While FFP allows us to spend around 100 mil overall
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Will easily be boosted with sponsorship and sales.While FFP allows us to spend around 100 mil overall
Yeah, tell that same reasoning to Chelsea and City who has quality players stacked in all positions. Tell that to Liverpool who has 6 quality players for front 3 positions. I am not going to bring PSG or Real into this.
Point being , we need a squad and it all depends on how we sell our project to the players.
Looking good for Sir Jim
Yeah exactly
I don't think these are good examples. No club will buy one of the best strikers in the world in his prime, while also buying one of the hottest prospects around that's 21 and looking for his big move both in the same summer. It's as if Barca decided to buy both Lewandowski and Nunez last summer.
Most misleading post ever!. Man City 10th in net spend?. This would be after they have completed a title winning team.
Just include two seasons before (when pep 1st started out) and ignore this season (where teams like Chelsea arere-building) you will have an entirely different figure, a more accurate reflection of the current standings. Only Klopp would be the stand-out (Potter and Rodgers pumped above their weight).
But I agree with the point, that money alone wont be enough, a good structure and a good manager is an absolute must - point in case us. (We got penalized due to lack managerial stability and kept changing the squad to suit different styles. Absolutely clueless board)
Maybe he can finally get it right at third time of asking but not holding my breath
City at one point had Aguero, Tevez, Dzeko and Balotelli as strikers in their first team squad. Just saying.
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That is a sign Qatar are out of race if true
I didn't say it was. You said it wasn't abnormal for clubs to have debt. I pointed out that before the Glazers, United didn't. That's all.
The most important person when it comes to Man City is their owner Sheikh Mansour, without a doubt. And hence City are successful at all levels of the club, which includes their academy. And when you don't sell fringe players and keep them at the club for too long, like Judge,Woodward and previous managers did, then your net spend isn't going to look good in comparison to City, with undeserved contracts also compounding matters.
Guardiola is a world class head coach but he can be beaten, like Klopp has shown at Liverpool. But Klopp has been hamstrung in comparison due to FSG not being able to go that extra mile compared to Sheikh Mansour and hence City are on course to win their 5th title in 6 years. Replace Guardiola with Luis Enrique or Tuchel, and they'd still be winning titles due to Sheikh Mansour. City won titles with Mancini and Pellegrini and they've been dominant at youth level with Jason Wilcox running the academy.
People say that City's success doesn't mean anything due to the wealth of their owner but then we also have to acknowledge that Guardiola's success at City doesn't mean anything due to the financial doping that's taken place and given them a advantage.
Guardiola is a world class head coach but he can be beaten, like Klopp has shown at Liverpool. But Klopp has been hamstrung in comparison due to FSG not being able to go that extra mile compared to Sheikh Mansour and hence City are on course to win their 5th title in 6 years. Replace Guardiola with Luis Enrique or Tuchel, and they'd still be winning titles due to Sheikh Mansour. City won titles with Mancini and Pellegrini and they've been dominant at youth level with Jason Wilcox running the academy.
People say that City's success doesn't mean anything due to the wealth of their owner but then we also have to acknowledge that Guardiola's success at City doesn't mean anything due to the financial doping that's taken place and given them a advantage.
Not sure how relevant that is given it was almost 20 years ago. The game has changed a lot since then.
I just want this to be over and finished already, do everything with United have to be a fecking saga stretched over months and months?!
While FFP allows us to spend around 100 mil overall
Except spending is amortised so 100million on a 5 year contract would only count as 20 million in this years accounts, like how Chelsea managed to spend 600m this year
It's not
You are right, but people don’t want to hear it. It’s low hanging fruit for those who want to discredit sir Jim as if he is personally responsible for both club decision making.
It’s nonsensical. You’re banging your head against a brick wall here.
