Houllier to spend 30 Million

Kone

Oh dear god not another season!

Pacifico

Yay! More Heskeys!!

Pepe LeFrits

Liverpool fans best prepare for the long haul methinks...

growler

would that be 6 years at Anfield ? thats way beyond the long haul for a manger who doesn't seem to be able to win stuff, sign decent players and plays Heskey.

I almost feel sorry for pool fans.

PiE

Can anyone else see Liverpool being in the same state as Leeds are at the moment, in about 5 years time?

Shocking.

mr_angry

Chairmen of medicore Czech and French clubs must be rubbing their hands together in glee. That'll be another inflated £6m fee for some 'promising' starlet that turns out to be another Smicer, Baros, Cheyrou, or God forbid, another Heskey.

Surely there couldn't be two on the planet? :rolleyes:

Johnny_the_fox

YES LADS!!!!

I am looking forward to seeing the signing of Authar Bendo (10 million) "the next Figo", or Boris Blahah (7.5 million) "the next Moller" etc...


:mad:

Villain

lol, oh well, lol

Liverpool board must of all hit the bottle and can't think straight.

Caesar_Bojangle

Originally posted by mr_angry
Chairmen of medicore Czech and French clubs must be rubbing their hands together in glee. That'll be another inflated £6m fee for some 'promising' starlet that turns out to be another Smicer, Baros, Cheyrou, or God forbid, another Heskey.

Surely there couldn't be two on the planet? :rolleyes:

Baros is fantastic. Cheyrou, I think was named in the last French squad who played Holland? He has shown potential this season but Houllier has probably killed it all by now.

Ping Chow Chi

you can keep your scruffy mitts off Dawson and well!

johnor

He has already spent half of that on cisse?? (14 mil?).

Can't see him using this 30 million anybetter than he has used all the other money...

john

Big Ears

Cisse is quality , but then again so are players like owen and baros but their just wasted . ( with baros not playing and owen being up front alone ) .

I guess this means he will have to resign or have health problems before he goes .

uberwolf

Originally posted by mr_angry
Chairmen of medicore Czech and French clubs must be rubbing their hands together in glee.

ROFL. so true

eirebhoy

Originally posted by growler
would that be 6 years at Anfield ? thats way beyond the long haul for a manger who doesn't seem to be able to win stuff, sign decent players and plays Heskey.

I almost feel sorry for pool fans.

It took Fergie 7 years to win something decent AFAIK.

uberwolf

Originally posted by eirebhoy
It took Fergie 7 years to win something decent AFAIK.

TBH I prefer the Wenger trajectory.

Shred

He has already spent half of that on cisse?? (14 mil?).

Yeah but he should recoup a few quid when he sells Heskey, Diouf, Traore etc

/let me see, that's 4 + 1, minus one for Traore..mmm

that should give him about £400 to play around with:rolleyes:

jesus_thats_gre

This could be our season


He is buying another right back? Whats gonne happen to Finnan and Carragher?

p.pete

I really hope that this money will be offered as an enticement to get the next manager to sign on. There is not too much to attract the top managers to the club at the moment sadly:(

cournioni

It'll be interesting to see if he gets a left winger.

mike65

Its too depressing to think about....now I hope we finnish 6th.

Mike.

cournioni

Originally posted by PiE
Can anyone else see Liverpool being in the same state as Leeds are at the moment, in about 5 years time?

Shocking.

That will never happen (well, not likely). Liverpool are a far bigger club than Leeds.

jesus_thats_gre

Can we all just agree not to have soccer related signatures? They are just there to piss others off!

Nuttzz

whats a winger? Do you mean like ritchie partridge? for course he is not french so he couldnt be ......

(posted with thanks to the mod)

redspider

I wouldnt dwell on that 30m item ....

