Prufrock wrote:
Where does your constant assertion the cash they've spent is next years CL money come from Bobo? You got a source?
A liitle, but from an Everton financial source, not Liverpool themselves.
But if you've been around long enough you can see the signs anyway.
They were broke. Even when 'bought' out (from now on, to be known as 'hijacked') that cleared the debts but only to £0. They then went on a mega spending spree, very similar to a person having their credit card cleared and then off out to the shops for a spree.
Spending high (I'm assuming) wages & fees. Though they did good business binning Torres and getting Suarez & Carroll for more or less the same their wages & fees will more than outstrip his.
The experience of watching what Leeds did and Newcastle did was exactly this. They have set their budgets way higher than the current income. The Euro Chumps bring in huge, quite idiculous in fact, amounts of dosh and it's a great temptation for over eager clubs to spend in anticipation. Believe me they have done this.
Their new stadium is still planned, at a cost of £400m it's estimated. The faintest suggestion that the stadium be delayed brings them out of the dole office in droves.
The fans are demanding 'failing' players be binned, new ones in & few will be bargains. Their expensive flops won't be too keen to move on, nor buyers willing to pay the costs involved.
Then there is the legal action, currently being prepared, following the hijacking.
They are about to begin a spiral. This can take time to get rolling but I guarantee it. If I'm wrong & the signs aren't there within 2 seasons I will buy you a slap-up ... or be on the Town Hall steps. Your call.