Liverpool transfers in/out and rumours 22/23 + Contracts

[jozza800]

Not a cult I will ever join that’s for sure.

Smallest squad in the league and before this window something like 14th net spend over the last 5 is it??
Well as we will stand at net spend of £32m once Phillips joins Leeds, I imagine we’ll be in the bottom 3.

While all this is going on, they are a Jurgen Klopp resignation email away from complete implosion on the pitch and a massive reduction in the value of their asset.

Makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and they have form on this, the Red Sox fans are up in arms about exactly this happening in the States.

Yet here we are, Jurgen apparently happy to spend whatever money he's allowed to spend on forward players.

Since 2020 we've only brought in Thiago and Konate that aren't attackers.

Jota
Diaz
Nunez
Carvalho
Szobo
Mac Allister

Nearly a 1/3 of a billion pounds on attacking players!

It's not the money being (or not being) spent, it's how it is being spent.

Yesterday's starting line up was ridiculous.

[Steveo]

There isn’t close to enough being spent. Not for ANY club with our squad composition and in our geolocation - which hopes to compete.

Take the Kloppmeister out of the equation and we are nowhere at all.

[Steveo]

The club has everything needed to be serial winners…. Everything but the right owners.

Unique history and a totally unique fan base, one that would follow the side across the globe - one that stays with the team no matter what…

We also have the best manager on the planet in situ for over 7 years.

Yet his reign to date has just 2 major titles spread across 2 separate seasons. You cannot view it any other way than a handicap. That’s what these owners are.

[Steveo]

Yet here we are, Jurgen apparently happy to spend whatever money he's allowed to spend on forward players.

Since 2020 we've only brought in Thiago and Konate that aren't attackers.

Jota
Diaz
Nunez
Carvalho
Szobo
Mac Allister

Nearly a 1/3 of a billion pounds on attacking players!

It's not the money being (or not being) spent, it's how it is being spent.

Yesterday's starting line up was ridiculous.

And nobody has left folks.

Konate the ONLY Defender since 2018

Thiago the ONLY Mid since 2018

that’s until this summer with 7 out and 2 in.

It’s pathetic as is any attempt to defend it

2 of that 6 are just signed in our BIG WINDOW…

Naturally since 2020 nobody has aged either…

I mean - these frauds are banking on people simply looking at what we have added and ignoring all other factors.

[jozza800]

There isn’t close to enough being spent. Not for ANY club with our squad composition and in our geolocation - which hopes to compete.

Take the Kloppmeister out of the equation and we are nowhere at all.

That might be true. But what is being spent could have been spent better. We have a ridiculously lopsided squad.

I mentioned a few weeks ago, we could serioulsy be starting the season with an £80m striker on the bench, a striker playing in midfield, two attacking midfielders playing as box to box midfielders and a fullback playing in midfield.

I love Klopp to bits but he's complicit in this situation. You would have thought at some point in the last few years he might have mentioned to the board/scouts/sporting director that we need a midfielder ot two, or even a defender? But no, it's more of the same... Here's a winger, here's another one. how about an striker, how about an attacking midfielder...

It's utterly baffling.

[Steveo]

He is on the record himself as saying he DOESN’T have the last world on transfers.

That’s pretty clear.

Klopp consistently has also stated that he HAS to work with what the owners decide is prudent. This is a clear statement that behind every transfer - Fee, Salary and potential sell on value - are the factors which carry more importance - than what is actually needed on the pitch,

This is a handicap. You expect it at a mid table club - NOT the most successful club in the land

[Steveo]

This is why moaning about what City or any other club are allowed to spend is so hollow.

It’s all because we are paupers. Yet our owners are raking in huge profits. Multiplying their wealth by a factor of 10, while we have to live within our means.

Think about it.

[jozza800]

He is on the record himself as saying he DOESN’T have the last world on transfers.

That’s pretty clear.

Klopp consistently has also stated that he HAS to work with what the owners decide is prudent. This is a clear statement that behind every transfer - Fee, Salary and potential sell on value - are the factors which carry more importance - than what is actually needed on the pitch,

This is a handicap. You expect it at a mid table club - NOT the most successful club in the land

Then what is one of the best manager's of his generation doing wasting his prime years with a club that making him look daft.

And, do you honestly think that someone like Klopp is idly standing by and accepting all this? He doesn't strike me as the kind of character that would suffer fools.

[Insidious]

It is pathetic and the unwavering defence of the FSG "model" is becoming more and more cult-like by its adherents

I suppose there's nothing at all cult-like about the same anti-FSG points and mantras being made ad infinitum in about 80% of threads for the last number of years irrespective of whether the subject of the owners is relevant to the OP or the thread title?

[Insidious]

Yet here we are, Jurgen apparently happy to spend whatever money he's allowed to spend on forward players.

Since 2020 we've only brought in Thiago and Konate that aren't attackers.

Jota
Diaz
Nunez
Carvalho
Szobo
Mac Allister

Nearly a 1/3 of a billion pounds on attacking players!

It's not the money being (or not being) spent, it's how it is being spent.

Gakpo says "hello" by the way.

The allocation of funds is definitely interesting. £65m (for starters) on Núñez could have been a midfielder - maybe two - and the Gakpo money or Diaz money could have been a midfielder or defender.

But we went for attackers. That's down to recruitment staff and I'd love to be a fly-on-the-wall for some of those chats.

I accept some people feel we should be allocated more funds so these "either or" situations don't arise, but we should also spend more intelligently at every available opportunity given that we are outgunned in the market.

Man City can outspend us, Newcastle will find loopholes to use their wealth, Chelsea have outspent most for the guts of 20 years, Man United have outspent most for the guts of 32 years. For a few years we bought/sold extremely intelligently - not just Coutinho when selling before that gets brought up again, but the likes of the Ibe and Brewster deals - but somewhere along the line we made some errors in terms of who to give bumper contracts to, who to sell and most importantly when.

I'd like to see us become more efficient and effective in those areas again - and if we are STILL having trouble re-assess.