January Transfer Window 2018 Nembo trying to bore us to death again

It was well intended. It’ll be a huge feather in Liverpools cap to take that 4th place trophy.

That’s excellent research by your good self. Liverpool have surely regressed badly in these two years? Can you confirm?

Is this purely transfer fee related?

It must include Coutinho who has just left. Klopp bought Mane, Salah and Oxalde Chamberlain for around 115m-120m in total. Then Van Dijk at 75m and you’re close to the 200 million mark.

The only other large fee out I can recall is Benteke at around 30m, Sakho maybe.

Unless they are including Sterling but he left under Rodgers?

https://www.anfield-online.co.uk/stats/jurgen-klopp-lfc-transfer-signings.html

It is pretty selective to make this comparison days after the club received the second biggest transfer fee ever for a player and haven’t yet spent the money.

All stats are a point in time

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Ah thats hilarious. Carry on guys, you’re doing a great job.

Klopp’s net spend was zero at the end of last season, his first full season. They finished fourth. If he buys no one else this window then he will be in the black at the end of two seasons. It’ll be an incredible achievement if they finish 4th again. I don’t think they will. Coutinho was playing well and was supplying Salah and Firminho. Losing Coutinho and possibly Firminho for a spell will be big blows. He hasn’t addressed the problems at the back but he’s started. Rodgers, at one point had the most expensively assembled set of defenders in club football* and they were still pretty shit. I think you need to give Klopp more time to sort the defence out.

*Open to correction.

KOKs.

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It would be interesting to compare net transfer spends with income and profit.
Net spend ffs, that’s for pauper clubs.

It was previously said that its was much riskier for Man Utd to buy Roy Keane for ÂŁ3.75m in 1993 than it was to buy Paul Pogba for ÂŁ100m in 2016 due to the difference in profitability levels in both time frames.

But then again Keane performed to an extremely high level and represented value for money.

You have a very low threshold if that is interesting.

A better word might be informative.

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What is your opinion on Liverpool doing even less to keep Coutinho under Klopp than the effort they put into keeping Suarez under Rodgers?

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… and we’re off

FSG milking the club for all it’s worth

Don’t forget indebtedness.

Indeed and cash in hand.

Dividends to the Glazers.

You’ve all got pretty wives at home guys.

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