KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Keep up the pace.... but can we?

1. Looking at how other clubs are buying their targets, it hurts me to say that LFC will be very hard to keep up with the pace. Even "smaller" clubs are looking at better players like Ki, Ramirez, Miralas. Any of these would actually bring in some quality into our squad right now.

2. Now to the "bigger" clubs, Cavani, Kaka, De Rossi, Llorente etc. These are the "premium" players that we should be looking at but of course, i understand we do not have much money to spend. So here the question, if theres no money to spend, how are we suppose to keep the pace with the clubs? Im getting worried that this is the downfall of LFC in the future.

3. Even if we looked at better targets out there, we are acting very slow. Eg. Sahin. We are able to get him on loan but why wait till the last day where Arsenal decided to sell Song to Barca and we yet to conclude a deal. But i dun feel any pain in this cos we do have a packed midfield. But this is quite a similar story to Gylfi. I had to point it out.

Of course, i hope that im wrong and that our current squad will be able to click and start playing great football the next feel games.

Cheers. YNWA

I would be surprised if Sahin signs for Arsenal before RM sign Modric. It's a slightly different story to Gylfi as well in that we didn't want to pay the wages he was looking for and rightly refused allowing Spurs to come in and get him.

But with our messing around it allowed Spurs to come and gazump us.

Yes but the point is we were messing around because we didn't have the same wage valuation as the player and refused rightly to bow to pressure

Looks like our owners have a completely different plan to outsmart all other clubs in Europe. They do not want to spend like the big clubs (it appears to me that they want to have an average net spend of 25m yearly) but win trophies by playing a different football thought and designed by BR which was exposed to them in his 180 pages thesis. Looks like a miracle to me but understand that something similar worked out well with their Red Sox. Personally I have my doubts and I feel we'll quickly end up being a mid table team with a super history. We are already there by the way but I still believe there is a way out, I'll be fixed in a few months.

If the owners had wanted to win with tight budget, they'd have been better off going with Rafa instead of BR. Rafa has been proven and he knows how to get results. It seems that we're taking 10 steps back trying to achieve the goal of playing barca-like football - and that doesn't even guarantee that we'll know how to win ugly when it matters in the league. IMO the owners are taking a huge gamble with this tiki-taka philosophy. I suspect we'll get better by midway through the season but I fear we'll be too far off the pace. Another season of mediocrity is just another confirmation that LFC has become mid-table team. Or worse a relegation contender if tiki taka doesn't work.

Tika-Taka for us could be the nail in the coffin.

Rodgers is putting everything on the line adopting this style.

From the West Brom game I noticed the gaps at the back were huge!

If the baggies can score 3 I dread to think what the top teams will do to us on the break with this high line of defence.

The only good thing to come out of this weekend, Was the fact both Spurs and Arsenal didn't win.

That's the positive our rivals slipped up LOL, What a joke we've become in recent years.

I'm sure that ferguson doesn't think RVP is 'worth' £250k per week but he's paying it because that is what is needed to keep him from their rivals and boost their chances this season. Glyfi (or any other player for that matter) isn't 'worth' a fraction of what they are earning - but you have to pay the going rate to get the good players. It's admirable having such a strong standpoint but what good will that do us when we're looking up the table from the bottom half and the only players we end up with are those that no one else wants? We WILL NOT get top players on low wages! But who cares as long as we stick to our prinicpals and FSG don't have to dig deep....

With Rafa they knew that he would be singing over every roof that he is not getting enough money or/and we are too slow to close deals etc (Rafa did this before). Totally agree with the rest of your comments.

I would happily pay big wages to a top player but Gylfi isn't a top player and if we hand out 70,000+ to every player we would find ourselves in trouble a lot quicker. BR knew the wages that Swansea had offered him and increased upon that but he still wanted more and I'm glad we stuck to our guns for once. It might mean we lose out on this occasion but at least agents won't be going into negotiations with us thinking we're a soft touch.

FSG are never going to dig deep, they have always maintained that we will be close to self financing. Increased net spend will only be a temporary fix, what we need more than anything is the stadium issue to be resolved and increase revenue that way