Originally Posted by Dagger
The only reason that it's like that is because of one transfer. The one Ronaldo figure hugely distorted that fact, and if you actually look at the periods where United won something it was much higher than ours.
Oh yeah, players like:
Torres
Alonso
Mascherano
Reina
Agger
Skrtel
Johnson
Kuyt
Arbeloa
Aurelio
Benayoun
Crouch
Garcia
are e. I mean it's not like Rafa has made a profit on 14 of his players to the tune of about 42MP, and made a loss on a whopping 5 of them totalling 14MP.
compared to his bad buys of:
Keane(who was a Parry singing)
Pennant
Morientes
Dossena
Babel(who has the most goals as a sub for a Liverpool player ever)
Riera
Nunez
Josemi
Gonzalez(who he made 1.5MP profit on)
Cavalieri
Then you'll say add Degen and Voronin....both were on frees. You get what you pay for. It's good to note that Rafa made 2MP on the pair of them.
I refuse to add Aquilani seeing as he never had the time to settle because of the current manager, and when he did play he was good(2nd most assists of any Liverpool player). Essien and Nani were both in their first season in the EPL, it takes time to adjust so Aquilani cannot be counted if he never had the chance because of someone else.
The grand total of those is what 60MP? Here's one for you, Anderson, Veron, Hargreaves, Carrick, and Berbatov... those 5 cost 110MP. 5 highpriced baconface buys cost about 10 Rafa buys, when only one of them cost double digits, and was not his choice to buy or not. Quite simply you get what you pay for, unless your name is Ferguson and in which case it's half the time you get what you pay for.
Look at Mourinho, he's paid half of that for Shevchenko who was absolute dross. SWP cost what 50MP? That's 50MP covered by 2 players. Then you can add in the likes of Bouhlarouz at 7MP, Del Horno 8MP, Jarosik(5MP), Tiago(8MP), Kezman(5MP), Ferreira(13MP), that's 106MP squandered in half of Rafa's time.
If you actually look at the kind of players that he bought that were good(Drogba, Essien, Malouda, Carvalho, Robben, Cole) you'd see that all of them except for Cole(who was worth much more and Mourinho cheated to get) cost double digits with 3 of them costing 20MP or more.
So can you not see that the players Rafa has spent double digits on(Torres, Mascherano, Alonso, Johnson, Kuyt, Babel, Keane) that he's only whiffed hard on one of them(Keane - who was not his favourite to buy) and not got his moneys worth on Babel(who's the highest scoring sub in Reds history).
Quite simply, you get what you pay for, and not everybody is perfect, but you choose to look at the flops Rafa bought, many of whom costed nothing and were a necessary risk to take at the price. It was a risk that almost paid off, and that risk netted the likes of Reina, Agger, Skrtel, Insua, Benayoun, Crouch, Sissoko, Arbeloa, Ngog, Soto, and Fowler.
Yeah, too many to list, what a joke.
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