10 Jul 2026 09:40:45
Our new attitude towards signings builds on something positive for the future. Maybe it will go some way to reducing the united tax that gets slapped on every purchase. If we no longer pursue just individual targets with a blank cheque then teams will be less reluctant to place absurd price tags on the players we enquire about. The huge mark up on players we have pursued in the past is something I believe we have all moaned about. I guess the same can be said for wages. It gets thrown around that we shouldn't care about the finances, to an extent i agree. but there is also not a bottomless pool of coins to pull from.
Personally I find our dealings positive. Yeah I'd have liked a Rice or an Anderson, they are great players. But I disagree that buying them at the cost of improving say 3 other positions is the way to go. There are too many areas within our squad that are in need of attention.
Cas was a warrior and had a very good head on his shoulders, that knack for scoring when it was needed is irreplaceable. But he was lacking in other areas, Potentially bringing in other players with the pace and energy Cas didn't have will free up other players to play to their strengths and not just cover for his weakness.
What I always find fascinating is how much players sell for after only being bought a couple seasons before, the mark up on the like of Anderson is huge. Yet I bet the same people who say we should have bought him at any cost, wouldn't have touched him 2 years ago.
10 Jul 2026 10:13:07
I wonder, if you go back a couple of years, whether anyone even mentioned Anderson as someone we should buy. Newcastle sold him for £35m. Had we bought him then, what would have been the comments? And then, would he have got the opportunity to establish himself and grow with Casemiro in the team? So much of the success of transfers is timing. Kind of like relationships in general. If only you had met him/her 2 years later when you were in a much better position, or 2 years earlier before you were committed to the wrong person.
We've been buying too many players too early or too late, and getting skinned in the process. The new management team's approach may work out, or it may not, but let's hope we're now on track to start getting the timing and pricing right. If this window's successful, then the club is going to start making good profits again and maybe be in a position next summer to splash out on a true longer term signature signing.
10 Jul 2026 11:32:28
Newname
I have said we need to look at Scott and Kroupi. They seem to me the right direction to go in.
10 Jul 2026 11:44:24
Liverpool revenue $729m, Man Utd $692m.
Liverpool wage bill $428m, Man Utd $313m. With Liverpool's inflated figure maybe $50m by title-winning bonuses, and Utds minimised by lack of league position and Europe.
Casemiro, a top earner, just left the wage structure.
Why are fans still talking about saving wages and increasing profits? We need to build a team that can compete. Can we just focus on getting the right players, and maybe this amazing management team we all seem to be happy to have can manage the finances to accomplish that?
Wages should not now be a problem.
We are back in UCL, and the financial constraints are changing this year, which helps us.
Money should be fine, especially if we just buy the right players and stay successful. Whoever the club decide that is. Bad signings create the problem.
10 Jul 2026 11:46:37
I saw a rumour today that we are looking at Kone, although I would personally prefer Scott.
10 Jul 2026 11:47:27
I guess because we have such high debt and still owe so much in transfer fees.
10 Jul 2026 12:19:52
Dodgy. Liverpool have virtually no bank debt which means very low interest payments and in 2025/6 they will have slightly widened the income gap from your figures. According to Sportrac, the actual payrolls, net of amortization costs, were not wildly different. £176m at Liverpool, £163m at United. Our excessive interest payments are costing us the equivalent of Salah and VVD's wages combined.
Yes, United now have plenty of room from a UEFA FFP point of view, which allows 70% of revenues to be used for squad cost, which is why I don't believe this window is in any way done for us.
We have room to make a couple more significant purchases. So, let's wait until September 1st before making any snap judgments. Even then, we will need to give the new players a chance to settle in and prove themselves before we crucify them, the head coach, and the management team. It's imperative for the club to impose a successful structure first. There's more than a decade of financial and football mismanagement to unravel.
10 Jul 2026 17:05:18
Redman, both are good players. But you need to realise that if they don't do what you think they should, it does not mean they are wrong. We all have our favourites, and players we think will do well, but if we don't sign them, please resist the temptation to post on them regularly. We see so many posts from posters telling us 'I was right about this, that or the other', but very few posts on when we're wrong, and there is much more than those examples.
If a player signs elsewhere and does well, it's not even a solid indication that they would have done well with us.
I know your form, and if we don't sign Krupi and he does well elsewhere, you will remind everyone at every given opportunity. Regardless of whether the player would have wanted to come to us in the 1st place. ??
10 Jul 2026 18:42:19
TW
We pay a lot of money to decision makers in senior positions to get it right. They need to do that, and if we are sat in 2 years saying we messed up, then it needs to cost them their jobs. That simple.