hang on just a moment, i have to challenge this one.
Kevin keegan sold for 500k.
Kenny dalglish bought for 400k.
We were also operating in an era where the crowd and money coming in was literally it so you have big crowds in you could spend that.
the fact is we moved to replace kevin keegan. we didn't add Dalglish to the club just like that.
Hanson was a classic LFC buy who was eased in aver the couse of the two years and souness was the one big buy.
you'll find prior years and following years where young players like rush, jones, etc were purchased and eased into the playing squad
The point being we didn't go out and lay down a million on a super star, we replaced one with another and took in cash doing it.
LFC make superstars, we don't buy them.
You could have chosen 1981 when our bob got rid of kennedy, case and clemence and bought lawrenson and nicol as an example of shedding the older players and bringing in absolute top top young lads who go on to be super stars
or you could have highlighted 1984 where we let souness (31) go on his italy adventure and bought molby macdonald and walsh. We also let thommo go at 31. again letting the older players go and bringing in young players.
Or again 2005 when rafa was in (special case this) he bought crouch, sissoko, reina, agger.
after reaching the final in 2018 LFC bought allison and keita and fabinho and shaqiri and sold a few squad players but we had sold countinho that january and got in vvd as well.
After winning it in 2019 we didn't let anyone go but bought the wunderkind elliott who is now clearly a 80mil player (if grealish is 100 mil this kid is 80 today) we let squad players like kent and ings go.
really the message here is that "the model" was always to buy talent and bring it on while letting players who are going to drop off go.
what we are doing now is we are rewarding aging players and making them impossible to sell off as their contracts are so big they can sit them out. 2025 for henderson is a joke.
Fees are also out of all proportion and not based on revenues we or anyone else can rely on but are spending masses. 100mil on grealish, 97il on lukaku?? these are crazy numbers for players just not with it.
My view is that there is a fine balance to be struck. I think dortmund go a little too far with the players, they have probably too many "developing" and they are not getting the results they should on the park.
Dortmund younger players
Haaland
Bellingham
coulibaly
Dahoud (now 25)
Brandt (now 25, ruined himself going to PSG)
Reiner
malen (bought to replace haaland)
guerreiro (now actually 27 but bought young)
kamara (only 16)
they older players don't really have the quality.
