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

Big Fat Sam · April 23, 2015

jaycee said:
its going to be an interesting time over there,no Cheewy money or CL money to spunk this time,Klopp becoming available,so
do they dump Gnashers or stick with him? if they stick and it goes wrong hell to play,if they twist and approach Klopp will
Brendan be thought of the same way the FWS is now?
Player wise they need at least one more striker but will be hard pushed to move any of the current ones on,it is going to be a buy to sell scenario over there and we all know the top 4 plus Spurs are going to be spending big

They may get lucky with some div spunking 30m on Sterling or so. That'll get them the top striker they need. Bit of a problem with them signing Origi though... too many average strikers... him, Lambert, Balotelli, is Borini still there? :lol:

jaycee · April 23, 2015

butters said:
They may get lucky with some div spunking 30m on Sterling or so. That'll get them the top striker they need. Bit of a problem with them signing Origi though... too many average strikers... him, Lambert, Balotelli, is Borini still there? lol

the money they may get from Sterling,I'm actually thinking they will pay him in the region of what hes asking for,Origi from what i have seen just adds more averageness to the squad,and Borini is still there,add in the need for another keeper,centre half and a couple of midfielders and the future looks quite bleak for the deluded ones

Saint Domingo · April 23, 2015

Pienaar's gloves said:
I see Hendo has signed on the dotted line.

No way is that lad worth £100k.

Nor is Sterling and that was their offer to him.

They're financially incompetent.

It's the U.S. owners thinking that they've secured some top young player that they're going to make a profit on in the future. What they don't realise is after being stupid enough to pay 20 mill for Hendo they're now going to pay him 5 mill a season. No one will buy him above the price they paid, and in another 2 years he'll want a pay rise.

For a club that think they invented premier league money ball they aren't half rubbish at it. Hendo, Lallana, Lovren, Balotelli, Borini, Lambert, Allen, Mignolet - they'll never sell any of these for a higher price than they bought them. They're all on high wages as well and not really good enough to move up a level.

Their only financial hope is that someone is stupid enough to pay for Sterling then they reinvest and get lucky with another Suarez.

Dithering Dougie · April 23, 2015

butters said:
They may get lucky with some div spunking 30m on Sterling or so. That'll get them the top striker they need. Bit of a problem with them signing Origi though... too many average strikers... him, Lambert, Balotelli, is Borini still there? lol

That's about £40m+ worth of strikers and besides Origi they've mostly been available all season sitting on the bench while Rodgers has peddled the myth they've got no strikers with Sturridge out, bought by every Kopite hook line and sinker.

Their a simple bunch of supporters but FSG won't be fooled when Rodgers comes around doing his best Oliver Twist impression this summer.

rascal · April 23, 2015

FSG would be utterly stupid to sanction any more spending from Rodgers

catcherintherye · April 23, 2015

Saint Domingo said:
It's the U.S. owners thinking that they've secured some top young player that they're going to make a profit on in the future. What they don't realise is after being stupid enough to pay 20 mill for Hendo they're now going to pay him 5 mill a season. No one will buy him above the price they paid, and in another 2 years he'll want a pay rise.

For a club that think they invented premier league money ball they aren't half rubbish at it. Hendo, Lallana, Lovren, Balotelli, Borini, Lambert, Allen, Mignolet - they'll never sell any of these for a higher price than they bought them. They're all on high wages as well and not really good enough to move up a level.

Their only financial hope is that someone is stupid enough to pay for Sterling then they reinvest and get lucky with another Suarez.

They are the idiot kid at school who bought loads of pokemon cards at school, or football stickers thinking they could sell them on. I don't mind them buying dross (I quite like it in fact) but don't try and dress up what they are doing as some sort of masterplan.

The way they make it sound, it's as if they are re-writing the football methods in order to overcome the "money clubs". It is utter nonsense. I saw one on redmen Tv go on a little tirade about how them beating Manchester would be sticking two fingers up to the establishment that spending money doesn't equate to success. It is utter delusion that they've built this narrative that they are standing up for the little man.

Lets analyse their signings. Yes they have signed some young players. Markovic is the only one I can think of mind. You then look at Balotelli, Lallana, Lovren, Moreno, Mignolet who are all in their prime for their position. In Lallana and Lovrens case they have spent nearly as much on them as Arsenal signed Sanchez for, or more than Chelsea paid for Cuadrado. They are big money signings, they just happen to be poor players. Bad recruitment is not the same as having a different philosophy to signings.

They have then signed the likes of Lambert and Toure, who could only be described as washed up has beens. Point this out to them though, or ask them to justify it and they will either call you bitter, or start winding you down in more nonsense (ie change the rules again) so it lucidly suits their argument. Both of them are signs of mental illness and an unwillingness to face reality.

