Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet (Post 11253867)

Mods

1 week ban for Swan please and his awful cheating team

Originally Posted by Swan (Post 11253869)

After spending all that, and the awful way in which we're playing, i think that's punishment enough :hmph:

Originally Posted by GiRTh (Post 11253913)

About time. What they're doing is ridiculous.

I heard a Chelsea fan on Talk sport saying he wants his Chelsea, currently tenth, back. Before Abramovich came along with his filthy stinking blood money tenth was a good finish for Chelsea. Looks like they have got their Chelsea back.

If they finish above fifth or above I'll be surprised.

Originally Posted by Swan (Post 11253919)

That's utter bollocks by the way.

96/97 - 6th
97/98 - 4th
98/99 - 3rd
99/00 - 5th
00/01 - 6th
01/02 - 6th
02/03 - 4th

We were consistently fighting for top 4 7 years before Roman

Originally Posted by GiRTh (Post 11253930)

Its disgraceful what they're doing cuz its so blatant.

Usually a deal like Murdyk would be over say three years at 90 mill that's 30 mil a year. By brokering a deal over 10 years its cut to 9 mil a year. Did they think anyone was not gonna spot it.

IF they were subtle I might've given them a bit more respect but very happy the loophole is being closed

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper (Post 11253931)

They were going into administration if they hadn't got Roman.

Originally Posted by GiRTh (Post 11253933)

True but its his blood money that made them what they are.

Originally Posted by GiRTh (Post 11253933)

True but its his blood money that made them what they are.

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper (Post 11253934)

Agreed.

Originally Posted by Swan (Post 11253940)

Also like how City, who were much worse than Chelsea before they got brought by Saudis, never get half the sh!t Chelsea do!

You think their billions are legit and fair in a part of the world where regular people are lucky to eat daily?!

Originally Posted by Swan (Post 11253937)

Slim, only a few weeks ago you were happy to have blood money purchase Liverpool if it were to change their current piss poor performances too, don't throw stones and all that.

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper (Post 11251539)

I'd rather go back to man u being the most dominant financial team in the league, and us being 2nd/3rd, because at least then you have a chance. But these oil money teams are just on a different level. City don't sell out their ground at times and still rake in more sponsorship money than anyone else because of their honest guv, it's all above board sponsorship deals.

What Klopp has done these last 6 years is perhaps the most historic run in league history. Won every trophy in the game, 3 year run of 97/99 points, and all on a smaller budget than Brighton, but none of that would have happened without Barca injecting 142m into the team for Coutinho. Chelsea have spent more in 6 months than we have in the last 10 transfer windows combined, and they were going into administration before Roman came in, so if you want to compete at the top of the league, this is what you have to have behind you these days, and that's depressing.

I saw this coming a mile off and pointed out in 19 that this was all built on sand. I don't think we'll end up with oil money anyway. I wouldn't put it past FSG to screw us over with more Americans. If there is any chance in the world that LFC can screw this up, they absolutely will. Had the chance to get Dubai in 05/06 - which is the most sanitised version of mid east money possible (tourism), but we backed out and sold to owners who nearly put us into admin.

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper (Post 11253946)

Eh? Liverpool built themselves up to where they are, we didn't get there from a stimulus package as we were about to go out of business due to not being able to pay the bills. The 2 clubs are not the same.

Even our recent title was won on a budget.

Originally Posted by Swan (Post 11253965)

Point is, you were saying only the other day you didn't care who owned Liverpool as long as they pumped money into the club..

"half times beheadings in the centre circle" (i know you wasn't serious, but you must get my point)

And the game has changed since then, it's more a money business now than ever.

Originally Posted by GiRTh (Post 11253927)

:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

And you got it only three times out of the seven

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper (Post 11253966)

Come on, dude, you used a joke I made, knowing it was a joke. You can tell my serious opinion in the post above. Football is the way it is today because of Roman. Maybe if he didn't buy chelsea, a couple of years later, some other billionaire would have pumped money into a club and then football would have been the way it is because of him, instead. I know we're all protective of our clubs, but you have to be realistic. He was the first, so he gets the blame. It's not a personal vendetta against Chelsea.