devaney » Sun Oct 30, 2016 6:45 am wrote:Santa » Sat Oct 29, 2016 6:23 pm wrote:We've got Matip on a free...how much did Stones cost City again?
We've got Ojaria for peanuts...how much did Pogba cost United?
#impressed
Ejaria mate.
Yes your right, and I have been saying it for ages, that you don't necessarily have to go out and spend ridiculous amounts of money to buy quality players. What City spent on Stones and Sterling simply creates a bigger divide between the top and bottom clubs. What United spent on Pogba was absolutely crazy. In the same way that Balotelli looked good playing in Italy so did Poga playing for Juventus. I am not for one minute suggesting that the lad is rubbish, I am simply making the point that he is not worth anything like £90m. Not many years ago we bought Suarez and Torres for approximately £22m each and when they were both sold we made a total of approximately £70m. Shame they were sold (not so much Nando as he was well and truly passed his best) but let's face it it was a very decent bit of business. And as I have said before football is a business, it is not a registered charity. Just what will City make when they eventually decide to sell Sterling and Stones ? My guess is they will probably make a loss! The same will almost certainly apply to Pogba.
Getting the best out of your players, as Klopp is successfully demonstrating, is a far better way forward than employing a bunch of overpaid prima donnas !! As supporters, often through utter frustration, we are very quick to criticise the actions of the club. The transfer committee and Rogers are a classic example. Yes they have made plenty of mistakes in the transfer market but that also applies to virtually every other club in the Premiership. Klopp as some people expected has not been drastic in the transfer market. He is simply getting the best out of what he has got and that as far as I'm concerned is far more important than spending idiotic money. There are several players in that team that are currently doing a very good job that many of us would have been quite prepared to let go sometime ago. I suppose that Is why Klopp gets paid £7.5m a year and I sit in my armchair !!
More of the same please Klopp and keep up the amazing work. Mind you I did say something similar when Rogers went on a 14 game winning streak and nearly won the league !!
Yep, Klopp has performed miracles with this team.
His back room staff deserve a mention too, obviously Buvac and Krawietz are his trusted lieutenants and do a great job but that new fitness coach and the new nutritionist that we swiped from Bayern have done a fantastic job also, we now look the fittest team in the league and always finish games strongly. Even when we are only 1 goal up and enduring a nervy last few minutes we always seem to have plenty of gas left in the tank and create plenty of chances late on.
When we are hanging on we are never pinned back in our area, our version of hanging on is to turn the match into an end to end basketball type game, we've too much energy just to sit back and absorb pressure, we've got to try and score ourselves.
It's great to watch it really is.
