I did not say he was blameless, Scott, I said he's only part of a wider systemic problem at the club. Changing managers without changing the transfer policy will achieve nothing which in turn will achieve nothing if the players are unwilling to apply the mental fortitude necessary to dig us out of slumps like this, which on recent evidence, they do not. By extension, if we're willing to change the transfer policy then should the manager not be judged by what he does without the constraints placed upon him?
But what exactly are these constraints that everybody is now banging on about? Does anyone know? Clearly we are not competing at the very top table when it comes to transfers, the owners aren't going to spend the sort of money the. Mancs shelled out on Di Maria and neither will they match the fees that Barca and Madrid can go to. I can live with that. Some pretty heft fees have been spent at the club since the owners came in have they not? I know that the biggest buys have generally happened after a big sale (Torres, Suarez) but both Kenny and Brendan spent plenty in the market. You can rattle off a list of big money buys over the past 4 years (Downing, Henderson, Carroll, Suarez, Sakho, Sturridge, Allen, Lallana, Lovren, Markovic, Balotelli all topped 16 million I believe)
Im not buying this 'poor Brendan imagine what he could have done if he could compete in the market' story that is suddenly doing the rounds. The suggestion almost seems to be that he wanted to buy all these older more experienced players but he was told no because they have no resale value and their wages are too high. I'm not sure there is any real basis for it? Gerrard made a few comments earlier in the week about us not going out and buying a Fabregas but I suspect we would have gone for him if the manager had been keen.
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