Liverpool fans crying about however many hundreds of millions that City can spend on players this summer.
It is almost as if some of you are just working out why FFP was necessary. Give it some time, maybe you will also work out why you can't red-line to financially compete with
them. Or not. That one takes a bit more of the old brain meat. But it goes something like this -
if you are spending most of your revenue on wages, you cannot also spend most of your revenue on transfer fees. Because whatever you win never cover it. And invariable, only 1 of
teams blowing the GDP of a small country on transfer fees will actually win. And no matter what happens, City can just keep spending because the losses are written off as the cost to launder the image of their despot owner.
Eventually though, the other clubs get into financial
trouble because what is spent has to be covered by revenue.
Now there is another option - Liverpool sell itself to an even richer human rights-abusing, journalist murdering despot to become their reputation laundering wanksock.
But we won't entertain that because only a
narcissist would want that to happen. You don't love the club in that case, you just love the success which you year as an accessory.
*wear ... bloody autocorrect
Oh and to be clear, this isn't a Liverpool thing- it is an all of sport thing. This is why the big clubs want the ESL. They know without much more control over their revenue and the ability to make a lot more money, eventually they just need to give up the arms race to PSG & City
And this is why giving Qatar (and eventually Abu Dhabi, it will happen) big seats at UEFA and allowing Putin and Qatar to pump money into FIFA and UEFA in exchange for control of the world's biggest sport is a problem.
Is anything then achieved really on sporting merit? really?
Anyway I'll mute this thread here because I have no interest at all in debating this with the City trolls - again. If you want to debate it with me, just search using advanced search for previous threads I have done on this. Then you can quote-reply me to yourself to do so.
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Starting Sanches tonight just shows how good Portugal could be if they started matches with 11 players instead of 10.
As I say that, Bruno gives the ball away - Portugal win it back, give it back to Bruno, who somehow kicks it out behind himself for a throwin while trying to dribble. Wft
He has just never looked the same player for Portugal as he does at United. The difference between being the lynchpin in one system build around him, and being the supporting cast for Ronaldo.
I also fucking LOVE that you think in the final paragraph UEFA have to define what the rainbow colours mean. Just so you can simultaneously hide behind them in your shitty press releases but also use them to maintain your squeaky clean reputation.
The thing is, it starts to get complicated with squad places. You probably carry 4 CB into a normal season. We need to go in with at least 5 but likely 6 next season. And if we take the same approach in midfield, and 3 goalkeepers (given Kelleher now needs a place due to age)
then it all starts to add up. This is our squad from last season.
8 home-grown, 16/17 who are not
We need to add to this
Ibrahima Konaté (free space)
Virgil van Dijk (replace Gini)
Ben Davies (replace Hardy)
We have Marko Grujić coming back from injury who needs to be sold
or a squad place. You would imagine if we were to move on any of Adrian, Matip, Shaq, Taki, Origi - we get a like-for-like replacement. If we move on Ox or Phillips we need a homegrown player to replace them.
But this all makes manoeuvring in the market complicated as the
The reason the whole Trent debate starts off flawed for me is the beginning premise being they are all the same thing. They aren't really.
First all, roles are far more important than positions in football. What Roberto Carlos did for Brazil isn't the same as what Konchesky did
at Fulham.
Which is why Hodgson sees no value in the former, tells him he isn't a left back, then sells him. Yet the latter, he brings with him to Liverpool as his only signing from his previous club.
But the more important thing is this:
How many teams' key player is a full back? It is incredibly rare. Trent is a transformative player. His talent is such that Klopp built his entire system around him (and Robbo) with them taking on the role of primary progressers