JB Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 Great post johnnypd. Best I've read on here in a while. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 According to transferleague.co.uk we've had a net transfer income of £28.65m since Ashley took over Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuv Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 Jesus Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Five o Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 According to transferleague.co.uk we've had a net transfer income of £28.65m since Ashley took over http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/5200/mikeui.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 According to transferleague.co.uk we've had a net transfer income of £28.65m since Ashley took over http://img853.imageshack.us/img853/5200/mikeui.jpg Surely that photo can't be real? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ObiChrisKenobi Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 Furthermore I was all for Ashley's scheme to buy a lot of young talent from across the UK and Europe and for me the announcement that the club is no longer going after under-18 players is a crushing blow. It's incredibly short-sighted and for me demonstrates that Ashley does not have long term commitment to his ideas - you are not going to hit the bullseye with every youth signing - in fact you will always get far more failures than successes when buying at that level, but it is something every club should do doing these days. Liverpool have signed dozens of talented kids in recent years and plenty of them didn't work out but now you are seeing the likes of Shelvey, Sterling and Suso come through. If anything we needed to step up that policy - not scrap it. It also takes time to build up the right scouting and coaching set-up and to learn from your failures. For Ashley to throw his toys out the pram because Ben Tozer, Samuel Adjei, Haris Vuckic and Aaron Spear didn't turn into megastars is idiotic. So that's lost him a lot of my support. I think the feeling behind this was, no more spending money on players from other Academies (effectively giving money away) and instead spending that money on investing on better coaches at youth level to ensure the players we already have here are given the opportunity to become as good as they can. There still will be players signed at u18 level, just not for the high fees that were wasted on the likes of Tozer and Aaron Spear. In part it goes back to your club ethos wish. The Academy has one, and is gearing up in delivering it. Hopefully they'll remain on board with the ethos and not change it (like what has happened in the past 15 years). There's been a good move away from the recruitment of physical players (teaching the tall, fast & strong to be footballers), to intelligent players that want to learn, can learn and adapt quickly. It was a massive blow that we didn't gain the highest level Academy status though. Again coming from investment imo. That's not over with yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 Furthermore I was all for Ashley's scheme to buy a lot of young talent from across the UK and Europe and for me the announcement that the club is no longer going after under-18 players is a crushing blow. It's incredibly short-sighted and for me demonstrates that Ashley does not have long term commitment to his ideas - you are not going to hit the bullseye with every youth signing - in fact you will always get far more failures than successes when buying at that level, but it is something every club should do doing these days. Liverpool have signed dozens of talented kids in recent years and plenty of them didn't work out but now you are seeing the likes of Shelvey, Sterling and Suso come through. If anything we needed to step up that policy - not scrap it. It also takes time to build up the right scouting and coaching set-up and to learn from your failures. For Ashley to throw his toys out the pram because Ben Tozer, Samuel Adjei, Haris Vuckic and Aaron Spear didn't turn into megastars is idiotic. So that's lost him a lot of my support. I think the feeling behind this was, no more spending money on players from other Academies (effectively giving money away) and instead spending that money on investing on better coaches at youth level to ensure the players we already have here are given the opportunity to become as good as they can. There still will be players signed at u18 level, just not for the high fees that were wasted on the likes of Tozer and Aaron Spear. In part it goes back to your club ethos wish. The Academy has one, and is gearing up in delivering it. Hopefully they'll remain on board with the ethos and not change it (like what has happened in the past 15 years). There's been a good move away from the recruitment of physical players (teaching the tall, fast & strong to be footballers), to intelligent players that want to learn, can learn and adapt quickly. Yeah, I don't see why Ashley is being criticised over the youth development side. It's one area which really has improved under his ownership. The finer points of what you should spend on poaching players from other academies doesn't change that. And it doesn't have any bearing on the current form of the first team either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 Apparently Sports Direct have just acquired something, an announcement is expected next week. I'm guessing it's Umbro. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 I'm guessing it's chlamydia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Colossus Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 WCW. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyn davies Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 His transfer policies are flawed. It's like building a house in the UK without any central heating to it. Will be fine during the summer but utterly hopeless when it gets colder (i.e. tougher). more insulation might resolve that problem i.e. a larger squad with decent backups Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
huss9 Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Apparently Sports Direct have just acquired something, an announcement is expected next week. I'm guessing it's Umbro. ibrox rights? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Apparently Sports Direct have just acquired something, an announcement is expected next week. I'm guessing it's Umbro. ibrox rights? No, already been said it isn't that, HOF or JD Sports. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 His transfer policies are flawed. It's like building a house in the UK without any central heating to it. Will be fine during the summer but utterly hopeless when it gets colder (i.e. tougher). more insulation might resolve that problem i.e. a larger squad with decent backups nah I reckon Ashley would build solid walls and forget about the windows. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 His transfer policies are flawed. It's like building a house in the UK without any central heating to it. Will be fine during the summer but utterly hopeless when it gets colder (i.e. tougher). more insulation might resolve that problem i.e. a larger squad with decent backups nah I reckon Ashley would build solid walls and forget about the windows. Not sure the walls would be solid like. MDF at best. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Apparently Sports Direct have just acquired something, an announcement is expected next week. I'm guessing it's Umbro. ibrox rights? No, already been said it isn't that, HOOF or JD Sports. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewJerseyMag Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Last season's success has come back to bite us on the arse this summer, Ashley will have assumed we're good enough to be able to repeat the feat again without major investment. But, when you factor in the inevitable loss of luck regarding injuries and Ashley's policy of buying good investments rather than players to fill a squad and ideology, this malaise was always just around the corner. It's also why I have an ounce of sympathy with Pardew and think everyone's jumped on his back too quickly. (Wigan is huge for him) This requirement to do everything on the cheap and Ashley's treatment of players as investments and stock, rather than what they are, footballers who are part of a team that requires a deeper thought and recruitment process, will always be main thing holding us back as long as he's here. I still have a feeling that our failure to strengthen has damaged the morale of some of our players too. Yes and Yes. I agree with both of these posts. We got very lucky last year and Ashley decided to take the gamble. Failed miserably. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 This guy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeletor Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 I feel like finding his house and flinging shit at every thing he owns. Bet he'd be too cheap to get someone to clean it up and all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 The fat bastard is probably in a food coma drenched in a puddle of his own drool. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Zaius Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Hope he was fucking watching. SPEND SOME FUCKING MONEY. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Sortitoutcuntarseprick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest loven Mag 11 Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Happy you didnt splash even abit of cash now you miserable cunt. We could of built on last season you fucking arse flannel. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 And he's happy to see Demba Ba leave for peanuts. Fuck off Ashely, na na naaa. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hakka Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Will need to spend about £20m in January to save this season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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