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I'm not sure that we were necessarily the richest or at least the richest clubs were not "that" rich. We also had quality throughout our squad a lot of the time, perhaps just not quite the very best quality in the world though.

Once the glazers took over as well we were never close to being the club with the most cash to spend. You also couldn't necessarily just buy any player you wanted as they may have preferred another club.

We should have been buying more top players over the years but we won the PL most years so I don't think there was ever a huge desire to spend big at the club.

Either way, yes I agree that we should have won more outside of england over the years.

You were undoubtedly as rich as anybody in Europe pre Abramovic. As I said, there was no excuse for not having a side capable of winning the CL. I happen to think your sides over the years have been good enough but you underachieved.

Fair point re the Glazers but the money only started to tighten up around the time Ronaldo left. That's still a good 15-20 years where Utd should have been able to challenge year in year out.
 
If that were true RM would have won more than 2 in the same time frame but didn't

Its not as simple as just having the money - for instance there is a reason that even now majority of the German / Spanish teams (World and Euro champions in that time frame) still play in their home nations rather than over here ....however much money the clubs over here can offer, its not the same lifestyle anywhere in England as it is in their home nation - English clubs for the most part only come into the picture if the player hasn't quite broken into the national side, or has come in and become famous but in the most part 2nd or third choice with their club / country and needs a new start to (re) prove themselves

Also have to remember that Porto went on to win the CL when Scholes had a goal wrongly ruled out vs them. That's how "easy" it is to lose the CL, just on one bad decision in the last 16

Its not as clear cut as some are trying to make out
 
Lewandowski scored more league goals in nine minutes than...

  • Liverpool, Newcastle and West Brom have this season
  • Six of Bayern's Bundesliga rivals have managed
  • Anyone in the bottom half of La Liga
  • Seven Serie A sides (league leaders Inter have only matched his nine-minute haul)
  • Wayne Rooney has in 2015
  • Mario Balotelli did in his season at Liverpool
  • Nicklas Bendtner has in over three years

:D
 
Brendan a no show for the press conference and Twiter rumours of Ancelotti being sounded out for the job at Anfield.

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Lewandowski scored more league goals in nine minutes than...

  • Liverpool, Newcastle and West Brom have this season
  • Six of Bayern's Bundesliga rivals have managed
  • Anyone in the bottom half of La Liga
  • Seven Serie A sides (league leaders Inter have only matched his nine-minute haul)
  • Wayne Rooney has in 2015
  • Mario Balotelli did in his season at Liverpool
  • Nicklas Bendtner has in over three years

:D

Fantastic.
 
Lewandowski scored more league goals in nine minutes than...

  • Liverpool, Newcastle and West Brom have this season
  • Six of Bayern's Bundesliga rivals have managed
  • Anyone in the bottom half of La Liga
  • Seven Serie A sides (league leaders Inter have only matched his nine-minute haul)
  • Wayne Rooney has in 2015
  • Mario Balotelli did in his season at Liverpool
  • Nicklas Bendtner has in over three years

:D

That's brilliant. Would be good to see him in the Premier League!
 
I'm not even trolling, Liverpool are in a pretty rough place right now and unless he really wants a project it seems a pretty thankless task for a world class manager.
 
I'm not even trolling, Liverpool are in a pretty rough place right now and unless he really wants a project it seems a pretty thankless task for a world class manager.

yeah, why on earth would he want to manage one of the biggest clubs in the world :rolleyes:

Both of these responses are fairly silly. Biggest clubs, as a manager you have a team, a stadium, training facilities, a budget and games to play, biggest or smallest doesn't come in to it. 20k fans or 1 billion fans, a club that has been around for 200 or 2 years, the job itself is no different at all.

As for why you'd want it, there is this stuff that people like, it's called money....

It's a job, if you want a job as a manager you take a job that is available, nothing complex or difficult about that. Also the Liverpool job is comparatively easy. Rodgers is a bit of an idiot, full of himself but in reality doing a bad job. It's easier to take over a club with a bit of money, some quality in the squad and a manage completely mismanaging it than to take over a team with a great manager getting the very best out of his team already. Guardiola is winning things but(at least in his first two years) was considered to have taken the quality of football and entertainment level backwards compared to Henynckes.

Right tactics, better training, some work on the defence and motivating the offence as well as telling Coutinho to stop god damned shooting and I think any number of managers would very quickly improve Liverpool. Because of that I would say it's a very appealing job to managers, pretty high pay, decent transfer funds and a significantly under performing current manager.
 
Liverpool have spent a lot of money over the past 5 years. You just don't realise this because they have got about 2 decent players.
 
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