Liverpool FC Forum

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sat Dec 23, 2017 3:13 pm wrote:It's a big month coming up for us, it was obvious even last summer that our defence wasn't good enough and to be fair to the club they knew it themselves, when you are willing to not just break but smash the world transfer record for a defender you are plainly not doing that for a laugh.
We made the mistake though of thinking Southampton would cave in at the last minute which obviously didn't happen, I give the club a pass on that though because £70m is quite frankly ridiculous money for VVD and LFC were well within their rights to expect a selling club like Southampton to cash in like they have done in the past.
We can't make that same mistake again though, we can't spend a month chasing the same player only for the deal not to materialise.
Signing the likes of Lemar and Kovacic would be incredible but imo this clubs number 1 priority during the window should be to ensure that we go into February with a better defence than we had in December. I love Jurgen but if he doesn't buy or loan at least 1 defender this window then it will be an act of gross negligence. We are only halfway through the season yet we have had collapses against Watford, City, Spurs, Seville, Arsenal and very nearly Leicester as well, our defence is a running joke throughout the league, to not do something about it for 2 windows running would be beyond the pail.