Will our club ever be in a position where it can keep hold of its most valuable players?

Will fans ever understand that players become cunts and backstab their team? This isn't really FSGs fault. Coutinho told them 8 weeks ago he's staying

We were the best team in the world and Keegan wanted to leave. Don't put too much stock in the loyalty of players.

No one man is bigger than the club

Stop buying south Americans who's dream is to play in Spain

If we get bought out by some billionaire and can pay Man City wages

For every Sheikh Mansour there are 100 Hicks & Gillett's.

United was forced to sell Ronaldo despite winning trophies. The two Spanish clubs will always be at least a Tier above every other club.

Probably do need new rich owners tbh. At least then we'd be able to have a squad of class players rather than depending on 2/3 at a time.

No.

Honestly i dont think so. Even if we got unlimited funding by oil rich owners we still couldn't be the biggest team, because cities like Barca, Madrid, Paris, London, Milan etc would always be more appealing to players. So if you consider if all teams had unlimited budgets, we would lose out because of that, the city is not as appealing to stars. All these cities are capable of being run by owners with deep pockets, if not now, in the future. It's not like the past days of tee 70s or 80s when we were top anymore, money drives the game, and all of these cities will attract rich ownership to compete with. We already couodnt compete with paris, even if our money was the same.

Yes, when one of those premium players has something called fucking loyalty.

Or Arab money.

My answer will be 'yes'. But british football has to grow

• as a household name in the international scene.

The major attraction about british football is not about exposure to european competitions. On the contrary, the local competetiveness of the PL makes it tougher to enter the competitions in comparison to your skill (many players of the mid to lower table teams would walk into most established serial-participants in other countries).

So what is it that players are attracted to in the PL? Its not the atmospheres - what is it then ... its money that 'attracts' the players that 'come here'. If they came for money, they will leave for money without blinking an eye - to lure someone with money and expect loyalty is a kind of harmfull delusion.

Just two things would qualify to change in order to be able to keep your best players: being competitive internationaly -> trophies (british teams have not been overly succesfull in the european competitions).

Or, your best players consider the piece of land where your ground is located their 'home'. Im talking homegrown players. Players that call the region their home, players that do not care about the weather. Wich leads me to...

• as a place to develope youth.

The influx of money causes the teams to look for a quick fix and first invest in and than ignore their youth prospects (i will name Dom Solanke my example). In general, the youth developement in britain is, compared to other countries miles behind (see at the bottom).

If liverpool can trust and cherish its youth prospects (im talking home grown like TAA). And invest heavily into youth developement (preferably in cooperation with all other stakeholders), there could not only be a situation where players do not neccessary wanna leave - but the youth academies are producing talent non-stop and the club and the fans are confident that raw quality is waiting in the wings, itching for a chance to show what they are made of.

We could be such a haven for youth. A club that does not rely on our 'best players'. The biggest obstacle that i can see for that right now, is the fanbase-meltdown-crew pushed to their bareable limit by the media - gues what the media is in for? You really wanna believe their story?

(About the reforms: )The neccessary reforms would be hugely expensive, of course. Germany invested about 500m€ in the span of 10 years or so in order to revive their youth developement (if you want to see the result, i would recomend the semi final in brazil). Thats roughly 50m€ a year ... to completely reshape the landscape and general approach to youth developement not in one club, but in every single german club that plays professional football + way beyond (recomended reading: Raphael Honigstein - "Das reboot").

Lets see next summer

Until Torres I never really worried about it, I can only remember Collymore and Owen breaking my heart in a good ten years and always thought we were on par with the best. Nowadays it just seems we are always on the cusp of being great before losing our icons :(

Only local lads to be honest, lads like Carra and Trent were and are just F5ers like us that made it.

I would rather keep on trying with klopp, win it the liverpool way.

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Not until we have one of the best players in the world where others will want to join and be part of history and can compete for champions league finals and when Barcelona/Real Madrid aren't relevant but that may never happen

Like Barca?

Didn't they lose Neymar?

yes and no. If we get back to where we were a decade ago, then we'll be able to rebuff 95% of teams. Right now, we can rebuff about 90% easily. In England, we'd only lose someone to Man City or Chelsea if the player wants money; as no player is stupid enough to swap the red shirts at either end of the M62.

Aboard it's different. The draw of Madrid and Barca is huge and even if we were dominating, we'd still have a hard time keeping a player they want.

Ever is a long time, who knows? Short term (say next few years), probably not.

Yeah win trophies. And no it isn't just us. Just look at Spurs young talented team but how long before there's an exodus when there's no trophies. Either that or get a billionaire sugar daddy that can pay for anything he wants.