Who the manager could nurture and mould into the finished article? Why are you so confident that will be the case? Besides, it's not like all of Brendan's transfers have been a success at this club.
You name me a manager who buys guaranteed success every time, managers at clubs with bottomless financial resources can and do make signings that fail to produce the goods.
BR took us to the nearest margin of winning the league while being under financial restriction and failing to sign targets he had specified would have benefitted the team.
No two players are the same, so in effect all players are "unique".
The difference is in the qualification of the word ''unique'', some may be described as uniquely a bag of sh*te, while in Luis' case the word unique is a positive inference to describe a footballer who is head and shoulders above his peers with regard to skill, insight and tactical nous.
So your statement about the strict interpretation of unique is rather approximate if not faulted.
We could never replace the quality that Suarez offered us, but we could always limit the loss of quality. We sold a first team striker and bought a first team striker. So technically we have replaced him, but because of contrasting styles and level of abilities, most supporters would rather claim we haven't replaced Suarez, as the drop in quality is pretty damning.
You must excuse my fixation with the word ''unique'' but the above depends entirely on your questionable definition of that word.
As stated the word by definition is 'incapable of being replicated'.
The lads we have acquired have the potential to do a job for us, there is faith in the manager that given the opportunity he has the ability to make that happen.
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