Dude this definitely comes across as a little bit touchy!
You only have to look at some of the examples of botched transfers. Take Mo Salah for instance, I think it was three years ago we were in for him in the January window. We haggled over the price for two weeks (evidently no one else was in for him at that time) and then in come Chelsea, £11 million on the table, job done, player gone. 11 fracking million, what was the hold up? There shouldn't have been any problem getting that deal across the line. And then the joke of it is we pay more than three times that to get him this summer and LINE Chelsea's bloody pockets with a slice of the cash to boot. It's classic FSG. We were after Willian (I think it was the season before), we were the only side in for him initially and eye were playing hard ball on the price. In came Spurs with a better offer and we dropped out of the chase immediately, of course then came in at the last minute and guzumped Spurs. Hindsight is of course a lovely thing but for the price they paid they got a pretty good deal I think most would agree, he's top pro and a really good player. FSG don't appear to go head to head with other clubs for players, they just bug the fu...ck out at the first inkling of a bidding war. Take the Clint Dempsey saga, £7 million they wanted for him, on deadline day! We'd just sold Andy Carroll and we're lacking in strikers. FSG wouldn't sanction the deal, what a joke but that's classic FSG mate. I'm sure I could drag up some others but that's the way the club do business for much of the time under this lot. The only time it's any different is when they've just sold the crown jewells and they need some quick PR with the fan base. As for this summer, you might be right about Klopp calling the shots in terms of who we go after but I do not believe he controls how we go about it. Take Keita, we got two weeks of hearing a bid was imminent, it's coming, wait for it, here it comes, they said no. Then another two weeks of wait for it, wait for it, here's it comes, they said no. The compare us to Chelsea. Evidently Lukaku was their number one target, they think they've got it in the bag, the skum steal in and buy him from under their noses. Two days later, bid on for Morata, player signed job done. I'll have some of that please. Or I'll happily have some of Daniel Levy's clever mix of being a stubborn fu...ck when it comes to selling their best players (he always gets the top price he can) and aggressiveness on deadline day. Yes please. But no, we've stat machine Damien Commoli, the hapless Ian Aye and then back to another stat merchant moneyball lover in Michael Edwards. And you wonder why some many of us sing "you don't know what your doing".
It's just the way I type, nothing touchy about me.
Look, clubs sometimes make deals, and sometimes they don't, it really is that simple.
There's no plot, there's no conspiracy, although yes, being human, sometimes we F**k things up.
Then there's value.
We laughed our arses off at city paying 50 million quid for Sterling, but the point is that it was within their budget, so they could do it.
Sometimes (like with Dempsey) the manager decides "no, he isn't worth the price or what he wants in wages", and on that occasion I agreed 100%.
Remind me where he is now and how he did at Spurs?
So, we either have a budget we stick to, or we land ourselves in debt again.
Do you really want that to happen?
Yes, I know a certain amount of debt is good for the club (and any other company come to that) but not debt which threatens our existence as we saw under h&g.
We're actually a lot better at transfers now that at any time since KK was here first time, apart from Rafa maybe, but his squad was truly lacking in depth.
We have a cracking first team that could do with a couple more, a squad with a lot more depth.
I don't see the problem, and if there is one, it's down to Klopp not buying because he couldn't get his first choice.