Liverpool owners are not the same as the owners of Chelsea and Man City, they do not pump money into the club freely, what they do is sell high-value assets that are expendable and bring in the right players that can do a job.
Over the last four years, the European Champions sold the following players. (All fees per Transfermarkt and only players above €10.00m )
Daniel Ings – €22.20m
Dominic Solanke – €21.20m
Danny Ward – €14.00m
Philippe Coutinho – €145.00m
Mamadou Sakho – €28.20m
Christian Benteke – €31.20m
Jordon Ibe – €18.00m
Joe Allen – €15.50m
Total – €295.30m
Now, there were quite a few others sold between €3m and €9m but the bottom line is that Jurgen Klopp sold about €300m worth of talent and that cash was used to strengthen his squad with quality.
Tottenham could do the same, they have a squad rich with players valued above €10m that, in my humble opinion, should be sold because they no longer add value to the team and there is quality out there that would do a better job.
Again, I will use Transfermarkt valuation so that there is a fair comparison.
Juan Foyth – €13.50m
Serge Aurier – €16.00m
Dele Alli – €64.00m
Lucas Moura – €32.00m
Erik Lamela – €16.00m
Davinson Sánchez – €48.00m
Ben Davies – €17.50m
Total €207.00m
I accept that some will disagree with my list of players to be sold, for example, Dele Alli, however, this is purely my opinion and I do feel that each of these players can be sold and replaced by either existing squad members or new signings that would offer more.
Tanguy Ndombele could easily be added and that would raise an extra €64.00m but I am of the opinion that he will come good.
The point I am trying to make is that Tottenham needs an overhaul and we have assets that can be sold that will raise a significant amount of money, Liverpool have shown how it can be done and there is no justifiable reason why we cannot emulate what they did.
Which renders the blog discussion as null and void. Need to get facts right before making sweeping statements about the direction we should head in.
Liverpool got better than us, not when Klopp arrived but after he was backed. Anyone who thinks that was financed primarily by selling players is a muggins of the highest order.
Liverpool fans like to pretend that the whole thing was about clever trading of players so they can say they didn’t ‘buy’ the league but I’m afraid that’s pretty much what they did…
Yes there were issues, but he won three trophies while there. I’d take that and get that monkey of our back for not winning anything since…!!
Property rich, cash poor..!
Yes, the other players average sales are less than 20m each. It’s not correct to say overall they’ve achieved everything on a system of selling to buy, apart from Coutinho they wanted to sell the other players.
Obviously something else to debate on the new stadium, but as mentioned L’pool don’t have the debt Spurs have.
Yes, the way L’pool have gone about improving is the key to it all. I’ve said it before going back to Poch’s 2nd 3rd season the club should of gone all out each season and bought a top player to add to what was a good talented young side. Admitted, L’pool don’t have the debt Spurs have, so they don’t have the board balancing buying players and the debt.
I think the contrasting managerial styles of Poch and Mourinho is having quite an effect on the players, the arm round the shoulder is gone and replaced with hard talk that some, maybe many will not appreciate. If you include how the style of play has changed, it appears that some players are not fully taken by it. That means the belief and confidence is affected and puts doubt in them , so Mourinho has got to get them all on board with what he is trying to do or he could lose them.
They needed a goalie so they went and got best they could, Allison is top 3 in world.. They needed a decent centre back so they went and bought the best in the prem for big bucks VVD is world class……. The game is about having the best players……. We need a striker or a midfielder and we wait years. Then they are either unknown or damaged goods or simply not good enough. Alot has to change for us to operate like the scouse.
We definitely need a full transition… Problem is ‘who’s the mug’ who will be buying the new players? Maybe a full transition of our scouts and board needed too.
Would have been a brilliant deal for us but as usual a case of another one bites the dust
We know what happens these days when Mourinho is given even world-record sums to spend. Surprised this has disappeared down the memory hole so completely when it happened so recently.
We certainly don’t act like a big club, always crying poverty, when we are in the top ten richest clubs in the world and have twice posted World record profits for a football club. Couldn’t even buy Jack Grealish insulting Villa with a £6 million offer and Josh Onomah.
Ok so. That’s it then ok so. We are rubbish not a big club and harry is leaving for a ten glass bottle of buckfast.
That’s why Levy told him there is no money to spend.
None of that lot are bringing in £145 million. Most of them are damaged goods. Who in their right mind would waste money on Lamela? Who would pay decent money for Aurier, Davies, Foyth?
Right, so any actual real change is therefore impossible…
They spend more money, the owners find it somehow and back the manager. Ours don’t, simple as that…
So they not CL holders, league champions egg and spoon winners along with the three legged champions. Point is it dam well worked compared to what we are doing.
Do we really believe giving Mourinho even a world-record amount to spend would enable him to catch Liverpool and Man City, or even Chelsea or Man U?
Let’s recall where Man U were once he’d bedded in ten players of his own choosing, after a world-record spend of £400m. All ten “Jose players,” all considered highly motivated to play for the club.
They were closer in points to the bottom 3 than to Klopp and Guardiola and were putting in turgid displays week in week out.
Cannot remember what his explanation was at the time. No doubt some barely veiled implication that the players were throwing him under the bus or that Woodward hadn’t given him enough to spend.
All I’m saying is, this happened just a blink of an eye ago when he was allowed more money than any coach has been given in the history of football. Everybody in the game saw it, including levy and lewis.
(Something else worth recalling btw is that he judged this squad of spurs players his greatest ever Christmas present in December.)
Who would spend €64m on Dele Ali? Theres no way Levy sell Sanchez for what he bought him for. Sanchez will come good he is suffering more than most from the instability and Poch playing musical chairs with defenders in his final 12 months.
That will never happen as they have to much power in the club. Fans however can make it clear in the thousands by contacting enic demanding change or they won’t back the club.
Don’t be a muggins old chap. Unless you change the owners nothing actually changes at all….
Agree 1000000000% or more with the list and the idea. Liverpool lost CL final to Madrid and look at them now. We loose CL final to liverpool and keep on loosing. Time for change.
Total garbage.
They sold Coutinho for a lot of money, that was about it.