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Wenger didn’t think he was an improvement on what we had at the time! IIRC, we had Chesney as the number 1 along with Manuel butter fingers!Quote:
Originally Posted by Power n Glory
Ill try and dig up the article with those direct quotes from Wenger.
Lloris went to that lot for a price well within our budget too, he was cheap as chips.
They are bringing in the absolute best options available within their budget. We should have been doing stuff like this years ago instead of scraping around the bargain bucket. Now we have no choice, any budget we did have has been blown over the past few years mainly on duds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Özim
Aye, agree with this. I think Ramsey is one player who will profit from Emery’s high press system.Quote:
Originally Posted by I am invisible
Ughh hope not. I mean tbf he does seem like he's eager about the club but he clearly doesn't have the football experience for it. I can see him getting eaten alive by the other CEO's.Quote:
Originally Posted by GP
tbf it was pretty clear that up until very recently that Wenger was the real CEO at the club so it's to really unfair to judge him for failing to deliver on his past promises when he was hamstrung by being unable to go against the old goat. Assuming he stays though then yes he now has to deliver and be held accountable.Quote:
Originally Posted by SMatthews
And doubtful. The Kroenke are known for their absenteeism and Josh up until January at least was more focused on their NBA franchise - I doubt he was capable of drawing plans to restructure the club. It's been Ivan as you can see from how front & centre he was in the Unai Emery hiring process and some of the hires he's made (Raul for example was friend of Ivan's who'd worked with him in the past).
But you must realise Liverpool are in the position of being able to spend their entire transfer budget on a keeper because they have no other obvious weak areas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Özim
It's the one area where they need a significant improvement and what cost them the CL title. They wouldn't blow a budget on the keeper if they didn't have Mane and Salah banging in goals.
We've been in similar positions before like the year we blew the title to Leicester City. We needed a top class striker that year.
They've signed Shaquiri for 13million, Fabinho for 45 million and Keita for 54 million so with Allison you're looking at closer to 200 million. You might argue that the Keita funds were set aside from last summers kitty, but that touches back upon my view that there's no reason not to view windows in 2's and combine budgets.
Admittedly it doesn't help us that we have been horrible in recent years at selling for big fees or as Selassie points out, spending positively significant sums on chumps like Mustafi and Xhaka who nobody would pay near the price we paid for them now. More reason not to hedge medium/high range sums on players we aren't absolutely sure about.
70 mil on Mustafi and Xhaka :doh:
Lord knows where you plucked that £100m price tag from for a midfielder. :lol: How are Liverpool able to pay half that?Quote:
Originally Posted by Blink 1nce Quince 2wice
Liverpool have money left over from the Coutinho transfer and if they wanted to, they could choose to blow £70m on a keeper. It's the area they have to strengthen this season. It would be foolish not to. But it looks like they aren't going to spend that money on Oblak and match Atletico Madrid's valuation. I'm also hearing this news about Brazil's keeper is false too. We'll see how much they're willing to spend on a keeper and if they don't spend it on Oblak, why not? I don't know much about Allison or where this price tag came from. See how a market gets inflated? At first we were talking about Oblak being worth £70m because of how good he is. Atletico's valuation has now set other clubs off thinking they have a £50m £60m player on their hands when only a few months back they were valued at £20m - £30m.
That's true however they bought other players too, so it's not their whole budget, they've signed players in several positions for decent money, this despite having a smaller stadium, having been in the CL much less etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power n Glory
We've barely spent anything either (before Emery signed those players) because we had 40 million left from last summers sales, yes we spent a bit more for Aubameyang but not a lot, so in theory we should have just as much as Liverpool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power n Glory
I agree with Blink though, it's a false economy buying mid range players a lot of the time as illustrated by the 70 million wasted on Mustafi and Xhaka, with that we could have signed a top class player who would probably be worth even more now and more importantly would make the team better. Liverpool have sold players for multiple times what they bought them 4, they seem to find top class players left right and centre, which makes me think that Klopp has a real eye for talent as well.