ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

[Librarian]

Wages doesn't seem to come into the thought process though.
If you pay average players Champions League money, then you're probably going to have to sell them at a loss.

 

[bluejock]

They've actually become a parody of themselves now. It's as if the feel they have to live up to the internet reputation on there.

 

[tsubaki]

I think I'm starting to 'get' RAWK now. You don't have to post anything truthful, or anything insightful. You just have to make up some stuff that is approved by the rest of the brain dead morons and you are accepted.

Speeding towards a cliff edge when we've replaced Hibbert with Coleman, Neville with McCarthy, Osman with Miralles etc etc etc

... and thats without pointing out that we have brought through into the first team quite a few more young players, and of a higher quality, from our youth setup than they have.

But of course we are talking about a club that effectively swapped its best youth prospect and around six million pound for Charlie Adam.

 

[blueser]

Which player is he talking about in the first paragraph?

Downing

 

[toffeejack]

Downing

i thought they were talking about one of ours? how was he a luxury they couldn't afford? of course he ****ing was.

 

[Librarian]

Thinking you're following the Arsenal model, when you've actually been following the Newcastle model.
Snigger

 

[tsubaki]

Downing

ironically, they paid more for Downing than we did for every one of our 30 year old+ players combined

 

[Clint Planet]

Happy days.

 

[Goat]

ironically, they paid more for Downing than we did for every one of our 30 year old+ players combined

Thats actually 100% true, if we overlook the whole buying Pienaar twice thingy.

 

[Furey1878]

Thats actually 100% true, if we overlook the whole buying Pienaar twice thingy.

No idea what you're talking about mate, Pienaar was just soul-searching for a year.

 

[Goat]

No idea what you're talking about mate, Pienaar was just soul-searching for a year.

Thanks for that Ste lad, now about that 2.5m you just cost us.



So anyway, we currently have 8 players over 30.

They cost a combined total of around 16m, thats around the same amount they wasted on buying and selling Andy Carroll.

 

[paulbefc]

RAWK

Quote from: DonkeyWan on Today at 06:02:42 PM
He's 30 this summer, so they sold him before his value bottomed out. In moneyball terms, it was the smart thing to do (particularly since the club had over paid for him in the first place). Had he been a 5-10 million buy, they might have kept him, but a £20m buy that would never get near recouping that? Selling him was the smart business thing to do, keeping him at the club for the one or two games a year where his presence might elevate through sheer mediocrity is a real luxury the club can't afford.


Again, I a stress it a lot, if you want to see why Everton are speeding toward the cliff edge, its because they have been holding onto players for too long. So as their asset has devalued they have been forced to sell young up and coming players to offset these losses, starting a downward spiral as fewer and fewer younger players come through to replace older and older players. Currently Everton have 10 players well over 30 in their first team squad, Liverpool have 3. Everton are an accident waiting to happen, Liverpool a young side needing time and playing experience (a la Arsenal).

Hahaha.

We've been speeding towards this cliff edge for 20-odd years if that logic is anything to go by. Roughly the same amount of time they've been speeding towards their 19th title.

 

[Pat's Van]

difference is we'll get to the cliff edge and soar off into the sunset on our beautifully designed Lukaku powered hand-glider that is in the shape of Martinez's face

Liverpool get to the cliff edge and plummet headlong onto the rocks below while clinging to their ridiculous and pathetic ornithopter with brendan barking incomprehensible instructions and Suarez flapping his arms like he's been shot

 

[Kurt.]

Brendan = Roy Cropper

 

[ToffeeDan]

Hahaha.

We've been speeding towards this cliff edge for 20-odd years if that logic is anything to go by. Roughly the same amount of time they've been speeding towards their 19th title.

Beautifully put..