the biggest thing on here is that brendan can do what he wants, spend what he wants and very few will question him. its like his first few windows have been brushed under the carpet except for that january when he got coutinho and sturridge. this window was so important to sign players that would kick us on and give us an edge in europe and he has again dropped the ball.
we have bought very poorly despite all the muck he spouts, it has been like that since he came in blabbing about tiki taka and winning games in the opposition half etc etc but in his 3rd season that football is non existent despite spending over 200 million quid. we still have a poor squad and are hoping this summer's signings dont go the way of his previous one's but so far they look like square peg's. with the exception of studge and couts not one of his transfers have been an improvement on what they replaced.
even in the thread kewell posted about what 3 changes you would make and almost every single reply is one that involves him spending more money

its pointed out often enough about the petro dollars but what we are spending is not buttons and probably the highest any manager in our history has been given before in such a short period. just because chelsea and city can afford to spend more does not excuse how badly we have spent ours. its a woeful excuse to use just like the one that that tries to justify our current position. who cares if the other contenders are struggling, we shouldnt be ,just because we lost one player. without him the effect should have been goals scored not complete disarray. i heard a comment by brian kerr who was at the QPR match and stated that we had absolutely zero cohesion and looked like a side who had a keeper and a few lads at the back, another bunch in the midfield and another 2 lads up front. thats 100% spot on and at this stage of the season its unforgivable.
we had a fantastic run last season and came very close to the title, i dont place blame on anyone that we didnt as it would have meant we needed a record run to do it and unfortunately our cracks were beginning to show before that chelsea game. we were good but just not that good in the end. plenty blame gerrard and others rodgers but if anything it was because we pretty much flogged 11 players to death as a result of not having a proper bench with any quality on it. that has marginally changed despite the summers outlay. its that bad that many are hoping joe allen lines up tonight against real madrid and not our new signings.
i do think we will improve, certainly from the dross we have served up thus far, but it will be nowhere near the level we were at without giving him more money and then gambling on the result.
for me things have to change and its in the managerial department, im not saying bin rodgers but he has got to accept his failures and accept a D,O,F which was after all the route fsg originally wanted to go down until he changed their minds with 200 odd pages of spin.
my biggest hope is that when JH was over he didnt purchase the rose tinted jam-jar glasses that some on here did.