2018/19 Marco Silva - New Poll Added

[GwladysBlue]

Yes because journalists have balanced rational opinions and never ever bias against the blue half of Liverpool

Have you read it? It is very fair.

 

[Big Fat Sam]

Equal last season’s total, in what we all thought was one of the worst seasons of the past two decades?

Get in! What an unbelievable achievement!

Maybe if we spend 150m this summer we can even add a few more points to that tally next season.

By the time we've spent our second billion we could even be top four challengers.

 

[banno]

Maybe if we spend 150m this summer we can even add a few more points to that tally next season.

By the time we've spent our second billion we could even be top four challengers.

Yes somehow we have to follow the same track as the ones already in the top 6 and spend billions to gain a place there. Only Spurs being the exception.

 

[Big Fat Sam]

Yes somehow we have to follow the same track as the ones already in the top 6 and spend billions to gain a place there. Only Spurs being the exception.

Or Leicester who won it. I believe we've spent close to what Liverpool have spent in the past five years, right? I know they spent 150m on Allison and van Dijk, but they recouped 100m of that from Coutinho. Another 100m received for Suarez. We sold Lukaku for 90m and Stones for 30m, but have spent about 300m-odd on other players.

This is roughly right I believe. Last five years.

 

[banno]

Or Leicester who won it. I believe we've spent close to what Liverpool have spent in the past five years, right? I know they spent 150m on Allison and van Dijk, but they recouped 100m of that from Coutinho. Another 100m received for Suarez. We sold Lukaku for 90m and Stones for 30m, but have spent about 300m-odd on other players.

This is roughly right I believe. Last five years.

They are just top ups on already good teams. We are starting from a much lower position. They can also pay wages in excess of 150k. We are in a different ball park to them.

 

[havrey0123]

Or Leicester who won it. I believe we've spent close to what Liverpool have spent in the past five years, right? I know they spent 150m on Allison and van Dijk, but they recouped 100m of that from Coutinho. Another 100m received for Suarez. We sold Lukaku for 90m and Stones for 30m, but have spent about 300m-odd on other players.

This is roughly right I believe. Last five years.

That table is actually stunning.
In my head I had the top 6 well ahead then a gap and then us.

Under the Moyes era we laughed at other teams wasting money, we finally get money and do the exact same thing.

A quality striker is needed, 2 seasons with no Lukaku replacement has destroyed us.

Moshiri is going to have to pay a premium to bring in a quality player

 

[Tez]

Or Leicester who won it. I believe we've spent close to what Liverpool have spent in the past five years, right? I know they spent 150m on Allison and van Dijk, but they recouped 100m of that from Coutinho. Another 100m received for Suarez. We sold Lukaku for 90m and Stones for 30m, but have spent about 300m-odd on other players.

This is roughly right I believe. Last five years.

This is in no way defending how we've wasted money recently but we didn't all start a zero you know? A lot of those teams started with much better players than we had. We want to break into the Champions League so we need to spend money.

We just need spend money better in future.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

That's me absolutely screwed.

You're more than welcome to suckle on the teet of my knowledge.

You might even like it

 

[ijjysmith]

You're more than welcome to suckle on the teet of my knowledge.

You might even like it

I mean this is very odd isn’t it?

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

is it just me or is the echo website , just the worst type of site to go to read content. the adds and vids etc etc…

for a newspaper website it makes no sense having it the way they do.

not that I use it a lot, but when I do try I just click straight back off... I suppose the fact they get me clicking on for 3 seconds helps them out tho with the click count

I often read RBM in the morning on my way to work. Should they ever link an Echo story i just skip it as its not just aids for the phone, its aids with Ebola.

 

[jerseytoffee]

Is there a table for wages spent for the last five years? That would probably look a little different

 

[Goat]

Is there a table for wages spent for the last five years? That would probably look a little different

Manchester United and Manchester City have spent more on wages THIS season, than Everton have in the entire Premier League era.

 

[Jamalio Danubio DiCanio]

This is in no way defending how we've wasted money recently but we didn't all start a zero you know? A lot of those teams started with much better players than we had. We want to break into the Champions League so we need to spend money.

We just need spend money better in future.

This. Always amazes me that people use figures over a defined, generally short, period to try and make a point. Everton had an average squad before this big net spend over the last 5 years. We've still still got an average squad but that's different matter, and is related to spending money better and recruiting with an overarching strategy (independent to the head coach) in place.

If anything a combined wages and net transfer fee piece would be a better way to represent expenditure over that period. I would imagine that the table above looks a lot different then

 

[Goat]

This. Always amazes me that people use figures over a defined, generally short, period to try and make a point. Everton had an average squad before this big net spend over the last 5 years. We've still still got an average squad but that's different matter, and is related to spending money better and recruiting with an overarching strategy (independent to the head coach) in place.

If anything a combined wages and net transfer fee piece would be a better way to represent expenditure over that period. I would imagine that the table above looks a lot different then

 

[Lelouch]

It's funny that we spent the most money we ever have and it set us back the most, Absolute Everton of Everton that.
Will hate Koeman and Walsh until I'm in my grave.