Love the optimisim but its misplaced and dangerously so. Liverpool have not a hope in hell of knocking man utd off their perch. We need to face up to reality poor owners are destroying this club from moores to gillet and hicks to john henry. none of them have the finances and are trying for sucesss without risk to themselves it wont work. We have a slim chance of 4th if others fail and we overperform but even if we do without investment it will be a one off rather like everton a few years ago.
Top post Stan, it's a money game now and we have shown up with empty pockets for far too long.
i also agree thats its a good post. However I have a different take on things. The FFP rules kick in now which means that the average 3yr spending should be taken into account.LFC have not hidden the fact that we have been slashing the wage bill in order to offer a better balance in our books, this in my view is good housekeeping.
The counter argument is that if we gamble and spend we get Champs league football sooner and then the balance is the same. so why not aim higher?
the fact is wages and transfer fees will and even are falling across europe. lack of cash in all leagues is forcing everything down.
If by the end of this or even next season we are able to maintain our wage structure and still improve financially (new commercial deals etc)then we will have more to spend and the prices will be cheaper and the wages lower.
in essense more bang for our buck.
Teams like PSG, City, Chelsea will be hamstrung without the ability to spend and their teams which in general are not young may start to struggle. Add this to the fact that neither are offering young players opportunities teams like Ajax, Lverpool, schalke, Dortmund, Bayern, Barca will become stronger.
admittedly their are alot of ifs and but's, yet we have a very strong set of u21 players coming through and a good balance of 21-25yr olds who will add experience. 35mil players today will be 20mil players in 3yrs time.
