"FSG's Most Important Summer?" Last Summer.
Money was there [City & Chelsea type money ]; kudos [Champions League football] was there and title rivals were on the ropes [just like the season before btw] and just like the previous season...
The same path was chosen - potential quality & low financial risk over proven quality with higher financial risk. A, long-term, well documented, strategy which might, (it's still being argued), eventually, maybe, perhaps, somewhere down the line, deliver a title-winning team. A strategy which has at it's heart finance and 'good business practice' rather than football... better to risk football success than profit.
The Club's, footballing, objectives/goals, for this season were set out: consolidation in a Champions League qualifying place - with our signings it was the best we could hope for, really - the manger referenced it and many fans (even tho' they were "happy with our transfer business" ) acknowledged it. There was "always next season" after all.
Well... "next season" is soon to be upon us and whilst I believe that there's still a chance that we can qualify for the Champions League; I want our targets set higher than that next season. In my opinion: a move away (if even only temporarily) from the business-centric, 'potential quality', transfer policy towards a more football-centric 'proven quality' view is what's needed.
Are we a season (or two) too late? I hope not but hey... if not this Summer - there's always next year; right?
I agree with that.
Last Summer was the summer.
Massive windfall from Suarez.
Back in the Champions League.
Should have taken top talent from across Europe.
Instead we pumped most of the Suarez money into Southampton,
and then didn't replace the best player in the league/world last season.
fu**ed it up. Allowed United back into the Champions League.
Should have rectified the striker problem in January.
Bottled it.
If a club is to have ambition it should be at the very top of it.
Instead Suarez and Sturridge toiled to get Liverpool into the Champions League and the "SAS"
never saw a second of it for Liverpool.
2 most prolific strikers in the league last season.
We lost them (Through sale and injury).
The replacement of them was non existent.
That failure needs to be rectified.
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