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Originally Posted By wilkij1975
Originally Posted By Mr Bojangles
Originally Posted By RedsforChampions
Originally Posted By Mr Bojangles
Not counting the shieks and the Russian which owners would you rather have?

How does not buying the shirt help our cause?

What is a respectable amount that the owners should invest? And why would they spend all of their own money?



It would be good to have the sheiks or Russians but I agree, other owners might be worse if not the same. However, for some reasons, we have dropped from the 5th biggest spender to the 17th in the last season. We have also dropped from challenging for the title to challenging for a 4th place over a few months because we have too thin a squad to cope with the usual injuries most teams have.

I am not happy with this and the only proper action I can take is not buying shirts. If I am a small minority, my concern will not be heard and rightly so, as it would mean very few people think like me. However, not doing anything if I am not happy is not n option for me. If others are happy with the situation, no problem at all.

Not buying any shirts if followed by the majority will send the message that a majority of fans are protesting because we have dropped from 5th to 17th place in squad investment which is showing in the 2nd half of this season.


5th - 17th for investment is a massive drop. I'm not gonna use the Leicester argument as its a one off.

However. I can only see that we have improved in the league. Regardless of how much we've spent. We didn't sell anyone last year that would have improved us this season.
Benteke proved to be useless to us and sakho is a tool.

We have made a profit, cut a bloated squad, got rid of a lot of high earners blooded some youngsters and moved into the top 4 slot that not many people predicted.

I'd love to see us sign some marquee type player. A player who himself attracts other big name players here. But I also want to see Wilson, Trent AA, woodburn, Gomez given some chances too.


We spent the 6th highest amount last summer only being pipped by Spurs by about a million I think. The NET spend is a little irrelevant from last summer as there was sooooo much cr@p to get rid of (even the ones we should've kept tired).


The net spend is very relevant if you have a thin squad. It was fine to get rid of useless players, but the money should have been used to strengthen the squad. Everybody knew Moreno was not good enough and Klopp knew Sakho would not play again for us. We have been using a right footed midfield as LB and Lucas a defender as CB a number of times, so what's right there?

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Originally Posted By Growler


Like Borini........... whistle


Nah, he was shitte grin

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Originally Posted By RedsforChampions


The net spend is very relevant if you have a thin squad. It was fine to get rid of useless players, but the money should have been used to strengthen the squad. Everybody knew Moreno was not good enough and Klopp knew Sakho would not play again for us. We have been using a right footed midfield as LB and Lucas a defender as CB a number of times, so what's right there?


The only extra player I would've added would have been a LB and I'm not really sure why we didn't. I know there were lots of reports about Hector but apart from that can't remember any real links.

Klopp was being sensible with how many he brought in and rightly so. It's hard to settle new players and a lot harder to settle too many just as we've seen when ourselves and Spurs brought in 9 or so players.

If you take the squad as a whole it's not that bad when they're all fully fit and you have to admit, we've been a little unlucky with injuries which are hard to legislate for. After all, we can't have three players for every position just in case our first and then second choice gets injured.

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Originally Posted By wilkij1975
Originally Posted By Growler


Like Borini........... whistle


Nah, he was shitte grin


Remember when brodge told us "Liverpool fans will really like this player". LMAO

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Originally Posted By klopp4kop
Originally Posted By wilkij1975
Originally Posted By Growler


Like Borini........... whistle


Nah, he was shitte grin


Remember when brodge told us "Liverpool fans will really like this player". LMAO


Just like the Welsh Xavi!

Borini wasn't unlikable. He just wasn't good enough.

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Originally Posted By wilkij1975
Originally Posted By RedsforChampions


The net spend is very relevant if you have a thin squad. It was fine to get rid of useless players, but the money should have been used to strengthen the squad. Everybody knew Moreno was not good enough and Klopp knew Sakho would not play again for us. We have been using a right footed midfield as LB and Lucas a defender as CB a number of times, so what's right there?


The only extra player I would've added would have been a LB and I'm not really sure why we didn't. I know there were lots of reports about Hector but apart from that can't remember any real links.

Klopp was being sensible with how many he brought in and rightly so. It's hard to settle new players and a lot harder to settle too many just as we've seen when ourselves and Spurs brought in 9 or so players.

If you take the squad as a whole it's not that bad when they're all fully fit and you have to admit, we've been a little unlucky with injuries which are hard to legislate for. After all, we can't have three players for every position just in case our first and then second choice gets injured.


No we cannot have 3 players for every position but we have one who barely plays in the LB position and only 2 for 2 CB positions, ie Matip replacing Skrtel + Lovren. Klavan was bought to replace old Kolo, and nobody replaced Sakho who Klopp knew wouldn't play again for LFC. Otherwise, we have suffered from injuries to a large extent because there was not enough rotation and not a lot more than other teams, for United it is worse.

Last edited by RedsforChampions; 05/05/17 03:16 PM.
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