Liverpool keeper Pepe Reina is already making excuses for his team losing out on the title this season, claiming that financially they just cannot compete with Manchester United.
He thinks that because we’ve spent more than £100million over the past few seasons, we obviously have the advantage.
Reina probably should have had a look at this Liverpool website before embarrassing himself. Turns out Benitez has spent £171.4 million in four years. Ouch.
“If they beat us or we draw it will be very difficult,” said Reina. “They have spent a lot of money in the last three or four years. It makes a big difference when you spend more than £100million. It makes you even stronger than you already are. Carlos Tevez is a big price, Wayne Rooney is big money, Cristiano Ronaldo, Dimitar Berbatov etc. To compete with that is almost impossible. To face this kind of team with the power in attack and the players of this quality, it is always difficult to defend. They have a really strong squad and they can use different players. It is tough.”
Liverpool fans tend to focus on the money Benitez has made through sales as a way to back him. Still, it doesn’t matter how much money you make on transfers if you spend that money on shite. Good for him that he’s recouped a lot of money but that still doesn’t explain why he buys crap players on the cheap instead of spending more money on fewer better players.
Maybe if Benitez spent £20 million on signing one brilliant player, instead of £20 million one five shite players, Liverpool wouldn’t have surrendered their title challenge. Sadly for Liverpool, Mad Rafa just ain’t that kind of manager.
United have a few players that cost us £20-30 million because Sir Alex Ferguson has identified quality and paid top price for it. Liverpool haven’t done the same, they’ve wasted millions on dross. Imagine what a quality side they’d be if instead of spending £25 million on Morientes, Bellamy, Pennant and Lucas, they’d bought a top class player. If they’d spent the £20 million it cost Benitez for Crouch, Diego Cavalieri and Dossena on someone special. Even some Liverpool fans can see that! Thankfully, the majority of their fans and players still buy in to the ‘Rafalution’ nonsense. Long may it continue! Long live Mad Rafa!
Stephen,
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. All manager make mistakes, some bigger than others in terms of transfers. Crouch was a booming success, but agree about Pennant and Lucas (though Lucas is improving game by game).
Thing is, Fergie isn’t whiter than white when it coms to buying duff players either, I mean what was Kleberson and Djemba Djemba about? Not forgetting Dong Fangzhoui and Nani. All managers make mistakes, the point is, some can make bigger gambles than others.
Nani can hardly be called a failure and Dong was bought for peanuts, the other two were shite, but I am not saying Fergie hasn’t bought some crap because he has, he has also bought many more gems, you were defending Rafa’a transfers not vice versa.
YNWA Stephen.
I wish Rafa Da Silva was playing tomorrow.He is a prime example that it doesn’t take just money to get the job done.Ole Solskjaer is also in the same category.
Ofcourse we shop at argos and Man U shop at harrods.. and you say this is not a function of money??
You have just exposed yourself. Case closed.
So you agree that you need money to shop at harrods?
I don;t give a shit how much we spend. Whose champions?
LOL you are the champion. Let yr Lehman brothers didnt give a shyt how much toxic debt they took on either, where are they now? BUSTED.
knightsmith, so you didn’t care when Chelsea bought the league and you won’t care when Man City do so too?
ha, I just came on this website to email you to write an article about what he said cause it’s ludicrous what he said
Well you are right on one thing REDDEVIL$KER, Man City will probably win the league before Liverpool do. You also left out Blackburn.
And the simple fact is, we’re champions, and you’re not
knightsmith, being champions as underdogs with less money is always a more gratifiying acheivement than one won with huge wads of cash. Hence our European Cup win in 2005 was sesational due to who we had in our starting line-up, yet your win was more predictable. Give me drama anyday over monotony.
Agree with REDDEVIL$KER
Same reason when we spanked Madrid, the whole world for the exception of Man U and Everton fans were happy, but when Man U beats Inter, it was just another cup game, It is more gratifying to win as an underdog than buy the top players from every small team u can molest and winning.
Do you think Man U ll be winning when Ronaldo goes and play for his “DREAM” club?
How many goalie did Man U went thro after the blond Danish, before landing VDS from Fulham?
Listen you fuckin dipping twats……ITS A FUCKIN MYTH THAT YOU ARE PAUPERS BEGGING AND TRYING TO SCRAPE IN BINS…WHILST WE SO SHOWERED WITH MONIES THAT WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE LIKE.
