The Woolster
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Page number 666, make of that what you will...
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Peter Tork from the Monkees has caught the last train to Clarksville...
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For anyone interested in youth football in general
https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/50-most-exciting-teenagers-english-football
Only the 2 Liverpool players in there, which is probably fair, although Jones and Hoever could be worth a mention.
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1 hour ago, AngryofTuebrook said:
YouGov polls have form for artificially boosting the Tories.
I doubt there's a single constituency (except maybe the one where wotsername, Rico's mate, sits) that would return any of these twerps.
Can't speak about the others, but I used to live in Streatham and Umunna was a pretty good MP and popular, I think he could have a decent chance of winning his seat
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13 minutes ago, Mook said:
Legend
Statto! Statto! Statto!
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On 2/11/2019 at 11:18 AM, The Woolster said:
In his first full season it was £39m
On 2/11/2019 at 11:22 AM, lifetime fan said:And the rest?
On 2/11/2019 at 11:57 AM, The Woolster said:What rest? That is what is publicly available. Although financial results have been reported for 2017/18, the accounts aren't available yet.
If you mean his first transfer window, when we bought in Grujic (and Grabara) and sold no one. Firstly He was only a couple of months in charge and wanted to take stock of what he had. Secondly the way transfers work is that we would have been contracted to pay fees in that window, and there is no way to know how much we 'spent' in that window because we only get the full year's accounts.
For the full year 2015/16 we spent £38m, the year before £59m, the year before £53m, the year before £44m, and the year before that, FSG's first full season, it was £14m. That averages as as £41m per year.
So, we have 2 'facts' in your post. One of them is demonstrably wrong, so why should we believe the other one?
And with the 2018 Annual Report now available, I can see that we spent £49m in 2017/18
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On 2/17/2019 at 10:33 AM, AngryofTuebrook said:
Decent summary of why the "Labour is anti-Semitic" bollocks is bollocks.
453 allegations of substance in 10 months, or 0.08% of membership does seem quite low.
But 453 allegations compared to 1,652 antisemitic incidents in the whole UK in 2018, well then it seems quite high
I have no view on this by the way, but whilst the % was small, 453 'feels' like a high number to me, so thought I would get a comparison. Perhaps my comparison is not like-for-like or valid, but 45 cases a month does not seem like bollocks to me. I am not saying there is a big issue, but I do think there is biased reporting in that article.
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On 2/16/2019 at 10:11 PM, dave u said:
Really insightful stuff in that Inglethorpe interview. We might keep loaning out the likes of Grujic and Wilson (maybe Kent as well) until they're 23/24. Makes sense, as that's the age of most of the player sign.
Let them develop, don't make any decisions on them until they're 23/24 unless they're either dynamite and ready for the first team, or just shite and never going to make it.
The level of competition is so high now, both in terms of in the league, as well as within the squad for starting spots, that this really should be the plan for the majority of youngsters we have in my opinion. Wilson is probably good enough for a place in our squad now, playing in the cup games, getting minutes off the bench and the odd start if there is an injury. But if we have him in that role for the next couple of seasons, then in 2 years I think there is a lower chance that he is good enough to permanently replace those ahead of him than he would have starting the majority game for 2 seasons.
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Glad to hear that they might start to get a bit more action with the U23s though, as I've found the U23s a bit tough to watch this season. This is due to a combination of the better players either being with the senior squad (which is good!), on loan (also good), or injured (not so good), but for me its just been a bit uninspiring...
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Agree on Glatzel over Duncan, but then I've not watched all the games, and the ones I have watched have tended to be the ones where Glatzel has been on the scoresheet, and the ones where Duncan has been less so, and that may well be affecting my judgement!
Despite all the goals, I am not sure either of them will end up as 'strikers'
A nice rundown on the squad from the manager here
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On 2/12/2019 at 5:17 PM, Barry Wom said:
Tell anfield online then!
I have some rules of thumb on transfers fees because they rarely actually get announced by the clubs, never trust transfer fees given on the the internet unless you really trust the source, and never use those figures to make a point unless you have checked that they are in the ballpark of being right according to a number of sources that you trust, otherwise you end up losing credibility...
And even then, the generally agreed fees do not include the costs of doing transfers, so are most likely wrong anyway!
What Anfield Online do is up to them!
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Bad day all around really as United won as well. Nine wins from ten for the Goblin now, but one man isn’t impressed as Paul Ince says “I could have done what Solskjaer has done”. Yeah, course you could. Fucking hell.
Solskjaer might’t be the greatest tactical manager in the world and what he’s done there might just be as straightforward as simply playing the best players in their best positions and allowing them to express themselves, but you know what Solskjaer is not doing? He’s not stood on the touchline with a little notepad, writing the word “SHOOT!” on it.
