
Originally Posted by
Steveo
No - that old chestnut completely lets the owners off the hook. NEVER forget they acquired this club for pennies on the dollar.
Our net spend has been puny compared to our rivals, yet we still missed out on the league by one point twice. The subsequent drop-off wasn't inevitable.... it was a direct result of penny-pinching. Klopp was forced to manage a razor-thin squad because club revenues were being diverted to fast-track repayments for infrastructure loans.
This is exactly why Klopp highlighted the stands and the AXA training ground in his Diary of a CEO interview, explicitly stating, "I had no idea there was this money." That’s as close as Klopp will ever get to calling out FSG. They haven't injected a penny of their own capital. They sit on billions, leveraging the club's success while forcing it to self-fund capital projects at breakneck speed because they were positioning it for a sale (which only collapsed because United went on the market simultaneously).
Let's be real here - we would have at least three league titles under Klopp if he had been backed properly instead of being handicapped by the owners.
Yeah. I'm not disputing Klopp wasn't backed much. It's just frustrating that now he's gone suddenly Pep's gone and the standard of the league has dropped vastly. In fairness, that could pick up next season, who knows. The fact that united finished comfortably in 3rd having played the way they did early in the season....kind of says it all about the Premier League this season.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it. Groucho Marx