how did rodgers start off?

Came across this today
Its the lineup United had 3 years ago to thia day in a match vs Arsenal.. and won 8-2


Just realised it might not come up the most clear..

Here it is

Starting XI
De Gea
Smalling
Jones
Evans
Evra
Nani
Cleverely
Anderson
Young
Rooney
Welbeck

Subs
Lindergaard
Ferdinand
Berbatov
Giggs
Park
Hernandez
Fabio

Suprising to think that is very close to the side that came 7th and has had this poor run of form

 

Ah, my bad, I misunderstood

 

True to an extent. Depends on the objectives. We want to win the league and CL again. We could try and buy one 40+ million pound player a window...Except they wouldn't come because we wouldn't be challenging as the start off squad was so poor. (Theyre not even coming now when the squad is much better than when BR started and were in the CL!)

You are going for CL quakifaction at the very most and you were happy to pay that one off fee for a player you had already working knowledge would benefit your club.

If you go on to spend 30 million on one player each summer for the next four years your comparison will hold more validity.

 

How could they possibly survive the loss of Evra though?

 

Did he?

Shame you don't actually check your 'facts' as the wage bill rose by £13m from '12 to '13 and there's no way it's been reduced this summer either.

Plus you have no idea what remit Van Gaal has with regards to wages, but to suggest it's open ended, is ridiculous

 

We're in the EL which is the same format but with an extra knockout round.

 

Link for the wages?

£120kpw for Shaw. End of.

 

Try the accounts lad.

I suppose they didn't pay Evra, Ferdinand, Vidic and Giggs then?

How many have gone off your wage bill this summer btw???

 

The EL is now your best route to the CL so I'm sure you will give it a go, but for a team with aspirations to compete for both league and CL titles needs a big squad, even Real only managed 3rd in La liga last year because they were more focused on the CL.

 

but the EL is league 1 in group phase and you know that.... which is good for developing youth of course.

6 cl games for LFC will be tough as bascially we'll get a top 8 in europe team, then could get two italian teams as well... who knows... juve and roma YUK!!

 

So no link then.

Replacing players with massive wages with other players with massive wages still means you are able to pay massive wages #sobittercantgraspasimpleconcept

 

Is it?

We could end up with Inter and Wolfsburg....

 

Google the accounts, same as I did love.

So they've got a larger overall wage budget than you have, so what? Yours is vastly larger than ours, what's your point?

As you seem confused, as you were suggesting that Shaw was incremental to the wage bill, but you'd gotten to factor in the outgoings.

As it stands I'd wager that you've probably increased your wage bill by more than they have, as you've increased the total squad size and haven't been able to shift some of the unwanteds yet.

 

You really think that's likely?

 

The blatantly obvious point is that Man Utd are paying £120kpw for an unfit 2nd choice left back, which is an amount we reserve for our top stars.

No one gives a **** about Everton, this is comparing Van Gaal and Rodgers

 

Probably not, hence aspirations, but that does not change the fact that you need to compete well in both, to improve your ranking thus making it more likely to attract better players and get an easier route in the following comp, whilst ensuring you do well enough in the league to make it back in the next year.

 

It's a better goal to aim for than "struggle for the first three months" and hope for a "miracle"

Maybe it's just reverse psychology though

#psychologicalgenius

 

One thing this has shown is that astro is genuinely thick.

 

just #bitter your Van Gaal/Rodgers comparison got shot to pieces

#realmadridbaselliverpoolludogoretsrazgrad

#manutdmkdons

 

Shot to pieces?

Bar the frankly desperate attempts to justify it by pretending the perfomances were good (they werent) almost everyone seems to say it started badly.