fs, we're not getting koulibaly, nice though it would be. The papers (and agents) keep dragging this up, then we're ridiculed even for saying it won't happen. Even in pre-Covid times, we'd only spend that much on a key player if we had to - i.e. Virgil. We're only getting Thiago, evidently, because we're cashing in on inevitably losing Windy. That's good business, but it shows where we're at.
We knew when that stand went up what the priorities would be in harsh financial times (though I always thought that was more likely being deprived of CL football, not Covid). Nonetheless, I for one still advocate extending the Anny Road over getting a centre back who is superb, but not needed. Like buying a new sports car when your garage is falling to bits.
All that said though, FSG got that club at knockdown price because, according to Broughton of RSB at the time, they had the finances to build a new ground. I accept the need for review and eventually upgrading Anfield rather than a new ground, but wasn't that part of the original deal? I take flak on here for saying this, but I still think FSG get an easy ride over that. But we are where we are - the situation now, and Klopp accepts it, is that we can't go into mega debt in the current climate. I still think some clubs are basing revenues on worldwide sales that just won't be here post-Covid, but then again, neither will FFP.
