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

[wandyr79]

What I find strange is playing coutinho,firmini,l lallana and Wijnaldum in the same line up with Henderson

What I find strange is playing Henderson at all, at least the others are decent footballers so you can understand why he might want to shoe horn them in (although why buy all of them in the first place).

Never known such an average player to be captain of a Premiership club nevermind one that has the aspirations that them lot do and yes I am including Neville in that

 

[anton66]

Liverpool
Combined Totals £917,805,000

Since 1991/1992

They could have bought the Barcelona team twice for that money.

 

[DownOnTheUpside]

They could have bought the Barcelona team twice for that money.

They were busy buying REAL superstars like aquilani, borini and the legendary andy carrol

 

[peteblue]

Really don't like the sound of that Chinese buyout.

It's doesn't really matter does it. When you have one fabulously wealthy team, like what happened to Chelsea, then they win, however when a bigger group of teams become wealthy it has a reduced effect. The RS already have money and wealthy owners. QPR have an extremely wealthy owner and it's done them almost no good at all. Teams need money but there comes a point where money alone just doesn't do it.........

 

[ste d' indica]

They were busy buying REAL superstars like aquilani, borini and the legendary andy carrol

 

[tsubaki]

Really don't like the sound of that Chinese buyout.

I don't know if you read Private Eye, but there is a very good article in the latest issue (#1425) about the current trend of Chinese investment in football (since last year Chinese owners / investors have got into Villa, Birmingham, WBA, Inter Milan, Atletico Madrid, Man City and now look to "invest" in Hull and the great unclean ones).

Basically it points out a few things:

i) very little is known about the actual strength of many of these bidders, what resources they have, who is actually behind them and even the qualities of the men fronting the bids (the new WBA owner was described as "virtually unknown" by one website aimed at Chinese sports, for instance).
ii) all of the recent splurge of investment is linked to a call from the current Chinese leadership to get more involved in football, which is fine whilst it lasts but does not indicate a long term plan, and in any case those involved all run the risk of falling out of favour at home.
iii) the Chinese economy is so opaque, there is so much graft / "unusual" practices* and is running at such a colossal level of risk at the moment, that it is somewhat odd what they actually bring to many of these deals apart from the promise of money.

* to us rather than those in the City

 

[Ashtonian]

Seems them lot have selective memories.

Seen a Facebook post of a screen shot of presumably a blue saying everton won the murderers lost.

The fume about it because of the horrible Hillsborough reference there....except they are forgetting heysel there.

Not condoning what he said but it seems they were all quick to jump on it.

 

[Derek Acorah]

What's this about a buyout then? Can you imagine how many Andy Carrolls they can buy with lots of dirty Chinese money!

 

[Aar_the_Toffees]

Our new stadium should be called Fanta Park. Just cause.

 

[Aar_the_Toffees]

I don't understand why we're so concerned about the Chinese investing in them.

Now they just have a lot more money to throw away on crap.

 

[dandydan]

I joined GOT a few months ago and wondered what this Rawk was, I'd never heard of it until I came on here.
but they've got a cheek calling us bitter.

Self awareness isn't really their thing.

 

[Minimeister]

Seems them lot have selective memories.

Seen a Facebook post of a screen shot of presumably a blue saying everton won the murderers lost.

The fume about it because of the horrible Hillsborough reference there....except they are forgetting heysel there.

Not condoning what he said but it seems they were all quick to jump on it.

Accusing people/playing the victim when things go against them is the way they conduct themselves.

Lose at home, the oppositions fans spat on the memorial.

Don't win a derby, accuse Evertonians of making Hillsborough gestures.

Lose at Burnley after you'd convince yourself you'd won the league, drag up old tweets from the person who scored against you.

Player accused of racism, sing his name to a young black player from a division 1 team and make him cry.

Graceful losers as always.

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

Lose at home, the oppositions fans spat on the memorial.

Don't win a derby, accuse Evertonians of making Hillsborough gestures.

It's strange how there's never any video evidence to back up their claims, innit?

You'd have thought all those day trippers would have their phones trained on something like that happening, rather than when the entire team run the length of the pitch from the anny road to the hill o'piss to take a team bow, like something from It ain't half hot, mum!

 

[anton66]

It's doesn't really matter does it. When you have one fabulously wealthy team, like what happened to Chelsea, then they win, however when a bigger group of teams become wealthy it has a reduced effect. The RS already have money and wealthy owners. QPR have an extremely wealthy owner and it's done them almost no good at all. Teams need money but there comes a point where money alone just doesn't do it.........

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

 

[Milk]

I don't understand why we're so concerned about the Chinese investing in them.

Now they just have a lot more money to throw away on crap.

The Sunday Times are suggesting that the Chinese Investment Corporation (CIC) are behind all this with the sovereign wealth of China at their disposal or some $620bn.

In Mosh we trust