This is nothing short of EMBARRASSING. I'm normally in favour of the Blue Union but this is just utterly and absolutely embarrassing. They're bending their knees here to the utter mentalist lunatics moaning how we haven't won the quintuple with Messi and co. overnight.
We get at minimum roughly a £140m kitty to spend - which right now seems like we actually do, £100m from Moshiri's initial investment and £47m from the Stones sale. We've confirmed to have spent £16m on players so far, with £25m and £18m deals for Bolasie and Kone almost completed which takes us to £59m. We also want to complete a £30m deal for Mata - £89m - with a final bid for another forward, Slimani etc. of I'd imagine around £25m as well. In total our final 4 transfer dealings - fitting right into what Mr Koeman has mentioned in regards to our dealings - means we spend £114m. And that's on transfers alone. Could you even fathom us purchasing that many players and spending that much money in a single window during the Kenwright era, never mind ones who have had success in this league?
We have spent around £30m sacking Martinez bringing in a successful, Premier League-proven manager widely rated as one of the best in Europe, as well as all of his coaching staff. Don't forget highly-regarded Director of Football Steve Walsh who has scouted players who have proved to be crucial parts in trophy wins and who have became club legends - Drogba, Essien, Mahrez, Kante etc.
"Sell to buy". That's exactly it - the club doesn't have an unlimited wage bill, it isn't like FIFA Career Mode where you can spend as much as you want and pay wages as high as you want completely ignoring STCC and FFP regulations. Why is everyone getting so pissy that we have sold Stones anyway? The lad was a liability defensively. Mistake after mistake, constantly getting outjumped, outmuscled, what have you. He was NEVER one of our best players. But of course since he can do a few fancy skills and Cruyff turns, which I can do as well, the English media calls him the next Bobby Moore. To hell with defending, if he can do a couple of tricks he's going to be the best defender the world has ever seen.
That's just what we have done this summer. As we speak plans are being drawn up for a brand new state-of-the-art stadium for us to play in - not just paper talk either, Joe Anderson himself has said it. Not just any stadium either, a modern stadium on the famous Liverpool waterfront, on the banks of the royal blue Mersey. This project alone would cost several hundreds of millions of pounds and will take realistically 3-4 years to complete. These sorts of things are not going to be done and dusted in a week.
Compare that to the Kenwright era where 3, THREE, stadiums were proposed, all of which failed to come to fruition due to lack of investment or reluctance to invest. The difference with this proposal is that there are actually signs of progress - there is a willingness to spend money, willingness to co-operate with the city council and co, and plans actually on the table. We finally have the investment we've needed for decades right now, and it's starting to show. Yet not a single word has been spoken.
A vast majority of our fans really make my blood boil, they really do.
