Summer 2022 Transfer Thread

[Bruce Spanner]

1 hour ago, El Dangerous said:

*Pops head above the parapet*
We ain’t getting £15m for Nat Phillips.

Obviously, we don’t talk unless talks start at anything sub fiftybillionty.

[Reckoner]

4 hours ago, Elite said:

"Listen Frenkie, you've got the opportunity to play for the Red Devils, the biggest club in world football. Playing every week in the theatre of dreams. They have one of the greatest footballers in history upfront and you'll be supplying the ammunition."

 

"That sounds great, just one question. Who are their centrebacks?"

 

 

 

 

To be fair Forest Gump is an upgrade although I hadn’t realised they’d signed him.

[Anubis]

Watching Arsenal and Spurs Twitter fighting over who is the better signing - Jesus or Richarlison - is highly amusing.

[Pidge]

Jesus is a very good player.

[Guest]

Nat Philips is the heir to Matip's throne... 

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Pidge said:

Jesus is a very good player.

It's a sin how much time he spends on a cross. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

How do spurs afford 60 million for a piece of shit like Richarlison. They have a tiny fan base, they win fuck all. We go windows without signing anybody in order to accumulate money to buy the players we want, we've a massive fanbase and win things and 60 million is pushing us financially.

[TD_LFC]

20 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

How do spurs afford 60 million for a piece of shit like Richarlison. They have a tiny fan base, they win fuck all. We go windows without signing anybody in order to accumulate money to buy the players we want, we've a massive fanbase and win things and 60 million is pushing us financially.

ENIC capital increase of 150 million by share conversion they've increased their stake in the club as a result.

 

In the past few seasons they took out a 175 million covid loan and then took out a longer term 250 million pound loan to pay back the covid loan and pay down some of the short term  debt around the stadium financing.

 

Not sure how it follows that 60 mill is pushing us financially mind.

[an tha]

31 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

How do spurs afford 60 million for a piece of shit like Richarlison. They have a tiny fan base, they win fuck all. We go windows without signing anybody in order to accumulate money to buy the players we want, we've a massive fanbase and win things and 60 million is pushing us financially.

Our net spend is very similar to Tottenham's....but over last 5 years they have spent slightly more.

 

21/22 - Us 53.5m, Them 55.6m

20/21 - Us 58.9m, Them 87.5m

19/20 - Us 30.7m (profit), Them 75.6m

18/19 - Us 126.8m, Them 4.8m (profit)

17/18 - Us 9.5m (profit), Them 17.7m

 

Total - Us 199m, Them 231.6m

 

[an tha]

Net spend last 5 years.

 

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/fuenfjahresvergleich/wettbewerb/GB1

 

Less than Arsenal, Villa, Tottenham, Everton and Newcastle and on a par with West Ham, Brighton and Wolves.

 

Klopp is a genius.

[dave u]

Our money goes on wages.

[TD_LFC]

We also sell really well and buy really well.

 

We tend to buy and the position is done, in comparison look at Spurs and look at the positions they have to buy and then re-buy because the players either aren't good enough or don't fit the style of the carousel of managers.

 

They're on another round of buying full backs/wing backs (Perisic and Spence) after having spent money on Aurier, Royale, Docherty, Reguilon, Sessegnon in the past 4 or 5 years.

[an tha]

3 minutes ago, dave u said:

Our money goes on wages.

Oh aye....and we of course pay well enough, but cleverly we seem to heavily incentivise and reward success.

[DalyanPete]

6 minutes ago, dave u said:

Our money goes on wages.

Mo says Hi 

[Section_31]

Frenkie de Jong trying to avoid a transfer to the mancs. 

 

 

[Evelyn Tentions]

€60 for pigeon head to go to Spuds makes Darwin look cheap at €100. I suppose they think his diving will win them more pelanties to inflate the slobberers goal tally. If they could sign Sterling as well, they would be in for a chance at gold in the synchronised diving.

[Elite]

46 minutes ago, Evelyn Tentions said:

€60 for pigeon head to go to Spuds makes Darwin look cheap at €100. I suppose they think his diving will win them more pelanties to inflate the slobberers goal tally. If they could sign Sterling as well, they would be in for a chance at gold in the synchronised diving.

They'd piss the crab football league.

[El Dangerous]

1 hour ago, dave u said:

Our money goes on wages.

Yeah, we can’t lambast City and their ‘hidden’ fees whilst bragging about our low net spend when we spend an absolute fortune on wages and agent fee’s. There’s also the point that some of those teams are spending a fortune on just staying in the league and the others are trying to get to where we were 5 years ago.

 

Klopp is still a miracle worker like.

[TD_LFC]

26 minutes ago, El Dangerous said:

Yeah, we can’t lambast City and their ‘hidden’ fees whilst bragging about our low net spend when we spend an absolute fortune on wages and agent fee’s.

We can.

 

They eclipse us in every department whether they declare it on City's accounts or add it as consultancy fee's across the whole city group and it's all underpinned by in house sponsorship paying above market value sponsorship fee's to make things balance.

 

At least with us we're organically growing the commercial side, helped by on pitch performance and growing into the space that creates for transfers and wages.

[Moo]

2 hours ago, dave u said:

Our money goes on wages.

To whom?

None of our best or highest profile players would appear to be amongst the very top earners in the Premier League, would they?

[Moo]

44 minutes ago, El Dangerous said:

Yeah, we can’t lambast City and their ‘hidden’ fees whilst bragging about our low net spend when we spend an absolute fortune on wages and agent fee’s. There’s also the point that some of those teams are spending a fortune on just staying in the league and the others are trying to get to where we were 5 years ago.

 

Klopp is still a miracle worker like.

Do you think our spend on wages is anywhere near City's?

[El Dangerous]

13 minutes ago, Moo said:

Do you think our spend on wages is anywhere near City's?

No but I think it’s far greater than that of Aston Villa who are held up as some sort of example of teams that shouldn’t be spending more than Liverpool. 
 

We’ll never be able to outspend the richest teams but we don’t have to spend for the sake of it just because Villa or Newcastle are trying to buy their way in to the top 6.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

I wouldn't say we're a club that spends big on wages or fees (cumulative), as we do both at different times. We seem to be following a cycle - higher fees for players on lower wages, then we stop spending if the core group of players are sound, and use income to bump wages. As players hit the threshold of our wage structure, we refresh with high fee low earners (comparatively speaking), like Diaz and Nunez. The cycle begins again.

 

It's the same with most well run clubs, balancing fees and wages, but the oil states and oligarchs have skewed the landscape so some fans expect both.

 

On a side note, I like how some journalists are starting to report on total transfer packages - wages and fee - as it gives a more accurate picture of the total outlay.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Sure would be nice if we could do some kind of Ox trade for Bowen with West ham. I rate him.

[J-V]

31 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

Sure would be nice if we could do some kind of Ox trade for Bowen with West ham. I rate him.

£80mill + Ox

£60mill without Ox