Trevor Francis' option has been all over everywhere today, and he is typical of everything that's been said about Suarez's "replacement".
" If they get the left-back Alberto Moreno then I think that’s going to cost close to £20 million and that will take the spending up to £110million and £10million of that was spent on Divock Origi who has gone back on loan to Lille,” said Francis.
“So forget the young Belgian player for the moment, there’s £100million spent and only £4million put aside for a striker, that being Lambert.
“I just think that somewhere along the line the balance is not right. He needed a £30 milion striker. Don’t ask me who because that’s not my job – that’s why he is in the job and why he has got scouts all over the world looking to try to bring somebody in.
At least he didn't do the normal thing of throwing out Cavani, Falcao or Benzema without considering whether they're suitable and fit in with the existing players and most importantly Sturridge.
He took and even easier way out - "Don’t ask me who because that’s not my job".
Very convenient. Anyone can say we need to replace Suarez, but no one has yet come up with a viable, available, affordable alternative. That's because there really isn't one, is there.
I think Rodgers has approached it the only way possible by trying to replace 'the effect' and 'the nature of his contribution', as well as leaving us not relying on the availability and form of one or two players to provide the majority of goals, and also making us hopefully harder to shut out, as there are more goal options within the team that the opposition would have to negate and other options off the bench.
As an ex manager himself, the likes of Francis know the score, know the difficulties of bringing the requisite player(s) in no matter the level of football you're playing and standard of player you need.
