I have a genuine question (really, it is genuine) I would like to ask.
So a lot of us in this thread and the Thiago one argued back and forth about why we don't have money to spend and why we are on a ''sell then buy'' approach. I was one of those that had a hint of frustration because I felt we shouldn't be that strapped for cash when we literally won about everything except an FA cup but at the end of the day people on this board with more financial knowledge than me came through and made number backed arguments (in the middle of the wars some people had in those threads) that explained to me the situation and made me accept it better.
My question(s) is this: We know our actual situation but do we know how much of it is due to our model (wage structure, unwillingness to move for certain types of players, wanting to bring competition from the academy, etc.), how much of it is the uncertainty brought in by the pandemic and how much of it is due to our general financial situation as a club?
Also, how overblown is winning the Premier League in terms of what the collective imaginary thinks brings back in money (prize money but also in brand exposure/expansion) compared to what it does in reality?
Meaning, I expected us not to go on a crazy spending spree because we won a league tittle but I was hoping for us to be able to display just a tiny bit more of financial power as a result. The Thiago situation being a perfect example. We have an amazing starting 11 and I don't think we need to spend big money to improve it but it would be nice, in the context of him being on the last year of his contract, to be able to pounce on an opportunity to add a world class midfielder to our team without necessarily having to sell one of our own. (Of course wage must be considered on top of the transfer fee but you get my point, it still ends up being a bargain for a player like him.)
I guess what I am trying to say/ask is, considering we know Klopp likes him and assuming he would like to join us, how much of us not moving for him without raising the funds elsewhere is pandemic related, how much of it is model related and how much of it is just related to the general financial situation of the club regardless of the pandemic?
I am asking this just to get a clearer picture of the situation because I end up getting lost in between what is related to the pandemic, what is just us being cautious not to mess up the wage structure too much and what is related to us not having the required financial power. What can we realistically expect next summer assuming we are out of this pandemic?
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