Originally Posted by
Steveo
At least you seem to agree, I am the Victor:
as we would surely have been more often had Klopp been afforded more than "paying bills" and a net profit in summer 2019. We would surely have been the Victors more often and less likely to suffer the disaster of title defence - and would surely have managed to be more Victorious in pursuit of the quad had the preceding summer not looked like this:
Players IN:
Ibrahima Konate (£36m, RB Leipzig)
Players OUT:
Georginio Wijnaldum (free, Paris Saint-Germain)
Adam Lewis (loan, Livingston)
Sepp van den Berg (loan, Preston North End)
Paul Glatzel (loan, Tranmere Rovers)
Liam Coyle (free, Accrington Stanley)
Joe Hardy (free, Accrington Stanley)
Marko Grujic (£10.5m, Porto)
Taiwo Awoniyi (£6.75m, Union Berlin)
Harry Wilson (£12.6m, Fulham)
Ben Davies (loan, Sheffield United)
Leighton Clarkson (loan, Blackburn Rovers)
Xherdan Shaqiri (£5.4m, Lyon)
Ben Woodburn (loan, Hearts)
Rhys Williams (loan, Swansea City)
Luis Longstaff (loan, Queens Park Rangers)
Jake Cain (loan, Newport County)
Sheyi Ojo (loan, Millwall)
Liverpool total spent to date: £36m
Liverpool total received to date: £35.25m
Liverpool net transfer balance: -£850k
and would certainly have been more Victorious last term had the summer after the almost quad been a little more explosive than this:
Players IN:
Darwin Nunez Benfica £85m
Fabio Carvalho Fulham £7.7m
Calvin Ramsay Aberdeen £6.5m
Arthur Juventus Loan
Cody Gakpo PSV £37m
Spent: £136.2m
Players OUT:
Sadio Mane Bayern Munich £35.1m
Neco Williams Nottingham Forest £17m
Takumi Minamino Monaco £15.5m
Ben Davies Rangers £4m
Divock Origi AC Milan Free
Tom Clayton Swindon N/A
Jake Cain Swindon N/A
Received: £71.6m
Liverpool net transfer balance: £65m
But who is to say? Some seem to be saying it's a bonus and a good thing... that despite record profits the best manager on the planet is best served with less at his disposal. It's a strange concept in the extreme.
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