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Then they are more naive then I thought.

Do you think they know anything in football, no soccer?

I'm sure they hired out Bend It Like Beckham before taking over the club.

With a slimmed down club,carrying no debt, with great marketing and sponsorship potential LFC would be very marketable. I don't think FSG are foolish enough to put much store by ffp, in any case in a few years our best players will be gone and based on the percentage of 'potentials' who come good our competitive ability will have dwindled. That's true of potentials generally but particularly those bought on a shoestring. Such a policy would be very foolish and I don't think they are quite that foolish. I do believe it's a short term corporate raiding exercise,based on their behaviour to date.

That 65k figure rumoured for Sneijder is after tax...

Our Offer was 120k per week, top limit for tax is 50% but going down to 45% in April...

The reason we didnt get him was he wanted parity with gerrard on 140k per week.

Anyway that issue aside. I think our ceiling is around 100k per week prior to tax. The only players who earn more than this is Johnson and Gerrard I think.

They have reduced the wage bill from 72% to about 50% now this year alone.

Once Carroll 90k is gone I think we might even be under that 50% mark considering we no longer have Sahin and Cole on huge wages...

They are changing the wages from 120k standard to around 80k plus performance bonus's.

Where is the money going though? Saved about £32 million in wages, Increased Sponsorship deals, Increase in TV money...

Still no stadium...

Somethings not right.

Maybe they're financially making room for the ravemped Anfield Stadium?

They are trying reduce costs to make us more appealling to potential buyers.

They bought us on the cheap and will be able to make a tidy profit in the not too distant future.

I dont blame them though as they are an investment company who saw a great opportunity and took it.

The fault lies with Moores and Parry who made a huge error of judgement in the first instance.

look at it however you want. if you want to see how where going to end up just have a look where villa was 5 years, 4 years, 3 years since and look at them now! thats what we should be scared of, its a real possibility we are already heading that way. in fact 3 years since villa were in better shape than we are now.

dont second guess what FSG will do in the future, what they have planned what they're doing with the assets or pay structure. look at whats happened and where we are. can you believe that spurs have passed us so easily. are they really a better and bigger club than us. at the minute I still dont think they are but I dont know how long I can keep kidding myself

look at it however you want. if you want to see how where going to end up just have a look where villa was 5 years, 4 years, 3 years since and look at them now! thats what we should be scared of, its a real possibility we are already heading that way. in fact 3 years since villa were in better shape than we are now.

dont second guess what FSG will do in the future, what they have planned what they're doing with the assets or pay structure. look at whats happened and where we are. can you believe that spurs have passed us so easily. are they really a better and bigger club than us. at the minute I still dont think they are but I dont know how long I can keep kidding myself

sorry for double post