Re: Rumour of the day - For the miserable tw@ts amongst you
Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 1:40 pm
aCe' » Thu Feb 15, 2018 12:15 pm wrote:maguskwt » Thu Feb 15, 2018 6:50 am wrote:Reg » Thu Feb 15, 2018 1:17 am wrote:How many clubs NEED to spend £100m on a attacking player from a vanity point of view? RM, Barca, PSG, maybe City... that's all.
So if RM come offering £150m or £200m for Mo in 12 months we might very well sell because we know we can replace him with a young, hungry up and coming Naby Keita style for 40-50-60 million. LFC don't need to spend £100m, young guns WANT to come to us, we don't need to go pay top shelf prices.
Reg, you do know it's not easy to find younger players that can develop into the real deals. We've been doing that for a decade. The recent successes in players like Mane, Salah, Firmino is down to Klopp. That's where I give alot of credit to Klopp. Naby Keita im today's market is easily worth 100 million. Again credit must go to Klopp and the executives for sealing that deal in advance!
Why is Keita worth 100 mill ? Not a single good reason for that imo.
Only point I have on this whole transfer business is this, the likes of City and Utd buy players who are ready to step in and help them challenge for titles. It doesnt matter if you are 22, 29, or 31 and it doesnt matter what the price tag is. If there is a player who is available who improves the starting 11 they'll be interested in signing them. Our approach is completely different and puts us at a disadvantage on a number of different fronts. Over the past 3 seasons, those 2 sides have pulled away from us in terms of readiness to do whatever it takes to go out and compete and the likes of Chelsea and Arsenal are now trying to catch up.
Even if we finish 2nd this season and Tottenham finish 3rd, the chances of both of us winning a title have taken a massive hit with what Utd and City are doing imo.
The minute Bale, Kane, Neymar, etc. become available they'll look to snatch them and pull further away.
Sure, but you can compete with that. Like what we did with Salah and Mane we didn't spend big to get them here and they proved to be 8 or 9/10 players. Keita might be an 8/10 player and we if we can at least have 9 or 10 players who are 8/10 then we have a huge shot to winning the league. Man Utd can spend getting Sanchez on 350k/week because they are the richest club in the whole world with double our revenues. All we need is to match them, but it's difficult. We might not catch Man Utd's spending and commercial success but at least we can try to compete with them in the footballing front.
If we convinvced Leon Goretzka to join us then this summer we would have purchased 2 capable players to make us title challengers. Hopefully Klopp can find another Lewandowski or Gundogan. I really hope we get Pulisic to be honest, he's great and he will improve our XI.