You do understand that the owners sanction those fees do you not? How can you come here and state it's ALL down to Klopp when it's the owners who sanction a fee of 65m to buy those players? Did you even bother reading Klopp's comments on Alisson when he told the owners he wanted to pay X amount and the owners told him basically to go for it? FSG could have told him it's quite expensive and maybe he should go for a cheaper alternative.
Of course Klopp a long with Michael Edwards deserve the credit for convincing the players, but they aren't the ones with the money and frankly none of this would have happened if FSG didn't give them the vote of confidence to proceed. Naive to suggest it's all down to to one person when it's highly subjective and so many factors in play.
You don't understand the point.
The money was there from player sales. We've just sold coutinho for 140m.
FSG have always given our managers the money back to re-invest into the team from whatever we make from player sales.
The difference with klopp to Brendan or Kenny is, instead of using the money to buy several average players for smaller fees, he buys one or two for higher fees who are world class. That's because Jürgen can convince those players to play for us.
Brendan Rodgers couldn't do that. He tried to convince top players to play for us but they weren't interested. It was exactly the same model as what Jürgen is working under now.
Rodgers had all of the suarez fee which at the time was a lot of money, but no decent player wanted to play for him so instead we signed several poor players who were just dross in all honesty and should never have played for Liverpool.
If klopp was in that position he would have signed 1 or 2 players, a like for like for suarez, somebody of much better quality.
Look at one of my posts above. I asked another poster a question and I'll ask you the same. If klopp moved on and we appointed tony pulis, do you think we could still sign players as good as Keita, Virgil, Alisson if we sold salah for example and had money to burn? Do you think we would break transfer records with tony pulis in charge yes or no?
For me, it's a fat f**king no. Because nobody would want to play for that little tit unless you threw a sh*t load of money at them so they couldn't possibly refuse. Something FSG haven't done.
Without klopp, trust me, we're fu**ed.
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