Caporegime
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And value for money...
Summer Transfer Thread 24/25
- Thread starter Bigpig
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19/20 - Liverpool £324m to Utd's £284m. 18/19 - Liverpool's £310m to Utd's £332m. Broadly speaking Liverpool have been spending as much as Utd on wages for the last 7/8 years. I'm not too sure that it changes the point I was making though. Any side spending big on wages will struggle to shift players that don't work out.
In fact you highlighting how much Utd have wasted is my point. Until that changes you'll struggle to sell well because nobody is buying unsuccessful players on big contracts. If Chiesa doesn't work out for Liverpool, we'll almost certainly be paying him off or he'll be sat at the club until his contract is up. That's just how these things work.
That's why the optimism is because now with ineos and with proper football people doing deals
Chiesa was £10m that's a small risk for big reward, unlike United's dealings of the past
Anyway I'll stop here time will tell , it's not quick fix
As I said earlier, I accept that they've employed football people to run the football side of the club. Whether that results in improvements, only time will tell.
Absolutely. As a Brentford supporter it's a weird moment given how integral we were to his career and he was to our success.
He's an exceptionally talented and intelligent footballer. For £40m there will be a few sides who could have done with him leading the line this season, but he's also a complicated character and that can put teams off a player sometimes.
At £40m he's probably cost us £30m from that betting ban, but also cost himself a top flight career at the same time.
It's a shame for the Premier League that he won't be playing in it - I always want to see the best and/or most entertaining players play in this league. That said, he'll be 31 when that £55m (tax free?) contract ends and would still improve/add depth to most Premier League sides if he retains his ability.
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