Liverpool v Man City

[Steveo]

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

[JockStrap]

The 115 charges have been broken down to five different categories.

• 54x Failure to provide accurate financial information 2009-10 to 2017-18.

• 14x Failure to provide accurate details for player and manager payments from 2009-10 to 2017-18.

• 5x Failure to comply with Uefa's rules including Financial Fair Play (FFP) 2013-14 to 2017-18.

• 7x Breaching Premier League's PSR rules 2015-16 to 2017-18.

• 35x Failure to co-operate with Premier League investigations December 2018 - Feb 2023.

In an interview with BBC sports editor Dan Roan on Wednesday, Premier League CEO Richard Masters said he stands by the legal process despite the costs involved and complexities of the case.

"There is no happy alternative to enforcing the rules, it goes to the integrity of the competition - it goes ultimately to value - and that principle shouldn't be defrayed in any way by being too difficult, too complex, or too costly," said Masters.

What exactly has any of that got to do with FSG?

If FFP had been enforced we would have had more league titles by now.

[Nineteenx]

Got to be direct and attack at pace going to goal in as few passes as possible, like us that’s what they have been struggling against except especially with Doku out we’re a lot better than them at attacking quickly and directly if Slot lets us

Trying to out overpass them won’t end well it’s crucial Slot allows us to play as we have to win 3 of the last 4

A week to prepare work on everything we’ve been improving these last 2 games to improve it further and further as we always should

Team

Given it worked today and we have the option to bring a player on and move Szobo into midfield

Alisson

Szobo Konate Van Dijk Kerkez

Gravenberch Mac Allister Wirtz

Salah Ekitike Gakpo

Wirtz arriving rather than starting up there is really paying dividends for me

Great ball today from Kerkez for Ekitike’s second need more of that from him and better delivery and working of the space when further forward

Get the win be direct mix it up attack quickly no slowing it down going backwards unnecessarily

[ianlfc]

Anyone going to the match ?

[sydenham red]

Anyone going to the match ?

me and 3 mates over for it, although 2 of them now going a day early as Nick Ball's fighting Sat nite.

[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.
.
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 :●