Sorry, but that's rubbish. The first target for Brod on his arrival was CL football. Would it be fair to say he was given three years to achieve that? I think so. Therefore, what you said applies to that phase. Once achieved, the next phase would be maintaining regular qualification for a couple of years? Again, I think so. The third stage is challenging for the title. Each section as its own time period and each step requires building for it to be achieved. Its about taking things one step at a time. However, if you can buy a player in phase one that would be good enough for phase three (Suarez, Sturridge, Coutinho) then go get them, hopefully it will make the stages quicker. ATM, we are in the second year of phase one yet look like year three or beyond. Sometimes plans go quicker although this can have a negative effect later on because expectations raise too quickly (see title talk this season). I agree about the Aspas type signings though. I think Brod and his recruitment team wanted a cheap addition for the now and gambled. It didn't pay off. But then, he did the same last year with Sturridge and Coutinho and it very much paid off. Fair enough, they're younger too.
it would be even less if he had just sat rotting on our bench this season with the odd rotation. He'll go for 7mil I reckon
thats your opinion. yes rodgers keeps saying his target over 3 years. what i would have to say is things could be so different this year in many ways.. eg suarez could have gone or we could have had more consistent teams from less injuries. It is my opinion that if you think getting cl once will then trigger an new phase than you are wrong. this didn't work for spurs with one rival in arsenal let alone us with three rivals now. you've got to go big or go home. we are talking about taking 4th form a historic utd implosion that in all likelihood will not be repeated thus putting them back as a rival big time. if we get 4th then we are looking at utd arsenal spurs and even neverton... for 2 slots so we have to have a top team to stay in the CL. I don't see that on an ongoing basis unless you build and build quickly. The average life of a prem manager is 18 months. If rodgers gets his 3 years (which should be likely i hope) then he's got to have his rebuilding done, not be just looking to build from there. lets just look at citeh. sven and hughes got it in the neck. mancini only got time cos he delivered a couple of cups and the league but the CL wasn't there. thats a club with huge expectations how many chavs got the sack since mourinho. It is likely moyes will be gone before 18months. I think LFC need to push but do it sensibly. we "pushed" and got downing and carroll. I much prefer the mkhitaryan and willian.. well ok i'm not giving you that much tactic personally. We need to be paying the wages is what i am saying cos it wasn't for a club on the up that sigurdsson plumped for it was 70k per week or something. sure pay a 21 year old 20k per week like coutinho if you are confident in him. fine.. even ilori and alberto.. ok i get it... but you cannot do that and NOT BUY the first team player. If we get CL we need serious investment and players to sustain it and frankly steady building won't go do it. Oh and before i forget. Imagine you are say... oh villa. i buy you with not arab money but say i have 200mil to spend and all i have is benteke. i expect a manager to deliver but nobody can expect to steadily develop form where villa are (no gerrard, no agger, no reina, no skertl) to 4th in 2 years. you've got to go for it or be mid table and lets face it 6th is as close as the top right now. we assume we are in for cl this year (i hope we are)
You're right, it is my opinion. As you comments are yours and you are entitled to them. Spurs achieved phase one (getting CL football) but failed on phase two (sustaining it). To put it a simpler way; target for fourth (but aim higher obviously) but once achieved, the target becomes third, once achieved go for second, etc. Its all about progression. If you achieve it quicker than planned, so be it. Man City is such a poor example. Like Chelsea, they had billionaire owners who wanted instant success and therefore chomped and changed the managers at the start (Chelsea still do). We don't have (nor do I want) unlimited amounts of money to spend. You concerns seem to be more around the on field type issues such as the players we sign. You don't moan too much about the owners or club structure bar the wages. Didn't Villa get a owner who tried to spend his way to the top? Look where that's got them. Same could be said of Sunderland, QPR, Portsmouth, etc. too.
if you are referring to learner and giving o neil money to spend, well that nearly paid off, luckily he wouldn't spend that little bit more to get them there as they was close, ie when they had young,downing,barry etc. think they finished 5th -6th? but one or two more players they would have been a good team, although when we played them and demolished them that was good lol.
Even with CL, I don't think we'll be doing anything differently. Sakho, Sturridge, Coutinho, Migs have all joined the club and could form the spine for the next decade. These are smart purchases. We're targeted the likes of Kono, Mkhitarya, Costa, Willian at the around the £20m+ mark. With CL qualification, we could actually attract these players. Identifying the right players isn't the problem and it's not something we should be changing with or without CL. I don't want us to be breaking the £30m barrier because I don't think we need to.
Nearly and achieving are two very different things. To quote a rather well known film: "it doesn't matter if its a inch or a mile, winning is winning". Spending to achieve is a gamble and if you fail then that gamble backfires. 5th / 6th isn't good enough.
Not yet. Need to establish not only a quality first eleven but also a very good squad before being able to splash our budget on one player
If we get CL I think we'll go for Kono and M'Vila. If not... I think we'll still try. Other than that we need a fullback to replace Glen at the least.
i agree those are smart, no issue. i would like to see far more this even if konoplyanka is counted this way rather than punts on so many young lads like ilori and coates.. how many punts do you need per 5 years? and especially no more patently obviously not good enough players. I forgive rodgers buying who he knows.. allen, borini... fine fair enough just don't do it again. ASPAS.. I would like us to continue to buy 10-15 mil players and trying to drive a hard bargain but i'd also say if we get CL we need to add 20-30mil player (one) to complement suarez. I think sometimes its justified to spend 30 mil+ BUT its necessary to spend 20mil+ in todays game.. for me thats just a fact. Sahko was a back.. 17mil. if he'd been a midfield or forward it would be 25mil min get another 4-5 smart signings as you say in and we'd be a young developing side of quality.. right now we have a lot of very young players who might come through.
Neither do I. We don't need to be spending mega wages on a 31 year old. If we are to throw money at players, then I really want to push for Montoya.
On one that can rarely walk too! I'd rather stick with Johnson I like Flanno but think he needs competition.
Well hopefully that's rubbish or I will be getting worried that we are trying to assemble a bunch of shocking defenders.
