The Official Liverpool FC Thread [Vol 20]

[Adam.]

type-r said:

I'd prefer City to win but then to lose to Milan in the final. To get so close and and not win it AGAIN would be hilarious. Might also be the distraction Arsenal need to win the league.

Really don't want to see Real in another final.

I would reverse that if Pep retires as a result

[Flip Martian]

Adam. said:

I would reverse that if Pep retires as a result

I do wonder if that's what keeps him at City at the moment - not having won the CL with them. But having them win it after all their financial nonsense cheapens it. Especially as they're still under investigation on that one.

[Chris Stott]

That and £20m a year plus whatever back handers he gets

[Drabbesttunic]

I couldn't care less about any of those games or results.

[ChocolateFrog]

It will be sad when that particular long running joke comes to an end.

Can't say I'm particularly excited at either City or RM winning the CL but let's face it, it will be one of them.

City are the better side, RM have the experience.

[jammy-git]

[Flip Martian]

jammy-git said:

City's net spend is heavily skewed downwards in the last couple of seasons, which has made them seem far more reasonable. In truth it probably more than matches their high wages figure. And they're the only team under investigation of their finance irregularities so why do these things include them in with everyone else anyway... They should be in their own league of 1.

[Adam.]

City spent big in the 5 years preceding that, so it cost less to maintain in last 5.

£800M net in the period 6-10 years ago.

Thats before the finance shenanigans to hide costs.

chelsesa did somethign similar in the early Abramovich era, then theycalmed down, until this year

[Chris Stott]

Assume their wages doesn’t include all the backhander bonuses either.

[jammy-git]

Ignoring City, my takeaway from it was that we've over-performed the last 5 years and that if we finish 5th this season, it's more in line with our spending.

[Adam.]

jammy-git said:

Ignoring City, my takeaway from it was that we've over-performed the last 5 years and that if we finish 5th this season, it's more in line with our spending.

Yep, we spent the PC money well and had a team peaking together

Next year we will fall further in that table:

5 years ago was 2018/19 when we bought Allison, Keita and Fab - £130M net spend, this was a peak spend year using half of the PC money from previous year.
6 years ago was 2017/18 when we sold PC and got VVD and Salah - £10M net income

[Pommy]

The net spend argument is boring because ultimately we actually sold a player for a shed load more than we paid as he'd developed so well, we spent that money really well and then win a few things through sheer hard work and talent, yet get pilloried for it compared to having some dictatorship oil company come in and break all the FFP rules.

People forget we won the PL with an academy player right back, an £8m left back, a CB got on a free, a captain who cost £17m, a £35m world beater, a master play maker who cost £29m and it was just the 2 purchases that really cost a lot comparatively.

Funny old world innit.

[Adam.]

Who pillories us?

Its just the usual suspects from the usual place. And now they are spending similar amounts (with the usual success rate) that has petered out to the occasional boring WUM.

It's still a decent measure for who is over or under performing and interesting to some, well me!
It is also a vague indication of what FSG might have to spend to keep us in the race.

[type-r]

So which Liverpool will turn up tonight?

[Flip Martian]

The wrong one. I made the mistake of being optimistic at the weekend and we were terrible, so I'm not wasting positivity now.

[SydneyBridge]

[RazerSauber]

Looking positive so far, VVD’s lazy pass aside.

[type-r]

Have to say, that goal was a bit special.

[RazerSauber]

Not looking positive any more. Another deflected goal??

[paulrockliffe]

type-r said:

Have to say, that goal was a bit special

It was awesome. FFS.