KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Pepe Reina: Liverpool are getting better and better

Well you may be right Maxi, or you may be naive, if Rodgers gets funding to buy 3 - 4 top class players in the upcoming transfer window I'll concede the point.

I expect him to get around 25-30 mil before sales and hopefully after selling the likes of Carroll and Skrtel that figure will be above 50mil. FSG do not have the resources to throw 60-80 mil into a transfer budget

Well if they're only going to make 25 to 30m available before sales, given the level of our need, and their own stated target of CL qualification, then I will feel justified in my suspicion around their unexpected release of bad financial news. (I take it you now accept that it was unexpected since you didn't expect it yourself, nor can confirm any others that did)

If we get £25m+ before sales I would be happy. We just need to be very prudent with it and 80% of any signings need to work out straight away for us to make a real challenge.

KK/DC's sigining it was prob about 80% failure rate and Rafa's had about a 50% success ratio... BR's is lingering about 40% or thereabouts.

That's all open to conjecture ofcourse but We need to get the right people in the right positions and none of this square peg round hole bollox.

I just dont see us having £25m net prior to sales to spend with this asset management company as owners.

I didn't expect it because I didn't know the accounts but having seen that they made a substantial loss, it made sense to have a release about it. I don't understand why you not expecting a press release suddenly equates to a lower transfer budget.

As regards your expectations for a transfer budget, they haven't given anything above 30mil net in a single window so why would they now?

Since we most probably won't have any Europa League football next season I can't really see them opening up the big wallet and splash out mega amounts on players in the summer.

If we're lucky they'll keep up with their current ambition level of about 1 decent player coming in. That is a gross figure by the way, because if 1 or 2 players are leaving I don't see them making any replacements either.

What they are counting on is that our younger players have gotten another year under their belt, and that they can improve their challenge within "the group" (I really hate that expression - because does it mean we aren't even good enough to call them a squad or what?). Players like Kelly will be coming back from injury and start demanding game time. Suits FSG's low fares Lidl agenda well that!

Because they expect much pressure from the fans in the lead up to the summer transfer window, if we fail to get 4th as we're likely to now, so I'm suspicious that they're starting to work on our expectations, something you'll agree they're wont to do.

I don't know when the LFC Annual Report came out, but, it's totally normal for the MD to comment that. If LFC was quoted on the stock exchange it would have been an obligation to report in public, but I see nothing dubious about it.