Was having the usually weekly email discussion about Liverpool with my mate (not sure how much work he actually does with amount of emails I get of him
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Today's discussion started about Downing rumoured to be going to Boro on loan, and it led me to look at the money we've apparently been happy enough to just let slip through our fingers.
It makes for scary reading, I thought back to the transfer deals back when Rafa was manager and how he had a rep for bringing in alot of average players alongside the odd gem.
When you look at these transfers though, we hardly ever lost money or you can give valid reasons as to why we lost on the deal and infact made money on some, where did it all go so horribly wrong. When did we become so naive in the market.
Here are a selcetion of deal that highlight my point.
Joesmi bought for £2m, swapped for Kronkamp who was then sold for £1.5m. Tried two players neither good enough but only lost £500K
Gonzalez never really settled but we only lost £300K on the transfer.
Sissoko £5.8m, sold for £2.4m profit.
Crouch £7m, sold for £3m profit.
Barragan made £440K profit.
Leto made just over £1.1m.
Bellamy made £1.5m
Yes you can say we lost on some in those times but none would be what I can heavy losses, if you take in account the shifts they put in for the club while they were here. The two stand outs back then were probably, barring the ones that let there contract run down and left on frees.
Cisse £8m loss.
Morientes £3.3m loss.
Fast forward a couple of years to the back end of Rafa's reign and the more recent years now it seems we bring in these average players yet ship them out along with a massive loss!
It all started around the Robbie Keane transfer horror show.
Keane £7m loss.
Dossena £2.5m.
Aquilani £14m.
Poulsen £3.5m.
Adam £3m.
Add to this the possible £15-20m loss on Carroll and £10-15m on Downing.
I wonder what's changed in such a short space of time, my only hope is that we return to being more stringent in either or scouting of players or in our negotiating with deals.