The problem with the Ratcliffe bid is the opportunity cost lost. It just got me thinking that its possible the Sheikh might consider a cheaper bid for Liverpool instead if he misses out here. Stranger things have happened. And that would be worst case scenario. In fact, for us it doesn't really matter who we get as we are an absolute money making brand. Pool needs the Sheikhs more. Imagine Sir Ratcliffe loses out to the Sheikh, he is not going to bid for Pool (he has said so himself) and even if he does, its not limitless cash flow which is what Pool desperately needs. It is for this reason, I feel the Sheikh's should win the bid.
It has but I'm willing to bet that if the Glazers hadn't loaded all that debt on the club, we'd still be solvent in 2023.
Care to elaborate? I heard something being trailed on Talkshite, but, as ever, they're spinning it out to get more punters on the hook.
We are solvent, as in able to meet our debt obligations. Things may be a bit tight but we have not crossed into insolvency.
Underrated rap reference. Didn't expect that
Sold by the big fat Avi
Please choose Qatar
So we can employ Xavi
But Sir Jimmy bids deep…
So deep… so deep put Jassim to sleep
‘Preferred bidder’ from round one
They didn’t hesitate to call Sir Jim the Top Gun
Sellin’ up the club cuz they wrecked it
Jassim looks inbred - while Sir Jim supports Brexit
Joel was glad that everything had worked out
fecked a great club up - and then chirped out
Today was like one of Avi’s fly dreams
Didn’t even buy a dud player for high fees!
No angry Mancs lookin’ for a Glazer,
Rippin’ off the fans for a fat wager
Even read the news and we made the cut,
and it read - ‘Glazers Stay Put!’
Rich as Hell but not sellin’ up
Halfway bald but my ponytail’s gelling up
Today we sold to Sir Jim so me and Joel can stay…
I gotta say it was a good day… shit.
As of lunch today
Next update as of teatime/dinner/sunset …
Next update as of teatime/dinner/sunset …
Nothing by lunch but what about afternoon tea?
Surely by second breakfast tomorrow we wil know.
Surely by second breakfast tomorrow we wil know.
Its funny, I'd dread the Qataris buying Liverpool but wouldn't be remotely concerned if Jim remembered he was also a Liverpool fan and bought them instead. That's quite telling I think.
Based on what I've seen from the maniacs in this thread, you could spin either outcome in a negative way.
SJR/Ineos
- "Chelsea fan"
- Nice are shit
- Not wiping the dept
- Not rich enough
- Glazers temporarily staying
- Brailsford
Jassim/Qatar
- Sportswashing
- Rumours of wanting to appoint ex players in positions just to appease fans
- Money doesn't solve everything, inexperienced
- Malaga/Al Thani links
- Possible glamour signings could mean a move away from the current direction we've finally started heading towards.
Either way surely both options are better than the current where we are owned by parasites who literally make us poorer.
SJR/Ineos
- "Chelsea fan"
- Nice are shit
- Not wiping the dept
- Not rich enough
- Glazers temporarily staying
- Brailsford
Jassim/Qatar
- Sportswashing
- Rumours of wanting to appoint ex players in positions just to appease fans
- Money doesn't solve everything, inexperienced
- Malaga/Al Thani links
- Possible glamour signings could mean a move away from the current direction we've finally started heading towards.
Either way surely both options are better than the current where we are owned by parasites who literally make us poorer.
Small day tomorrow
Debt-free then. If the Glazers had not moved in, this club wouldn't be hip deep in debt, interest payments, and a crumbling infrastructure. I curse the day that Malcolm Glazer ever heard the name Manchester United.
They shouldn't be, not anywhere near
Not to mention that those City numbers are a fairytale. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd spent that number again under the table.
Ahh, yes, Sheikh Jassim and his Ninety
Nah, I'm sure we would hear of some other previously obscure member of the Qatari royal family putting in a completely individual, non-state bid for Liverpool.
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They've called stumps for the day because of bad light
Would literally be the richest non-state owner in the league.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_owners_of_English_football_clubs
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I think the next exclusive story will be that Qatar has been selected. Just think about it. 1. They will pay the most for the club. 2. They will give the Glazers investment options. 3. They will not take the embarrassment to lose out.
Of course, however that doesn't mean people won't have a preference for one over the other.
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