Well, between Nike, Redbird (Ā£2.1bn warchest as the Echo calls it - or a mere Ā£550m depending on where you get our info, or are we to assume the team had 0 investment from the Redbird deal?), Lebron James, winning the PL, ECL, and others, plus selling a few players, I find it hard to explain why we looked so anaemic in this summer's transfer window. Sometimes you really do have to take a risk. Speculate to accumulate. What happens if we don't make top four? Even if you have the money, it means your player pool has reduced a lot.
The Redbird investment wasnāt to the club 🤷āāļø It was never stated by the owners etc that it was going to the club - Redbird invested in FSG not Liverpool and FSG i believe used that investment to increase their portfolio- an NHL team I think ?
Not sure what the Lebron James bit is about but they have spent Ā£80 plus million in the summer on new players , they may well spend some more in Jan
The season is a couple games old and already talk of not making top 4 🤦āāļø
We find ourselves in a position of having to rely on a couple of youngsters and a player almost twice their age. The best case scenario is waiting for Thiago and Keita to come back (and Hendo, who looks to have lost his legs), who will probably get injured again after half a dozen games. That's what the last four or five seasons have told us.
Both those youngsters are first team players 🤷āāļø Can we not develop players through anymore , does everyone have to be ready made , can we not get these young players in and develop them - the likes of Elliot and Carvallho both have the ability to be top class players and there is no better way to develop by playing.
Thiago is back , along with Fabinho , Arthur now we are just missing Keita and Henderson
I'd say most clubs made a loss - but I'm willing to bet that most clubs also managed to spend. I'm not asking for billions, just enough to maintain a title challenge. Only so much Klopp can do with pennies.
We just spend more on a striker this summer than we have done in our history - and yet thatās āpenniesā
How many of those clubs that are spending are also selling , or taking loans , adding on debt , an owner picking his bank account
Are you aware that commercially, Liverpool FC surpassed Man Utd (last season I think) for the first time ever? That's brilliant by the owners, and it means we have more money coming in. But it means nothing if you don't back the manager. And no, I don't think FSG have backed Klopp.
The club have spent Ā£600plus million on players
What does the amount need to be so that people can āyep the owners have backed the managerā
Is it not good enough that Klopp clearly feels he is backed by the club ?
I have seen you ask on a few occasions, who did we have to sell in order to buy Diaz, as if that was the be all and end all. The answer is, that season we spent Ā£78.30m and recouped Ā£26.60, so a net spend of Ā£51.70m. But so what? That's not even the absolute minimum owners need to do in order to maintain our high levels. Don't look at transfer windows in isolation - compare multiple transfer windows to see the bigger more accurate picture. Earlier I posted all transfer dealings we have made under FSG, and it averages out at Ā£14m per transfer window. That is ridiculous. So keep an eye on the current transfer window, those that have passed, and remember to keep an eye on what happens in the next transfer window. Like this summer's where we have a net spend of Ā£8.64m. That's pathetic - however, you cut it.
So whatās the figure then.
What level of money needs to be spent by the club on players before your satisfied?
Ā£100mil a year ? Ā£150mil ? Ā£200mil ?
What is needed to be spent before the demands for money stops ?
If Ā£60plus mil on Nunez wasnt enough then what is ?
Are some people that spoilt and demanding that spending millions is not enough and is now called āpatheticā when we donāt spend Ā£100mil net
I'm not asking for our owners to spend Ā£260m; that is bonkers money. I just don't think, given all the revenue FSG must be making (see above), that they are spending enough on the team.
Either FSG are making money or they are not. I think they are making money, where is the backing? If they are not making money and cannot back the manager, what are they doing here? They would hardly stick around if they were losing money. But here they are. Entrenched.
Where's the backing?
But you are asking for that level of spending to be done -
Maybe instead of looking at just the clubs money in regards transfers only look at the whole picture
How about contract renewals ? Signing on fees ? Bonuses? Whatās used to pay that ?
The wage bill of the club being around Ā£330mil - around 2/3rds of the income
https://twitter.com/swissramble/status/1387289822415441921?s=21&t=jCwuxa4k1qbdO8wX0n5PsAThe accounts are very clear - either people want to ignore them or just canāt understand them but they are there clear as day the level of money that we can spend