They play great football.
They haven't just bought success (technically haven't yet acheived trophy success but are striding forward which is relative success IMO).
They still probably won't win the league this season but they have done everything in their power to do so and they're proving you can break the oil/Fergie monopoly.
Liverpool at the moment are just doing what Arsenal could be and frankly the reaction of our fans is a facking embarrassment.
The "they've played far less games excuse" seems to be grasped onto in desperation at the moment but for me it's irrelevant.
The reason it's irrelevant is because we have enough money (easily enough) to have created a squad more than capable of fighting on several fronts. Liverpool on the other hand are working with a smaller squad because currently, with no European football that's all they need and no one knows for sure how they would have faired with more games anyway...
So how about we stop this embarrassing jealously and instead root for the one club that's currently proving you don't need to be a sugar daddy's plaything to challenge at the top.
And finally lets pray that their example snaps our board, manager and some fans out of their awfully unambitious and frankly complacent view that the 'top four trophy' is good enough because we're not bankrolled by a billionaire.
Don't understand the Liverpool hate.
posted on 1/4/14
Rodgers has galvanised a squad of players that 3 years ago where in the relegation zone and utilised a crop of youngsters in the process!
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And may I add that he's done all this whilst shifting the dead wood of the likes of Carrol and downing who cost a combined £55m. What where we thinking!
posted on 1/4/14
comment by Kolo's Long Schłong - KLS! (U1695)
posted 48 seconds ago
Kolo, another question seeing as you're here: what can you tell me about the club's general finances? I saw that you posted losses in recent seasons, but I really don't have a clue as to your current level of debt and how sustainable it is.
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Our club is still trying to recover from the fallout of the Gillet and Hicks era and failed stadium plans of which cost £50m. FSG have been bringing our debt Down whilst trying to develop the ground, all in all we are a lot better off than we were 3 years ago when a bank could have ended us!
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Gotcha, so I suppose the recent losses posted are mainly due to debt servicing? I imagine that means you'd need to sustain CL footy for a few seasons before the additional revenues and int'l exposure can be (almost) fully reinvested in strengthening.
Not necessarily a bad thing though, as that would mean your academy prospects have more chances of breaking through. That's pretty much been the case in recent years, hasn't it?
posted on 1/4/14
Yes because don't forget we were the in the CL for a number of years and the loss of that money would be huge to anyone, beware utd.
Saying all that the club has constantly said that the money is there for the right players and we (reportedly) bid for Costa, Willian, Mkhitaryan in the summer but we had finished 7th and had no champions league football.
Hopefully next year we won't have those problems!
posted on 1/4/14
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posted on 1/4/14
fourth highest spenders over the last 10 years with a net spend of 198 million, they've spent plenty
posted on 1/4/14
Here come the poor relations!
posted on 1/4/14
4th highest, so were puching above our weight to challenge for the title then, thanks for backing up the OP
posted on 1/4/14
it means you've been the biggest underachievers for years spending so much money to be outside the top 4
posted on 1/4/14
comment by winegum (U7062)
posted 33 minutes ago
it means you've been the biggest underachievers for years spending so much money to be outside the top 4
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But what's underachieving though? We've won stuff in those 10 years. Our percentage of trophies won per £ will be better than Evertons erm...... 0%
posted on 1/4/14
it means you've been the biggest underachievers for years spending so much money to be outside the top 4
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those 10 years
1 CL
1 CL Final
1 fa cup
1 League cup
6 of those years playing in the cl
for that period of 10 years id say we are the 4th or 5th most succesful club, so not really underacheivers