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There will always be the exceptions though.. Utd managed to sign Casimiro without CL football based on their "project"... Real by all accounts were in no rush to sell him.

A German lad I worked with is a ST at Dortmund, we became good mates when he realised I followed Liverpool as that's his English team.. He says he really is that good and would make a huge difference, you're basically getting 2 players for the price of 1 as there is nothing he can't do and don't forget he's 19.. If we "only" have £150m to spend in the summer then it needs to all go on him. My midfield 3 for the start of next would be Thiago-Bellingham-Bajetic with the back up options of Hendo, Fab, Harvey, Morton and Carvalho. I totally understand what you're saying about using the money on 2-3 quality additions but there is no guarantee that they would come to us if we are out of the CL.. If there is a chance of signing Bellingham who is a once in a generation player then we should do everything we can to build the team around him.

He's even paying £11 a month for a blue tick to make him/her seem important!! Musk knew there were going to be plenty of idiots out there willing to pay just to have a Twitter Blue verified account...

Yeah, I shouldn't have used that word.. I can't edit to remove it... Apologies.

You can almost guarantee that the people commenting on Twitter.. "You don't speak for me..." haven't even read the statement.. Like you, I don't see the issue.. They just want to make sure that any new owners pass a stringent owners test... Surely all fans would want that?

LFC Twitter has become so toxic, it was always shite but this is a whole new level of cunt… I’m sure most of those spastics are actually happy when we lose so their points are someway proved.. I’m spending less and less time on Twitter, between the Jude rumours, QSI and FSGOUT it’s one boring repetitive platform..

There was no break clause so we’re stuck with him until the end of the season.

Nobody's that arsed about Manchester City, not even their fans!

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/jan/24/everton-for-sale-farhad-moshiri-asking-price-more-than-500m

No idea but this is from the article on the The Athletic this morning.. In the first week of January, Al-Khelaifi met in London with the Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy for exploratory conversations, as first reported by CBS. On the agenda was a possible minority investment into Tottenham by Qatar, with percentages of up to 15 per cent initially on the table. This would not give QSI a two-thirds stake, nor would Al-Khelaifi become a director, which would mean no conflict with UEFA regulations.

Spurs did exactly the same allowing Conte to spend.

"Yet given the Qataris are set to continue with a majority stake in PSG it would cause complications if they were to also acquire a Premier League club who compete in the same European club competitions. Under UEFA regulations, if two clubs majority-owned by the same entity qualify for competitions such as the Champions League, only one of the teams is allowed to enter...."

Jurgen Klopp since October 2015: 51 Players Bought: £661,250,000 49 Players Sold: £478,200,000 Net Spend: £183,050,000

That’s the thing, nobody ever seems to mention that…. Arsenal have somehow been portrayed as some sort of plucky underdog that have done it all the right way through coaching. They’ve spent £415m (net) since 2019 when Arteta took over.

They're hoping that Qatar comes to their rescue before any questions are asked..... A bit like they're all hoping that Arsenal win the league and then they can say... "See, you don't need State money to compete.. Arsenal just did it...."

Partners in Fenway Sports Group LLC as of 5 April 2022 include: Arctos Sports Partners Bruce Rauner Chris Fillo David Ginsberg Ed Weiss Frank M. Resnek Gary Kaneb Greg Morris Henry F. McCance Herbert Wagner Jimmy Lovine John W. Henry (Principal owner) Larry Lucchino Laura Trust LeBron James Linda P. Henry Maverick Carter Michael J. Egan Michael Pucker Michael S. Gordon (President, FSG) Mitchell Jacobson Patrick Egan Paul Wachter Phillip H. Morse RedBird Capital Partners Richard Warke Sam Kennedy Seth Klarman Teddy Werner Theodore Alfond Thomas C. Werner (Chairman) Thomas R. DiBenedetto William Alfond Henry is the largest owner of stock at 40%, followed by Werner and Gordon.

The club doesn't have any debt (other than the 10 year loan for the main stand that was provided by FSG)... We might have generated £600m in revenues, it's not profit.. If we want to spend £200m+ on players in the summer, then that money has to come from somewhere, either from the owners who put it on the club as debt or it comes from outside investment... without those two things then the club doesn't generate enough for us to spend the money we need and want, so in short... no we wouldn't be able to compete IMHO if the others are spending hundreds of millions...

If that's their plan (which I don't think it is) then they can kiss goodbye to their £3bn+ valuation as one bad season (out of CL etc) won't have much effect, but if one season turns into 2-3 then I'd assume a buyer would be able to negotiate a lower price. Dragging this out really isn't in their benefit.. As mentioned in another post, in the coming seasons we'll now be competing with City, Utd, Chelsea, Newcastle and maybe Arsenal so FSG will know they'll have to provide significant funds to just compete. This would the ideal time for them to exit. They'll leave the club in a fantastic financial footing, great infrastructure and walk away with a nice £3bn in their back pocket which they can invest in their new venture of a NBA team while we get someone with deep pockets to take us to the next level....

