Premier League 2019-2020 we’re off

[ColchesterFC]

Not really when you consider his age , I think he will do quite well at Everton. I would have preferred to have kept him a season or 2 longer still a youngster really.

Not sure I can agree with that. The last three years he's made 26 apps with 3 goals, 26 apps with 3 goals and 35 apps with 3 goals. I'm not convinced that those are the stats of a 23 year old that make him worth £40 million but fair play to Arsenal for getting that much for him.

 

[Tashyboy]

Liverpool were fortunate with injuries last year and I lost count of flukey and last minute winners.👍

😂😂😂😂behave

 

[ColchesterFC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1158997558875840512

😂😂😂😂

Not really that much different than players joining Man Utd, Liverpool or Chelsea with a view to getting a move to a "big" club like Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munich, like Suarez or Coutinho have done with you. But I guess it makes you feel better when a player joins a lesser club, that is one of your bigger rivals, and expresses a wish to go on to bigger and better things.

 

[Beezerk]

Their respective fees show that Oxlade had one year left on his contract I believe and wasn’t signing another one and Everton were that desperate to bring in a forward they would have happily paid a lot. I don’t know many who would pick Iwobi in their team over Ox

I'd have neither, they're both brainless clowns on the pitch.

 

[Pin-seeker]

Not really that much different than players joining Man Utd, Liverpool or Chelsea with a view to getting a move to a "big" club like Real Madrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munich, like Suarez or Coutinho have done with you. But I guess it makes you feel better when a player joins a lesser club, that is one of your bigger rivals, and expresses a wish to go on to bigger and better things.

Yeah but they develop bad backs or bite other players to force the move 😂😂😂😂

 

[Liverbirdie]

Don't know whether he has or not (£200million), but the days of paying what City think are over the odds have long gone. Fred, Sanchez, VVD, Maguire to name but a few. Look at the age of Citys squad. D Silva in his last year, Aguero and Fernandinho possibly the end of next. But it's a youthful squad. He now don't have to pay excessive fees. Of the top eleven sums paid for players in positions. How many have City paid the most for. One, Mendy at left back.

Maybe not smashing the transfer records in the high deals, but most of your recent signings have all been 50mill plus.

 

[PJ87]

Maybe not smashing the transfer records in the high deals, but most of your recent signings have all been 50mill plus.

That’s the market tho isn’t it?

VVD and Alison both 60 million plus but few years ago would be so high

Wan basssie cost United 50 million after one season in the league!

Maguire 80 million

City have helped cause this of course but you can’t say oh your signings are 50 million, that’s just the rate for decent players

We paid 24 million for a Spanish midfielder who most won’t even have heard of! It’s a punt ..

 

[Liverbirdie]

I don't think ffp should even be a thing.

The only clubs that complain about it are the ones now being challenged and losing their place at the top table.

Finances in footy have come too far to expect out side investment not to happen. The top clubs who earn billions off their name, earned those names when there were no rules. They then ring fenced the top table. Threatening European league etc to make sure they still get the best opportunities commercially.

Why should the so called top teams have an apparent right to keep being the best simply and the rest feel lucky just to be there? No team noways will come from nowhere and earn a spot simply due to good management.

And if Pompey suddenly built an 80k ground, signed Messi, Ronaldo and another 20 players for 3 billion, you would accept the inevitable success that it would bring with good grace, and pat them on the back?

Forest, Burnley, Derby, City, Everton, Villa all climbed to the top from the 60's onwards by normal means so why couldnt it be done again?

 

[Liverbirdie]

Money from tickets, advertising, sponsors, tv or from the owners back account. It really doesn't matter to most fans, it certainly doesn't get written on the trophies. Pools money built Liverpool, was that cleaner than oil money?

The oil money line is boring now, it has been for a while. People need to move on, although 99% have to be fair. Come on that 1% 😁

Prove that the pools money built Liverpool.

