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Not trying to defend the Yanks but this report was published in March before the new Standard sponsorship was put in place. Didn't Purslow say that the new kit deal would enhance greatly the way he could back Rafa in the market? And anyway our net spend has been around £20m for the past 4-5 seasons so this article is only telling us what we already knew. The media are bigging it up as usual, as with everything they seem to be anti LFC.

the thing people are forgetting is that the other big four are not spending either so its irrelevant as the only club spending big money is city .... we can't hope to compete with them anyway in the spending stakes

Found this article:



Today The Independent newspaper published details from a document indicating that Liverpool have a £20M maximum annual transfer kitty till 2014.

The documents are from a prospectus produced last year in an attempt to showcase the club to potential buyers, and were revealed on various Liverpool forums, including LFC Reds, over a week ago. They are also based on two qualifying factors.

1. That the Carlsberg deal would continue
2. That Liverpool would continue to qualify for the Champions League (which brings in about £20M per year)

According to Liverpool Chief Executive Christian Purslow, Liverpool spent £20M this summer – however our own figures indicate that in terms of net transfer spend Liverpool made a net transfer PROFIT of £14 M in 2009.

Why the disparity?

It looks to us like some clever accounting.

Liverpool have included the cost of ‘extending contracts’ such as Torres one year extension in to this summer’s transfer spend. They have also only included this summer’s installment payments.

So if we paid our £20M for Aquilani up front, and Real Madrid only paid a £5M installment for their £30M Alonso fee then Liverpool have decided that counts as Liverpool spending £15M on new players.

IT is now crystal clear that we need to sell every year to add to the 20 million annual transfer kitty.

Playing devil's advocate here, this gives Rafa more reason to get rid of player that dont perform. For certain fringe players that cant really nail down a permanent first team place, they might just step up their game to gain a new contract and that could benefit the team in the short term. Even if they dont get a new contract, their value increases and that could mean good things if they are sold on.

I dont think Gerrard and Carrgher will get any more contracts. Torres's contract was renewed last season and the other high wage earners like Mascherano might leave for a real good fee.

it might not be as bad as we think. But if we compare it to the ease Real, Barcelona, Chelsea and now Man City splash the cash, we are always going to be feel down. More money is great but we just gonna accept the way things are as the Yanks are here for the long haul.

I fear a slow decline in the quality of the team and our ability to challenge for trophys.

Teams dont spend money for fun, they spend money because history shows the teams that spend most money usually win the best trophys.

We can all hope but it means that our many of our young players wont just have to be good many will have to mature into world class professionals.

That may happen with one or two, but enough to help us win the Premiership when Man City, Chelsea and Utd all go and buy the finished products and Spurs, Aston Villa and the like are out bidding us for the players we do want...

I can see a glittering stadium with a team enjoying the wonders of their 97th Europa League game of the season.

The only positive side of that is Hicks and Gillette wont make money.

Rafarendum, 2 comments....

1. Masch is one of the lowest paid players in Liverpool. I think he is on 30,000 per week which is way off the 120k+ that Gerrard and Torres are earning. This was published in the news before
2. I still don't think it's as crystal clear regarding the funds. Might be Liverpool pulling wool over everybidy's eyes...no one may know exactly how much Rafa has to spend, unless you are Tom and Jerry, Purse-strings-Low, or Rafa...

Personally I fear most of our money will go on interest payments needed to buy us, yes that £30m which is probably more than double we'll get to spend on transfers.

would love to think he would leave, still find it hard to fathom how someone so talentless could fetch so much money, the games gone mad.

The money we will raise for the Torres sale in the next two seasons will give us plenty more financial clout, depending on how much the figure we get it is we may be able to get in three 20 million pound players which will make the team alot stronger allround than one with just Torres alone in.

50 million will do it for me, that could get Silva:)