Mbappe mmaybe?
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We couldn't realistically challenge City for the title, we couldn't realistically think about overcoming a 3 goal deficit to get past Barca, and we can't sign Mbappe.
If we do though, will all you cunts that are somehow still doubters finally turn into believers?
If we do though, will all you cunts that are somehow still doubters finally turn into believers?
Give me an example of one time, just one, where we've signed a top key player from a club bigger and richer than ours. During the last 20 years preferably.
I can maybe think of one and it's Markus Babbel but he was free.
When they signed Neymar for £200m from Barcelona in the biggest transfer in football history and then followed that up with the signing of Mbappe, in the second-biggest transfer in football history
And then followed it up with failing to progress in the world's premier club completion ... again and again
Still doesn't change the fact that they're immensely and improbably wealthy, so much so that that they can afford to buy and pay the wages of almost any player on the planet, and bought the two most expensive.
That alone makes them highly attractive to most top players
Not bigger though. Unless personal (or State) wealth of the ownership is the only indicator. We have more supporters, generate more money and are more successful than them.
Not another “what does big club mean?” conversation.
Message for Stevie!
Message for Stevie!
I knew you’d like that reference.
I haven’t watched that film in 30 odd years - great film.
I watched it 30 years ago too. Maybe more.
I suspect it's not quite as scary now, but it's still a great little film.
this and the fact that they've bought themselves domestic titles year after year while we haven't been able to in like 29 years.
My point is bigger in the sense of attracting world class players. We're not in that tier yet.
On the question of whether wealth = big club, I vote no.
We can attract players, what we don't do is pay £200m and £600,000 a week for them.
Now, I know this is ripe for a spergy discussion about "big" clubs, "wealthy" clubs and how attractive/ likely they are to sign player x, y and z, but Liverpool isn't going to be buying Mbappe or Neymar or any other player like them because of £££££££.
That's a good question. They can afford to have players like Mahrez, Sane and Gundogan on the bench.
They took Sterling from us.
Can we afford to buy Sane from them?
OK, we're a bigger team historically, we have more fans in England and the World but they can probably sign Mbappe if they want.
We can't.
So I guess they're bigger.
We'll see, I guess.
Good point.
We need at least 5 pages debating the interpretation of "big club", and, once we have that nailed, the rest of the thread can devote itself to how to define "world class" when attributing that to the players such "big clubs" will attract.
I would advise a new and separate thread to discus how we measure "success" of said big clubs with world class players.
Angels on the head of a pin should be child's play, after that
Yeah, I remember being terrified by it. Properly chilling.
It's memorable because at that young age, we hadn't seen many truly nihilistic films with a totally bleak ending, about a murdering sociopath who killed his parents and hundreds more innocent people for no reason throughout the film.
At 8pm on a Sunday night on ITV.
The bit with the plane is just boss. To this day I often look at planes up in the sky and try and do a Medusa Touch.....
...I've said too much.
...I've said too much.
Does a manager really matter when picking our best 11?
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