Players do get sold by every club, but most clubs lose only 1 or 2 unless they are in dire financial trouble and/or been relegated. My fear is that 1 will become 2 and 2 will become 4 and so on. I think this is the problem with being run solely by business people...in business, you don't force people to stay because it is viewed as poor for business. In football, you insist on keeping the ones you want and they usually knuckle down because they like football and don't want to damage their image. If sales carry on into players like Schneiderlin, Cork, and Lovren etc our style and spirit will go. Doing well in the EPL brings in the real money...bite the bullet and keep our team together. Lowe proved that you can't do this on the cheap. Grow some backbone, Ralph.
You know what Godders, I disagreed with your analysis earlier, but having just seen this, I'm inclined to agree now: https://twitter.com/NabilHassan79/status/472384725752246272
I can see Ralph moving on in the not too distant future...when he came, he made some remark about not having a fixed contract length (obviously he took 500 words, two graphs and a flow chart to say it). He is out of his depth with regard to football. Ralph, it's a sport, a hobby, or a passion...it's not a product!
Not sure that Krueger's out of his depth, or even screwing up. I think probably this was his role-- to be the face guy for the team and talk up the club to the community and try to set up a positive feeling and all that. His job has been made difficult by things not under his control. But in that event, his job duty then becomes the guy to sling the BS anyway, and at least take all the heat and hatred for others so they can do their jobs. But I would agree that you can only take that heat for so long before you have to wonder why you're putting up with it. And also you become a very convenient fall guy to axe, which I suppose is also part of the gig. So yeah, I don't know if he'll make it too much past this transfer window either. Just think it might be due less to incompetence and more the pratfalls of being a faceman during tough times.
Lets be honest Rickie isnt getting any younger. At times he was struggling with a niggling injury which is very likely to recxur. Much as I love the guy it was good business for us and gives him a chance of landing some silverware before he hangs up his boots. Cant blame the Board. Lets hang fire before we crucify them.
agreed, well with the 1st bit anyway. what we need is, is quality signings manager & players) & no more player exit's.
The only club I can think of able to stop their best players being poached is Real Madrid. Barca had Thiago taken from them, Man U Pogba, Arsenal a long list, Man City have Yaya Touré flirting with PSG. I wouldn't call any of those teams management structures particularly inept. I don't see how selling a 32 year old for £9m who scored 13 goals last season (including penalties) is a sign of gross ineptitude. Possibly not ideal but not inept.
We still have to carry on recruiting in every way we can. Just because player sales are happening atm it doesn't stop us doing other things. We slso recruited a marketing person from Apple(?). So it shows we are looking to improve.
The 4 million figure is the starting price, then add ons. We must also remember the savings in wages that, in an ideal world, will be paid to e new signing. I would rather keep Rickie, but not bad for an older player with an ongoing back problem. His career may be prolonged by less playing time at Liverpool.
Of course, and I don't disagree with that, but the timing of both the season ticket tweets and that one recruiting a "supporter relations manager" (what else?), seems almost like self-satire.
They must have known that our manager was likely to be going so were they looking for one before they left. If not then they were grossly incompetent.
I think you are misunderstanding the purpose of a supporters relation manager. He or she will provide counselling for supporters whose marriages are in trouble after the cat is kicked through the television.
