Igor Zidane wrote:bigmick wrote:People have been carded and banned before for posting an opinion about the managers future in threads where they weren't supposed to. I'm not advocating that course of action of course as it was as utterly ridiculous then as it would be now, but this thread as RIW pointed out is not really about the ownership of the club.
As I said earlier, you can bet your life that each time the team underperforms to an extreme level (and defeats to Wigan and Lille certainly come into that category) then stories of a horrific nature about the future of the club hit the headlines. If it's not some mad Thai who is going to buy the club, it's some Arab who likes kicking the sh!t out of people. It's always either that, or the club have been talking to GHlen Roeder as a potential new candidate for the managers job as he's the only one in World Football who'll take it on.
I don't buy it. Get a top manager in and tell him he has zero money to spend, but he can keep the players he already has. We'd launch a sustained title challenge next season, new owners or no new owners.
What TOP manager would come if you told him he had zero budget ?
Well Ferguson stayed at Man Utd despite having to generate a profit of 62 million quid last Summer. Wenger had to generate 25 million quid, and has to do so most seasons. Ancellotti was allowed to sign only one player. Rafa was told to generate his own transfer budget, and was allowed to spend all of it plus a bit more.
The only team who spent hugely were Man City. Even , Aston Villa had to sell their best player, Everton had to sell their best defender etc etc.
The days of football managers being given bucketloads of cash to spend are largely over. If Rafa had spent the 20 million quid which he spunked on Aquilani a bit wiser, we might now look like a better team than we do. Any top manager would come to Liverpool, hopefully if the job does come up we get somebody really special.