mayfair
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No I am not..I told you all the reasons why stats can be misleading..the figures do not take into account your squad before 2004, when you had splashed out huge chunks on aforementioned names, so there was little spending required to embellish the team. You have also been blessed with a better youth system and scouting network which means that you need not look outside for quality players all the time. Our academy and reserves till last year were shite and now we have the best youth coaches in Rodolfo Borrell and Pep Seguera coaching our youngsters (for the uninitiated they were in charge of the Barca academy which produced Messi, Iniesta, Busquets, Bojan, dos santos, Pique among others)- at least five-six of whom are regulars in England youth squads and are expected to break into the first team- one example is Martin Kelly. This means we save ourselves expensive transfer fee on regulars and squad players when the current crop retires.I don't understand what you are trying to prove, From the link you gave
Manchester United total net spend 2004-2009: £27m loss
Liverpool total net spend 2004-09: £122m loss
Its really funny how you are trying to discount the fee we got from Ronaldo sale. He was our player mister.
So is it our mistake to spend big on lesser no of players rather than spending less on too many players ? You have to admit that the Spanish twat was crap at transfers.
It does not mean that we'll start producing quality youngsters in no time but it's a good start. Guess who overhauled our youth system- Rafa Benitez. A good youth system is essential for developing a squad as Barca, Arsenal and yourself have amply demonstrated and hopefully we will too.
Rafa had a mixed record in transfer market- he bought in gems like Torres, Alonso, Reina, Agger, Mascherano, Skrtel, Kuyt, Crouch, Bellamy among others but also landed expensive flops like Morientes, Dossena, Keane, Pennant, Ryan Babel etc. Many of those flops came about since he was not allowed to get his first choice targets by Coco the clown. Do you even know that we had deals lined up for Dani Alves, Simao, Aguero, Pato, David Silva, Malouda, Vidic, Walcott, Ramsey among others during Rafa's time and van Persie, Petr Cech, Christiano Ronaldo, Fernando Torres among others (before Rafa) but lost out because Coco was and is an incompetent knobhead? But some purchases were bizzare- Pennant and Dossena are really sore issues with the Kop faithful. We do not mince words on his failures in the transfer market.
It helps to keep an open mind and on the subject of Fergie time, I draw your attention to the following
REVEALED: 'Fergie Time' does exist... Four memorable matches where United won in injury time
Where you benefited the most from extra time manipulations.
Like I said, under the conditions which Rafa had to work in he did a very good job..could he have done better? Yes. I do not claim that he is the best manager ever, or he's better than Fungus, Wenger or Mourinho..but for the Reds he was a great manager who stood up to bullies like Fungus, helped us get back into the European elite and got the Kop believing again. That's his legacy for the Liverpool football club and its fans.