The sports (specifically the footie) section lately, never seizes to amaze me. When most are suffering on the sidelines with the world-wide recession, the footballing gods are doing their part by summoning the rich disciples like the Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea and Real Madrid to spend big to help revitalise the world-wide economy. How noble of them to do so.
Well, where does it leave us - a debt saddled and "living in history" club, Liverpool? 20 million quids in the transfer kitty for Rafa? Looking at the crazy inflated prices of players across the continent and the expected 6+5 rules which is inflating an already inflated local British Isle players' prices, we won't even be able to afford Kaka's right boot. The mercurial Brazilian just left San Siro for £56m. How about the reported +/- £70m for the *ahem* greasy haired and constantly diving er..... ya know who i mean.
The financial report released last week did nothing to appease the already enraged faithfuls. What ever good news about the pre-tax profit of £10.2m was quickly burnt out by the report of £359m debt and £41m annual loss. The two clowns on top was reported to have claim up to £2m in personal expenses.
I'm braced to see us getting screwed in the transfer market. Already been reported, our targets are already being courted and some already courted by the big carrots being dangled infront of 'em...... cue one Gareth Barry - which in away, is good as we don't need an overated Ingerlund player.
Expect to see more fringe players leave the club in order to free up resources to get the players we need. Andrea Dossena has already handed in a transfer request and heading back to Serie A (likely Juve). Who's next? The often frustrating Ryan Babel? The much blamed and misunderstood Lucas Leiva? Don't even bother talking bout Andrei Voronin - he's gone the day we shipped..... er i mean loaned him back to the Bundesliga.
The really frustrating part is how many of our "spine" team members will leave? Mascherano is being courted by Barca - which i doubt will succeed in tempting our version of Wolverine to leave.... yet. The most worrying player is Alonso. I mean who can blame him after the way he was treated last summer while the gaffer was "pimping" him to the continental clubs to pay for that before mentioned over-rated Ingurland player.
It's gonna be a crazy summer and i'm braced for more heartbreaks. Let's hope most of the "spine" of the team will still be coming over to Thailand or Singapore for the pre-season friendlies. BTW, is it juts me or are the ticket for the game in our friendly southern neighbour, bloody expensive? I'm missing the game pure for the fact that i am brooke and would rather invest in the 1k i would have to spend into my trip to Anfield fund.
Any how, the world still spins on it's 23.5° from vertical axis and life still goes on irregardles of how much shit i am painfully seeing in my beloved footie club. My mostly hate relationship with my work still hovers on. As the club motto goes, i'll never walk alone - and that's what keeping me sane. Walk on.
P/S - We, The Mighty Reds' have been having a recession since the day the pic above was taken in 1990.
-JonC-
