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by **Powelly** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:44 am

This is aimed at anyone moaning about us not buying 'big name players';

Asking for Rafa to buy players just because they 'big name'. The man has plans and wants certain players to fit into those plans, he won't just buy a player because of his history with a previous club, knowning that he will not fit in the Liverpool team and will be sold for a margin of the price the following season. Let the man do his job and see if we go anywhere before you talk :censored:

. There are plenty of examples of this scenario, don't ask me to pick out certain ones, theres lots.

Also, i see lots of people asking for the money to be spent wildly i.e. a kid in a sweet shop routine. This would not help the club in long term what so ever and i think that transfers should be paced if its for the good of the club.

Thats my two cents...

by **65-1114725958** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:08 am

yeah! and your comment was actually worth....0.001 cents.

so youve lost the club 1.999 cents already!

bad deal.

So you say signing no hopers is a good idea? so why do some clubs pay 24m for drogba, 27m Ferdinand, 37m to Barca for Figo, etc etc.

It a big confidence restorer, buying such quality.

teams pay 2m for players cause they dont have the big bucks to pee in the tall weeds with the big dogs!
they wish they could !

by **Powelly** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:24 am

Alfonso Alonso 1 wrote:yeah! and your comment was actually worth....0.001 cents.

so youve lost the club 1.999 cents already!

bad deal.

So you say signing no hopers is a good idea? so why do some clubs pay 24m for drogba, 27m Ferdinand, 37m to Barca for Figo, etc etc.

It a big confidence restorer, buying such quality.

teams pay 2m for players cause they dont have the big bucks to pee in the tall weeds with the big dogs!
they wish they could !

Hey if it was a :censored:

manager in charge of our team then i'd accept your comments. But seeing as Rafa is the type of manager that spots talent - i will take your comments for comical value and wipe my :censored:

with them.

by **A.B.** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:21 am

So you say signing no hopers is a good idea? so why do some clubs pay 24m for drogba, 27m Ferdinand, 37m to Barca for Figo, etc etc.

It a big confidence restorer, buying such quality.

teams pay 2m for players cause they dont have the big bucks to pee in the tall weeds with the big dogs!
they wish they could !

For 24 million that Chelsea payed for Drogba in his first season he turned to be absolute :censored:

.

We've never signed galacticos before and I don't think that's going to change however I think we will still sign players with quality such as Alonso and even Garcia whose proven a lot in his first season in the Premiership[who I think will continue to improve].

Rafa is not the type of manager that goes out and spends 15 million on a player. He didn't do it at Valencia and he doesn't done it here.

by **liamac** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:16 pm

Couple of things people should know about Real Madrid ........

They were used as a show piece of the Dictatorship that run Spain upto the late seventies and as such were funded by them.

When Real Madrid were 140 MILLION pounds in the red , the local council bought their training ground off them and paid.............140 million quid for it !!! , not only that but the Madrid council built them a brand new state of the art training ground and charged them 1 pound .

Real Madrid will never be allowed to go bust like some of the Italian clubs have because the Madrid council will not allow it to happen and UEFA cant allow it to happen as they are world famous .....like all of you i think its a disgrace its allowed to happen but it does .

Hence the reason why Real can afford to buy "Galactico's " because they know they will never go broke.

As for Chelsea , thats pretty obvious as they have mafia money behind them , but as Abramovich said when he bought them " people like me play hard because people in my line die young" .....

We have never paid huge amounts for players and probably never will , its not the Liverpool way .
Most of our players in the past have came from small clubs (Rush ....Chester ) except for the likes of Dalglish who came from Glasgow Celtic for 500,000 quid.
Ferdinand was well over priced and at the very end of prices spiralling out of control , he wouldnt fetch half that price now .

Drogba ......well put it this way Cisse scored consistently more goals than him in the french league ( correct me if im wrong ) and was bought for half the price . What does that tell you ? every time Chelsea go for a player the price is hiked up because they can afford to pay it and are desperate to buy the player.

I honestly think most of the people saying buy "big name " players are lads and think thats what teams do because they have footie manager , not being sarcastic about it , its MHO .

They should also have faith in Raffa and his abillities
:blues:

by **Powelly** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:33 pm

I'm glad to see others see my point....

by **El Nino_#9** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:39 pm

not really,
nothing wrong with a big name now and then.

by **stapo1000** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:08 pm

Powelly wrote:he won't just buy a player because of his history with a previous club

Isn't that what 100% of his signings are based on or does he just buy random players?

by **El Nino_#9** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:09 pm

by **yckatbjywtbiastkamb** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:24 pm

Powelly wrote:This is aimed at anyone moaning about us not buying 'big name players';

Asking for Rafa to buy players just because they 'big name'. The man has plans and wants certain players to fit into those plans, he won't just buy a player because of his history with a previous club, knowning that he will not fit in the Liverpool team and will be sold for a margin of the price the following season. Let the man do his job and see if we go anywhere before you talk . There are plenty of examples of this scenario, don't ask me to pick out certain ones, theres lots.

Also, i see lots of people asking for the money to be spent wildly i.e. a kid in a sweet shop routine. This would not help the club in long term what so ever and i think that transfers should be paced if its for the good of the club.

Thats my two cents...

i agree with you totally mate, some people have big name fever on here.
most of our legends like daglish, souness, hansen, keegan, hunt etc. etc became legends at the club, they were not legends before - even daglish, he was well respected but most celtic fans dont hold him in the same esteem as the lisbon lions or even henrik larsen.
the big names who played in europe back then included maradona, platini, kempes, ruminegge, zico etc and as good as they all were they all looked at liverpool as the top dogs.
we didnt buy galactico`s back then and it didnt do us any harm because we had a manager in bob paisley who found our galactico`s at places like partick thistle and scunthorpe not boca juniors and barca.
for the hundred and odd million we`ve spent over the last few years our two best players came through the ranks.

by **JBG** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:26 pm

If people want big names then maybe we should sign yckatbjywtbiastkamb?

by **yckatbjywtbiastkamb** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:28 pm

JBG wrote:If people want big names then maybe we should sign yckatbjywtbiastkamb?

i`m a yard slow these days jbg.

by **adamnbarrett** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:28 pm

by **Fernando Morientes > 19 <** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:31 pm

yckatbjywtbiastkamb wrote:
JBG wrote:If people want big names then maybe we should sign yckatbjywtbiastkamb?

i`m a yard slow these days jbg.

I guess not like Pellegrino...

??

by **king mickey** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:40 pm

Hey all I'm fairly new here,but on the subject of buying (relatively) unknowns why not put in a bid for west broms soltan gera the guy was amazing for them last season is the captain of his national team and would cost a pittance I for 1 would rather we signed him than crouch or figo the guy oozes class

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