I tend to disagree with people labelling Comolli/Kenny signings terrible because their season in charge was finally a failure.
Seriously, if you have the occasion rewatch any of the 12 or so first games of 2011-12 season, or any of the big games prior to Lucas injury, we were playing really impressive attacking football, like we hadn't in ages, creating tons of chances (if finishing wasn't there, with an all-time record for shoots on wood), with much maligned players like Downing, Carrol and Adam in the team, Hendo playing out of position, etc...
The ultimate failure in the league that season wasn't due to an absolute lack of quality from those players but more to a big confidence crisis after failing to get desserved results for their early efforts, the Suarez ban, and Lucas injury. Crisis that affected Benitez signings and Gerrard as well.
Not to say we should have kept Comolli. He certainly failed to negociate good prices for most of his signings (he never recovered from the big mistake at the start of his spell, the money we offered for Carroll, that gave us the reputation of being ready to pay fortunes for barely proven talent, leading every other club to hardball us in negociations). But I don't think he (or Kenny who ultimately supported every one of his choices and paid for it) was that crap as a scout. He/they made some risky bets, mostly due to the buy english policy the club had at this time (policy that may or not have been a choice of owners, or Dalglish, more than his own, we'll never know), and we lacked the bit of luck most of these ones would have needed to succeed, that's all.
That said, Comolli popping every year or so to tell us how he was unjustly treated starts to become tiring, for his own good he should certainly turn the page, as he's more and more only remembered for having failed in the biggest job he got (while he could certainly have some credit for his previous ones, signing people like Bale and Boateng at Totenham, for example).
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