The Liverpool FC Thread XIII

Yes it does. My point is that Chelsea's transfer business in the last few years has been better than Liverpool's, and it turning out that Liverpool spent a few million less per season doesn't change that.

It's awful for Liverpool yeah, but I did Chelsea first and there was only one mistake (Cech) so I assumed it was a decent enough site.

'edit: For comparison Liverpool have a net spend of 57m per season in the same period, twice as much.'

That's all I commented on. Which has been proven blatantly incorrect, by a factor of virtually 2, in fact. Anybody with eyes knows that they've been excellent in the transfer market post-Torres, I have no objections to that. Let's just not make out Liverpool to be some kind of big spending force though, when any big spends have been manufactured by selling off our best players, and that's never a worthwhile strategy.

Sure but that wasn't really my point, just a sidenote because Chelsea's figure is fairly useless without context.

Maybe the fact that Liverpool have a (marginally) lower net spend and yet far worse transfer dealings can highlight that the difference between the teams isn't the net spend, it's the quality of players identified and recruited.

So you provided vastly incorrect figures for Liverpool in an irrelevant context, strong.

How is a discussion about the strength of a team's transfer business an irrelevant context to quote figures on transfer spending?

The difference is partly quality of players and partly net spend.

This is a meaningless discussion that's stemmed from you dismissing the fact that you provided grossly incorrect figures.

Go to bed

I won't be saying a bad thing about Brendan or Liverpool anymore.

Just finish / beat Chelsea, injure Hazard and it's all good.

Did Mourinho upset you that much with his latest comments?

It's just fueling the inevitable meeting of Chelsea / Madrid in the CL this season.

Cannot wait.

In fairness Rafa could do with losing some weight. Poor guy is going to go to an early grave otherwise.

Although pretty pathetic by Mourinho. Such a lack of respect for other managers. He's regularly insulting to Wenger and Pellegrini too.

Although pretty pathetic by Mourinho. Such a lack of respect for other managers. He's regularly insulting to Wenger and Pellegrini too.

It's just fueling the inevitable meeting of Chelsea / Madrid in the CL this season.

To be fair he'd just had his entire career insulted

I find it quite funny, because I'm pretty sure he hasn't taken a single such shot in our direction for a while now. I suspect he knows he's running out of top clubs to manage, and sees United as quite possibly the last heavyweight he has left as an option. Pretty crude insult, basically, yeah well you're fat as a comeback.

Do you have an honest prediction for Rafa's reign at the Bernabeu? He is supposed to be well backed upstairs so could have more support to ride out the bumps than some expect.

Tongue in cheek comment about his career by Rafa's wife. Don't see the need to insult Rafa for his weight. Fair enough for Mourinho to insult Rafa for ruining the Inter side in 6 months who had been treble winners though.

How you do explain him calling Pellegrini, Pellegrino?

Do you have an honest prediction for Rafa's reign at the Bernabeu? He is supposed to be well backed upstairs so could have more support to ride out the bumps than some expect.

I just think insulting the career of one of the best managers ever is worse than calling someone fat in retaliation, when they actually are fat.

Well there's a manager called Pellegrino who Mourinho knows from managing in Spain together so I can believe it was just a slip of the tongue.