If it's true we're now looking to spend big on proven players there are a lot of posters on here that went to extreme lengths to argue that the manager hates that's idea, hates transfers and wants to develop what we have at the exclusion of spending that will have to reasses.
It's a medium level of bonkers that our PR has gone from 'we won't play the money game we can buy cheap and coach' to 'we're going to spend big watch this space'
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Bit of hyperbole there...No one argued that at all. It was mentioned he has a good track record bringing up youth players and finding gems but that doesn't mean he hates transfers or is against a sizeable signing. But the main argument was that Klopp values the idea of value for money for the club and players with the attitude to come here not just for high wages e.g. not paying overs and going for Teixeira at 50mil or like he said for Pogba 90m. Why would you pay fees like 70m+ for someone unless you are so rich that the risk doesn't matter e.g. our club can't really afford to sign an Angel Di Maria for 70m+ and high wages then have him fail and sold on for half the price next season or someone that expensive e.g. Bale could get regularly injured and become the next Sturridge.
Is it not common sense for our club when we live by our own means and don't/can't rely on the type of money that came into Man City and Chelsea initially? We shouldn't get "mugged" on deals thereby creating a long term problem where selling clubs see us paying massively over inflated fees (beyond the EPL norm) and therefore demand more inflated fees in the future which is what happens to the likes of Man City and PSG. Furthermore we did actually buy some good 1st team players worth a sizeable amount like Mane and Gini but that was all off-set by selling our unwanted players for good fees which we thought we could afford to do because we had less competitions but some posters took a big exception to that citing it as evidence FSG is not backing the manager, when he has said the opposite. Having the likes Benteke, Allen, Skrtel or Ibe unhappy and not match fit having been sat on the bench for 5 months and not getting into the matchday squads was not going to help us much in January when the whole squad was devoid of confidence and form. Not to mention players want to leave (or avoid joining) if they know their playing time will be limited, Chelsea for example had players like Ivanovic and Begovic wanting to leave their club midseason despite most likely going to win the EPL and they even let Ivanovic and Oscar go midseason to make money on the latter.
There were a lot of people previously unhappy about us paying overs for players but now want the club to pay overs. There were people unhappy we were selling players for low fees then when we sell them for higher there is a complaint there was no net spend without looking at the context of being in less competitions and allowing youth players a chance/pathway to get a few games to see what they're made of. You can't win...
Now seeing the current situation in context. Next season we will have European football most likely so our squad needs to expand instead of being trimmed like at the end of last season so it is reasonable to expect good investment into the squad especially considering we didn't spend in the last windows so the transfer kitty will be large. But don't expect 70m+ signings realistically because those types of players are very very unlikely to join our team e.g. Griezmann. Our ability to attract the top end targets will be further hampered if we don't make CL. So the reality is we will be looking to spend mainly for 4-5 players in the 20-50mil bracket (which is actually what all the top EPL players have cost their clubs in the past, not more, think Hazard, Costa, Sanchez, Mane, Kante, etc) - hopefully say at least 2-3 of them can become genuine 1st teamers and the others are good enough to challenge to be in the 1st team. We don't really need to replace squad players unless they demand to leave for more playing time - Lucas being a likely example. All the noises are pointing to us having a sizeable transfer kitty, obviously with no set amount. What we spend depends on the targets that want to come here that we actually want. Every poster in this thread regardless of which side they appear to be arguing on will be disappointed if a sizeable amount of money isn't spent in the next window. But the problem is too many posters speculating they aren't backing the manager without looking at the blatantly obvious context. Now all we should do with regards to this issue is wait and see what happens in the summer window. There is so little point speculating and spreading the negativity here.
