have retained or risen in valuee (we're going to take a bath on Bentley, but that's about it), something that cannot be said for Carroll, Henderson, Downing or Adam
You actually paid about £1m more, but it's not much of a difference, I'll grant you. We sold that pair for £14m. Palacios' form was badly hit by the murder of his brother though, in fairness to him. I don't think that all of Liverpool's signings have been bad ones, just that they've been mismanaged. I was frequently unimpressed by Dalglish's choices last season and you have to wonder how much of an influence Comolli was on the transfers. Signing Adam as your first choice playmaker was always a mistake, though.
Who the hell was supposed to be your playmaker, then? Gerrard? Rather short-sighted, considering his injuries and inability to get around as much as he used to. Spearing as cover for Lucas was rather naive, too. Your squad lacks balance, in my opinion.
You're right that you can't buy everyone at once, but perhaps you'd have been better off splitting up your transfers a little? The £71m that you spent on Downing, Henderson and Carroll might've been better used on twice as many players. You don't seem to have a strategy for bringing in what you need, appearing to go for players that you think are good, regardless of whether they're necessary. The same was true when Comolli was at Tottenham, so perhaps it was his influence and we'll see a more sensible approach now.
