Benitez's signings

[Joe King]

All this talk about Benitez not having the money at his disposal in order to sustain a title challenge. Lets look at the facts:

2004/05 £26m spent - Alonso, Garcia, Josemi, Morientes, Carson

2005/06 £25.9m spent - Reina, Sissoko, Crouch, Agger

2006/07 £26.2m spent - Bellamy, Paletta, Pennant, Kuyt, Arbeloa

2007/08 £68.3m spent - Lucas, Leto, Torres, Benayoun, Babel, Insua, Skrtel, Mascherano

2008/09 £39m spent - Dossena, Cavalieri, N'Gog, Keane, Riera.

Grand total of £185.4m

An average spend of £37m a season.

All facts and figures courtesy of LFC History

[Elvoz]

All this talk about Benitez not having the money at his disposal in order to sustain a title challenge. Lets look at the facts:

2004/05 £26m spent - Alonso, Garcia, Josemi, Morientes, Carson

2005/06 £25.9m spent - Reina, Sissoko, Crouch, Agger

2006/07 £26.2m spent - Bellamy, Paletta, Pennant, Kuyt, Arbeloa

2007/08 £68.3m spent - Lucas, Leto, Torres, Benayoun, Babel, Insua, Skrtel, Mascherano

2008/09 £39m spent - Dossena, Cavalieri, N'Gog, Keane, Riera.

Grand total of £158.4m

An average spend of £37m a season.

All facts and figures courtesy of LFC History

one of your few decent posts if i may be so bold
to say he has had no dough is ****e

[Rich]

Yawn, that's your point here? Other than the 07/08 season you can say he wasn't able to bring the players in he wanted to.

[SimonNo7]

All this talk about Benitez not having the money at his disposal in order to sustain a title challenge. Lets look at the facts:

2004/05 £26m spent - Alonso, Garcia, Josemi, Morientes, Carson

2005/06 £25.9m spent - Reina, Sissoko, Crouch, Agger

2006/07 £26.2m spent - Bellamy, Paletta, Pennant, Kuyt, Arbeloa

2007/08 £68.3m spent - Lucas, Leto, Torres, Benayoun, Babel, Insua, Skrtel, Mascherano

2008/09 £39m spent - Dossena, Cavalieri, N'Gog, Keane, Riera.

Grand total of £158.4m

An average spend of £37m a season.

All facts and figures courtesy of LFC History

And out of them only 13 are worthy of the red shirt of LFC and of those 13, 3 are no longer with us - IMO

[ric.williams]

is this net spend figures?

[red g]

Whats he recouped?
nobody has said he hast spent but it works out at approx 6million a player and our squad has some genuine world class players in it.

The state our squad was on was horrendous we can look to the future with genuine hope with our squad and youngsters now.

[Rich]

Out of those players listed only two were high profile disappointments Pennant and Morientes, not a bad percentage.

Which players were available on the market during the same periods should we have bought instead?

I'm not one who believes Rafa is faultless or that he's had no money to spend, however to claim he's had free reign on purchases is naive.

[Pablo]

These types of threads with transfer figures are always fundamentally flawed, yours even more than normal!

[red g]

And out of them only 13 are worthy of the red shirt of LFC and of those 13, 3 are no longer with us - IMO

and i reckon that would compare with ferguson, wenger or anyone else in there first 5 years

[pondus]

LFC History:

Rafael Benítez sold 56 players for £108,075,000

[BFG]

is this net spend figures?

No mate, that would constitute a fair and balanced assesment.

This on the other hand, is the usual agenda driven bile that's become synonymous with that wretched little dipstick Joe King.

[qabiri]

All this talk about Benitez not having the money at his disposal in order to sustain a title challenge. Lets look at the facts:

2004/05 £26m spent - Alonso, Garcia, Josemi, Morientes, Carson

2005/06 £25.9m spent - Reina, Sissoko, Crouch, Agger

2006/07 £26.2m spent - Bellamy, Paletta, Pennant, Kuyt, Arbeloa

2007/08 £68.3m spent - Lucas, Leto, Torres, Benayoun, Babel, Insua, Skrtel, Mascherano

2008/09 £39m spent - Dossena, Cavalieri, N'Gog, Keane, Riera.

Grand total of £158.4m

An average spend of £37m a season.

All facts and figures courtesy of LFC History

But mate scum can spend £30M at the drop of a hat Berbatov,Ferdinand and Rooney etc.
I can't see how you reckon Rafa has had such amazing backing.
Their the ones who we compete with 9 times out of 10 if you finish above utd you win the league.
We need serious funds.

[Guest]

No mate, that would constitute a fair and balanced assesment.

This on the other hand, is the usual agenda driven bile that's become synonymous with that wretched little chemical "strip" of filter paper used for standard urine tests that is Joe King.

[murder_inc]

and i reckon that would compare with ferguson, wenger or anyone else in there first 5 years

Do you know what would have made it a decent post Joe, if you put the rival managers net spend as well and compare who is (was) a flop and who is (was) a success.

I can tell you one from each rival team at the top of me head. I cant be arsed to get the true figures so anyone feel free to correct me if Im slightly out by a million or two

Fergie -
28m - Veron

Wenger -
18m - Reyes

Mourinho -
22m - Malouda

There is obviously a host of more screw ups but I cant be arsed to find them

[Rich]

Name one manager with a 100% record in the transfer market. Even a 50% record is doing well.

There are other things to batter Rafa with (if you wish), his record in the transfer market isn't one of them.