Has £50M become the new £30/35M transfer benchmark..

[CCTV]

We've gone close to winning 4 pl titles and 3 CL titles under our current owners whilst rejuvenating Anfield.

Neville is part of the punditry class aiming to connect with their target audience. Where low net spending on transfers or worse a net profit on transfers is a sign of a poorly run club.

[jr81]

We've gone close to winning 4 pl titles and 3 CL titles under our current owners whilst rejuvenating Anfield.

Neville is part of the punditry class aiming to connect with their target audience. Where low net spending on transfers or worse a net profit on transfers is a sign of a poorly run club.

I fairness I don't think he is saying we are poorly run. I think he is saying we are run in a way that we can't sustain to compete. He is right (imo). Klopp himself has siad hé wishe the owners Would take more risk in the transfers. Maybe it would have gotten us another league or 2 and another CL. Maybe not. We will never know. But I think right now we are on a trajectory that will leave us as the also rans.

[Steveo]

But…how was that all by going post Klopp (best manager around) and then crucially the sale of Coutinho…?

I mean be honest - No Coutinho sale and we never buy Virgil and then follow it up with Fabinho and Alisson. Never happens…

The stadium upgrades have been pathetic, Literally pathetic. Ground a mess and barely a dent in ST… Payed for at rapid speed and interest YET by club generated funds. This has been why despite the best manager on planet earth for approaching 8 years…. and despite almost winning double what we have, we have only taken 1 each of the top prizes. Eclipsing what was achieved under ‘For fucks sake Parry’…

Forget about Neville the man and listen to what he is saying about us competing with our rivals, then remember who is the most successful club in the land.

[vin]

But…how was that all by going post Klopp (best manager around) and then crucially the sale of Coutinho…?

I mean be honest - No Coutinho sale and we never buy Virgil and then follow it up with Fabinho and Alisson. Never happens…

The stadium upgrades have been pathetic, Literally pathetic. Ground a mess and barely a dent in ST… Payed for at rapid speed and interest YET by club generated funds. This has been why despite the best manager on planet earth for approaching 8 years…. and despite almost winning double what we have, we have only taken 1 each of the top prizes. Eclipsing what was achieved under ‘For fucks sake Parry’…

Forget about Neville the man and listen to what he is saying about us competing with our rivals, then remember who is the most successful club in the land.

I've been saying this for awhile. The market has accelerated and the FSG model can't keep up...

[Steveo]

The model under FSG will never be sustainable - certainly not in terms of sustained success… EVEN when the best manager in the planet is in situ for years and we got right to the top. Their penny pinching from all quarters meant it was dying before it became the norm.

This is precisely the point. A point I have been making for years… While we were holders of the CL and then the title - almost nobody was listening. They are starting to now.

[dicko1969]

Most premier league fans are spoilt.
Being able to spend £30m on a player is insane.
Outside this league.
A few in Spain, 1 in Germany, a few in Italy.
1 in france , can compete with Brighton ffs.

So to say Liverpool are 'poor' is ridiculous.

Over the last 8 seasons the football, and the story we have had has been insane.

Nearly winning a quadruple, title challenges has way surpassed ffs parry.

Liverpool fans have been spoilt.

[Kev0909]

the fact villa bournemouth brentford are spending more than us, (net) it's time to go for FSG, can't keep up with mid-table never mind top 4 that's even with the wages saved from players out this summer.

[Steveo]

Most premier league fans are spoilt.
Being able to spend £30m on a player is insane.
Outside this league.
A few in Spain, 1 in Germany, a few in Italy.
1 in france , can compete with Brighton ffs.

So to say Liverpool are 'poor' is ridiculous.

Over the last 8 seasons the football, and the story we have had has been insane.

Nearly winning a quadruple, title challenges has way surpassed ffs parry.

Liverpool fans have been spoilt.

How many near misses on Paisley watch? Just the 6 titles and 3 European Cups… Yes we have been spoilt as a club - that’s the whole point. And as Shanks always aimed for - ‘a bastion of invincibility’ that’s the game.

Cannot happen with these leeches and will never happen with them even if the best manager around is in situ for a decade.

Neville’s point stands on its own. Klopp has shielded us. Those big wins only possible by ravaging the squad playing Klopp’s hugely taxing system. A system that had to be deployed for too long before it could ever be upgraded.

Spoilt or not spoilt the funds to compete with rivals have not been there.

Ask how Arsenal - managed to get ahead of us from where they were and where we were just 18 months ago.

Too many players clocking up too many miles.

[Steveo]

Most of our departing lads are good for the knackers yard. Look at Mané and Fab… Spent way too young.

We have had to flog players to be in the mix for those near misses. Klopp has been amazing / the owners are a shower of shyte

[Daffydd]

It's just numbers, the principle remains the same. £10m was shocking once but now it's a bargain.

Just looking at the British transfer record. Since the premier league started we've broken it once buying Stan Collymore for a whopping £8.5m (and once selling Coutinho). Man Utd and Real Madrid feature heavily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progression_of_the_British_football_transfer_fee_r ecord