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We have a lot more than most.LIKE EVERY OTHER PREMIER LEAGUE TEAM WHO DOESN'T HAVE AN BOTTOMLESS PIT OF CASH!!!
We have a lot more than most.LIKE EVERY OTHER PREMIER LEAGUE TEAM WHO DOESN'T HAVE AN BOTTOMLESS PIT OF CASH!!!
Neither team has a new manager that needed to asses the squad.Really ?? I dont see Everton or Liverpool scratching around for last minute deals , they got their biz done nice and early...If , as most ITK's say MS was the one identified by Poch as indispensable , then we shud have busted a gut to get him in early on in the window especially as there was such a fire sale going on at Soton...
They're banking on CL now. Signing Lukaku was an essential do or die move. They could be screwed if they dont make CL. And i dont think they will. They have the weakest squad of the top 7 and a weaker squad than last year(deulefeu is alot better than atsu, imo) And all 6 clubs in front of them now have good managers.Everton used the Felliani money from last summer to help pay the deposit on Lukaku. Using Everton as an example of how to do deals is laughable. They hardly buy anyone. Most of their deals are loans.
Liverpool are not much richer than us and they sold Suarez early on in the window and spent the windfall nice and early...compare that to last summer when we dragged out the Bale transfer to the last few days of the window and still paid release clauses/top dollar for most of the 7 incomings who ,apart from Paulinho and Soldado , all arrived in the last days of the window...it would be nice for once to get the incoming sorted early on and give the new manager every chance of hitting the ground running..Liverpool are much richer than ourselves and had the Suarez money burning a hole in their pocket and did just what we did last year - pay a premium for the players they wanted. There was no point in them haggling - Southampton knew they were quids in and couldn't play the "we can't afford that price" card. Everton bought Lukaku. A player they had on loan. I'm sure things were pretty straight forward there. More than likely things were well underway before the window even opened.
You're being needlessly pedantic.
This is what 'Trix' followed up with earlier;
''....CB is without doubt the position we are most desperate to get someone in and I'm fairly sure this will happen even if it's not MM. Ask Poch which player he'd most want to see come in though and it is MS. There is, from what I have been told, no back up option to MS as we have plenty of good players there already.
IMO he must see MS as a trully top player to think like this.''
This is obviously both what he has heard and his own opinion and is meant to follow on/clarify his original comment posted further back...'
With the one exception that a team that isn't allowed to conduct transfers bought a player that's not allowed to be involved in anything football related. I guess two negatives do make a positive
Liverpool are not much richer than us and they sold Suarez early on in the window and spent the windfall nice and early...compare that to last summer when we dragged out the Bale transfer to the last few days of the window and still paid release clauses/top dollar for most of the 7 incomings who ,apart from Paulinho and Soldado , all arrived in the last days of the window...it would be nice for once to get the incoming sorted early on and give the new manager every chance of hitting the ground running..
It is fairly obvious that we were spending the Bale money before we had it. When we talk about the Bale money we "spent", we're talking about the whole summer. As soon as we lumped 20 million at Paulinho and then another 26 at Soldado, it was (in hindsight) quite clear what was happening.
And financially, Liverpool are streaks ahead of us. World wide fanbase absolutely destroys our own. Liverpool, like it or not, are one of the best supported clubs in the world. If Spurs and Liverpool went to the bank to get a loan, Liverpool would walk out with one twice the size of ours.
We have a lot more than most.
They're banking on CL now. Signing Lukaku was an essential do or die move. They could be screwed if they dont make CL. And i dont think they will. They have the weakest squad of the top 7 and a weaker squad than last year(deulefeu is alot better than atsu, imo) And all 6 clubs in front of them now have good managers.
Whereas we have a pretty good squad and a good manager. If we are able to somehow finish this window with MM, MS and Depay, I think we'll have a great shot at making CL next season.
and considerably less than some.
and that's as they, say is the kicker.........
They're banking on CL now. Signing Lukaku was an essential do or die move. They could be screwed if they dont make CL. And i dont think they will. They have the weakest squad of the top 7 and a weaker squad than last year(deulefeu is alot better than atsu, imo) And all 6 clubs in front of them now have good managers.
Whereas we have a pretty good squad and a good manager. If we are able to somehow finish this window with MM, MS and Depay, I think we'll have a great shot at making CL next season.
Smarter than Soldado? Not really. 13m on Soldado. 28m on Lukaku. Probably on similar wages.Not really. If they run into trouble they will sell him easy enough assuming he isn't on overly high wages. Lukaku is smart business, much smarter than our business on Soldado for example.
Look I'm over the ITK arse kissing on here, ban me if need be but to me any itk out there should be available to be discussed, I don't see any difference from this ITK to any other allowed on here, 95% of which proves to be false anyway!! See ya's COYS!!
Liverpool are not much richer than us and they sold Suarez early on in the window and spent the windfall nice and early...compare that to last summer when we dragged out the Bale transfer to the last few days of the window and still paid release clauses/top dollar for most of the 7 incomings who ,apart from Paulinho and Soldado , all arrived in the last days of the window...it would be nice for once to get the incoming sorted early on and give the new manager every chance of hitting the ground running..
Smarter than Soldado? Not really. 13m on Soldado. 28m on Lukaku. Probably on similar wages.
The most recent Deloitte Money League had Liverpool earning £114m in commercial revenue during the last accounting period (compared to our £52.4m), putting them behind only RM, Barca, Man Utd & Bayern (plus the dubiously inflated commercial revenues of PSG & City).
They are streets ahead of us money-wise.
Smarter than Soldado? Not really. 13m on Soldado. 28m on Lukaku. Probably on similar wages.
I don't think Everton are dependent on CL at all. They didn't spunk the Fellaini money last year (not all of it anyway) and the wisdom within the game is that signing a striker is something they've been saving up for for a while. They are a phenomenally well-run club generally, considering their relatively meagre resources.
Anyway...I see that the latest round of ITK has triggered the annual wave of gnashing of penises about our transfer strategy. Again I think it's fair to say, "WAIT UNTIL THE FUCKING WINDOW CLOSES!!!!"