lolol careful not to choke on your bias.
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So if they failed again Pepās reign at City would be average.
Theyāve had almost the same amount of owner investment in the last decade as Manchester United have 
Theyāve also had external loans and loans from their owner too so itās not really their own money.
I quote SwissRamble:
"So three of the Big Six clubs have been largely financed by cash generated from operations: #AFC 100%, #THFC 81% and #MUFC 80%. In contrast, others have been much more reliant on owner financing: #MCFC 90% and #CFC 86%. #LFC is more balanced: operations 53%, owners 40%."
Liverpool have the 4th highest owner investment of any team in the last decade of PL football and have consistently been one of the biggest spending teams since the advent of the Premier League.
I agree with your overall sentiment, itās just not true that Liverpool have done this by spending ātheir own moneyā.
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Thatās a fair point but they have reinvested all of the big transfer fees they got from players like Sterling, Suarez, Courtinho etc, and spent all of it on at least equivalent players.
This is something we have rarely done, if at all, and why Liverpool have overtaken and pulled away from us.
With the outside investment as well, they have proved that itās best to strengthen areas they are weak in, and buy the best players available for those positions which again, is something we donāt do.
We tend to wait for a few seasons and when we do eventually fill those areas itās often the cheap option rather than the best.
So if the investment from the owners has helped them, they have at least got the fanbase to sustain it, which is something that Man City and Chelsea didnāt have.
Itās just a shame that we havenāt got an owner that is willing to invest like they have.
Perhaps if we did, we wouldnāt be competing to get into the CL, weād be competing to win it.
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The thing is though weāve generated more money as a club than Liverpool have in the last decade so we didnāt really need any owner investment. We just didnāt need to be so cautious and sit on Ā£200m unnecessarily and now weāre basically stuck in a very dark place thatās going to take a hell of a lot of diligent planning in the transfer market to get us out of.
I agree with much of your sentiment though mate. I think weāve been so poorly run itās not even normal.
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Well the bright side is we do have the money and can emulate Liverpool. Again if we look how badly run they were under the previous owners the transformation is quite quick.
Ours in reality IF we can find a strategy of the field could even be a bit quicker. Outside of all this fan nonsense stuff its important that city are slowed if not stopped before they build to strong a base that their wealth could easy sustain.
I agree with all that.
I think this is the most frustrating thing.
The 200m, or so, we were told we could spend in every transfer window, if we wanted to, but did nothing.
If we were a club stacked full of world class players and sitting on top of the PL, I could understand not needing to invest but when you are desperate for a striker, DM, and whatever other positions we needed quality in, and just wait for bargains to fall into your lap, then it just shows the lack of aggression a top club needs to get to the top.
It was particularly annoying when Wenger used to talk about buying players as if it was his own money he was spending, rather than the very people who pay his wages, the supporters.
We must be the worst run club, financially, than any top club in Europe.
Itās absolutely shambolic.
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Yeah but
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I think you have to look at the size of former giants of europe to see where not the worse. A bit clueless and lost our way maybe.
Start in Italy and work your way round.
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I doubt thereās many on here old enough to know who worzel gummidge is mate
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Or see Phil Thompson captain Liverpool to a European cup victory for that matter.
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Iāve decided on my new home ā iām moving to Tuvalu. Thinking of moving around the start of May if anyone wants to join me. It looks beautiful ā mind you, anywhere would look more beautiful than a country in which Liverpool and their fans rule the roost
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Take Mustafi with you, please.
The worst thing isnāt that we were run badly with the heads having intentions to win i.e. misguided with the right goals and intentions.
We were mismanaged for the fuck of it lol. Like the resources are there, thereās financial security, it was just, ālets just fuck about for no good reasonā for a decade
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Arsenal fans to the Arsenal board:
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Lucky you. Im still trapped in the addiction we call football. Maybe i can get out before May.
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Klopp is a moaning little cunt. When the things go wrong for him he goes full Mourinho. He canāt handle the pressure.