jacdaniel » Fri Jan 30, 2015 12:19 pm wrote:You can't talk about football these days without discussing finances. And sadly the majority of our fanbase don't understand our
financial situation. We don't have the resources that United, City, Chelsea, Madrid or Barca have. In fact, we are not even close.
This is in terms of sponsorships, stadium and CL revenue.
There are reasons we can't always sign players for huge fees on big salaries.
There are reasons our star players leave the club.
Those reasons are not because of what formation Rodgers chooses or the defensive tactics Rafa / Houllier once deployed.
Finishing 2nd last season was a huge overachievement.
Anyone who thinks we should have improved this season after losing our 50 goal strike force and other teams making huge
improvements just doesn't understand modern day football.
We are a big club. But not currently a huge one. When we can generate more revenue, then we can be consistently be challenging
for trophies and top players.
Sadly you are right Jac in that financial situations is a massive part of football now but I think you are wrong in saying our fans don't understand this. They do because its all fenway and the manager come out with. It has been all about the finances now for a good few years and they still dominate proceedings like not having it to spend now in this window.
Our owners say they have the financial backing to compete with anyone but then use FFP to hide behind. City came from nowhere and through heavy bankrolling they have established themselves as one of the biggest clubs in the league and are making serious ground in the global fanbase stakes. That investment is paying off and they have no fears of FFP because they pay the fines just like fenway could. City has a restriction for flouting the rules in that their CL squad has been reduced buy yet they are still in the damn thing. Even chelsea are now a profitable business with revenues topping ours. The help that those owners gave their clubs have brought their clubs to the top while we have to accept the fact that fenway want to cheap it. It isn't like they paid a fortune for the club either is it
they lent us the money to do it just the same as they will lend us money towards the stadium.
If we were willing to pay sanchez whatever he wants then you cannot claim we can't pay big fees or salaries. We have been told we really tried for him and offered him everything so obviously we have the capacity to accomodate that. Unless they were lying to us all along. There was also this massive interest in falcao but only a few weeks ago we found out that our 9 summer signings earn less than he does. They were never ever going to sign him.
Our star players will always leave so we better get used to it as it will be a regular occurence. Can you really see sterling or coutinho still being here by the time they are 25 and should be hitting their peak.
Its a results game jac. Finishing 2nd was all down to suarez and how he carried the team. If it was down to the manager or philosophy we wouldnt have suffered so much without him. There was 10 other players on the pitch playing that style and now that we lose one the rest seem to have forgot everything to the point that we had to go back to basics and employ a totally new system alien to said philosophy.
I think we should have improved seeing as we only lost suarez and had over a 100 mil alongside adequate time to do so. It is only one player and yet a whole team suffers and not just for goals. we had to change everything just to compensate for one player. Losing sturridge through injury for so long was also a blow but expected. He was never going to last a season and should never have been made no 1 after suarez departed due to his terrible fitness record. Going with him as no 1 was always destined to fail and a lesson needs to be learned from it. What was it brendan said about spurs ? it was that if you spend a 100 million then you have to be seriously challenging for the league
Maybe its him that is struggling to understand modern day football.
Even though we aren't winning titles we have still maintained our status as one of the biggest footballing institutions on the planet. A few years ago it was that we need CL to attract better players, Then its you need to be an established CL club and now its that we need to generate more revenue.
It is very hard to compete under these owners but its made equally harder by the fact we have a manager who is far to inexperienced for the task.
Loads point out that we will finish in line with our spending and team value, If thats true we will finish 5th and personally I reckon if its that set out in stone then we have nothing to lose in replacing rodgers with someone more experienced.
