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LongsightM13
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The Liverpool Echo are absolutely, insanely obsessed with us. It really is weird. Pick out City for comparison rather than Everton or Villa which might be more reasonable on the figures they cite.I know there's a link but......
You got to try and admire the Liverpool Echo for putting (another) weak positive spin on a disastrous football season for the Dippers.
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Liverpool's staggering £400m gap with Man City shown in new financial study
A study of the economic profit of Premier League clubs over the past five years has Reds topwww.liverpoolecho.co.uk
So I just caught up on this after Howard and @BillyShears discussed it on the podcast. I knew there were a few grumbling about the podcast but hadn't heard it for myself yet.
It was pretty over the top and definitely premature, but IMO if you're an opposition fan - ie Liverpool or United - and you're not looking into the future with absolute dread, then you simply aren't paying enough attention.
We have the best manager in the game. We have the best squad in world football. We might have the most competent ownership in world football. We are favourites to win a completely unprecedented quadruple and then we're favourites to sign Erling Haaland and Messi - the best player on the planet (and/or history), and one of the players who will likely dominate the next decade of football.
I think as fans we have to realise this is the moment they've been dreading for 13 years. They're not going to go quietly, it will be the tantrum to end all tantrums.
I think for Liverpool fans especially it's looking horrendous. For those 30 years they were dreaming of a league title, it wasn't a dream of winning 1 and then being battered down into irrelevance like Leicester or Blackburn Rovers, they thought it was going to be like the 80's again, doubly so when it comes off the back of a European Cup.
And the worse it is for them, the more they are going to lash out, the more they will try to downplay any achievement and the more giddy they will be when we trip up. We have to learn to tune it out, if not revel in it.
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LongsightM13
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So, so much going on in that picture. The cleaner hiding her face with a mop (*coughs, DHSS...). Tony Book’s frankly outrageous trousers. Swales having only the second most egregious barnet in the boardroom. And the eerily prophetic initials on Dave Ewing and Bill Taylor’s trackie tops....
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Centurions
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I soiled my eyes and clicked on that (incognito I might add).I know there's a link but......
You got to try and admire the Liverpool Echo for putting (another) weak positive spin on a disastrous football season for the Dippers.
This time......
Liverpool's staggering £400m gap with Man City shown in new financial study
A study of the economic profit of Premier League clubs over the past five years has Reds top
Economic profit, total revenue and opportunity costs. I only understood 1 out of the 3. Since we've been posting small profits for a good few years now how did they manage to twist the facts to show we're in debt? I presume the 'profit' that Liverpool show all went in FSG's back pocket?
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And still some of their followers bleat the usual moronic mantra about our "sugar daddy" walking away...
If Liverpoop have a barren spell, there is probably more likelihood of ole turkey neck doing one to shell out on their Red Sox dogshit.
bluemanchester
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It seems your right and I am wrong. My only excuse is poor memory and sitting in that stand I never look at it and when I watch highlights after going to the game it has bums on seats.. As a footnote I think it looks better over two tiers than over three.
Prestwich_Blue
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It's really quite sad and annoying that they see us in such negative terms. They're seeing one of the greatest manifestations of football theory and tactics in England since the legendary Hungarian side of the 1950's took England apart and Alf Ramsey's 'wingless wonders' of 1966. And they simply can't appreciate that for what it is.
It's not City or Pep's fault that Spurs and Arsenal are shite, that Chelsea change manager more often than they change their socks or that United have one of the most underwhelming managers and pedestrian sides of their recent history (and they're the second best side in the PL). Or that the US-owned clubs fail to reinvest fully in renewing their squads or that United prioritise making a statement over getting good value or players who fit their system in their transfer policy.
People commented admiringly on how Ferguson (often expensively) refreshed his squads and motivated them to success. Yet they deride Pep for the same thing.
When Ferguson & Wenger ran every aspect of their team's activities, they were praised and admired. We've moved on from the model of the all-powerful manager to a collegiate approach where CEO, DoF and the coach work in absolute harmony delivering the best outcome for the club, on a global scale. We rolled out the model to other clubs and some of the CFG clubs are seeing conspicuous success now. United didn't even have a decent succession plan for their successful manager, despite having had years to do that.
And yet they say our success, which comes from fine-tuning every aspect of our operation, is "depressing". Well I know what's depressing and it's the closed and small minds of these morons who actually get paid for commenting on our game.
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