 

[Papas1982]

And if Pompey suddenly built an 80k ground, signed Messi, Ronaldo and another 20 players for 3 billion, you would accept the inevitable success that it would bring with good grace, and pat them on the back?

Forest, Burnley, Derby, City, Everton, Villa all climbed to the top from the 60's onwards by normal means so why couldnt it be done again?

Re the 60’s, The golf between the big clubs then and the rest wasn’t anywhere near as vast as it is now. No cub now has a chance to grow naturally and challenge. Any youth player with any talent, or a potential star is snapped up by a bigger club. Just look how many you took off us as soon as they looked half decent. Leicester was a freak occurrence, and even they cheated in the championship. Spurs did it organically and still got nowhere, you’ve spent almost as much as anyone in the league and still not won it. I get that it’s not been earned through football means, but if money wasn’t injected then the last 20 years would have been entirely dominated by UTD. No Chelsea or city, Arsenal hamstrung by the stadium. Granted you may have won 1 title, but they’d of had another 19.

As to your comments about Pompey, They won an FA cup on loans they never paid back. Did it hurt? Yes, but that’s because they’re a footballing rival and I don’t want them to do well. I wouldn’t support a rival no matter how they got success. But City, Chelsea etc weren’t your rivals prior to the money. So the resentment is based purely on jealousy, not an actual rivalry.

 

[Deleted member 1740]

Liverpool were fortunate with injuries last year and I lost count of flukey and last minute winners.👍

Bitterness doesnt suit you Sawtooth.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Prove that the pools money built Liverpool.

Really? It had no impact?

On the Iwobi front it now looks like £28m rising to £34m. Not quite as bad as a straight £40m. Still over the top at initial sighting.

 

[Slime]

😂😂😂 well at one stage we were down to one CB having three injured , we lost both our right backs and played a midfielder there , same with the left back , we lost one centre midfielder for the whole season , had one new signing out for half the season , another new signing picked up a number of injuries , faced the the last 4 weeks without one of the most important players we have but apart from that we were fortunate with injuries

And the game lasts 90mins plus injury - does the goal mean less because they are scored in the last minute ? Not sure about “flukey” though.

They were all flukes when United scored them!

 

[Deleted member 15344]

They were all flukes when United scored them!

Weren’t they all in “Fergie Time” !

 

[Beezerk]

Weren’t they all in “Fergie Time” !

It's Klopp o' clock these days.

 

[Tashyboy]

My lads just called me. He is off to watch Bali utd in 10 mins. They are playing a team called Semen. He has googled them. Reckons there W*#k. Honest 😂
5$ a ticket.

 

[Dan2501]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1158997558875840512

😂😂😂😂

I'm sure Derek from Twitter, a Liverpool fan with 243 followers is a very credible source. Funny how he's ignored all requests to share a link to the direct quote itself.

And even if it is true, I'd rather sign a talented ambitious forward than sign no-one at all.

 

[Tashyboy]

Maybe not smashing the transfer records in the high deals, but most of your recent signings have all been 50mill plus.

And most now worth a good bit more. 😁

 

[Orikoru]

Really? It had no impact?

On the Iwobi front it now looks like £28m rising to £34m. Not quite as bad as a straight £40m. Still over the top at initial sighting.

I can't for the life of me work out why you offloaded Lookman and then brought in Iwobi. Ridiculous decision. Haven't you learned your lesson on picking up rubbish wingers from Arsenal??

 

[Orikoru]

I'm sure Derek from Twitter, a Liverpool fan with 243 followers is a very credible source. Funny how he's ignored all requests to share a link to the direct quote itself.

And even if it is true, I'd rather sign a talented ambitious forward than sign no-one at all.

Yeah, I read that and immediately thought it was made up. To believe it at face value would be naive at best in this day and age. For all we know he doesn't speak English yet and that could be a dodgy translation, or just completely made up since it's Twitter.