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Rodgers and Ayre are both puppets. The only reason Rodgers was appointed was because no other manager was willing to operate on FSG's terms.

If you want to know who’s making the recruitment decisions at LFC, look no further than the Dempsey saga...FSG scuppered it at the 11th hour and left Rodgers without a striker on the first day of a new season, and did Rodgers squak? ...did he f**k?

BR talking BS again.

Why does he have to tell all and sundry that we need to get Reina's wages off the books when the deal hasn't even been done yet? Wouldn't surprise me if Napoli suddenly tried to drive a harder bargain now they know we're desperate.

On football manager i got £14 million for Pepe, so i expect the same in reality.:D

i reckon reina asked for a move when valdes said he was going to leave at end of season,and now its backfired now valdes is staying put. plus we were paying top wages for a ordinary player

look we all know modern footballers get very well paid , but i have been genuinely shocked by the amount of money reina was getting at liverpool , £5.5 million basic wages and he has been on the decline for 2 to 3 seasons now yes still good but nothing like he was but the club gave him this massive contract , as i put earlier on ok a star striker possibly gerrard but a goalie just a scandal , i am starting to think FSG are doing the right thing over these massive contracts, i am no fan of FSG but how can LFC keep giving out these unbelievable contracts when LFC dont win leagues dont play in the CL etc etc is beyond me .

Standard 100k a week when he signed that deal, no issues with that, LFC and FSG seem to have a different approach now though which I agree with.

You put your best players on big contracts. You make the players that come in earn bigger deals, hence why players have been signed on long-term mid-value deals. It is not all that dissimilar to the past, only that putting Reina on a very long high-value contract at the time seemed good, and now, given his drop in form since, seemed reckless. That being said, he is still worth near £10m, which is great for a keeper that has played "great" for just 6 months in the last 30-36... Frugal - FSG are. Reckless - FSG aren't.

faz, been banging on about this for a long time mate, I just cant see how a mid table club like ours can sustain paying our transfer fees of 12 million pound and over not to mention giving players in excess of 60k a week in wages. I don't see Clubs like Everton, West Brom and Fulham's of this world doing it so how is it we are. I understand if you regulary play Champions league every season likethe likes of the big four can do, but the rest of us I really don't understand, isn't this what happened to Leeds United when they spent out on Rio 18 million, Bridges 12 million, Fowler 12 million, Robbie Keane 15 million, Seth Johnson 10 million, Da Court 9 million and Viduka 9 million, not saying it will happen as bad as that but surely there must be a lesson to be learnt by spending big and not offsetting it against Champions League.

In a situation where you’re well behind your main competitors in quality terms, and they are competing against you in an open market, and out biding you for the proven quality players, that you need to close the gap and get into the big money stakes, that will allow you to compete with them in the future, frugal is not the characteristics we should be looking for any more than recklessness. What we need are people who can assess the risk to reward ratio and invest accordingly and that is clearly not happening, these people are frugal to the point of abject failure.