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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3


Here’s the League table from end of season 16-17. 50% higher in terms of points? Only Chelsea, and nearly Spurs come close to that.

PldWDLFAGDPts
1Chelsea38303585335293
2Tottenham Hotspur38268486266086
3Manchester City38239680394178
4Liverpool382210678423676
5Arsenal38236977443375
6Manchester United381815554292569
7Everton3817101162441861
8Southampton381210164148-746
9AFC Bournemouth381210165567-1246
10West Bromwich Albion38129174351-845
11West Ham United38129174764-1745


From summer 2017, Transfer spending, without player sales............

City 657m
Utd. 506m
Us. 500m
Chelsea 465m
Arsenal 435m
RS. 390
Spurs. 268

500m should be seeing us pull away from the likes of Wolves, West Ham and Watford. Wolves were in the Championship back then and finished above us last season!! Burnley finished above us the season before. We’ve spent a huge amount and have wasted it. You cannot dress it up any other way as you are trying to do. We finished 7th and have spent the 3rd largest amount out of them 7 clubs and are probably further away from them. This in a time when, arguably, Arsenal. Utd and Chelsea have been the worst they’ve been for years. We’ve had our biggest chance of cracking it during this period and have wasted it. We finished in a Europa League spot that year, all that spending and we’ve not had European football since. In fact, in the 2 seasons after the one above, we have failed to score more than the 62 goals we scored that season and have also conceded more than the 44 in the 2 seasons afterwards, despite a massive spend.
Seems you played around with them figures slightly. Seems we’re clear 4th in the net spend and gross spend, over 60m more net than the 6th team Chelsea. Other than the RS, where you’re over 100m out, I think you’ve just added their figures up instead of subtracting the years they made a profit. The rest of your figures, give or take 20-30m, work out about right.



19/2018/1917/1816/17NET
Manchester CityManchester City£-89.10m£-22.04m£-203.54m£-160.34m475m
Liverpool FCLiverpool FC£29.25m£-126.99m£18.56m£4.93m75m
Chelsea FCChelsea FC£79.52m£-124.43m£-53.91m£-21.96m128m
Tottenham HotspurTottenham Hotspur£-71.10m£4.82m£-15.93m£-28.08m110m
Arsenal FCArsenal FC£-91.89m£-65.03m£3.02m£-92.42m246m
Manchester UnitedManchester United£-84.60m£-46.94m£-137.61m£-124.07m393m
Everton FCEverton FC£-35.46m£-64.04m£-69.14m£-22.59m191m
Leicester City

That's just transfers and doesn't take into account wage bills. Every single one of those teams have wage bills that dwarf ours. Liverpool's is over £100m pa more than ours.


Our wage bill was closer to Huddersfield's than United's or Liverpool's.
 

My heart bleeds for the lad on £15,000 a week. I despise all of this player power nonsense, irrespective of the club.

If a club doesn't want to sell you while you're under contract, they are under no obligations to, regardless of how much you stomp your feet.

You signed a contract, honour it.

Doesn’t matter what you’re on a week, mental health/general well-being is more important than anything.

If they’re seriously treating him like so, it’s a terrible look.

Players are still human at the end of the day.
 
My heart bleeds for the lad on £15,000 a week. I despise all of this player power nonsense, irrespective of the club.

If a club doesn't want to sell you while you're under contract, they are under no obligations to, regardless of how much you stomp your feet.

You signed a contract, honour it.

If only clubs did the same...
 
My heart bleeds for the lad on £15,000 a week. I despise all of this player power nonsense, irrespective of the club.

If a club doesn't want to sell you while you're under contract, they are under no obligations to, regardless of how much you stomp your feet.

You signed a contract, honour it.
Silly me — Keep forgetting money makes mental health problems disappear.
 
It wasn’t a one off refusal, rather four or five over a sustained period of time, so that’ll have played a part. I suspect there’ll be other mitigating aspects.

They’ll ask for a judicial review at the crown (won’t be a DJ) and he’ll get an interim ban in the meantime; if he refuses that, then it’ll be thrown out.

With his claim that he couldn’t do community based work because of his ‘travels’ and ‘punditry’, I suspect that will have forced the hand.

I suspect he will get bail and eventually a sentence reduced to say six, but he will do time though - I’m sure of it.


