Are you happy having no reliable fit CB's?Jürgen having hardly any net spend then being told there's no money?i believe over the 10 years FSG have been the owners our overall net spend is around 23m per season,FSG loaned the money for the new stand(115m) and built Kirkby (£50m) after selling melwood (10m).i would say they are penny pinchers at this time as Jürgen has made it clear he needs a CB but there is no money in the pot so where has the revenue Jürgen has generated from all the success gone?yes they are losing money due to no fans but surely long term buying a CB now makes sense,as for 2013-14 i was referring to replacing a world class striker with cheap options that didn't fit in with Brendan's system/style.We brought many good players when we weren't in the CL in the past and we don't sign world class players Jürgen's makes good players into world class players.
I agree we should have went out and signed a central defender back in the summer, but to say FSG sign the cheap option is wrong. As I said, in 2014 we were poised to sign Alexis Sanchez but he turned us down because he wanted to move to London after Arsenal made a late bid. It's not as though the grand plan was to to replace Suarez with Balotelli on the cheap, it was a last resort panic buy as deals for better options had fell through. FSG haven't bought cheap, in the past they've bought badly, but bad doesn't = cheap. Carroll, Downing, Benteke, Lambert, Markovic, Balotelli etc weren't cheap signings, they were just bad signings.
I don't know how we'd go about signing a centre back at the minute, as it's plainly obvious that we're desperate so any club we approach is bound to inflate their asking price because of that, meaning we'd have a pretty hard job trying to sign a decent one on a permanent deal at the minute. Maybe trying to loan a centre back for 6 months would be an option if we were willing to stump up a generous loan fee, but are there any defenders of the calibre we require whose club would be willing to part with them for 6 months? Even if a tempting fee was offered?
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