[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Swan

Out of curiosity, why don't Liverpool spend more, i mean with a few extra players you could seriously compete against City, and in Europe?!

Owners.

It's as simple as that.

FFP allows owners to pay for stadium improvements without any punishment. FSG have taken loans out to increase the stadium capacity (which only increases their value of the club for a sale), and made the club pay the loans back, so we've had around £400m taken out of our transfer budget over last 5-8 years to pay for a bigger stadium for the owners eventual sale price.

They also believed they FFP was stricter than it was, so they thought top clubs would only have about £50m to spend every season.

Here''s the real kicker - without coutinho being sold, we would never have bought VVD and Allisson, so would never have won anything. So even though they've seen how great we can be with a bit of investment, they don't care, and have no interest in spending anything.