These are facts
SAF ( the greatest manager the world has ever seen)..took over Manchester United…a team that had become a shadow of its former self..a team that was so huge and great…but was just going through the motions. so SAF started to build…build from the ruins it has become…we were in the relegation zone NOT IN 3RD PLACE LIKE YOU WHEN THE FAT SPANISH TWAT TOOK OVER. So he built..slowly but surely he built….out went deadwood…in came some decent journeyman…then for 3 years WHILST WE WON NOWT. He built the youth team and academy ala what SIR MATT HAD DONE WITH THE BABES. He built the foundation. then he slowly started makin UTD a SUCCESS again. The team started doing well…and should have won the lge title in 91/92..but leeds somehow snatched it….however SAF ’s efforts of the previous 5 years were now paying fruition. The seeds that had been planted in the youth teams paid dividends..in came the kids…becks, butty, scholsey, giggsy, nevos etc etc…success started…with that success SAF Wisely invested in manchester utd..in came the club shop, the stadium development, in came carrington, cliff replaced. He built the team….and the kids kept winning…he was wise and shrewd. every now and then the ice cream he built would be topped up by a top foreign player.
He kept building….success came…more success came.
The FACTS are he had to build UTD from a ruin that it had become. Fat fuckin SPANISH WAITER DIDNT NEED TO.
And in his years…SAF has played the market better than anyone….foundation of local lads + brit/irish lads + a dabble of foreigeners. Aswell as spotting unknown young talent eg rafael and fabio.
UNLIKE YOUR FAT SPANISH WAITER WHO SPENT HIS MONEY NOT RE BUILDING BUT ON CRAP…I MEAN I READ THROUGH THOSE NAMES….AND I THOUGHT WHAT THE FUCK….SERIOUSLY NO WONDER YOU AINT WON A TITLE…BISCAN???? PENNANT???? CROUCH???. Me grandmad could do a better job in the transfer market. YES SAF has bought a few clangers….but FSW 43 deadwood????? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
OH yeh and a fuckin big difference…
CHELSKI = MONEY = MORE MONEY = MORE MORE MORE MONEY = SUCCESS = WE HAVE A SUGAR DADDY
MAN SHITTY = MONEY = MORE MONEY = STUPID MONEY = WE WANT SUCCESS TOO.
MANCHESTER UNITED = SUCCESS = MORE SUCCESS = MORE SUCCESS = MONEY.
We worked hard…..built…we worked even harder…we worked tirelessly…then spent at wise moments the rewards we fuckin deserved and earnt. EG….a guy did his qualifications….worked his way up…gota good job…made it a better job…got promoted….isnt he then entitled to spend once in a while and put a nice car in the garage.
Whilst the fat fuck spanish waiter…got very very decent amount of money….parry and moores and the gillette and hicks said here you go rafa spend and build. Problem was he just went down to bobs car lot and scrappy down road and bought 5 write offs for repair…..thinking he could mould the 5 ( stanza, lada, skoda, fiesta and datsun 120y ) into a ferrari.
Last person you should give money too is him……no wonder the board arent putting transfer power and say so into his contract…fuck sake he’d probably turn anfield into walford eastenders market.
bye bye dippers….happy looting
Jon – Thats original, have you not heard his statement earlier today? Can’t see him joining that mob can you? Thought you were “the number one team in Europe”. If that is the case why would you be the “underdog” against the Fascists? You are a muppet pal, fuck off.
Other than this I really can’t be arsed getting into pointless arguments with you deluded dippers. It was only a few weeks ago your lot were on here bragging etc, all of a sudden you all go very quiet. The same will be happening after tomorrows game. All this “In Rafa we Trust” and “Rafalution” and “YNWA” is all just nonsense.
KING ERIC YOU’RE SPOT ON….only a month a two ago…they were the best team in england..ready to win the title..title faves blah blah blah…..now suddenly they ve become the poor starving children of africa.
And just on this blog in half an hour…they gone from 5 time cup winners..the ‘OFFICIAL’ top listed team in europe in the last few years to ” its so gratifying to win as an underdog”.
lol..lol…lol
dippers…you’re guaranteed a laugh a minute…
always brighten up my day these dips
Boy KIng Eric they are a load today.Hopefully tomorrow we shut them up for good.
suhayl you make a great point.Obviously the money gap between us and them didn’t stop them being top of the league for the first 4 months of the league did it?It would be too painful if they had to admit that they blew it when their manager lost the plot 2 months ago.Look at how well informed they are:they think that our 700mil debt is because we always buy players and never sell.We were the best functioning club in the world until Glazer took over.These kind of dippers could make me laugh if they weren’t so sad.
