You can't make it up anymore
The same excuses going in circles for 21 years. Staggering.
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Transfers January 2022 - Transfer Window
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You can't make it up anymore
The same excuses going in circles for 21 years. Staggering.
Levy wouldn’t have sold any of them.
But the moment I’m specifically talking about was in the beginning of the 2017-18 season when they realized they had struck gold with Salah.
At Spurs that Barcelona interest in Coutinho would have been a project-derailing crisis, at it was this summer with Kane. Liverpool saw the opportunity and acted decisively (VVD was signed on January 1 and Coutinho was off a week later) and doubled down with massive expenditure the following summer when their CL run showed the proof of concept.
It’s not windswept football romance or blind obedience to fan demands. It was a correct calculation that they were on the doorstep of major success in a rare, fleeting way, and that 100-odd million net expenditure would pay back 10X easily if the bet came good.
Good business sense well executed. We were in exactly the same position in May 2017, made different choices, and ENIC has and will continue to absorb the financial cost of that failure.
Sorry but how the fuck have we not got naming rights for the stadium yet, that would contribute hugely to transfer spending....what the fuck is going on
" arsewipe," as you well know, refers to your leader.I've been called many things on here but a Levy arsewipe is novel one, I must admit
Anyway mate. There's a Property Empire FC thread that's been created especially for people like you. Take a look. You'll feel right at home there.
I like to discuss transfers in the transfer thread.
Edit: I thought you were joking but just noticed that "Property" thread. Will go there now and put it on ignore.
You mean they invested in football?
Like, making progressive, positive moves into the market, improving the team, improving the performances, in turn improving results and then going on to win things one by one ... effectively turning football craftsmanship into both brand succes AND profit?
Now, I never ... HERESY
Fuck Levy, Fuck Hitchen, Fuck Paratici, Fuck Lewis, Fuck everyone with any power at this club
I don’t care where they find the money from but they need to find it and give it to Conte, if he walks I’ll never put another penny into this club for the rest of my life
I don’t care where they find the money from but they need to find it and give it to Conte, if he walks I’ll never put another penny into this club for the rest of my life
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You say heresy as a joke, but it really is a borderline religious ideological commitment from Levy personally.
It is his core belief that the transfer market is pure irrational stupidity and that a business guy and top negotiator like him can outsmart everyone and win for a fraction of the cost.
He was actually kinda right in 2001! But the game has changed and he has become the kind of parochial superstitious dinosaur he laughed at when he first got into the football world.
Levy wants a zillion dollars and won't budge.
Evidently you didn't read the post I replied to.
...Or the bulk of my post.
It's not a defense of anything.
I'm questioning what's so different about LIverpools ownership "model" seeing as that was the claim.
(Trying to keep your chin above the shit-throng, mate... I know you like to tell me you're different; but the credibility of this claim is crumbling fast......)
It is so sad.
Personally, I think they got lucky on 3-5 major deals. The rest, over 21 years, is just riding the market. Not beating it.
Liverpool fans aren't that fond of their owners anyway, they think they're a bunch of parasites too. They've just managed to get their managerial appointment and signings (mostly) right so they get a pass for competency.
We have owners who are both incompetent AND parasitic. Lucky us.
We have owners who are both incompetent AND parasitic. Lucky us.
It's only really TND that we've got on big wages outside of Kane and Kane was a freebie.
The rest of the players we've signed for a few years have all been from clubs that wouldn't be paying them mega wages.
Because Levy thought he could get the best deal ever to brag about. But it didn't come. Then covid happend. And we fell out of the Champions League places. So no doubt he now wants Don conte to get us back in and hope the fax machine works when he get's more offers.
Financial genius.
Greed.
unrealistic demands. It was the most talked about stadium in the world for a while. People would have been itching to be connected with it. its gets less attractive as time goes on because the name TH stadium becomes more established.
Berbatov, Modric, Walker, Bale say otherwise.
...Bit when we sell it's to a chorus of "thief" & "fraud".
Extremely romantic take mate....
They bought well.
The Kane comparison is bogus..... City tried to put us over a barrel and skank us; Barca paid twice what PC was worth.
I just don’t get angry even when someone is being a bit condescending
They were a farce until they finally got their shit together for Klopp.
Barcelona got the League back off Madrid and won the double after they signed Coutinho.
LOL... You're a right prickly fucker; don't kid yourself.
Who's patronised you btw?