Yes Kenny Dalglish and Liverpool are done. MOD POST #425 *ALL READ*

Unbelievable posters in here.

Sort of reminds of how a Garda once told me that they like it if a town has one rough pub so they know where all the trouble is and leaves the rest of the good folk to enjoy the rest of the nice places where they'd all be barred from!

willmunny1990 wrote: »

can somebody answer me this...

Are the Pool owners currently seeing a return on their investment? Are they making money from the club (which is why they bought the club in the first place?) ?

If so, they could well be happy with 7th place finishes and a cup win here and there (despite what they say publicly)

because, if they pump in more money in an attempt to get pool into the CL places, would the risk be worth the sort of investment needed? they could pump £100m and Pool may still not get close enough to the CL places, thats very possible especially with the current competition of manc clubs, chelsea, spurs and arsenal.

and even if they got into the cl places for one season, theres no guarantee that they'd stay there considering that competition around. so would it be worth the gamble from their point of view?

Why would they bother taking that huge risk if they're making a decent amount of money the way things stand?

Leiva posted a lot of the stuff I would have said.

Tbh, until the accounts are out we wont know the exact picture but I think £30/40 Million IIRC was going on bank debt and more on financial costs.

There was a huge job in cutting of deadwood from the end of the Rafa era and basically all Hodgsons signings, bar Meireles. Club had to pay a fair few million just to end contracts early, Dossena and Poulsen I think and probably a couple of others, Jovanovic maybe. Him and Cole were on over 200k a week with the "free" transfer deals. The club is still paying most of Aquilani and Coles's wages!

Can't remember the figures but there was easily 500k a week wages that were an absolute waste. Henry pointed at it after he took, didn't realise how bad it was.

The club should be able to afford another couple of additions with Cole and Aquillani gone, looking at 200k a week there. The worry obviously is that some of the signings will be deadwood next year and rinse and repeat.

I said it on the superthread, considering the money spent, we still have to strengthen in CM, RW and a goal scoring striker with most of the signings from the Summer being squad players, even LW isn't ideal. It puts big pressure on Comolli and Kenny to buy quality this Summer.

As for finances, they are getting more money out of the club and obviously CL is the target as its the shortest way of getting more money from the actual on the pitch side! We are lucky in that we still are a "big" club sponsorship wise so losing out on the CL hasn't been that big a financial breaker, but obviously that can't go on forever!

Leiva wrote: »

Thanks for that link which is primarily a journalist talking about the problems Liverpool will have attracting players due to failure of securing CL football.

Again can you please link me to this;


I won't ask again if you can't no problem .

I cant find it either, just journo speculation like this

http://www.liverpool-kop.com/2012/04/red-sox-collapse-why-dalglish-could-be.html

Leiva wrote: »

Thanks for that link which is primarily a journalist talking about the problems Liverpool will have attracting players due to failure of securing CL football.

Again can you please link me to this;


I won't ask again if you can't no problem .

From The Chester Chronicle & it's been printed elsewhere.

“Speculation on players shouldn’t include those of a certain age,” he wrote on Twitter.

“We are not going to be successful by merely filling short-term needs at LFC.”

This unsurprisingly prompted a flurry of questions about the club’s transfer policy this summer, with Henry responding to comparisons between the progress Liverpool had made compared to that of champions Manchester United who have already signed Phil Jones, Ashley Young and David de Gea for a combined sum in the region of £50m.

“Everything in sports is overpriced now – especially the cost of winning. But you make your choices based on a plan,” was the American’s response.

“Some things happen early and some late. The important thing is that things happen. Sometimes what you avoid is important.”

I won't do any more work for you,just use google like everyone else.

Flancrest wrote: »

What bad signings has he made? Everyone he's bought has made a solid contribution to the team at some stage of the season

eagle eye wrote: »

Manchester United were in transition for 26 years.

It was a famine not a transition. Don't remember Utd fans at the time refer to some bullsh transition excuse.

jaykay74 wrote: »

It was a famine not a transition. Don't remember Utd fans at the time refer to some bullsh transition excuse.

Different times but taking account for changes in Europe, United didn't have any European success during that time, til the Cup Winners Cup anyway. Even Spurs, Everton and Ipswich were winning European trophies in that time. Barring an odd cup win, they didn't have much success to have a transition. Liverpool had the treble year and CL times during our famine.