Reina never said your advantage was solely due to money, only that you have a number of players such as Berbatov and Rooney who cost £20 million plus, whereas Liverpool have bought more players for less. He also praised you, but you were already on your angry diatribe about delusions and excuses at that point clearly.
“Reina never said your advantage was solely due to money, only that you have a number of players such as Berbatov and Rooney who cost £20 million plus, whereas Liverpool have bought more players for less. He also praised you, but you were already on your angry diatribe about delusions and excuses at that point clearly.”
He never said that,he just let it out like that to create an impression.Personally i have stopped taking notice of someone associated with Liverpool praising us ever since Rafa showed his true colours 2 months ago.
costas forget it mate…..i know from 30 years experience and nearly 5 years reading this blog and many other utd blogs before….. that they can have egg on their face…you can outdo them with logic..with REAL facts..catch them out with stats. BUT they’ll still never stop with their moronic dipper comments.
Thats why they’re dippers. And every stereotype, mick take perpetuated around the world about scousers and scouseland is so true.
Sometimes you wish they just stuck to the day job
And a scouse day job is = stealing dvd players etc etc etc etc etc etc etc.
Happy looting dippers
Jon– yes I do.
funny how reina never bothered to mention £20mill Keane or £27mill Torres…that should have been at least a good strike force for that money…instead, they’ve got half of one
Really getting sick with these scouse cunts,who are presenting Mad rafa Facts and intellectual bullshit.Go fuck off to your shit holes.You are not worthy of comparing your club to United.Let your shit club do the talking by winning something or atleast play some good football.Until then….Tata
REDDEVIL$KER:
“Alves, Simao, Vidic and Ronaldo were all wanted by Liverpool, but their price tags were out of reach.” -Really? Was vidic’s price out of reach?7m? Or those players didnt want to join ur shit club?
REDDEVIL$KER:
“Should Liverpool take all three points, Benitez will become the third fastest manager in Liverpool’s history to clock up 100 league wins.”- who gives a shit
Fucking hell Scot…. you know how to wind up them scouse cunts dont you…. Dopy cunts think they are our equals…. yeah right…. they might have been a force once but they made the mistake of geting former players to take control as managers and that is what fucked them up… they will now never be the force of ManUtd and they know it.
We now have the worlds fanbase to bring money into our club which will give us the financial muscle to outdo the dippers….And that is what irks them the most.
Even the Russkie at Rentboyland is stuggling to raise funds for new players….
And over at Shitty no decent player is going to play in that shithole of a stadium.
The premier league might as well get used to the idea of us going on from strength to strength
gotta love how these dippers are making out like they are paupers who haven’t got two pennies to rub together
‘oh we couldn’t afford vidic and ronaldo their price tags were out of reach’
but you could happily splash double on what we spent on ronaldo on torres and 20 million on robbie keane and then sell him on (at a loss) just six months later and you could happily spend 7 million on the worst right back in the league (dossena). not to mention money on riera, babel, benayoun and co
and of course, you wasted no time in stumping up the cash for mascherano did you?
I will tell you how it is dippers. the message of scott’s blog is so clue, only an idiot couldn’t understand it. its that basically, although we have spent money, so have you. your fair share of money since the fat spanish waiter took over. moreover, you are clearly getting your excuses in early, to hide the hard, cold fahct, which is, that your club is not good enough to win the premier league
As soon as Suhayl arrived on the scene, those Scouse cunts soon fucked off LOL.
Someone should remind the dippers that their team is still not good enough to win against powerhouses like Fulham, Stock (twice), Hall, West ham, Wigan, man Shity, Everton. They talk about progress, but their whole progress is the lucky win that they got against us, just that one game and us missing couple of games made them think they got better. Deluded twats, nothing more.
Typical, you look at the gross amount. Gross amount is 171 million. Net amount is more like 80 million. To get Torres for instance, who was in the 20-25 million region, we had to sell Bellamy for 11. We still haven’t spend 30 million on a player, which Man Utd have done on several occasions. And by the way, you mention if Rafa had bought 1 brilliant 20 million player rather than 5 shite 5 million players. One of those so called shite 5 million players, being Albert Riera, tore you guys up at Anfield earlier in the season. On a lower budget than Man Utd or Chelsea, Liverpool are closer to them than you want to admit.
AussieRed – Evra, Vidic, da Silvas, Van der Sar and Park Ji-Sung all cost less than Riera. What’s your point?
