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.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
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.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.
Not really, it was more down to cynically exploiting the nationwide wave of sympathy following the air crash.United’s success in the 1960s was off the back of Louis Edwards’ selling condemned meat to schools.
Was this already posted? Lmao
it was the dry petch that fuchhed them mate. Do you know hard it is to run on sand?Thiago out for 6 weeks is a big blow for them. Their midfield is their worst area. They start Henderson who isn't the best and have a 36 year old for back up.
Plus the amount of pollen in the air plays havoc with them hammies.it was the dry petch that fuchhed them mate. Do you know hard it is to run on sand?
Agree, but if we win the league this season, we will break them.I so hope you are right but still think they will be our main contenders this season.
If your vision does prove to be prophetic then it is going to be entertaining to watch their demise and the entitled muppets that form their fanbase in meltdown.
But is it better than "Dirty Arab oil money"?Hegemony is not a word that you read on Bluemoon every day.
Chapeau, Sir.