Brod has our respect for managing the team but he has some work to do when it comes to transfer activity!
Being a WC year I expect a lot of the moves will be late in the window, that being said I don't think we should be upset with who we have already signed all of whom improve our squad. They were also pretty good deals price wise considering the current market, Lallana was on the pricey side but i think lambert could have gone for 10m in different circumstances. I think there will be 1 or 2 marquee signings coming later in the window but i myself would be happy to stick with the youth policy.
Dalglish signed Suarez!!! and Henderson and enrique, all good signings. The real reason that Dalglish went was he had no long term game plan for the team. Thats why players like Carroll and Downing didn't work because he didn't think about how they would work in his system.
Those were great signings and he (and Comolli) deserve credit for them but the reason they got booted was because we failed to get top four after spending £35m on Carroll, £20m on Downing and £8m on Charlie ****ing Adam
Old hat excuse for teams who make no moves early on. Plenty of stars move during world cups. Is Lallana better than Coutinho or Sterling? So not a good deal then To who exactly? Under what different circumstances? The circumstance where he was 5 years younger and twice as good?? I like Liverpool and Brendan has you playing a modern brand of exciting and effective football. BUt you've got to use your CL to entice big players. You've got pots of cash now and the lure of CL football... players like Lallana and Lovren should be nowhere near your radar.
Name some top deals that have gone through so far this summer then. And before you say Suarez, that was doing after Uruguay went home.
I was expected Shaw, Lallana and Herrera to be the response along with Sanchez (happened after Chile went out) too
Costa happened before World Cup didn't it? Not during in. Not sure when the Fabregas one happened though. David Luiz was before too wasn't it? Already mentioned Sanchez above. Chile were already out.
The sheep on Matth Mountain are in trouble if Yoonited sign their reported targets. "The thought of Vidal and Di Maria joining Manchester United is giving me a boner."
Way to twist what I said What I actually responded to was a poster claiming using the world cup as excuse was rubbish which quite clearly isn't the case as players tend not to move whilst involved in the world cup.
Yes but you don't usually get a replacement for your star striker untill you have sold him!!!! a deal which was done after the WC Lallana is more of a direct threat than Coutinho who is a playmaker. Sterling is an forward! He's certainly better than Allen or Lucas (gerrard will play less this season) Just because you pay the high side of market price doesn't mean he's not a good deal! that is borne out in performances! how much did you play for Ozil, who burned out after half a season? On a longer contract Lambert would have cost more, see craig bellamy's transfer to city for 14m from west ham at a similar age on longer contract. You were saying the same thing last year, especially after signing Ozil, result= 5-1. I think i will trust BR to bring in the right players!!! Anything else?
To be fair to Chelsea though Frank, they played most of the season with a shocking strikeforce really, and yes Moaninho was to blame for that, he must of known he had the Chelsea job at the beginning of the year! That is what ultimately cost them, the lacks of goals against the lesser teams. The have addressed that already. They did pretty well against the other top 3 teams too P6 W5 D1, they will be within a point or two of the League this time for sure!
I have to say that I went on record as saying I had little confidence that BR could take us back to the top. Whilst I have to admit we were fantastic last season, I am still not convinced he will. I think the Suarez factor was a big difference in what happened last season, as well as the number of games. Still he has done well, and we got closer than anyone could have imagined last season. However looking at the full list of players BR has brought in to the club, you have to say its not a great record really. http://www.lfchistory.net/Transfers/ByManager/25-1 Yes the likes of Assaidi were bargain buys and in lots of ways a typical Benitez punt with the left over spare change. Of the 19 players 3 have yet to turn out for us, but the remaining 16 I would say only 3 have been 'good' signings, the rest either 'potential', or tosh! Not much confidence when you look at the newest 3.
Ach, all I'm saying is whinge when they don't work. By all means bookmark and say "I told you so" but what is the point in condemning players and manager before they've kicked a ball? I sat and read it all last year and then what?... Slag him quite rightly for an Aspas or Alberto, praise him for a coutinho or Sturridge. They all played or didn't so can actually be judged and he can be judged on them. And Lucaas..should we just buy all of arsenals players then, I mean they are proven CL qualifiers....or maybe Celtics....they get in it every year so their players must be proven right? Let's just hope we have to do another "we all talk crap and Brendan knows what he's doing" thread like we did at the end of this season....
I think the point is though that, those 'rumoured' to be our targets are the sort of players that are part of the 13 players that have either failed, still awaiting their potential to blossom, or still awaiting to officially label them a failure when we ultimately ship them out for a loss. I will say it again; the influence of Suarez put us in a false position, just as the likes of Bale or RVP at Arsenal did. We need better players, and if BR is going to improve his own transfer record, he needs to target better players.
