D___C » Tue May 08, 2012 3:00 am wrote:"used local knowledge"... sweet jesus it continues.
There was me thinking Real Madrid were tailing Xabi Alonso the entire year prior to us pulling off a major coup.. or that Pepe Reina was one of, of not the, most sought after goalkeepers in Spain after a superb season with Villarreal. Nah.. not according to the dumb myopic little englander. So well done rafa for scouring the spanish backwaters to pluck out these "unknowns" from obscurity.
In contrast, that "massive name" jordan henderson was damn well everywhere prior to joining us wasn't he? None of us had to google him to see what he looked like (honest).
Calm down for god's sake, they were up and coming players in Spain but they came here because of Rafa's reputation. We got them for a good price because they weren't full internationals and they wanted to work for Rafa.
It's not as easy as you suggest to sign cheap foreign players who will go on to be a success, we've had plenty of foreign failures as you well know.
Liverpool were always criticised during the Houllier and Benitez years for not having enough British players so we tried to change it and sign a core of British talent. We had to pay premium prices and perhaps it hasn't worked as well as we'd hoped but I'm sure we've realised that and we will now try to sign the best players we can, whatever their nationality.
Believe me, I'm no little Englander, I'm not even English and I would like a successful Liverpool team whatever the nationality of the players but I will support this club through good times and bad times and I don't think it's helpful to criticise everything and everybody at this club if things don't go as well as we hope.