Thread: we are still in a better position than chelskea!!!

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Originally Posted by DaveCharlie

good thread - these mega-rich owners are damaging club loyalty. I hate to say it, but the only resolution is surely salary-cap. If a player can only earn, say, 2mill a season - finding a club who will take care of them post-playing career might start to take more importance and therefore improve club loyalty

This is one of the most sensible posts I'v seen in a long time and I think you've got a real point there Dave buddy especially the post playing bit.

Originally Posted by Seajay

Typical scouse git. We sold more than we spent...that is what businesses do. Not something understood terribly well in Liverpool!!!!!!!!!!!!
:rolleyes:

You may have sold more than you spent, but the honest truth is, it was never going to benefit you. That is the difference between a business and a good business. As for your last comment . . . Well, seeing as we have ten time more points than you and sit nineteen places above you, 'not understanding business terribly well' seems to be something everyone should do?

Originally Posted by Torres|Liverpool

You may have sold more than you spent, but the honest truth is, it was never going to benefit you. That is the difference between a business and a good business. As for your last comment . . . Well, seeing as we have ten time more points than you and sit nineteen places above you, 'not understanding business terribly well' seems to be something everyone should do?

Are you able to read and understand what you read Torres? I wrote you don't understand business in Liverpool, not football!:sleep:
You criticised us for doing badly after spending so much, when the fact is that we spent less than we took in. That is what a good BUSINESS does!!!

Why are there no Scousers on Star Trek?
Cos they don't want to work in the future either.

Originally Posted by Seajay

.....You criticised us for doing badly after spending so much, when the fact is that we spent less than we took in. That is what a good BUSINESS does!!!.....

Sorry, mate, but I just don't agree that we are a good business.

I've lost count of the number of times I've said this, but I'll say it again - the business of a football club is football. Maximum returns off the pitch come when performance on the pitch is maximised.

We are going to report (have already reported?) what? A £46m profit? My question - if I were an investor with no association of a footballing nature - is whether Levy and co have maximised my investment. The resounding answer would be 'no', and there is little sign that will change any time soon.

Without the holy grail of the Champions League my investment would never be maximised, and frankly we are further away from that than we have been in any of the past three years. Therefore I can only conclude that executive management is a failure.

Therefore, no, we are not a good business.

Originally Posted by Beats

A salary cap is a good idea in theory but unlike American sports where it is used already football is played all around the world at a more even level. I mention this last bit because I know American football/Basketball etc are played in a lot of countries but leagues outside America are at a much lower level and would not pay at all or pay much less.

And in response to Torres, as has been stated many, many times, we sold players to get the money we spent this summer. I'm sick of reading about how much we spent!

I agree a cap is unrealistic... it would be virtually impossible to get all the various leagues on board with that. Even if you managed to do so, the likes of ManU, Chelsea, Barca, Inter would just pull out and form their own league without affiliation to anyone else.