The figures below put two fingers up to the Chelsea fans who hide behind the "But Liverpool have always spent money in the past and broke the transfer record excuse". The thing they forget is that we spent within our means.
Without opening a whole can of worms and obviously these figures do not include outgoings it looks like Rafa has spent £29M a season and given us a European Cup, A Super Cup and an FA Cup. Great work that, amazing infact.
Nearly half of Liverpools figures though was spent by Gerard Houllier who in return gave us an FA Cup, Uefa Cup, 2 League Cups and a Super Cup.
I've always complained about our managers not being able to compete on price and largely a lot of that is true, but they have had decent money, the problem of'course is that we have suffered more than most with bad signings in the past who didn't work out and left a hole in the budget so we couldn't spend big another day - we are still recovering from the Diao, Diouf and Cheyrou debacle with two of those still here! Whereas Chelsea can obsorb the flops, just look at that list more than half have been sh#t signings irrespective of the money they cost. We would suffer for years if we had done that.
Rafa has not made any expensive mistakes (Morientes aside but that wasn't that expensive) so going forward we should be confident we will have the money to get the top players we need.
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