Liverpool Thread | 2025/26

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Quinny851 said:
If we properly invested in the team after that treble then we might have gone onto win another champions league as well as another PL title. We also might have made a decent fist of competing last season

Imagine that
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Except, I don't need to imagine winning 4 on the trot, whereas your assertion of another CL is just that. Imagination.
On second thoughts, you've convinced me, we'll be lucky to stay up...
 
Haha, from Dippers fans in germany there was following question, which I want so share with you. But the whole money we invest is dirty oil. Sick of this shit:

Doesn't Liverpool also have an US investor? Or is he keeping completely quiet when it comes to investments?

He usually keeps quiet when it comes to investments. On the contrary. In the past, he liked to take a decent slice of the pie and block (large) investments, so you had to get creative and work with what you were given. This year, it seems that they are investing what they have earned in recent years, or they will sit tight again in the next transfer periods. It should also not be forgotten that all transfers are still quite young and will have a similar or even higher resale value.
We're not buying players in their late 20s for $100 million, but players in their early 20s. These are both sporting and financial investments whose value and development are highly unlikely to have reached their peak yet.

That's right, Fenway Sports Group (FSG) is technically the investor, but they don't just give the club money for transfers. As far as I know, they occasionally provide interest-free loans, such as for the expansion of the Main Stand at Anfield Road, but that's money that has to be paid back. Of course, this is also a kind of advantage over clubs without investors, but far less so than in direct comparison to City Group, Todd Boehly, or the Qataris of Paris. That's why FSG has been heavily criticized by fans for years, although things have understandably calmed down a lot since last season's title win.

Thank you, one of the few who understands the background and does not make wild accusations such as investors pumping endless amounts of money into the club.

To put this into context, I recently came across the following figures:
Last season, they were 20th in terms of net spending.
Over the last three seasons, they were 7th (FFP relevant).
Since the 2019–20 season, they have been 10th in the EPL.

They have spent so much less money than they could have.

In today's article in the New York Times, CEO Billy Hogan talks about:
Record revenues with the best turnover in history,
“commercial revenue” greater than that of ManUnited in the EPL era for the first time,
plus the first season with increased revenues from the Anfield Road Stand expansion,
five concerts in the summer,
a new equipment deal (it was mentioned elsewhere that it is a fixed £60 million, but with increased variable shares, it is expected to be £80-90 million per year)
Premier League and ECL prize and TV money of £255 million = €293 million

So they have the money and are not getting it as a gift from investors.
But it should also be clear that the upcoming transfer windows are likely to look rather meager.
But no one cares about that anymore. NOW is the time for outrage.
 
Backed by the unlimited wealth of FSG, big spending Liverpool can at last compete with the rags to win the Money Badly Spent Cup and failure to win the title.
 
samuelyeboah said:
i'm unimpressed with them and I don't see the meltdown. unbalanced team that will suffer defensively immensely this season, and replacing all of your attackers bar one in one summer (of course, one that is tragic and outside their planning) is a recipe for disaster. two fullbacks that have mostly excelled in 5 ATB formations shoehorned into a 4 atb system, aging salah and van dijk on new deals.

I think they will underwhelm massively.
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Yes going full Dutch hopefully, it’s not the eredivise.
 
VOOMER said:
Money Laundering
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Well their biggest sponsor Standard Chartered have now been caught money laundering on THREE separate occasions in the last ten years with shell companies with links to terrorist organisations yet The Premier League have done absolutely fuck all about it.

Now imagine if that was one of our sponsors which had been caught doing that
 
Sky Sports absolutely wanking the dippers off . Spending the "right way" and such a "well run "club that they can spend up to 500mill and still be comfortably within PSR . and we have to remember that theyve won over 100mil for winning premier league. I turned off how can SSN be so biased and cocksucking
 
In my opinion Liverpool will not be any better next season than the last.

By the end of the window they will have replaced a number of players (jota, Diaz, Nunez and Trent) and time will tell if the players are an upgrade, if the dynamic of the team works, if they have injuries or proper refs etc

All I know is that we will be better this season and have improved in areas we were poor
 
Mancini’s Pastilles said:
Sky Sports absolutely wanking the dippers off . Spending the "right way" and such a "well run "club that they can spend up to 500mill and still be comfortably within PSR . and we have to remember that theyve won over 100mil for winning premier league. I turned off how can SSN be so biased and cocksucking
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They’ve not made a profit since 2022, they made record losses in their last accounts. They passed psr with a whole plugged by a £70 million interest free loan from their owners. Interest free loans have now been deemed illegal as the Premier League has operated an illegal rule book since 2021. Take that £70 million loan away it restricts some of the spending they have done in the last few years and it has also led to them not being sanctioned by Uefa and the Premier League. Where’s the investigation and charges?
 
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