Liverpool

Allegri would have still lost against Guardiola though. Turning this crap side into a gem is a tough task.

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Enter Sven. I’m hoping he’s purely gone off previous recommendation (with his BVB ties) by pushing for Auba and Sokratis (Mhki just happened to fall in our lap) as a stop gap solution.

I think a little observation is needed right now and I believe he’s tried to help plug what he can, so Emery has some form of foundation to work off of. From now on, I expect in the future windows that he’ll be recommending those unearthed starlets.

Why is this such a requirement of Mislintat? Let’s just get good players.

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Klopp has made them stronger while Wenger dragged us backwards.
Liverpool have made gains on all the other clubs while we have gone in the opposite direction.

Their transfer business has been excellent, they have sold world class players like Suarez, Sterling, Coutinho but bought equivalent players in who have turned out better, and they have also sold average players like Benteke and Sakho for almost 30m each.

Even players like Ibe and Allen went for around 15m.

Compare this to our shambolic transfer business, which consists of selling top quality players cheap and then buying worse players or not bothering to replace at all, as well as letting our top players contracts run down, letting the player have all the power when it comes to contract negotiations.

We are a club that reacts when things go wrong, rather than pushing for excellence.
The difference between us and Liverpool is clear.
They have ambition and we don’t.

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That’s his job.

He is Head of Recruitment. Not Head of Finding Unknown Gems.

It’s not expected as such, but it’s one of the things he is known for doing and presumably one of the reasons we brought him in.

He is known as “diamond eye” for a reason.

100% agree, It’s very likely that Liverpool won’t be able to take the Premier League title off city this season, but at least they are 100% committed to being the best possible version of themselves.

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If Wenger was to pay as much as Kloop paid for a defender & Keeper, even Wenger would have assembled something similar.

Not that I recommend it, Even now without Wenger, we went for Leno while Kepa, Allison were available choices.
Even now we went with poverty options like Sokratis, Lichsteiner etc.
Even now we didn’t sell off Xhaka, Welbeck.
Even now we don’t have a specialist winger.

And it is not just one window, It’s 2 windows as January window was conducted by new team.

There is just no reason to not invest in defenders, even if for other options you want to see how the manager performs before investing in his project.

Kloop didn’t make bunch of nobodies gems into a functional team, He brought in several expensive gems.

If you think Wenger leaving will sort our position, it won’t.
Unless we increase ticket prices, we will remain behind.

How does a club with less matchday revenue like Liverpool still outspend Arsenal? Let me guess; because they sold Sterling and Coutinho?

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So unless we have such players to sell which we don’t, we outta increase ticket prices.

Lol. Or improve other revenues streams.

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Unless that happens, we outta increase ticket prices or risk mediocrity

The improvement of other revenues streams has a higher impact than ticket sales.

Don’t act like you care btw. You enjoy the shit of this.

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Kllopp only spent what he got from selling Coutinho.
Wenger rarely adequately replaced top quality players with similar players.

I agree, and I don’t just criticise Wenger for his lack of ambition and imagination in our transfer dealings.
Kroenke is just as much to blame and as long as he is our owner expect more of the same.

If Wenger had stayed he would have dragged us back even further.
The fact he never took responsibility for his mistakes just showed his stubbornness and arrogance and that wasn’t going to change and his negligence in defensive coaching and recruitment was laughable.

As for ticket prices, we are one of the most expensive in Europe and we are one of the most profitable and richest clubs, but are being outspent by all the other top clubs apart from spurs, who already have better players and manager than us, and even some mid table clubs.

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I was of this opinion but football economics has gone crazy. We are talking about nearing 100m for a keeper. We are talking about breaking 200m for an attacking player.
Lesser clubs are spending 50m on a player.

The commercial uplift that saw us purchase Ozil encouraged me that we won’t have to rely on ticket prices or owner’s pockets to get players.

But now with current market, no new revenue stream will give us that sort of financial muscle.
Other revenue streams rely on our success on pitch.
And success on pitch requires expenditure, which will only come from higher ticket prices.

I may not care but it is simple mathematics

According to Wenger and Gazidis we put in 100m offers for players like Mbappe and Lemae, so we can afford it.

Because he didn’t get to spend it all.
35m for Fabregas equated 18m on Cazorla for instance while Kloop could get VDV & others from Coutinho money.

unfortunately we sold players when prices were not crazy or we just sucked at negotiation when we had to sell players.

We make measly 20-30m profit.

I will buy that when I see it happen.

The small benefit ticket sales might give and undone by the loss of goodwill from match attending fans and all that. Ticket sales have become the most overrated revenue stream in modern football. Just look at Deloitte Money League pie-charts.

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Some mighty loyal dedicated fans we possess.