Youre right, it wont be the same judge that hears the appeal, I was saying that they may wish to apply to a different magistrate to fix bail tomorrow, but it appears they will do it in front of the same judge today.

usually an appeal from the mags court will be heard by the county court, presided over by a crown court judge. If a sentence was unusual, for example outside the sentencing guidelines it could be taken to the court of appeal by way of case stated by either defence of CPS. A judicial review in the High Court would not be appropriate for appealing mags court sentence (it is the mechanism for appealing the lawfulness of a decision of a public body)

If he appeals, its very likely that it will be the sentence only and not conviction. Drink driving is strict liability and refusing to provide a sample carries the same sentence. He may actually get the 30 months reduced on appeal as you generally get a driving ban of 12-24 months and a fine for your first drink driving.

He will have been given some 'credit' for pleading guilty, albeit not at the first opportunity.

10 weeks immediate custody (do half inside) for refusing to provide a specimen is a harsh sentence - albeit the DJ clearly thinks he deserves it. Refusing to give a sample multiple times does not in itself constitute multiple offenses but rather aggravates the circumstances. I can only imagine how condescending he was. he should though have been given the benefit of a suspended sentence and I think that's what he will get on appeal.

What a horrible man he is.
 

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Our wage bill was closer to Huddersfield's than United's or Liverpool's.


We are the 4th highest spenders in the League in the time Moshiri has been here. The original ‘argument’ was about SPEND. But some of our fans gloss over it and bring agents fees and wages into it. We have still spent the money!
What it tells me, if our wages are still low in comparison to the big clubs, is that we’ve paid top whack for average players. Paid all that money out and our wage bill is more comparable with Huddersfield (your comparison,not mine).
Reading the link you posted last, our wages to turnover is the 2nd highest in the League at 77%, with Palace at 78, with the exception of Spursm(39!!), the rest of the top 6 seem to be operating at 55-60. That’s slightly worrying. The 2nd highest wages to turnover ratio, with Stadium costs etc to come? I reckon we could be in for a bumpy ride in the next few years as them figures aren’t good. We have the 7th highest turnover the 7th highest wage bill and still have the 2nd worst wages to turnover. We have to throw more money at it, more wages. At a time when we have a new stadium on the horizon. The turnover of the top 6 and the wage bills (except Spurs)is massive, then a huge drop down to us. Spurs turnover to wages was low as they had the new stadium looming. We cant carry on as we are if we are moving.
 
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We are the 4th highest spenders in the League in the time Moshiri has been here. The original ‘argument’ was about SPEND. But some of our fans gloss over it and bring agents fees and wages into it. We have still spent the money!
What it tells me, if our wages are still low in comparison to the big clubs, is that we’ve paid top whack for average players. Paid all that money out and our wage bill is more comparable with Huddersfield (your comparison,not mine).
Reading the link you posted last, our wages to turnover is the 2nd highest in the League at 77%, with Palace at 78, with the exception of Spursm(39!!), the rest of the top 6 seem to be operating at 55-60. That’s slightly worrying. The 2nd highest wages to turnover ratio, with Stadium costs etc to come? I reckon we could be in for a bumpy ride in the next few years as them figures aren’t good. We have the 7th highest turnover the 7th highest wage bill and still have the 2nd worst wages to turnover. We have to throw more money at it, more wages. At a time when we have a new stadium on the horizon. The turnover of the top 6 and the wage bills (except Spurs)is massive, then a huge drop down to us. Spurs turnover to wages was low as they had the new stadium looming. We cant carry on as we are if we are moving.
How many times have you used the word 'we' there mate ?
 
Doesn’t matter what you’re on a week, mental health/general well-being is more important than anything.

If they’re seriously treating him like so, it’s a terrible look.

Players are still human at the end of the day.

Happiness is more important than anything, of course. But where I come from, if you make an agreement, you honour it. You don't make excuses and that's precisely what this is.

Claiming his mental health has been affected and throwing a tantrum because his club won't relent to his demands is as petulant as it gets.

He's either incredibly immature or incredibly ill-advised, perhaps a combination of both.

If only clubs did the same...

Clubs do the same. If a club breaches contract, there are generally consequences and it rarely happens.

He has a year left on his contract. The club are seemingly happy for him to stay. If he wants to leave, he'll need to find a buyer at a price the club deem reasonable. They aren't obliged to accept what HE deems reasonable.

In the same way, if the club deemed him surplus to requirements and wanted to sell him mid-way through the contract to someone who was only offering him £5,000 per week, he could flatly refuse to go and stay on for another year at £15,000 a week.

It works both ways.
 
Silly me — Keep forgetting money makes mental health problems disappear.

It doesn't. It was his agent who cited that he was on a 'small salary'.

He's playing for the team he supported as a boy on more than £750,000 per annum. He's not on the breadline.

And because he can't leave right now, when it suits him, his agent has claimed that he's feeling stressed and upset.

Tough.
 


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