FSG tried the spend big route and it ended with Kenny and Comolli wasting 100 million
Well, first off... some folk tend to, rather conveniently, forget that Kenny Dalglish was not in control of either negotiations or finances. To even hint that he was is misleading at best and black propaganda (propagated by people wanting to justify Kenny's sacking) at worst.
The facts are:
* John Henry's DoF [Comolli] was in charge of 1# statistics based scouting and #2 contract negotiations.
* John Henry/FSG sanctioned and even praised each and every one of those [Comolli] deals.
Now whilst Kenny Dalglish had the final say whether he wanted the players or not and some of those players "flopped": he had no control over their cost.
That being clear let's look at how much money was "wasted" in the
FSG, so-called, "spend big route"...
Bought: Carroll £35m + Suarez £22m + Downing £20m + Henderson £16 + Adam £7m + Enrique £6m + Coates £7m = £113m
Sold: Torres £50m + Meireles £12m + Babel £6m + N'gog £4m = £72m
"Big spend route": £113m - £72m = Total £41m.
Now let's look at how much of that £41m "big spend" was lost or "wasted" (if it suits better):
Carroll; sold for £15.5m + Adam; sold for £4m + Downing sold(?) for £5m(?) = £24.5m. Money lost ("wasted") in the "big spend" is now down to £16.5m. * n.b. none of this includes amortisation or wage cuts by the way.
Surely I don't need to factor in how much we could get for Suarez, Enrique, Henderson & Coates (if we sold them tomorrow) for everyone to see that the myth about
money "wasted" by Comolli/Kenny Dalglish is just that... a F***ing myth.
A myth peddled by FSG's PR Dept. and bought by mugs. Some mugs are simply too daft to think for themselves but others buy it, knowingly, because it somehow makes them feel justified in their anti-Dalglish stance.
Think for yourselves Redmen and women... don't buy into the myth(s).
On topic: Stewart Downing - another few million quid saved, a figure of ridicule gone and a nice distraction... what's not to like; eh?