Liverpool selling players to fund Bellingham-led rebuild looks harder than before You have to go back to 2014-15 for the last time Liverpool reached the halfway stage of a Premier League season with so few points. Rewind eight years and the wheels had come off following the departure of Luis Suarez to Barcelona. Manager Brendan Rodgers was cursing the decision to replace him with Mario Balotelli. Liverpool, who had collected just 28 points from the opening 57 on offer, ended up limping home in sixth place and dropping into the Europa League. Rodgers was on borrowed time. This season’s crop find themselves just one point better off after 19 league matches and facing the growing threat of not qualifying for the Champions League. In six full seasons in charge at Anfield, Jurgen Klopp has overseen finishes in fourth, fourth, second, first, third and second. The riches and prestige of Champions League qualification have been a constant. “Always the main target,” is the manager’s assessment. Klopp has led Liverpool to three of the past five finals of Europe’s elite club competition. So many spine-tingling nights, so many cherished memories, so much revenue generated. Last season’s thrilling run to Paris was worth around £100million ($124million) to the club. It was the leap in broadcast money and matchday income that helped Liverpool climb from seventh to third in the recently published Deloitte Football Money League, putting them above Manchester United for the first time in the rankings’ 26-year history, with annual revenues for 2021-22 of £594million. Some 62 per cent of that figure (£368million) was spent on wages. Missing out on the Champions League spots this season would leave a sizeable hole in the finances at a time when Liverpool’s rebuild needs to be backed with some serious cash. Securing a deal for top summer target Jude Bellingham would certainly become a lot more challenging to pull off. Who is going to pick up the tab for what’s required? Will Klopp have to lower his sights? Much depends on what happens with the owners over the coming months. Fenway Sports Group has yet to receive the kind of offers it was expecting for Liverpool, but that process is ongoing and could change fast. Uncertainty reigns. New investment — and senior FSG figures insist selling a minority stake is more likely than a full takeover — would boost the funds available to Klopp to strengthen the squad. With James Milner, Naby Keita, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Roberto Firmino out of contract in the summer and Arthur returning to Juventus after his loan spell, there’s much to sort out. For Liverpool, who have one eye on the summer, there are not many avenues to raise significant amounts of money from selling players on the fringes of the squad. Last summer, Takumi Minamino, Neco Williams and Ben Davies went for a combined sum of £36.5million. A year earlier, Liverpool deals worth nearly £40million were agreed to offload Marko Grujic, Taiwo Awoniyi, Harry Wilsonand Xherdan Shaqiri. In 2020, it was £37million from the sale of youngsters Ki-Jana Hoever and Rhian Brewster. Liverpool have bought well during Klopp’s reign but they have sold even better. But who is next? There are few obvious contenders. Talented Irish goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher is one given his desire to play more regularly, while centre-back Nathaniel Phillips is another, but their fees combined wouldn’t put much of a dent in Borussia Dortmund’s asking price for Bellingham. A pivotal moment in Klopp’s reign was the sale of Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona for £142million midway through 2017-18, as it gave Liverpool the financial might to buy Virgil van Dijk and Alisson, the two most transformative signings the club has made in the Premier League era. However, there isn’t currently an asset at the club who would generate that sort of windfall. Of course, it’s not all about throwing money at it. Let’s not forget, Andrew Robertson was plucked from relegated Hull City for £10million. Harvey Elliottcost £4.3million and Stefan Bajcetic just £220,000. Trent Alexander-Arnolddidn’t cost a penny. Klopp’s commitment to developing talent rather than buying the finished article remains as strong as ever. But the size of the challenge keeps getting bigger. Having been locked in a battle with Manchester City for so long, Liverpool now find themselves looking up at a resurgent Arsenal, Manchester United and Newcastle United among others. That’s before you even mention Chelsea, who fought out a dour goalless draw at Anfield on Saturday. Klopp described the performance as a “little step” forward and Liverpool kept their first clean sheet in the Premier League since October. But it was an instantly forgettable contest that showed why the two clubs, who have both won the Champions League in the past four years and met in last season’s two domestic cup finals at Wembley, now occupy mid-table mediocrity. So disjointed, so scrappy, so lacking in belief. Chelsea are trying to get themselves out of that slump with the most lavish of spending sprees. The Todd Boehly-led consortium has splashed out around £450million in the transfer market in the past seven months. For context, if you add up the cost of Klopp’s signings from Cody Gakpo earlier this month and work your way backwards, you have to go all the way to the summer of 2018 to reach that kind of overall figure. “Chelsea sorts the problems differently to us,” Klopp admitted on the eve of the contest. Given the impact of £88million winger Mykhailo Mudryk off the bench on Saturday and the return of Joao Felix from suspension, Graham Potter’s side will surely start to climb upwards. What about Liverpool? Their hopes of launching a push towards the top four rest on getting key personnel fit and firing again rather than entering the transfer market. The returns of Diogo Jota, Van Dijk, Firmino and Luis Diazwill certainly help, but the fear is they have so much ground to make up and so much improvement needed. Based on the past five seasons, the average points total for the fourth-placed Premier League team has been 70 points. Reaching that amount would require Liverpool to take 41 points out of the remaining 57. They have given themselves a mountain to climb. And if they don’t scale it and there is no Champions League football at Anfield next season, the task of refreshing this squad and getting back to competing for the biggest prizes will be even harder.

For them £4bn is nothing though... They've just spent £200bn hosting a World Cup for 5 weeks.... QIA have assets worth over £400bn... £4bn is probably a price worth paying for them to have LFC as their flag ship "brand" on their letterheads...

I think it's the global reach of a Liverpool or a Utd that would supercharge their efforts in sportswashing...

Even Qatar don't have enough money to make them serial winners... They've fucking bankrupt Qatar before they won anything!

6. It really is awful... you have to try and find the article in between the millions of ads..

The only thing missing from that shite was FSGOUT...