How can they be âtight fistedâ when money is regularly spent on players , wages etc
Because they don't put a single cent of their own money in.
It's like someone buying you rounds of drinks and you think "nice one" and then at the end of the session they stick it all on their expenses.
Tight-fisted.
Most fans aren't interested in 'neutral' being seen as some sort of Holy Grail. They want the owners to actually stick some of their own cash in over and above the club paying its own way.
I don't actually mind the club paying its own way as long as all the other clubs have to abide by that. That'd be in keeping with the spirit of the game, Ronnie Radford, jumpers for goalposts etc. But since Man City won at CAS everyone can now spend as much as they can lay their hands on. So why should we stick to the club paying its own way, going forwards, with the whole FFP thing totally fu**ed?
Depending on the maths, it may make no business sense to carry on the way we've been going, if it risks losing tens or hundreds of millions of CL money. Yes you've got to draw the line somewhere, it's no good spending 500m a season to chase 100m of CL money, so the accountants have got to strike some sort of balance, but there needs to be some sort of fight put up for CL places, not total capitulation to the we'll-spend-what-we-like clubs.
But if FSG stick to the same strategy as the last 10 years we risk forcing the best manager we've ever had (IMO) to spend the last 3 years of his tenure operating in the same sort of environment as Rafa had to in his last few years, selling our best players and either buying inferior players or taking gambles on the fitness of players of the same quality as we've been used to. I give you: Alonso, Leiva, Aquilani.
With what Klopp's achieved we should be maxing out our credit cards for the next 3 years to see what he can win while the going's good, before we inevitably start to fall away again.
12 months ago a lot us felt we were looking at another LFC golden era. There were fans using the word 'dynasty'. Now it feels more like the onset of the post-Istanbul era all over again.
Who's gonna be the Xabi Alonso...?
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