Liverpool v Man City

[worldpanel]

On the FFP, interesting piece from the Guardian today....
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/feb/06/premier-league-charges-manchester-city-three-years-latest
They are trying to kill it with the passing of time. Someone needs the cajones to finalize and charge accordingly.

[Steveo]

Anyone going to the match ?

Nope - I’m at the Brighton game on14th though.
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No chance I could get tickets for City - unless I want to remortgage my house.

[redebreck]

On the FFP, interesting piece from the Guardian today....
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/feb/06/premier-league-charges-manchester-city-three-years-latest
They are trying to kill it with the passing of time. Someone needs the cajones to finalize and charge accordingly.

Interesting article. You'd think everyone who follows the Premier League wants to see some kind of resolution.
I tend to agree there will be a compromise.
Man City could potentially afford to pay billions in fines if it came down to it.
How much longer will we have to wait?

[Nineteenx]

Anybody know anyone got two tickets to the Brighton game not able to go?

Got a friend asking

[CCTV]

BTW - it's F$G - and their only motive for FFP is to minimise their own risk. We know who the FFP warriors are - we know why they are here and why they want it. The very folks from the land of free market capital.. suddenly wanting the caps to facilitate unbridled profit. But the minions fall for it while the shill tries to justify it.


Oh - and had Klopp been backed with better than 6th across his tenure we would have easily won more titles and European cups too.

Premier League "Big Six" Net Spend (2015–2024)

Rank,Club,Total Spend (Est.),Total Income (Est.),Net Spend (Est.)
1,Manchester United,£1.65 Billion,£350 Million,-£1.30 Billion
2,Chelsea,£2.10 Billion,£1.05 Billion,-£1.05 Billion
3,Arsenal,£1.25 Billion,£450 Million,-£800 Million
4,Manchester City,£1.50 Billion,£820 Million,-£680 Million
5,Tottenham,£1.15 Billion,£600 Million,-£550 Million
6,Liverpool,£900 Million,£560 Million,-£340 Million

The cheek of you

Let's establish some basic time periods for FSG & Klopp in terms of transfer spending.

FSG took over in October 2010.
So we'll say summer 2011 spending onwards.

Over the FSG era LFC ranked 5th for net spending in the league.
€869.99 million net.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/einnahmenausgaben/wettbewerb/GB1/plus/0?ids=a&sa=&saison_id=2011&saison_id_bis=2025&nat= &pos=&altersklasse=&w_s=&leihe=&intern=0

Klopp took over in October 2015.
So we'll say summer 2016 spending up to the end of 23/24 season.

Over the Klopp era LFC ranked 9th for net spending in the league.
€390.4 million net

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/einnahmenausgaben/wettbewerb/GB1/plus/0?ids=a&sa=&saison_id=2016&saison_id_bis=2023&nat= &pos=&altersklasse=&w_s=&leihe=&intern=0

2011/12 to 2015/16 LFC ranked 3rd for net spending in the league.

2024/25 to 2025/26 LFC ranked 5th for net spending in the league.

So under FSG... LFC are 5th for net spending in the PL.

3rd prior to Klopp
9th with Klopp
5th after Klopp

It's no surprise net spending reduced on Klopps arrival.

https://tomkinstimes.com/2015/11/klopp-reversing-the-laws-of-gravity/

Or as G.nev might say, Klopp ruined LFC :●

[darrenpotter]

And during klopps time stadium got massive overhaul and we left melwood. Both of which were done for free.

[Steveo]

And all of it payed for by F$G…

[teesred]

Anybody know anyone got two tickets to the Brighton game not able to go?

Got a friend asking

Tickets are available on the club site,general sale. Or they were last week.

[Nineteenx]

Tickets are available on the club site,general sale. Or they were last week.

You could never get them with Jurgen in charge

[Steveo]

You could for cup games,

[Kev0909]

Stop feeding the yanks, they don't care

at least we got a CB for the summer holidays eh

maybe we can all play out like the olden days and hold hands round a camp fire, whatever makes finishing 6th better

[Insidious]

One Hell of a six-pointer this.

Lose and the Champion's League spots look in serious, serious doubt.

Win and we are 5 points off 2nd spot and therefore right in the mix.

[Steveo]

Just have to beat the bastards

[Nineteenx]

We needed to change manager in October the two teams who have moved ahead of us have done so by appointing new managers who set up and play to their players strengths

Slot set up not to, changed up under pressure, we improved for a fame here and there, then just obstinately kept returning to his Dutch football fantasy

[Ravo19]

Have a feeling we dont get beat today.