I don't know how anyone can come out and defend our transfer record under FSG? They've done a lot of good things but getting transfers right more often then they get it wrong has not been one of them. Last Summer we spent £111 million gross/£36 million net on players and we've gone from title favourites to outsiders for getting a top four place and lost our best player in the process. There's no getting around it, we bought poorly. Neither Markovic, Balotelli, Lovren, Manquillo, Moreno or Lambert have made the cut this season yet we spent a collective £72 million on those players.
Hindsight may be twenty twenty but any fool could have pointed to Balotelli and said he didn't fit our system, to Lovren and say he's a form player, to Moreno and say he can't defend, to Lambert and say he was too old. So if we remove Markovic from the equation and put that down to a player just not working out, that still leaves £52 million and can anyone seriously say we couldn't have spent that £52 million better than we did? And if we had spent it better, would we have had such a poor start to the season? And if hadn't had such a poor start to the season, would Sterling have been as influential as he has this season? And if he hadn't been one of our more influential players, would he be demanding £150,000 a week from the club? Everything boils down to a poor record in the transfer market under our current owners.
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