Does Liverpool's salary model need to change?
The transfer market is changing and it’s been on the cards for a while now.
Players are running down their deals in a bid to get bigger contracts elsewhere. We haven’t entered the American sports market realm yet, but we can’t be far away from it. In the near future, transfer fees will be a rarity and free agents will be the norm.
Danny Ings has rejected a new deal with Southampton. He’s got just 12 months remaining on his …
Liverpool FC - Financial Analysis
Amidst the furore of the January transfer window, the UEFA European Club Footballing Landscape report was published, a report which UEFA assert is 'like no other publication of its kind'. In terms of scope and depth though, it supersedes the analysis of the oft-quoted Deloitte Money League, which I broke down with respect to Liverpool FC here. That being said, I would recommend you read that first, as an introductory piece, to provide some context to the following discussion.
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Van Dijk and the Consequences of High Wages
So the word on the street is that Liverpool will have to offer, and are offering, £200k a week in order to secure the signature of Southampton central-defender Virgil Van Dijk. And if it’s true, and if the club can get the deal over the line, neither of which are 100% certain just yet, then that will be a massive statement of intent from FSG.
But whilst there are a vast number of reasons to be excited about this deal, …
FSG and the Wage Bill Woe
The feeling on social media around Liverpool is a little eerie as of late. The club have made some impressive signings in Loris Karius and Sadio Mane and look set to practically recoup what they spent on Christian Benteke yet the supporters online aren't how you'd imagine them to be after such news. They're discontent. Unhappy with the owners' apparent lack of spending. The club seemingly being left behind as rival clubs flex their financial muscle.
The Liverpool Echo ran …
Liverpool FC: Cutting Our Losses
A financial analysis of LFC’s 2014-2015 transfers
This article looks at Liverpool’s transfer activity last summer and asks whether it is financially viable to cut our losses on certain players who have flattered to deceive and how selling such players could potentially impact the club’s purchasing power for the upcoming transfer window.
As the curtain falls down on the dismissal 2014-2015 season, Liverpool fans around the world let out a collective sigh of relief as we are finally put out …
"Par"-don me Mr Rodgers
Par, such a simple and non-offensive word.
Just 3 little letters, it's hard to get upset by a word like Par isn't it?
Well thats what you would have thought this time last week. However, since a certain Mr Rodgers uttered that non-offensive little word in a press conference, I've seen it written more times than a pro-golfer would write it on their scorecards.
Perhaps Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers would have been better to use a phrase such as "we …
How Transfers Work, Sometimes Don't - and Why.
I've been thinking about writing something on this for a while, the way transfers work today - or don't in many cases, the seemingly infinite variables and how they differ from those those of yesteryear, and the carefree days of yore - if you believe in all that. There was however an obvious snag, in that although I'm middle-aged, well educated, well versed in all kinds of funding bidding, project management and acquisitions in the arts and education sector, I'm …