They've held back on spending at the cost of CL places... remember the season when our back line was decimated which then forced us to play MFs in defence when which caused huge issues...It was not till the last day of the transfer window we got two dead beat players.
Last season we need MFs, if
@moron and I could see that, so did most of the fan base. The released £40m only when we all know we needed more.
If it weren't for Klopp, their frugalness could have jeopardised the club as a big 6.
That’s not really the case though - the strategy has been pretty clear in that we generally don’t compromise on quality if we don’t get the player we want.
We have finite resources - there’s nothing not clear about the owners strategy - if a player is available for a price that we’re willing to play then we’ll try to sign him. If the players we want aren’t available then we’ll wait till either they or someone as good is.
Sometimes it works in our favour - because, realistically, how many of our signings under Klopp have failed - Kieta the most obvious one due to injury, Thiago similar but has had his moments too and probably Karius - that’s it.
So, we can be critical of our strategy, but it seems weird to given the success rate is phenomenally high. Part of that has to be down to deciding not to chase after “maybe” players - leave that to the Chelseas and Utd’s of the world.
We didn’t sign a CB because we wanted Konate, so we decided to wait - and it probably would have been ok apart from the GBH on Virgil committed by T-Rex arms.
We didn’t sign a midfielder last year - which led to Mac A & Dom - who weren’t available the previous summer. The minute we lost the CL final our chances of Bellingham reversed, though we clearly spent years trying to get him.
We were after Gravy for years too.
Endo is probably the only example that comes to mind of a Plan B signing.
So… get rid of the owners!!!! no, absolutely not, why - they’ve invested in the Academy and we’re seeing the results, they invested in the ground and that along with their input in commercial revenues means we’re sold financially with no worries, no need to sell players, can offer top wages to retain world class talent - what sort of muppet would want to give that up just so as we could splash cash we don’t have on a bunch of shite players - just look round the Premier League for how that works out.
There’s areas they need to get better at - this appointment has to be spot on and there’s a mess in the backroom and support staff that also needs fixing - which really shouldn’t be taking this long to sort out - but has to be IN, surely.