I dont think Houllier is a safe bet for next season. I think the owners are
really thinking about moving him on if Liverpool dont get the 4th that
they badly need in monetary terms. Promising 30m to spend at this
stage in the season is talking about next season too soon as all
focus should be on this season. The Owners have always said that
funds will be available to spend (purchase) and to pay salaries
(to keep players). Houllier is the main voice that I have heard
talking about this 30m spending budget for next year.

Overall, Houllier is a lone voice on most occasions, and although
everyone at the club has the upmost respect for him at the club,
given the cups success and the health problems he had, underneath
people are realising that the game if up if 4th is not reached this year.
80% or higher of the Liverpool fan base in Liverpool itself, which is
a football mad city is calling for his "resignation" as soon as its
practical, in a dignified manner of course. We will all give him a good
send-off, he tried, he had some success, but the time is clear now to
move on. The only fly in the ointment might be a lack of a successor.

Liverpool have probably put feelers out for a likely replacement.
But timing is essential in the manager merry-go-round which is likely
to take place in the summer. As some have hinted elsewhere, maybe
O'Neill is waiting for the Man U job, given that Dermot Desmond
and other owners of Celtic are pals/owners of Man U with JP McManus
and Magnier .....

-redspider

johnor

I think O'Neill is waiting for the man u job, his contract is similar to fergies, celtic will never sack him, he can leave when fergie leaves.

Cant see Houllier recouping alot of money from the players that liverpool have to sell, Hesky might go for 4 mil or so, Diuof back to france? for what 3/4 mil? at most, Troare??......like they arent exaclty the most sought after players nor do clubs have chelski style bank accounts to play around with. Like its no use giving him the 30 million, letting him spend it and when liverpool begin to get passed out by the likes of charlton, they sack him and the new manager has little or nothing to spend come christmas. If you look at what hoddle did with spurs, i mean in the end pleat brought in defoe and sold zamora to/fro west ham. I think hoddle should have been given more time, with the injuries he had at the time, thats neither here nor there, however should the same happen liverpool I cant see that being of any benifit to a team. It took fergie some time to build united into the team they are, but he did it with alot of young talent coming through mixed in with buying some of the best talent in the country; likes of cantona, keane, pallister, irwin. Houulier hasnt shown that ability to nuture young talent nor has he shown the ability to bring in world beaters like keane,irwin & cantona.

He has to go,

john

zAbbo

Isnt on of pools targets French lad Djerbil Cisse, a player who is banned for 4 international matches and will miss the Euro 2004 champs due to poor discipline

Third_Echelon

Originally posted by jesus_thats_gre
Can we all just agree not to have soccer related signatures? They are just there to piss others off!

ah poor you.... dont like what you see?

i dont think cisse is worth 14 big ones... auxerre definitely saw liverpool coming with that one... emmhhh. lets jack up the price of this average enough player... i can see this being another diouf.... has 3 or 4 great games when he signs and turns into a houllier vegetable...

I'd say he could get rid of diouf and diao pretty easily back to france.... get about 10mil total for those 2 realistically...

the longer heskey stays at liverpool the better i think:D

one positive thing from the 30 million is that at least he isnt going to buy 10 crap players for a couple of million each....:ninja:

kida

Only problem is no half decent player will want to go there if they don't finish 4th which is looking increasingly unlikely - wonder what Harry Kewell thinks now.

Owen is still stalling so maybe thats where the money is coming from.

Dont be at yourself

In fairness, the players he is looking to buy will go a long way to solving our problems. If we get Cisse, Mexes and/or Dawson, then all we'd really need is a replacement or cover for Hamann (van Bommel is going cheap!) to have a pretty decent side.

talla

I think Mexes is a class act, wouldn't mind seeing him at United

BaZmO*

Originally posted by growler
I almost feel sorry for pool fans.

Yeah "absolutely"!!!.................yeah right!!!

I remember Liverpool fans not having too much sympathy for other teams when I was a kid!! Ah sweet retribution!!!


I really think that Houllier must have dirt on some members of the board, and he told Heskey all about it!!!


B.