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

[By god I'm blue]

Is it possible not to push for top 4 after spending quarter of a billion?

Suppose it depends on how much the other teams you are competing against have also spent.

They have raked in over 150M in player sales from 3 players too to balance that!

 

[Kurt.]

Suppose it depends on how much the other teams you are competing against have also spent.

They have raked in over 150M in player sales from 3 players too to balance that!

you've still spent the money though.... 289million pounds worth of players in

 

[boris]

Suppose it depends on how much the other teams you are competing against have also spent.

They have raked in over 150M in player sales from 3 players too to balance that!

They've spent more than Chelsea in the last 3 years including sales.

I think there's only City who have spent more.

 

[penev10]

http://www.transferleague.co.uk/pre...tables/premier-league-table-last-five-seasons

 

[Pabbers]

Shocked at Spurs tbh

 

[Saint Domingo]

Shocked at Spurs tbh

Remember how everyone always moaned that Spurs had loads of money and we were a selling club when the reality has clearly been that they have sold their stars to buy whereas we have limited incomings in order to keep our better players.

 

[Pabbers]

Remember how everyone always moaned that Spurs had loads of money and we were a selling club when the reality has clearly been that they have sold their stars to buy whereas we have limited incomings in order to keep our better players.

If you look over a 10-12 year period, I would guess that we average a higher league position than them.

 

[Saint Domingo]

If you look over a 10-12 year period, I would guess that we average a higher league position than them.

Probably, we seemed to trade places for 'best of the rest' quite a bit in recent times. For some reason though they're viewed by the media as one of the big 6 and we're not. In the last four seasons we've finished ahead of Liverpool twice, ahead of United once, and ahead of Spurs once, yet during this time we never once entered into any sort of conversation about who might make up the new top four, or big 5, or super six, whatever they want to call it. In reality it's just 'these are our favourite teams because they have a lot of money regardless of where they finish, if you're not one of these teams then we'll treat you like cannon fodder regardless of where you finish'

 

[Pabbers]

Probably, we seemed to trade places for 'best of the rest' quite a bit in recent times. For some reason though they're viewed by the media as one of the big 6 and we're not. In the last four seasons we've finished ahead of Liverpool twice, ahead of United once, and ahead of Spurs once, yet during this time we never once entered into any sort of conversation about who might make up the new top four, or big 5, or super six, whatever they want to call it. In reality it's just 'these are our favourite teams because they have a lot of money regardless of where they finish, if you're not one of these teams then we'll treat you like cannon fodder regardless of where you finish'

I put it down to 2 things, 'The London' thing, and the 10 years of Moyes pushing the Under-dog and 'Finishing top 10 is like winning the Champions League' attitude.

 

[By god I'm blue]

Probably, we seemed to trade places for 'best of the rest' quite a bit in recent times. For some reason though they're viewed by the media as one of the big 6 and we're not. In the last four seasons we've finished ahead of Liverpool twice, ahead of United once, and ahead of Spurs once, yet during this time we never once entered into any sort of conversation about who might make up the new top four, or big 5, or super six, whatever they want to call it. In reality it's just 'these are our favourite teams because they have a lot of money regardless of where they finish, if you're not one of these teams then we'll treat you like cannon fodder regardless of where you finish'

To balance it a little, you could forgive Spurs fans for thinking that as they have made the CL group stage twice, albeit once they were shoved out when Chelsea won it!

 

[Carlito]

Tottenham qualify for Europe every year, have had a couple of stabs at the Champions League and occasionally boast genuinely world-class players. Of course they're more exciting to the media than our have a go heroes.

 

[Groucho]

Does Gareth Bale's transfer count towards skewed figures for Spurs in that money chart posted above?

 

[roydo]

Does Gareth Bale's transfer count towards skewed figures for Spurs in that money chart posted above?

No idea. But Levy has a reputation for being the tough nut in negotiations doesnt he? @Yid4life

 

[By god I'm blue]

Does Gareth Bale's transfer count towards skewed figures for Spurs in that money chart posted above?

Even then it's still decent isn't it? Would take it to about +20m

 

[roydo]

Even then it's still decent isn't it? Would take it to about +20m

There must be another big sale that we are forgetting, surely? Thought they spent the Bale money on a dozen midfielders.

But they do have a very good record, even so.