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Master of the Universe
We didn't though (at least not in VvD's case).Originally Posted by faridtoxteth
Aside from the fact that we bought Virgil before we sold Coutinho, there's also the fact that needs reminding whenever people argue that,.....".... we knew we were going to sell Coutinho and get that money"......that we actually tried to buy Virgil the summer before,(when we got slapped by the league for tapping him up at Soutthampton). At that point we didn't know we were going to sell Coutinho, much less get 145 Million for him.
The club had been planning on bringing in Virgil from as far back as the end of the previous season, long before the Coutinho-to-Barcelona rumours ever started.
Which means the money to get him was already there and buying him wasn't contingent on selling anyone and getting the funds that way.
Arguably the Coutinho funds allowed us to get Allison and Fabinho, who both came in the transfer window that followed Coutinho's departure.
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Which has been more than offset by us having spent the FOURTEENTH most in the PL over the last FIVE (not one) years. Yet again, we are the FIFTH richest club in the world. We can afford to be near to/at the the top of the tree on both counts.
Also if you believe the figures Man City provide as to the wages they pay, as opposed to what their players actually receive, you need to give your head a wobble.
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Interesting positioning for the 18/19 season in top 20 teams:
https://www.90min.com/posts/6150916
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How do you know our wages are accurate, or indeed anybody's ?
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another 400m pls
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I wasnt knocking what you said but when i have read on here that Stevie is a shoe in after Klopp it makes a person roll their eyes
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What does this prove?
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That's an estimation of our perceived wealth or more accurately our "worth" and value, rather than an accounting of what we have to spend (cash-in-hand, revenue).
You may be worth 2 Billion GBP according to most estimates, but that doesn't mean you have even half of that to spend or as revenue.
It's different to the likes of the Shiekhs and oil clubs whose value and worth is almost always a direct correlation to what they CAN spend.
All of which is to say that, we have to live within our means.
They don't.
And we're also no different to City in terms of what our own players actually receive versus their reported wages.
You think those endorsement deals that the likes of Salah or Mane or even Fabinho's Adidas deal doesn't count to what they actually get?
All clubs structure their player deals this way.
Not just the rich clubs.
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Nope. Us spending the 14th most gets offset by the high wages we pay. See, it works both ways.
We've discussed the figures before - the clubs spends money it makes and the owners haven't taken a penny out of it iirc. I'm sure CC will correct me on that one, but that's how the figures looked when we last discussed them on here in early fall.
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It was just another set of statistics following my current list of what the top 10 current clubs paid to assemble their squads.It also highlights that LFC havent just started spending
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