We received the most revenue from the FA of any Premier League team last season m80 - just shy of 100 million.
He was as good as Skrt
If Ibe was fit (and Studge of course), Raheem could well be dropped. He still might be if BR is annoyed by Raheem's underwhelming assessment of their relationship and, of course, the 'flattered by Arsenal' stuff (we're about to play them in a must-win game FFS).
According to this, we got the most money for having the most live matches in the UK, so we overtook City's extra league-winning money by 1.1M (we did finish 2nd remember). So at the risk of further "baiting" by talking about Liverpool's finances, you could look at FSG's original transfer outlays, inheritance of debt and plans for the stadium change alongside not-so-extraordinarily-generous sponsorship deals, benefactors, or potential wink-wink agreements with clubs like NY City and Melb City for future pay-days (I am a Carlton fan, so you can see how I might make that link when looking at City buying clubs across the world). You can see why we can't pay the same amount as other people.
I was posting that under the impression the FA gets the money for the rights and filters it through to the teams based on merit (league position) and other factors. I did say 'just shy of 100m' which was correct, no?
Yep, I saw the "m80" and didn't fully take in the rest of the sentence. Apologies. I edited it, but not before you'd started responding.
Major team would mean UCL, yes. It's unsurprising that there's competition for that, though, so it really should be more than 4 clubs, even if realistically less clubs can afford to be that ambitious. I think we're following Arsene's and Arsenal's model of buying young players and having a playing style that will attract players and fans. Stadium upgrading is also similar. The X factor is the stats-expertise that FSG had such success with at the Red Sox. Do they have a secret sauce, or will there sensible approach to valuations fail because you have others out there that are splashing the cash. Given their public statements, I think it's fair to say FSG thought the FFP regulations would be harsher. Maybe it will be eventually. We've bought a lot of English players too, as FIFA/UEFA/whoevA made noises about teams having to develop players and reflecting their local area... The strength of the major teams buying power may stop those thought bubbles ever truly taking hold, but LFC is one of those major teams due to our huge following.
It's frustrating Ratts. I look at it like we're going to be stuck in a perpetual cycle of buying potential greats, developing them, and selling them for a profit as we/they peak. Maybe we'll get lucky and win an FA Cup sometime. But I feel like we'll never really challenge for titles or consistant 2nd, 3rd, 4th place.
I think we don't need to be that down about it. Gerrard said about BR that he wished he'd met him earlier in his career. He's only leaving because BR said he wouldn't be automatically in the first team anymore. Sterling was always a huge prospect and has had some bad transfer windows in his time (when we didn't get a back-up for Suarez; and when we missed out on Sanchez and Balotelli was our replacement for Suarez) and so maybe his disillusion is a little bit warranted, but given his age maybe he just wants to get back to London or get the big-time move to Madrid or whoever.
Sorry to cut out the rest of your post, but this we did last year! I mean we still have it this year too but it came too late. Good, attacking football, a finisher (Sturridge) but we didn't get the big names the window after we secured CL.
I think we bought well, but the Lallana-Lambert connection didn't happen for whatever reason so we look short on finishers. And don't worry about not quoting the whole post - that is what everyone should do, if they are only responding to a bit of it.
Sterling isn't strictly an "academy product" in that we bought him from QPR's academy and he made his debut 2 years and 1 month later. Perhaps because he was highly-rated from a young age, he's always done his own thing (remember he was already talking back to BR in 'Being Liverpool'). On balance, he is just doing a Suarez - talking up the Arsenal connection to get one of the big teams in Europe coming in for him. Suarez always wanted to go to Barca, and for whatever reason, Sterling believes the hype and thinks he should too. I don't think it's indicative of how most of the players feel about the club.
