Power n Glory wrote:Rayyo wrote:Santi wrote:Rayyo wrote:Santi wrote:Liverpool weren't smart with coutinho though, it was a ridiculous offer that no club would turn down. People need to stop using it as an example of squad building tbh, they did well with the money but it rarely happens.
you just contradicted yourself.
How? It's rare that a club is so desperate and overpays so much for a player. The only smart thing Liverpool did was buying him for 8m in the first place, the rest was pure stupidity from Barcelona.
i said liverpool done smart business. you said it wasn't smart then you said it rarely happens.
so it was smart then.
I agree. It was smart and it wasn't rare for Liverpool. The fee for Coutinho was massive and probably the peak of their transfer strategy but that Klopp team was years in the making. They sold well and reinvested in some good players that played a key role in getting them to where they are. It started before Klopp arrived.
2014. They sold Suarez for big money one season and that was probably the start of the rebuild.
2015. They did the same the following season when selling Sterling and bought Firmino and Joe Gomez.
2016. They wasted no timing getting rid of Benteke and a few other dead weight players. That paid for Mane and Wijnaldum.
2017. Then the sold Coutinho for that massive fee.
Then use those deals to show their smart business and rebuild, not the coutinho fluke. Also without the latter, they'd still have been shit. My point, as I said originally, is you can't use them as a benchmark. It would've taken them at least a couple more years to get where they are if they didn't have Barca massively overpaying for Coutinho.
This is all on top of the best transfer they made, signing a world class manager in Klopp. Anyone whoexpects us to be able to rise as quick as Liverpool did is nuts, we aren't going to get 120m for Martinelli in the next 2 seasons so it'll be a lot longer process. No doubt Liverpool have done great over the last 8 years in the transfer market, but the Coutinho deal was a complete rarity that helped them go from top 4 challengers to top of Europe.