After bumping along through recent non event transfer windows, it was a rush of adrenalin and an orgy of spending this summer to utilise the CL funds, the TV money and Luis' transfer bonus.
The Net spend would make an accountant purr.
When we were criticised for bringing in too many new faces and being just like the Spuds we said ...
"Ah Yes .... but ours have Premier League experience.
It will be different for us.
Long in the tooth managers made the comment that you can only integrate three good players into a team, in any one season.
We've already seen confusion in our defence. We've seen comedy at set pieces against us.
Today Brendan admits that "We are a little bit broken".
Should we have bought fewer .... but higher quality players to integrate into the team?
Liverpool are broken, says manager Brendan Rodgers
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has admitted his team are a "little bit broken" after three defeats in their first five Premier League matches.
Rodgers, whose side are 11th in the table, said the introduction of new players had disrupted his philosophy.
"We're reintroducing the principles that brought us the win ratio we've had over the last 18 months," he said.
"Our game was based on high intensity but, apart from that Tottenham game, we've moved away from that."
Liverpool beat Tottenham 3-0 at White Hart Lane on 31 August, but have since lost two successive league games, to Aston Villa and West Ham.
They were also unconvincing in recent victories over Champions League opponents Ludogorets Razgrad and Middlesbrough in the League Cup on Tuesday.
Liverpool lost three of their opening five league games two seasons ago.
It previously happened in 1959, when they were a Second Division club.
The Anfield side had the majority of possession (62%) at Upton Park but West Ham had more shots, 13 in total and seven on target.
Mario Balotelli has not scored a Premier League goal since November 2012.
"We put in a lot of hard work in the first six months to a year we were here, and a lot of those processes became natural," added the Northern Irishman, who joined the club in 2012. "The consequence of that was winning.
"But we introduced a raft of new players - you lose the core of players who were important, and that's obviously a factor and then it becomes a bit broken.
"That's how our game has looked for a big part of the season, but I have a group of players here who identify with that.
"We need to get back and refocus on what has allowed us win games consistently over the last 18 months to two years."
Liverpool finished second last season, two points adrift of eventual champions Manchester City, but over the summer sold top scorer Luis Suarez and brought in nine players.