Man Utd said no to Rooney? They gave him a £250k pw pay rise, plus image rights. We can't afford to do that.
They also turned down an insulting low bid from Chelsea that was lower than the same club's bid for Modric, which was also turned down.
The Suarez bids from Arsenal were also comparable to the Modric bids from Chelsea. Liverpool didn't have Madrid come in for him further down the line, though. Yet.
Not this one again!!! If Real bid £50 million for Suarez you think he wouldn't have gone? As far as we know only Arsenal actually wanted him and they wern't prepared to pay what was needed, even if Pool had let him go to another PL team which I doubt. So your Liverpool saying "no" is not much of an achievement is it? Easier to stay at a club if Real aren't tapping you up. Again, who really wanted Rooney? Spurs have made enough mistakes without blaming them for things that they haven't really done! And please explain how we can compete financially with clubs that are not making any attempt at balancing their budget, where even CL money is not enough for them to break even.
Agree with both of these.
The problem is not the selling, it's the buying.
Atletico sold Torres - bought Aguero / sold Aguero - bought Falcao
We now have a strong squad depth, which we have needed so moving forwards we just need top top players.
So many good players have flooded the market in recent years (robben, VDV and sneijder for instance, or Ba for free, Michu for 2m despite being the top scoring midfielder in the league, Llorente for free or cazorla being obviously quality)
there are still great players out there...banega, joao mutinho (who we should have bought) etc.
Clubs can sell players and move on, the problem is we didn't after Modric, (should have bought a striker and JM) and then because we failed (again) to get CL this was compounded.
Levy knows buying is our issue though, hence why we had commoli and now Baldini
We now have a very good squad, so throw in a very manager and we will start to see results.
Once we have the new stadium too we will be very financially secure, and able to afford some of the best talent in Europe....even if they don't necessarily want to come