So pipe down, guv’nor.
I'm not sure that Solskjaer is that much better Dave...
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On 1/31/2019 at 4:13 PM, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:
Seen a fella who looked like him in Breck Rd Asda about an hour a go.
He could be a faker though.
Sounds like it should be in a thread on RAWK...
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14 minutes ago, aRdja said:
I don’t have the advantage of having access to exotic opta stats though. So I win.
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25 minutes ago, Slippin’ Jimmy said:
Woolster is going to choke slam you.
Ha, when I saw it I was minded to do a quick search, and I think Ardj does actually have me beat here
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On 11/13/2018 at 10:45 AM, Red74 said:
I was away on a stag do the other year and got chatting to some girl who told me to put a few quid on Michael Carrick joining the mancs. There'd been no rumours that he was going there at all and when I asked her how she knew, it turned out she was his sister.
I didn't put the bet on.
I love how you used "the other year" to mean over 12 years ago. But then whilst checking how long it had actually been since Carrick moved, well, it seems to me like he doesn't have a sister!
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Gordon Banks has not saved it this time...
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52 minutes ago, Barry Wom said:
Klopp has already said VVD and Alisson were bought with the coutonho money and the reason the Alisson deal happened is because the money was there. It was in the interview were he went on to say don't expect more big spending.
https://www.anfield-online.co.uk/stats/jurgen-klopp-lfc-transfer-signings.html ..... £93m over 7 windows according to this, so £13m a window. I have no idea why anyone thinks they will be breaking the bank this summer.
I'm on my phone, but an instantly see 5 or 6 issues with their numbers
Coutinho - Full amount including all add-on
Alisson - add ons not included
Fabinho - add ons not included
Sinclair - no fee
Teixeira - no fee
Should I trust the rest of them?
The top 3 massively skew the numbers
This does not include the costs of doing the transfer fees, like agent fees.
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21 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:
Which cost a fuck load of money to replace. If we even bother trying.
Hence why net spend is a far better barometer.
Would that be 'factual' net spend, or actual net spend...?
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10 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:
We’ve also repeatedly sold our best players under FSG.
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49 minutes ago, Slippin’ Jimmy said:
I wonder how many other clubs who weren't in the Champions League the year before spent more than that in the same season. Anyway, to me it's much more important that we have spent a lot of money now we are back in it and we have improved our deals. It looks like FSG aren't taking money out of the club, and making it available to spend when the manager wants it. Then there's the loan deal, which is pretty good. Money, unfortunately, doesn't grow on trees.
Out of interest, Woolster, can you think of any owners in Europe who are not either backed by an oligarch type individual (like Abramovich), or state sponsored fuckery (like PSG, Manchester Oilers) who are better than these lot? I don't think they've been perfect, obviously, but I think we could be doing much, much worse. I'm not entirely sure that we could be doing much better without the types of owners I just mentioned. Can you think of anyone? I mean, the two big Spanish clubs are there but they have an entirely different income source capability. German clubs are a bit weird, and even then maybe on Bayern would be on a list and they're owned by several different large businesses.
I dunno, my knowledge is not great on other leagues, and I would not necessarily judge on money spent, but on the processes they use (or appear to use), so its also driven by relative to their size/resources. Over here, I think Spurs, Brighton and Brentford are the standout owners for me of doing things well (other than us). Despite their criticisms, the Redbull group seem to be doing good things at both clubs. Roma seem to be doing good things too, and its not surprising they have links to FSG. Probably as far as my knowledge goes really. Atletico are obviously punching above their weight, but I have no idea about their owners or how they are run. Hard to say with Bayern and Juve because they earn so much more than others in their league.
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I've gone over this type of stuff repeatedly over the years in this very thread, but the same shit still gets posted
*shrugs*
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24 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:
And the rest?
What rest? That is what is publicly available. Although financial results have been reported for 2017/18, the accounts aren't available yet.
If you mean his first transfer window, when we bought in Grujic (and Grabara) and sold no one. Firstly He was only a couple of months in charge and wanted to take stock of what he had. Secondly the way transfers work is that we would have been contracted to pay fees in that window, and there is no way to know how much we 'spent' in that window because we only get the full year's accounts.
For the full year 2015/16 we spent £38m, the year before £59m, the year before £53m, the year before £44m, and the year before that, FSG's first full season, it was £14m. That averages as as £41m per year.
QuoteWe’ve spent less than £30m a year under Klopp and it’s even less than that over FSG’s entire tenure.
So, we have 2 'facts' in your post. One of them is demonstrably wrong, so why should we believe the other one?
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In his first full season it was £39m
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