They are set up to dominate for the next decade in all honesty. They’re the best run club in world football. People are doing themselves no favours convincing themselves the likes of Arsenal are going to be overtaking them any time soon.
In the last few seasons alone they’ve bought an 80 mill pound striker that they now don’t want. They turned down a massive fee from Saudi for him in January only to now find they’re scrabbling around for half their money back. They’re about to spend over 80 mill on another striker with even less pedigree than Nunez. Meanwhile Solanke who was on their books and overlooked is leading the line for Spurs and valued at 60 mill.
They’ve allowed Alexander Arnold to run down his contract and leave for nothing and had to cave in to offer massive wages to Salah and Van Dijk to players approaching mid 30s. Konate is entering his final year and wants a move. They’ve currently got 3 left backs on the books after buying Kerkez and then finding that neither Robertson or Tsimikas wants to leave.
They’ve allowed Trent Wijnaldum Can Clyne Milner Lallana Keita (60 mill Lol) Origi Thiago Matip Firmino Oxlade Chamberlain Sturridge Moreno Markovic Balotelli to all leave on a free transfer. That’s right, apart from the nominal fee they got to release Trent early they’ve not received a single pound for that entire list combined.
They made a sentimental decision to expand Anfield which has left them landlocked in a residential area when all their rivals have/are moving to new stadiums that can generate revenue all year round.
They’re a very good team who have won some trophies recently but some people don’t half go overboard on them. ‘Set up to dominate for a decade’ ‘best run club in world football’. Give over. They’re just a very rich club that have a ton of revenue that allows them to buy who they want. That’s it. Give it long enough and Chelsea will probably be back winning trophies again for exactly that reason and they’ve been a shambles.
When you’ve got unlimited money you only have to wait around long enough and throw enough mud at the wall and it will stick. United in their worst ever period of being a total laughing stock have won the Europa league, the FA Cup twice and the league cup twice just by throwing money at a roulette wheel of players and managers.
