Are the Anfield Chairmen pulling a fast one?

Please don't bite my head off on this one.

Personally I feel that Hicks and Gillette have not lived up to their words. They made it sound like that we'd be spending like £60m but instead no where near that mark. Instead we have spent a lot less.

Look at it this way...

In: Fernando Torres (£21m), Ryan Babel (£11m), Yossi Benayoun (£5m) Lucas Leiva (£5m) - Total = £42m

Out: Craig Bellamy (£7m), Djibril Cisse (£6m), Mark Gonzalez (£4m), Sinnema Pongolle (£3m) - Total = £20m

That makes our net spending this summer at around £22m. It's not a bad amount but I think Rafa deserves another £20m to spend in the transfer market while it is still open.

Your thoughts?

On who?

Heinze (7M) will give us the cover we need at Left back and central defence.

Maybe someone else for the right wing.  After that we have a pretty full squad.

On who?

Heinze (7M) will give us the cover we need at Left back and central defence.

Maybe someone else for the right wing.  After that we have a pretty full squad.

7m for cover? not likely!!!

right wing yeah but not much else I reckon

I think something that is often missed here is that there have been very few big money (that represent value for money anyway) transfers done across the whole market this year. For whatever reason, the big names are not moving (or at least not yet) this transfer window, and so it doesn't matter how much money we've got to spend, if the players we need aren't available in the market, then we can't buy them.

I think something that is often missed here is that there have been very few big money (that represent value for money anyway) transfers done across the whole market this year. For whatever reason, the big names are not moving (or at least not yet) this transfer window, and so it doesn't matter how much money we've got to spend, if the players we need aren't available in the market, then we can't buy them.

You're right.

And besides, we usually dont like the kind of players who only move when money is waved in front of their nose (chavs).

BUMP.

Reds 'about' to spend record £6.5 million on defender.

(Oh and we're selling Momo for about £11 million).

Don't ask us about the £4.5 million we just pocketed.

Hey JD, that makes sense sell in Pounds (sterling) and buy in Dollars, they think we're stupid!

If anyone visits the link on Anfield Online at the very top of this thread it really makes some quite interesting reading 6 months down the line.  Everyone queued up at me for 'daring' to have a pop at the owners.

I want them all to go back and re-post a comment now.

Good old G&H ! Quite the economists !

6 months, ok well Im one for looking at this in a pragmatic sense ahem. Should they not be given a little more time to show their worth?? Personnally I think some are jumping to the wrong conclusions here and we should really give them a little more time to prove their worth. Reason being is they are new to the sport and they may not understand the way things work exactly. Albeit they may have scaled down plans for the new stadium, but that could have been for more technical issues than some might suggest.

As we all know I think the media has also got a lot to do with some of the negative furor that has gone along with the over sensationlism of the disagreement between them and Rafa. And this in turn could make people think negativaly about them.
I think they should be given a little more time to prove their worth, and we should wait at least until the end of the season then judge them and see what happens then.

Good point pragmatic,they have 3 weeks otherwise it'll be once a couple of glory hunting tight arsed p***ks.......always .................

Don't ask us about the £4.5 million we just pocketed.

Fingers crossed it's going in that kitty with 'Mascherano' written on the side of it!

I've had this argument time and again with arsehole Blue's who think we've spent f*cking millions! I weighed up each and every outgoing player and incoming player and told them we only basically spent money on Torres last summer!

Never seen the bitter bas**rds so quiet!

(Well, there was a few home games I worked there! They were quiet then too! ) :

You are right Pragmatic that we need to see, but in the last transfer window they spent little over 20 million and considering that were managing to provide about 15m on average in previous summers, I just don't think having them hear for a few pennies is worth it.  After all the increment in TV revenue has to be taken into consideration. I would have liked a supporter to take over that would have understood our sentiment and dealt in the transfer market with his heart.  As much pressure the media and others are trying to put on Benitez, we lost in the last window to Man Utd hands down.  I don't want to wait until the stadium is built, I am very pissed off at the moment so this may be a bit annoying, but i just want to see some attacking players in this transfer window, and quality is paramount.

You are right Pragmatic that we need to see, but in the last transfer window they spent little over 20 million and considering that were managing to provide about 15m on average in previous summers, I just don't think having them hear for a few pennies is worth it.  After all the increment in TV revenue has to be taken into consideration. I would have liked a supporter to take over that would have understood our sentiment and dealt in the transfer market with his heart.  As much pressure the media and others are trying to put on Benitez, we lost in the last window to Man Utd hands down.  I don't want to wait until the stadium is built, I am very pissed off at the moment so this may be a bit annoying, but I just want to see some attacking players in this transfer window, and quality is paramount.

I agree with what you say kenny but is it not fair to bear in mind that they are also shrewd businessmen. If you take a step back and reflect for a moment with regards to the transfer money last season with players going out and players coming in Rafa was very happy with the squad he got and he was overjoyed we got Torres. Now bear in mind that they must have the best interest of the club at heart otherwise they would not have bought it, even as businessmen they must have seen they were in this for a long haul and were not going to make money overnight. Surely being astute and money wise as everyone seems to think it has to be in their interest to speculate to accumalate, and albeit after the offloads it was only 20 mill, Rafa still pretty much got the squad he wanted. Surely its only fair to wait and see what happens at the end of the season and see what happens in the transfer window over the summer, I know Im going make my assumptions then as then they have had a year or more to show what they have got. At this moment in time I have got my reservations about Rick Parry (which I have had for many years)for me he is too slow out of the blocks a lot of the time but to be fair its the transfer market can be a very dangerous place to be, as you are banking on spending a lot of money on particular players that could blow up in your face. But having said that Parry is often slow out of the blocks with most things and does seem to take a very cautious approach to almost everything. But I do reitterrate what I said I think G&H should be given a little more time before everyone starts getting on their back, like I stated in my other post we need to stand together as one at this current time because of all the crap being thrown at us. once the season is over then we can start to look at what is going on with a more critical eye.

Why is every one blaming G&H - who should have done his home work / buy-out due dilligence properly (on in an un-biased way) in the interest of Liverpool Football Club?

Who should have ensured the mid and long term investment model was in place (not be constructed)?

Who should have ensured the stadium plans that were promoted and sent to every corner of the globe could actually be delivered upon BEFORE the take-over?

Who wanted to keep his job knowing DIC would get rid of him?

.... now let me think... oh yes... that would be our beloved CEO who kept his job and is now firmly up the arses of the Yanks (in survival mode), deafening in his silence about Rafa (in judas mode) and counting his broker bonus from Morres (in Rick Parry mode).

R.Investments.Parry (R.I.P.) R US.