Alex Teixeira

[fidget]

Kenny and the two bodgers wasted countless millions in the tranny market. I find it very refreshing that Klopp is not of the same ilk

I thought that was just a rumour about Rodgers ?

[Frenchie]

Surely Alex wanted to come to Europe and his interview suggested LFC were in, reality is we bid lower than the selling club wanted and pulled out. He had a choice to stay in a potential war zone for another 6 months albeit on good cash or go for £200k+ a week to a new league that is having billions poured into it.

No brainer for the lad, he is a professional footballer FFS. Out of a war zone into buckets of Yuan.

[BG1973]

No that's not what I'm saying at all.

Empires are built and they crumble. It's not all about history and looking back, but the potential to grow and become the biggest and best. Why shouldn't the Chinese be able to do that? And why shouldn't big name players help them achieve it.

It wasn't long ago we were laughing at City signing Ribinho and his ilk. Now we generally accept that City are a better, and better run club than ours regardless of history. Laughing at their past is futile.

If city were a better run club than us then they should have pissed the league for the past 4 years.

Unfortunately they've finally appointed a manager who can make that happrn.

And please, on what basis are they a better club than LFC??

[BG1973]

If city were a better run club than us then they should have pissed the league for the past 4 years.

Unfortunately they've finally appointed a manager who can make that happen.

And please, on what basis are they a better club than LFC??

[dom9]

If city were a better run club than us then they should have pissed the league for the past 4 years.

Unfortunately they've finally appointed a manager who can make that happrn.

And please, on what basis are they a better club than LFC??

They are totally investing for the future. They're practically within FPP rules now and they have appointed the best manager on the planet.

Their stadium is bigger, better, and ticket prices cheaper.

They are outperforming us on every metric. Apart from the history metric.

[BG1973]

They are totally investing for the future. They're practically within FPP rules now and they have appointed the best manager on the planet.

Their stadium is bigger, better, and ticket prices cheaper.

They are outperforming us on every metric. Apart from the history metric.

Which would all stand up if you ignore the reason why they are able to provide the above.

However when claiming they are not just a better run club, but a 'better club' full stop you can't ignore it.

If they were a better club, they wouldn't have needed oil money on the first place.

[EwarWoo]

If they were a better club, they wouldn't have needed oil money on the first place.

The oil money has made them a better club.

What do we have better than them other than fans which is a totally subjective metric?

[EwarWoo]

It wasn't long ago we were laughing at City signing Ribinho and his ilk.

I think my comment was something along the lines of it's cheaper to buy city and splurge silly money to make them into united than it is to buy united so it makes sense

[Myo]

Refer:

http://www.espnfc.com.au/story/2801864/ighalo-offered-almost-300,000-a-week-by-hebei-china-fortune

Anyway you can look at it, a lot of us has made valid points, however there comes a point in anyone's professional life, regardless of occupation, whatever we may have said or done, if 'crazy' money comes into play which can potentially set us up for life who can condem for tex for the decision he had to make, consider the facts:

1) We bid for him 3 times i think
2) THEIR OWNER rejected it three times, told us to meet their release clause
3) He literally declared his intention to leave ukraine (lviv btw is a beautiful city, where shaktar are now based, NOT IN A WAR ZONE), but i think he stated he wanted to go to a better league (in europe), to get better international recognition
4) Transfer committee asked klopp, klopp has come out and stated no more higher bids for him, leave it as that
5) A chinese club has come in and met Shaktar's price for him
6) A Chinese club have OFFERED ridiculous amount of money (consider 300K pounds a week for Ighalo, how much do you think they would have offered Tex)?
7) Tex would have been stupid to say no, regardless of what he stated earlier and should have decided it from a holistic level (even though his original intention would have come to us had we decided to match the release clause and probably offered wages in the 60K to 80K mark) or whatever, thus accepted it (kudos to Ighalo btw for taking the 'moral' highground and rejecting it - but let's be sensible here, for that amount of money, you are essentially set for life after a few months in china)...

overall - let's be done with this and move on...we lost, NEXT

[Patricks_Berger]

The managers we have had under them have failed to deliver and have chosen players badly.

I personally think your response is knee-jerk silliness over a failed transfer bid that even our manager thought was not worth perusing.

Well I think this is just the latest example of the club failing to get its targets.

Maybe you are confident we'll bring in quality this summer, after this season is written off, but when was the last time we got our summer transfer business right either?

[Vermilion]

Could be said our best ever business was done in January.

Summer is the silly money season lately where we get screwed over.

Would Kenny have said no to Texeira ? I don't think sooo.

[dom9]

If they were a better club, they wouldn't have needed oil money on the first place.

That doesn't even make sense.

[BG1973]

The point is they got lucky and they now have an advantage due to that alone.

They may now have better success than us but doesn't make them a better club. Their success comes at a time when a lot of people I know are turning off football - because of what it has become.

It's not what you do it's the way that you do it.