"first of all, we know very well that under FSG the manager isn't the one who buys players. The committee does. The only role the manager has is a final yes or no, that is to say, if he absolutely doesn't want a player the rest of the committee wants, he can veto the signing. And he must give the final approval on all signings. But the manager doesn't START the process by saying "I want player x." The committee puts options in front of him and then they decide together. It's how we ended up with Balotelli, Rodgers clearly didn't want him but at the end of the day the committee put him and other sh*t players in front of him so he had no other choice but to go with him.
That being said, I don't have specific names in mind who we "should" be going after. But if the Mancs have no CL and can't offer London and yet they STILL are bringing in top names, then why the hell are we not doing the same?
We can put a bow on it all we want but at the end of the day there wasn't a single damn person on this forum who thought at the beginning of the summer that the "top players" we were going to go after were Sadio Mane and f**king Wijnaldum"
Apologies but I think this is trash talk.
Most of us still play Footy Manager and assume most of the real life stuffs work the same way.
We have never been top spenders in the transfer market from time in memorial and the new owners never promised you they were going to break the bank nor were they going to build the galacticos.
Guys we need to be realistic, its not the number of superstars you have in your team that determines if you will win trophies, for all the complains about our squad last season we still competed in 2 finals (Local and in Europe) even if they were 2nd rate tournaments.
Let the manager do his job and you support instead of complaining about every single signing.
The Barca's of this world were built on a team from their academy - Messi, Xavi, iniesta, Valdes, Puyol, the list is endless. Why are we so fixated on big money signings? At least we should have learnt something from Leicester of last season - though that was a freak one. But there are models - Juve, Athletico Madrid, Sevilla, Valencia, even Tottenham.
Lets operate the Liverpool way/ blueprint and leave all this media sensationalized craze for big money signings - I'm not against it but don't make that the hallmark of my football club.
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