Football

"Actually you shouldn't be surprised by the Andy Carroll signing/offer/whatever it is right now. The Fenway guys just spent $142m on a left-fielder (Carl Crawford) over the next seven years and are going to resign a first baseman (Adrian Gonzalez) for probably about the same amount of money. So $56m for a young striker is next to nothing for these guys."

Without some sort of context for those numbers, ie what left-fielders & 1st basemen go for, this statement is a bit meaningless. The Red Sox run at a profit, and I should think that is what the plan for Liverpool is.