Boxscarf » Sun Apr 08, 2012 9:32 am wrote:devaney » Sun Apr 08, 2012 6:54 am wrote:Another 30 minutes of below average football from Carroll against a struggling Villa doesn't do anything to convince me that Carroll should be part of Liverpool's long term plans. He has now been involved heavily in nearly all of our last 13 Premiership matches and we have won 2 and I'm fairly certain he hasn't scored or contributed very much worthy of note.Can't be bothered checking the stats.No doubt Benny and RedAnt will put me right.Sorry lads I love the club but in over fifty years of supporting them I have never been so disappointed in how we utilised over £100m in the transfer market.
No manager in the history of the club has the kind of investment that Kenny has had and I'm afraid he's squandered it. I've got no problems with us signing players with potential for the future, but not at the prices we paid and I'm disappointed that we didn't buy players with genuine track records over a number of seasons.
It is simply not true to say "no manager in the history of the club has the kind of investment that Kenny has", in the January when Kenny came back we bought Carroll and Suarez for £58M and sold Torres and Babel for £56M, then in the summer we spent £50 + million on new players but got £20 + million for selling the players we didn't want, in January we didn't spend anything. Perhaps FSG will make some more money available in the summer when we get Aquilani and Cole off the wage bill.
Rafa spent over £200 million in his 6 seasons in charge, raising over £100M in sales for a net spend of over £100M. The first 3 or 4 seasons we got stronger every year until H&G stopped the money in Rafa's last 2 seasons, this is when things started to go wrong for Rafa and for Liverpool and we still haven't recovered.
The mancs spend £20M on players for the future all the time but they ease them in gradually whereas our squad is so bare that they have to perform straight away, that's why these players get so much criticsm off so called fans.
We don't need to spend like city but we do need to add a 2 or 3 top quality players to compliment the players we already have, including a natural goal scorer and a winger who can hold the ball and ran at defenders.