There is a work in a progress.
We have just gone through our two worst seasons in the league in the last 10 years with no thanks to a a poor season with Rafa, a mediocre manager in Roy Hodgson and off the pitch issues - Purslow, Hicks and Gillett and all.
We lost so many world class players in that short span - Xabi Alonso, Javier Mascherano and Fernando Torres. We've also lost a fair good amount of decent players in Alvaro Arbeloa and Yossi Benayoun. Under Roy and probably Rafa's last season, these players were "replaced" with inferior players.
We've got new owners now, for barely over a year, who have spent tons of money. Yeah, some results aren't ideal but we're a much better side than back in 2010. It's not only a major concern to replace the calibre of players we've lost, it's also difficult to bring back the winning mentality of the players that underwent two (err, one and a half) horrendous seasons with the club.
It took Ferguson 6/7 years to win his first league title. And back when they started dominating in around 2001 ... they themselves have spent shitload of cash - Ferdinand (30 mil, 2001), Ronaldo (13 mil, 2003) and between 2004-2009, they've spent almost 20 million EACH on Nani, Anderson, Carrick, Berbatov, Rooney and Hargreaves and that was BEFORE they even sold Ronaldo for 80 mil. Then you add Ashley Young, Valencia and De Gea all costing around 20 million.
Manchester City and Chelsea went through the same process. They got billionaires who instantly spent tons on money in their first season. This resulted in Chelsea getting to league titles back to back. Quality players yield results almost straight away. I wouldn't be surprised if Man City themselves won the league this season.
Though some players aren't there anymore, they've spent Robinho (32 mil), Bridge (10 mil), Bellamy (14 mil), De Jong (16 mil) all in 2008/2009. In 2009/2010, they bought Barry (12 mil), Santa Cruz (18 mil), Tevez (30 mil?), Adebayor (25 mil) and Toure (16 mil), Lescott (22 mil) and Johnson (?? mil). Last season, they signed Boating (10 mil), Silva (25 mil), Yaya Toure (26 mil), Kolarov (16 mil), Balotelli (23 mil), James Milner (24 mil) and Edin Dzeko (27 mil).
This season, Nasri (22 mil) and Aguero (35 mil) arrived. The total spent in 3 years amounts to 403 million and this is excluding all the players that cost less than 10 million. And not all their players turned out to be successful.
While money does not guarantee success, it definitely helps a shiteload. We've only spend a quarter of Man City's spending. Yeah, we spent more than a 100 million this year but that is natural as we've just got taken over wheares other clubs like City, United, Chelsea and maybe even Real and Barcelona had spent significantly less than us during the same time is due to the fact that they've spent tons on players they've got before we were taken over.
Two sh*te seasons with first half of 2010 being the lowest any Liverpool fan had felt. A new manager. New players (we freaking changed half of the squad!). Mentality to be fixed and expectations to be meet is a work in progress.
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