tubby » Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:51 pm wrote:dawson99 » Fri Apr 06, 2012 7:03 am wrote:Another topic about how we need to spend more money and buy the league. We have spent enough, I don't want to buy the league, I want to win the league
Your living in a dream world mate. Today if you want to win the league you need to have good players, and good players generally cost money. You can't expect Kenny or whoever to buy joe bloggs for 6mil and then expect them to tear the leauge up only to throw the rattle out the pram when it doesn't pan out that way. Bottom line is you get what you pay for. Sure you may get some bargains here and there but you can't expect to build the whole squad out of bargains. This moneyball model cannot be applied to football. If you don't want us to spend money well that's fine, but then we need to lower our aspirations of where we want to finish.
this is spot on, what often gets forgotten in our glory years is the amount of money we spent and the amount of transfer records we broke to get, and stay, at the top.
shankly spent 2 and a half seasons in the 2nd division, he was struggling to get us out of the division until he convinced the frugal liverpool board that they had to spend to get success, we spent a small fortune on ian st.john and ron yeats and the rest was history.
we spent big money on the likes of peter thompson, tony hateley, john toshack and alun evans was a record fee for an under 21 player, as was ian rush, we payed a world record fee for an under 21 player when we signed him from chester which often gets forgotten, graeme souness cost a record fee for a deal between 2 english clubs and that was just a couple of months after breaking the british transfer record on kenny dalglish.
mark lawrenson was a record for a defender, peter beardsley was a british transfer record etc etc......we spent wisely to stay at the top but we also spent big.