Whether the money spent was gross or net makes no fucking difference. He’s still spent the money and it’s largely been wasted. If he’d spent that money on decent players, spending more on one, then you wouldn’t be heading for your 19th year.
Since the Premiership was formed, United (£391m) have SPENT £11m more than Liverpool (£380).
Since the Premiership was formed, United (£190m) have EARNED £13m more than Liverpool (£177m).
On average, Liverpool (£11.9) have spent £100k more per season than United (£11.8). This totals to Liverpool spending a net total of £202m compared to United spending £200m.
Since Rafa Benitez joined Liverpool in 2004, United (£169m) have SPENT £43m less than Liverpool (£212m).
Since Rafa Benitez joined Liverpool in 2004, United have EARNED (£76m) have EARNED £26m less than Liverpool (£102m).
On average, Liverpool (£22m) have spent £4m more per season than United (£18m). This totals to Liverpool spending a net total of £110m compared to United spending £93m since 2004.
http://www.transferleague.co.uk/
There goes that myth. Bye bye myth, I’ll see you next time Liverpool fans try to prove us United fans wrong, but I will break out these same pure hard FACTS .
@ Colbert and Suhyal..
Had to go to a meeting and from go home, No one is scared of foul mouth Suhyal, He does not posses the mental ability to have a constructive debate.
@ SteRDLK
This are not facts, send a list of EACH player bought.
AussieRed – Evra, Vidic, da Silvas, Van der Sar and Park Ji-Sung all cost less than Riera. What’s your point?
Again you are not truthful, then again you are Man U fan, I expect lies.
Reina was 6M, Vidic was 7M.
Jose Reina Villareal £6,000,000 04.07.2005
Well Rio ferd cost more than : Reina, Albeola, Carra, Skrtel, Aureillo put together.
Heres a fact for all you liverFools talking shit on this site…
you will remain second rate as long as your club keeps hiding behind excuses to substantiate your second rate performances.
PLease dont change….. while we take everything that made liverpool special…once you havent won the most leagues and european cups you will be dusty black and white clippings. That club that used to be big, used to win things.
Heres a fact 18 seasons without a league.
Why doestn mean ANYTHING.
Suck it up ya bunch of big cry babies. Man up fer fuck sakes, You make me sick.
The Vermin – players, manager and fans – are all getting their excuses in nice and early before we go out and give them a good hiding today PMSL.
To all the Livershite fans, remember one thing:
Self pity city, you’re just a self-pity city
Self pity city………..
just remember the dippers have no concept of buying and selling players, they don’t understand why rafa can’t just rob them. Maybe if they had a decent youth policiy and produced good talent that could be mixed in with the 20 million plus players then they would be in a better situation. the fools.
‘I’D RATHER WALK ALONE’
Buttom line is CASH wins the EPL, Jose and Fergie have proved that. Only Arsene Wenger has won the EPL without spending. LMAO…
You are as good as Lyon, Porto and Celtic on the home turf. Show me what you can do in Europe and I ll respect your team.
When liverpool was winning, we did it in STYLE, none of our players missed a drug test, we didn’t have diver, we didn’t a woman beater,(Rio) we didn’t have a player that ll get his club teammate sent off in an international game, we didn’t never have a player that cried he wants to play for his dream team (Madrid).There was no Kung fu king in our team beating on fans, Our manager is not a REDNOSE neither… You might win all the trophies in the world, but you ll always be a CLASSLESS club.
Or I forgot, when we were winning, we didn’t have 700M pound debt. neither did we steal players other teams spent time and money making world class… LMFAO
Ahem, utd cast aside TWICE in the league!!!
Oh the joys!!!
Sad fact is is that it’ll probably not change the outcome of the title race…
But by god, it feels GOOD!!!!!!
Hammered in your own back yard – PRICELESS!!!
type market value of premiership squads into google. the figures vary but it is undeniable united’s squad is assembled for a price far in excess of liverpool’s. you’ve earnt the right to spend and spent is pretty well but don’t mug yourselves off by suggesting liverpool’s spending is anywhere near it becauce you look a trifle foolish
COLBERT:
I bet you, like your red-nosed anus of a manager, thinks that United were the better team today, don’t you?
How do you feel, you knob!
Reina – Fat tosser, talkin shit as usual, shud learn how to catch a ball first
Manclin, maybe you should be offering goalkeeping advice to EVS after his embarrassing display on Saturday!!!