Nah. You can't ignore the loss of two of our better players like that.
Especially Suarez. I bet we're feeling the pinch off losing Suarez off the pitch now.
Superstar gone. Star attraction gone. Gerrard two.
Massive losses in back to back windows.
What I want to see is that Brendan has learned from last season's mistakes.
Unfortunately he seems to be already making excuses for Europa League with this "B Team " talk.
Less of that please Brendan.
But Suarez is a year in the past now, if after the amount of players signed and money spent, we still haven't found an effective signing to take his place then there really is no hope. Suarez is a one off player that doesn't come along all that often, so it's a case of making sure you identify a suitable player(s) to come in to not take his place as such because chances are that simply isn't going to happen, but to change us for the better compared to last season.
Trophy is a trophy, we should be fielding the strongest team we can to try and go as far we can so all this B Team talk really does my head in. It's basically making excuses, like you say and it's a bit disrespectful towards the fans as well IMO because we are the ones still paying out to go and watch the games, we want to see us win games, not watch games where the manager basically doesn't give a toss whether its a win or loss because it's deemed a lower rated competition to the Champions League. It's still a trophy, competing against some damn good teams still because you never know who might end up dropping into it from the Champions League too!
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