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It is also not clear to me why Inter would be an upgrade on Liverpool for Mane. They are currently a worse team on the field. Could they even afford to pay the same wages?

I'm an American and I got it.

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Aside from the fact that you seem to be accusing the club of filing fraudulent accounts, you are gravely mistaken if you think the Liebherr's are one unified family in financial matters. Markus Liebherr removed himself from ownership in the family holding company in 1994. I assume he got money for doing that but here is no reason to think his daughter is connected back to that business. Admittedly, she is way off the scale when it comes to personal wealth but the typical person's standards, but current reports suggest that she is Mitt Romney rich, not Beyoncé and Jay Z rich. As for whether she cares, all we can judge her by is her actions and her words and they both suggest that she does.

As of June 30, 2016, the club owed about 53 million pounds, but had almost 24 million pounds of cash.

And no one would listen to the actual owner of the club on a major decision unless she is on each and every board of directors in the entire chain of ownership.

Why would 18000 people visit that? I ask having visited it twice in the past 15 minutes.

where is your page? I must visit it now.

It died off quickly because Toby didn't want to sign for us. The club had a binding contract under which AM was required to sell Toby to us under certain conditions which we met. The club believed, based upon what Toby had told them, that he wanted to sign for us. When Toby told the club that he wanted to sign for Tottenham, it ended because, of course, we couldn't force him to sign for us if he didn't want to. The fault in that escapade is that Toby didn't tell the club where he wanted to go during the initial part of the figgermorall.

No. It merely says that when we come to you with a improved long term contract offer you need to understand that you are agreeing to stay longer than you would have under your old contract.

If she really wanted to sell just to get the money, she would have sold already. A more reasonable view is to take her at her word and believe that she wants to sell to a responsible new owner who can do something to improve the club that she cannot do and that she wants maintain partial ownership to make sure things are done right.

Is there an internet link you can provide me with this information (or even more). This is not me doubting you. This is me wanting to do more research.

The standard premier league contract includes provisions for fining players for misconduct. It includes appeals procedures. I assume that players have been fined in the past and appealed that decision successfully. Undoubtedly, that did not result in the voiding of their contract. In other words, so long as the club didn't just stop paying him, there would be a way to recover a significant part of the money it pays him without voiding the contract.

Well the best team in the world might want the best striker and the 5th best striker as a back up. So probably the best we can hope for is some one in the top 40 with a top 60 as a back up and I would say we have that or better at most positions. (80/120 in those positions where there are two slots like center back))

It was Everton's ticket to Europe and they did need it.

Actually, it only seems like that.

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I think they will be able to tell the difference. All VVD had to do last year was decline the new long term contract and say that he was going to want to leave next summer (or the summer after than since he had four years left at the time). This will tell players who sign for us that we plan to keep them for two or three years and then sell them on at a profit, but if they fit well, they will be offered a longer term contract at significantly increased wages, but they will be expected to stay longer in exchange. Exactly the message we should want to send.

25% accuracy, much better than your normal post.

Given financial fair play rules, even a rich owner willing to spend lots of money doesn't do the job because there are real limits on what can be spent. Admittedly, we are not pushing up against those limits so an owner willing to spend some more of her money every year could still help, but only if there was something specific (like an expensive player) we wanted to spend the money on, but could not afford to without the additional cash. I am not certain that is the case. But in the league 1 days we were always a title threat, except for that pesky 10 point deduction. More seriously, the Premier League is already in a dangerously (from the point of view of club management) unstable state. There are six clubs who will view anything less that a top 4 finish as a complete failure. Everton expects to progress from last years seventh place finish. We expect progress. West Ham thinks they belong ahead of us (and probably Everton) and competing with their London rivals. Newcastle views their return to the Premier League as part of a reset--no doubt big progress is not necessary this year, but they undoubtedly view themselves as a long term top half club. Leicester will not expect another title, but they will expect a much improved season since they don't have a European campaign to distract them. Few of the other nine clubs will be happy just hanging out in the bottom half hoping to avoid relegation and none of them want relegation. Sure all of this is obvious, but at least two clubs with big name managers and big budgets are going to fail to live up to expectations. These problems don't exist for clubs in the other major European Leagues. It will be interesting. High praise? At least you are honest enough to admit you are not one of the smart ones. I think this is exactly what has happened and that it is a good thing. The problem, from a fans perspective, is that there is nothing about this strategy that ever guarantees a better season that 2015-2016. I am ok with that but many are not. I would like the club to achieve that "little more than" that as well. I would just like the people making that argument to explain a plausible strategy for attaining that "little more." I don't see one under financial fair play. Well actually do. Have a net negative spend each year of 35m pounds--which probably means having an owner take a 40m pound cash loss each year. Avoid the European Financial Fair play rules by turning down invitations to European competitions and, in effect, hope this strategy gets us a title. I doubt this strategy will ever be adopted by any club, however. It would depend on why we went down. If we have freak injuries to 15 players, then we could still be the best run club. If our new manager turns out to be grossly incompetent and VVD and Bertrand are sold on August 31 without any replacements being brought in, then the answer would be no. I don't think either possibility is very likely though. Also, I think we are a well run club--claiming to be the best run is too subject a claim to be reasonably evaluated. Certainly, we are not the best run club at generating commercial income, for example. Right now there is no roster spot for incoming players. Sales (or loans) have to be made before the club will sign anyone new. My best seasons in Football Manager came when I had a good club that was young and improving and I left it alone. Of course that was FM 2010 and Markus Liebherr was giving me 250m pounds a year. Nevertheless, it is not unreasonable to expect the current squad to do better than last year without any additions. Boufal is a poor example. Due to his injury he was always intended to be a future, not a present, signing and it wouldn't have mattered when in the transfer window he was signed, except that there was more information about his medical condition later in the window. I would point to VVD as a better example. Signing him late in the summer 2015 window certainly was crippling to his first year performance. Sorry about the long posts. I was looking for a way to avoid starting my work day.

