General transfer rumours

Drubas said:
Difference is that Liverpool loses their Sane's (Sterling), Agüero's (Suarez) and their KDB's (Coutinho).

That's £300m that Liverpool didn't want to spend at all. They want to keep their players and keep their squad. It means that you have to start all over again.

Net spend is a better measure to judge by, if you are in to metrics.
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Net spend is a measure people use because it's easy to understand. Profit/loss on sale and player cost (wages+amortisation) are the only accurate measures.
 
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Pogba wants away from Manchester United following the difficult season at Old Trafford with the player being "tired of life under manager Jose Mourinho".

He has apparently made it clear to Juventus, via Juve players at the world cup, that he would welcome returning to the club where he won successive league titles in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
 
Drubas said:
Difference is that Liverpool loses their Sane's (Sterling), Agüero's (Suarez) and their KDB's (Coutinho).

That's £300m that Liverpool didn't want to spend at all. They want to keep their players and keep their squad. It means that you have to start all over again.

Net spend is a better measure to judge by, if you are in to metrics.
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No it isnt, if you've spent 500m on players then expect to be judged on what you've done with that 500m. If they want to use the "but we sold 300m" worth of players argument then take all that money as profit and don't reinvest it in other players to be judged on
 
Drubas said:
Difference is that Liverpool loses their Sane's (Sterling), Agüero's (Suarez) and their KDB's (Coutinho).

That's £300m that Liverpool didn't want to spend at all. They want to keep their players and keep their squad. It means that you have to start all over again.

Net spend is a better measure to judge by, if you are in to metrics.
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Fuck me net spend, embarrassing
 
Thenumber1blue said:
Fuck me net spend, embarrassing
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Just getting their excuses in early for glorious failure. I’d be interested in Liverpool's Wage bill - they were paying sky high wages to an average squad three years ago so I wonder what they are paying now to the (almost) Champions of Europe
 
Net spend for me. Imagine Pep decides to leave tomorrow. KdB follows him. Sold for 200 million.
The new manager replaces Kevin with Coutinho for 200m.

Now saying that the new manager has spent shedloads and we haven't improved is patently unfair. He's replaced like with like and therefore will have done well to stay at the same level.
 
manimanc said:
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Jesus Christ, that has just had me doubled over laughing in the office.
 
robbieh said:
Net spend for me. Imagine Pep decides to leave tomorrow. KdB follows him. Sold for 200 million.
The new manager replaces Kevin with Coutinho for 200m.

Now saying that the new manager has spent shedloads and we haven't improved is patently unfair. He's replaced like with like and therefore will have done well to stay at the same level.
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It’s just mental gymnastics though to find a way to spend all this money while trying to maintain a moral high ground over City. Net spend is as much a measurement of your ability to get decent fees for bad players as it is your hypothetical. When Chelsea do shady deals for players to China they get to bleat in about net spend but we let players like Mangala piss about on loans because we are generally not a player hostile organization
 
BJL_City said:
No it isnt, if you've spent 500m on players then expect to be judged on what you've done with that 500m. If they want to use the "but we sold 300m" worth of players argument then take all that money as profit and don't reinvest it in other players to be judged on
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The recepie for success is not to sell your best players over and over again, and being forced to reinvest to fill the void? The recepie for success is to keep your key players, and spending money to buy top quality to upgrade the squad.

Liverpool spending £500m, while being forced to sell Suarez, Sterling and Coutinho, is hardly the same thing as Pep spending £500m on pure upgrades.

That was my initial point.

And while Liverpool have spend money, they still have an issue with width. Still poor backup for Mane and Salah. Still no quality backup what so ever for Firmino. Liverpool are two injuries away from a poor season.
 
Drubas said:
The recepie for success is not to sell your best players over and over again, and being forced to reinvest to fill the void? The recepie for success is to keep your key players, and spending money to buy top quality to upgrade the squad.

Liverpool spending £500m, while being forced to sell Suarez, Sterling and Coutinho, is hardly the same thing as Pep spending £500m on pure upgrades.

That was my initial point.

And while Liverpool have spend money, they still have an issue with width. Still poor backup for Mane and Salah. Still no quality backup what so ever for Firmino. Liverpool are two injuries away from a poor season.
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One, I recon.
 
BJL_City said:
No it isnt, if you've spent 500m on players then expect to be judged on what you've done with that 500m. If they want to use the "but we sold 300m" worth of players argument then take all that money as profit and don't reinvest it in other players to be judged on
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It depends what you want to measure.
 
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