Cough cough Suarez and Coutinho cough cough players of note.
So the manager only exerts 1% of influence then, in that case what in the name of f**k are you banging on about with Jürgen being so important then? especially when we have just shelled out 2 record breaking transfer sums, and no it doesn't matter where that money came from it was still paid out.
Instead of hitting the reply button instantly and waffling on talking rubbish with a load of smoke coming off your keyboard, just slow down, take a second, and read what I'm actually saying before you respond. You said nothing I say makes sense. But I've made 2000 or so posts and have 1000 little likes. A 50% ratio. So it seems most people understand what I say but you don't.
I didn't say klopp is 1% influence.
What I said was, in today's football world money talks 99% of the time. But fortunately for Liverpool, we are in that other tiny 1%, and the reason we are in that tiny 1% is because of Jürgen Klopp. It doesn't matter that we can't pay the highest wages at the moment, because we have a manager who everybody wants to play for. We are part of a project, klopps project, and everybody wants to be a part of it.
Both Keita and Van Dijk could have got more wages elsewhere. Do they care? No. Because they want to play for Klopp. As I keep saying, it's that bloody simple. If we had a different manager in charge then they would have chosen the wages instead.
Just imagine we didn't have klopp and we still had Brendan Rodgers. We approach Van Dijk and say come and play for us big Virgil. But both Chelsea and city do the same thing and they offer him higher wages.
What do you think he's going to do? Look mate, you can kid yourself all you want and say he still would have signed for us and you can talk about our history and you can talk about how great anfield is on a European night, but I think your incredibly naive if you genuinely believe that.
Truth is, I don't actually think you do believe that. I think you know full well we wouldn't have a chance in hell at signing somebody like Van Dijk if it wasn't for Jürgen. So I don't know why you're still quoting me and arguing just for arguments sake.
Let's just hope Jürgen klopp is at Liverpool for a long, long time because I'm absolutely certain that when he decides to leave, presuming FSG are still here and presuming we appoint somebody like F***ing Eddie Howe to replace him, we won't be persuading anybody of a high standard to sign for us and we will go back to signing sh*te like downing and benteke and being miserable in F***ing 8th.
FSG have backed every manager under their ownership with the money they've made from sales. But that's it. So going back to the original point of money talks, when Brendan wanted Sanchez or Costa or Willian did FSG throw more money at them to persuade them to sign? No.
Have FSG thrown money at Virgil and Keita for them to sign? No. Because other clubs offered them more money. But we're in that little 1% because money doesn't matter when you have klopp as manager. They want to play for him.
Without klopp, we're fu**ed.