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Good job big companies you prognosis right
What?
Misunderstood maybe I thought you was hoping we would spend big despite having a (perhaps) five year financial prognosis dependent on, say stadium naming rights, and unforeseen pandemic induced recessions etc etc.
Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick, but it seemed like you equated a big financial year with going out and immediately spunking it.
Don’t know if this particular story is true but I have no doubt ENIC would want to cash up one day, just looking for the right economic environment and the right price.
Yup because we all know that income in 2020 is based on home games - oh wait it's not the 1970's anymore.
No not at all
So further proof we will have minimal losses then - thanks
In how many years Sammy? Basically a whole fucking 'generation' FFS. Meteoric!!!! You make it sound like it was all by design and not aided by a whole heaping hopper full of chance. And though your DL perma-semi might go flaccid at the thought of it but much (fucking MOST) of it was due to...wait for it Sammy...
POCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How many other teams have regularly broken the top 4 in that time?
I’ll start you off. City.
Your turn
Two things: 1) Chelsea 2) it only happened regularly with...wait for it again there Sammy...
POCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And before this last era it happened with 2 WC talents but, again, not by design or some ingenious leadership from above. Which again leads to the point I have often repeated and that is that anyone with reasonable financial sense and some handle on the football side of things or that surrounds themselves with good football people can replicate what DL has done. How does DL stack up against FSG Sammy? That's right big boy, suck it!!!!* That's real front office leadership and they are reaping the fucking fruits in less than half the time DL has been here.
*and don't come with your childish "well go support liverpool then" shit.
Chelsea were top 4 before 2005
So apart from two teams who spent over a billion to make top 4 regularly, no one else did other than us.
What a compelling argument for failure
Yes, but that wasn't the fucking prompt I was responding to was it Sammy? Let me remind you:
There you go shitnuts!! Now they are perennially there and have multiple PLs, ELs and a CL.
Poch.
So apart from that Mrs Lincoln how did you like the show. (won't translate for some that want to be intentionally obtuse).
Poch.
Liverpool left and came back under the new owners about which you are neglecting to respond. FSG Sammy, FSG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I wouldn't say "regularly" for us either Sammy. That would be a disigenuous characterization of DL's 20 years. We hit top 4 for 4 of the 5+ seasons POCH WAS HERE. Very recent success Sammy that is mostly attributed to Poch and not DL.
Poch.
You putting words in my mouth again Sammy? You know I don't like that. What I'm saying is he is overly defended and lauded for doing the minimum for which HE will be the greatest beneficiary not the fans. FSG might be setting themselves up for a big payday (and rumor is that Billy Beane's group is actually investing in Pool) but they are making sure success is apparent on the field as well...or what some of the more cultured football aficianados like to call "The Right Way", Sammy.
ochlol:
not a single brick
but joking aside, there is middle ground here. He frustrates me at times but I can also see the good he has done, if people can't appreciate this they are blinkered IMHO.
CL was all Poch and massive luck
If Poch gets all the plaudits, why are none of the failures attributed to him?
I was thinking that. There are some big teams that have disappeared in those 14 years (see below) and some that have performed well below us. That's not to say we've taken all our opportunities as looking back a you can see where mistakes were made but that's hindsight – it's bloody annoying as we really had chances to kick on...
Newcastle
Sunderland
Everton
Aston Villa
If you start looking further down the list then you start to come across:
Leeds
Fulham
West ham
Middlesbrough
Wigan
Blackburn
Footbal histroy is littered with casualties
Isn't that football in a nutshell? Luck and taking your chances? Lucky you got that decision, deflection, that your key players went most of a season without injury, that you didn't get food poisoning the night before a final.
In the tightest of margins luck is the defining factor.
Sure you make your own luck but things like the Mendes goal 4ft over the line... there are exceptions to that rule!
Who hired Poch