They're not heading into liquidation apparently. Was a mistranslation
Transfer Rumours 21/22
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He’s shit.
Hmmmmmmmmmm
I'm calling major bullshit.
I’m calling Mbappe bullshit
Yeah. Hence why it's bullshit.
Or Mbappe bullshit. Whatever that means
Indeed. Imagine not wanting to play a year with the greatest ever and one of the best players in the world on either side.
Salah and Mané?
Imagine being such an asshole that you want to leave a team because you are not 'the leader'
I said the same thing to the computer after reading that so called rumour.
Unfortunately Phillips will be sold. I reckon VvD and Gomez will be the starters in early season (not for Norwich though) but we will rotate more often now with Konate and Matip.
By the season's end Konate should be a solid starter if all goes to plan (or maybe Gomez steps up his game and cuts out those balls that fly over his head to the back post).
Gomez will also get injured meaning we end up with Nat as our only centre back on the bench.
Neymar
Doubt it, they let him front the club for entire season last season during our worst run and only appeared to excuse their botched European Super league debacle. Not going to change this season.
There maybe more exits but doubt there will be anymore signings. At least we have secured contract extensions and hopefully can get Salah done too.
We just have to manage with what we have in the current financial turmoil football is in.
There maybe more exits but doubt there will be anymore signings. At least we have secured contract extensions and hopefully can get Salah done too.
We just have to manage with what we have in the current financial turmoil football is in.
What do you want them to do? Come out and explain the 3 year business plan with projected profit and losses, detailing our players contracts matching that to expectations?
Tbh our players contracts aren't that high basic salary wise.
That’s why I followed up with the expectations part.
Or do you want them to come out and say that our strategy is to wait until the end of the window when teams become a bit more desperate, if our targets havent moved yet.
It's just occurred to me that we haven't considered the impact of the Annie Road expansion on our transfer budget. I had kind of assumed that FSG would lend the club the money like they did with the Main Stand, so it wouldn't affect our normal operations.
But the Annie Road stand (£60m spend, 5,200 low-value general admission seats and 1,800 "sports bar" (also low value, relatively speaking)) isn't going to generate the kind of return the Main Stand did. So it's a harder sell to US investors who like baseball to put the money in because the return is relatively low. And if they're not going to fund it, and we're going to need to find the money ourselves, then either:
So when we see other teams spending more money than us, it may be because they don't have to find £60m over 2 years to pay for an extra 7,000 seats.
I imagine some fans will be OK with this because they'll stand a better chance of getting in to watch the match in 2 years time, and others (who can already get in or who rarely get the chance to visit Liverpool) will be less impressed.
Don't shoot the messenger.
And we might be going down the debt route in which case you can ignore the above and the additional ticket revenue will more than pay for interest costs and repayments in future years.
But the Annie Road stand (£60m spend, 5,200 low-value general admission seats and 1,800 "sports bar" (also low value, relatively speaking)) isn't going to generate the kind of return the Main Stand did. So it's a harder sell to US investors who like baseball to put the money in because the return is relatively low. And if they're not going to fund it, and we're going to need to find the money ourselves, then either:
- We need to take on some extra debt; or
- We need to rein in our transfer spending (probably this year and next, as the stand is supposed to be complete for season 2023-24 (2 year project).
So when we see other teams spending more money than us, it may be because they don't have to find £60m over 2 years to pay for an extra 7,000 seats.
I imagine some fans will be OK with this because they'll stand a better chance of getting in to watch the match in 2 years time, and others (who can already get in or who rarely get the chance to visit Liverpool) will be less impressed.
Don't shoot the messenger.
And we might be going down the debt route in which case you can ignore the above and the additional ticket revenue will more than pay for interest costs and repayments in future years.
Well lets face it, we clearly weren't going to buy anyone in January, when we desperately needed to, and it's only really because of fan pressure and media backlash that they eventually caved in at the 11th hour. I appreciate their business model and everything they've done in terms of the stadium, bringing in Klopp and keeping us sustainable, but it's not really enough to compete consistently at the top. Not when United, Chelsea and City are spending way above the rest.
And it's fairly predictable that this lack of ambition will have an impact sooner or later, players will become unhappy with not winning, with us not having the depth and them working their bollocks off across 3-4 competitions, injuries killing us, always crashing out of cups or sacrificing the league. It's not enough and if they think adding one defender is enough, they can get fucked.
The whole ESL thing is a bit convenient for them too, I'm sure it'll be their "go to" excuse when it goes pear shaped.
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