Liverpool Thread - 2022/23

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The dippers success in the 70s was as a direct result of the investment made in the 60s. The success that followed and the ability to maintain that degree of prominence where they didn't need to smash transfer records ( apart from dogleash). Something that hopefully were reaping the benefits of from the investment a decade ago
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
This is the thing about Liverpool and the rags fans claiming that their money is "organic".
It isn't. They shafted the smaller clubs as mentioned.
Then with the advent of the Premier League they positioned themselves to earn a greater share of the cash by being on TV more times than the rest...... so the rich got richer and poor got poorer..... and they were able to float on the stock market and get richer. Buy the best players and pay more for them / afford bigger wages.
Clubs like Leeds tried to join the club and almost folded trying to keep up..... yet City are ruining football......
Then of course the big 3 of Liverpool / rags and Arsenal wanted more so formed the G14 group and carved up the European Cup (that only one could enter) and morphed it into the Champions League where all (and eventually Chelsea too) could feast at an even bigger trough and the gap between the haves and have nots continued to widen so much so that apart from Blackburn and Everton (one season each) no other English club competed in the Champions League until Spurs broke in 2010 and City the following season.
Their money was never organic but acquired at the expense of every other club in England.
It's like a Duke or Earl today sitting in the family mansion telling everyone that his family had inherited the stately home fairly and had acquired it via organic funding when the truth is the royals pillaged and.plundered the land and rewarded those faithful to the crown with handsome rewards at the expense of the rest of the population.

What Liverpool / rags and Arsenal did was exactly the same
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If FFP had been around in the late 1950s Liverpool would have failed it by a mile in their quest to get promoted from the Second Division and then win then First Division and FA Cup. Then they would have failed it again in their quest to embark on the biggest trophy haul in English football history through the 1970s and 80s.

United’s success in the 1960s was off the back of Louis Edwards’ selling condemned meat to schools. Then their success in the 90s was off the back of expenditure on the team that would have failed FFP in the 1980s had it been around then.

Arsenal’s chairman actually did step down under a cloud due to irregularities in finances to finance their success in the 1920s and 30s.
 
Tolmie scores said:
Ian St John good example..who else could afford him...key reason for tgeir success mid 70's onwards..they bought the best players..end of.
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Liverpool were in the Second Division when they signed Ian St John and it transfer was the second most expensive signing in Europe that Summer.

Could you imagine Boro making the second highest transfer fee for a player this Summer?
 
KS55 said:
Double Scottish swoop: St. John and Ron Yeats.
Silly factoid: Ian was not his real name, but was used to avoid confusion with his actual name which was……..…… you’ve guessed it….John!
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Bit like Peter Schmeichel...real name Michael.
 
I reckon if Trent were to play here, he'd be better than CR7, Messi, Zidane, R9 and Maradona combined.

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