I saw one of them saying he wouldn't have Mourinho as Mourinho buys ready made world class players that they can't afford too. When has he ever developed a player. They must have missed Hazard being the bets player in the league this season. They quote Cahill as an example of a top draw player, but again he was bought for a lot less than Lovren.

degsy · April 23, 2015

Saint Domingo said:
It's the U.S. owners thinking that they've secured some top young player that they're going to make a profit on in the future. What they don't realise is after being stupid enough to pay 20 mill for Hendo they're now going to pay him 5 mill a season. No one will buy him above the price they paid, and in another 2 years he'll want a pay rise.

For a club that think they invented premier league money ball they aren't half rubbish at it. Hendo, Lallana, Lovren, Balotelli, Borini, Lambert, Allen, Mignolet - they'll never sell any of these for a higher price than they bought them. They're all on high wages as well and not really good enough to move up a level.

Their only financial hope is that someone is stupid enough to pay for Sterling then they reinvest and get lucky with another Suarez.

This is not going to happen, the new Suarez that is, hopefully they will continue to waste money hand over fist...long may they continue to 'k up.

SpurtingLesbian · April 23, 2015

First picture of Liverpool's new contract policy.

Big Fat Sam · April 23, 2015

Dithering Dougie said:
That's about £40m+ worth of strikers and besides Origi they've mostly been available all season sitting on the bench while Rodgers has peddled the myth they've got no strikers with Sturridge out, bought by every Kopite hook line and sinker.

Their a simple bunch of supporters but FSG won't be fooled when Rodgers comes around doing his best Oliver Twist impression this summer.

Heh, heh.

120m spent last summer.

:lol:

catcherintherye · April 23, 2015

Dithering Dougie said:
That's about £40m+ worth of strikers and besides Origi they've mostly been available all season sitting on the bench while Rodgers has peddled the myth they've got no strikers with Sturridge out, bought by every Kopite hook line and sinker.

Their a simple bunch of supporters but FSG won't be fooled when Rodgers comes around doing his best Oliver Twist impression this summer.

Well this has been debated as well. The common excuse is if Sturridhe had been fit they'd have pissed the top 4. Yet since Sturridge has been fit there has been no upturn in form. Sturridge has been built up to this legendary "world class" status. He's only ever scored more than 12 league goals once in about 7 seasons. He's an average striker, a very poor mans Lukaku.

Now we've established they'd have been no higher with the 10 goal (at the top end) a season man Sturridge fit lets look at their other nonsense. It is rightly questioned that they could have addressed this problem and bought in a top striker with the money they have wasted on; Aspas, Lambert, Borini and Balotelli. That's 37 million pounds on those 4 alone. Rodgers could have bought another striker in January, but his vanity project of turning the new Danny Cadamateri (Sterling) into a striker prevented him.

Sturridge is injury prone and will never be fit for a season. Much like Mirallas. You can't rely on those players to score you the goals you need. Rodgers should buy another striker, but the 4 he has bought has been so poor there's no doubt he'd be any good.

davek · April 23, 2015

SpurtingLesbian said:
First picture of Liverpool's new contract policy.

lol

Absolutely spot on.

And £250M spent on utter muck apart from Coutinho and Sturridge.

bol-uk · April 23, 2015

I remember the grief RS mates gave me about the £24mil +4 mil extras we paid for Rom.

It now seems like deal of the century (apart from 60 grand of course) and they never mention it at all.

Deleted member 24970 · April 23, 2015

bol-uk said:
I remember the grief RS mates gave me about the £24mil +4 mil extras we paid for Rom.

It now seems like deal of the century (apart from 60 grand of course) and they never mention it at all.

Arteta, Cahill, Jags, Lescott, Baines, Howard (at his best), Pienaar, Mirallas all players under £10m and easily handle their own in the league. Comparing it to Liverpools buys, it makes it a little easier knowing we dont spend much just to pass it up the wall.

catcherintherye · April 23, 2015

davek said:
lol

Absolutely spot on.

And £250M spent on utter muck apart from Coutinho and Sturridge.

Even Sturridge is starting to look like a shakey deal and is riddled with injuries.

I'm also not convinced on Coutinho, he is a decent player in an awful team.

catcherintherye · April 23, 2015

bol-uk said:
I remember the grief RS mates gave me about the £24mil +4 mil extras we paid for Rom.

It now seems like deal of the century (apart from 60 grand of course) and they never mention it at all.

They would give their right arm to have bought Lukaku for 24 million rising to 28. He's head and shoulder above any striker they have, and only Sturridge could be considered in the same league as him.

They have wasted the best part of 40 million pounds on Aspas, Balotelli, Lambo and Borini who have scored about a quarter of the goals Lukaku has this season.