Ayrton I wasn't referring to anybody in particular mate, nor any thread in particular.
As I keep saying money doesn't buy you success. I don't for one minute believe that our league failures in recent years are down to money, which some people claim. The most constant arguement is "how can we compete with Chelsea and United's finances." Well I expect us to compete like we are now and the reason we're competing this year is because we're being consistant which is what we haven't been of late. Money doesn't buy consistantcy.
If you look at our big money transfers this year (the year we are on top) have been two of our most disappointing players. Keane for 20 million was claimed by so many to be overpriced and we've seen in Dossena that 7 million was a bit much. Another of our disappointing players of late has been Ryan Babel, another 10 million plus buy. It just goes to show how misleading a price tag can be. A price tag is the selling club's valuation of a player and the buying club is prepapred to meet, it doesn't mean how good a player is which is why I don't believe it's anything to do with money.
Money can buy players like Shevchenko, Veron, Cech, Wiltord and so on but that doesn't mean they're going to be worth that money. As for world class managers well that's what Juande Ramos is claimed to be and he had money to spend. He spent over the odds on Modric, Gomes, Bentley, Woodgate, Pavly...Russian forward and a few others.
Just to wrap up, it takes a lot more than an open cheque book to get success which when all is going well on the pitch at Anfield, Liverpool fans agree with but when we see our club failing to win titles and stick is aimed at our manager and players the wall is built up and excuses about money come to affect. Again, this isn't aimed at you personally ayrton just a generalisation of so many Liverpool fans.
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