I would like the club to achieve that "little more than" that as well. I would just like the people making that argument to explain a plausible strategy for attaining that "little more." I don't see one under financial fair play. Well actually do. Have a net negative spend each year of 35m pounds--which probably means having an owner take a 40m pound cash loss each year. Avoid the European Financial Fair play rules by turning down invitations to European competitions and, in effect, hope this strategy gets us a title. I doubt this strategy will ever be adopted by any club, however. It would depend on why we went down. If we have freak injuries to 15 players, then we could still be the best run club. If our new manager turns out to be grossly incompetent and VVD and Bertrand are sold on August 31 without any replacements being brought in, then the answer would be no. I don't think either possibility is very likely though. Also, I think we are a well run club--claiming to be the best run is too subject a claim to be reasonably evaluated. Certainly, we are not the best run club at generating commercial income, for example. Right now there is no roster spot for incoming players. Sales (or loans) have to be made before the club will sign anyone new. My best seasons in Football Manager came when I had a good club that was young and improving and I left it alone. Of course that was FM 2010 and Markus Liebherr was giving me 250m pounds a year. Nevertheless, it is not unreasonable to expect the current squad to do better than last year without any additions.

Given financial fair play rules, even a rich owner willing to spend lots of money doesn't do the job because there are real limits on what can be spent. Admittedly, we are not pushing up against those limits so an owner willing to spend some more of her money every year could still help, but only if there was something specific (like an expensive player) we wanted to spend the money on, but could not afford to without the additional cash. I am not certain that is the case. But in the league 1 days we were always a title threat, except for that pesky 10 point deduction. More seriously, the Premier League is already in a dangerously (from the point of view of club management) unstable state. There are six clubs who will view anything less that a top 4 finish as a complete failure. Everton expects to progress from last years seventh place finish. We expect progress. West Ham thinks they belong ahead of us (and probably Everton) and competing with their London rivals. Newcastle views their return to the Premier League as part of a reset--no doubt big progress is not necessary this year, but they undoubtedly view themselves as a long term top half club. Leicester will not expect another title, but they will expect a much improved season since they don't have a European campaign to distract them. Few of the other nine clubs will be happy just hanging out in the bottom half hoping to avoid relegation and none of them want relegation. Sure all of this is obvious, but at least two clubs with big name managers and big budgets are going to fail to live up to expectations. These problems don't exist for clubs in the other major European Leagues. It will be interesting. High praise? At least you are honest enough to admit you are not one of the smart ones. I think this is exactly what has happened and that it is a good thing. The problem, from a fans perspective, is that there is nothing about this strategy that ever guarantees a better season that 2015-2016. I am ok with that but many are not.

He will contend that the money has all gone into Liebherr's pocket so the bigger the sales price, the worse the offense.

A message must be sent. Reed must go twice to make more room for a replacement. Or maybe he was referring to Les Reed.

Average by what standards? Average compared to all footballers currently living in England? I think he is well above that. Average compared to all professional footballers in the world? I think he is well above that too. Average compared to all professional footballers in England? Again, he is above that. Average compared to starting Premier League right backs? That is a tougher one, but if he is, that is still pretty good and well worth being well paid.