Liverpool laughing stocks?

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Struggle to think of anyone better in the PL from when he joined in January, and he's continued his form in the Copa, too. It's a little early to be talking about £60m bracket, but he was fantastic for us last season and looks a cracking player.

[Lofthouse Lower]

Sturridge was better

More goals

More telling contribution (one man team and all that)

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Sturridge was better

More goals

More telling contribution (one man team and all that)

8 goals scored/created by Sturridge
9 goals scored/created by Suarez

[Lofthouse Lower]

you're not counting that own goal vs Stoke are you?

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you're not counting that own goal vs Stoke are you?

Going on the Premier League stats for goals/assists. No idea what they do/don't count.

[Lofthouse Lower]

They're the last people to trust

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They're the last people to trust

You don't need to tell me that.

[Lofthouse Lower]

I wasn't, I was speaking into the ether - I'm dramatic like that

[TKIZ!]

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Downing and Henderson both playing

[plymouth wanderer]

http://www.skysports.com/football/match ... 08,00.html

Downing and Henderson both playing

oh i do hope they fail this season

[Lofthouse Lower]

KENNY OUT

[Lord Kangana]

Didn't we do them 4-0 preseason 94-95?

[bobo the clown]

http://www.skysports.com/football/match ... 08,00.html
Downing and Henderson both playing

oh i do hope they fail this season

If they again fail to get a Euro spot this timen they are fecked. Indeed, with their spending & plans, that HAS to be a Chumps League place.

Should that occur the first round is on me.

[Lord Kangana]

Prefer to drink it if its all the same to you bobo.

[bobo the clown]

Prefer to drink it if its all the same to you bobo.

you can do what you wish with it your Lordship. If theyy bomb again, I'm buyiing.

[Lord Kangana]

Looking forward to it already. I'll just cross the border and ask for the grumpy Englishman, track you down in no time.

[Prufrock]

Prefer to drink it if its all the same to you bobo.

you can do what you wish with it your Lordship. If theyy bomb again, I'm buyiing.

You compensating for their lack of vowels?

[CAPSLOCK]

The gloryhunting carrot cruncher will no doubt tell me this is shite, but heyho



As John W Henry, the club's principal owner, said recently: "The worst surprise [following FSG's takeover last October] was the lack of depth in the squad. Our biggest concern in taking on this responsibility was this issue and it was a bigger issue than we feared. There was a huge multi-year payroll for a squad that had very little quality depth."

The free signings Joe Cole and Milan Jovanovic, for example, earn £100,000 and £120,000 a week at Liverpool respectively, although the latter's astonishing salary includes a signing-on fee payable over the first 12 months of his contract

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The gloryhunting carrot cruncher will no doubt tell me this is shite, but heyho

As John W Henry, the club's principal owner, said recently: "The worst surprise [following FSG's takeover last October] was the lack of depth in the squad. Our biggest concern in taking on this responsibility was this issue and it was a bigger issue than we feared. There was a huge multi-year payroll for a squad that had very little quality depth."

The free signings Joe Cole and Milan Jovanovic, for example, earn £100,000 and £120,000 a week at Liverpool respectively, although the latter's
astonishing salary includes a signing-on fee payable over the first 12 months of his contract

No, that's not shite - you always pay free transfers more than you do players that you've bought, precisely because you're saving money on transfer fees. That's the whole point of how the Bosman rule's been used for ages. Which is why I was so sceptical of Joe Cole's move around this time last year when everyone was proclaiming it as a bargain and a brilliant move.

As to whether the figures are right my guess is that they're likely to be inflated, because players' wages are always inflated in the media. I don't know why they've decided to include Jovanovic's signing on fee in his monthly wage (all players have signing on fees, typically paid over a period of time). I'd imagine Jovanovic to be on a much lower basic wage than Cole (and I bet the latter's signing on fee isn't taken into account in that £100k figure quoted above, either). Either do both or neither, because that doesn't make for a fair comparison of their respective costs.

[Lofthouse Lower]

To lighten the mood here is a video of Suarez appearing on Uruguayan Fun House.

No Pat Sharp though

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