Tomkins could probably find a reason and a way to explain away the Yorkshire Ripper's 'transgressions'.
Whilst
every transfer record of
every manager/sporting director (continental clubs) has 'misses' on it, the record under FSG, as afterall they appoint the people tasked with finding and making the decisions on transfers, and are the only common denominator and easily identified protagonist, is downright bloody awful.
The Comolli (or should that be Comodi or even Commode as that's the best association with his signings) stroke Comolli/Dalglish 'era' produced what? Suarez and eventually Hendo? Any others my addled mind has forgotten?
Then the Rodgers stroke Transfer Committee stroke Rodgers/Transfer Committee era has heralded Sturridge and Coutinho. Coutinho in terms of price paid for the talent, though even now he's not managed to be a consistent talentand performer. There's one or two 'maybes', 'could bes' or 'might bes' - that should prove an interesting list for us all to compile.
What Mr Apologetic conveniently overlooks is that we are not trying to compete 'toe to toe', 'cheque book to cheque book' with the likes of Chelsea and the two Manc clubs and Arsenal. I'm presuming they're the four placed ahead of us.
We're not predominantly buying 'names', but instead, are or should be, buying a mixture of lesser lights who can come in and make a real impact (Suarez, Sturridge types, and further back Hyypia), obvious(ish) talents but not quite 'up there' for whatever reason to be bought ahead of the + £30M type players (everybody's idea of 'world class').
The second group are younger players to start to show obvious signs of their promise during the first season, (it's there and you can see why there were signed), who then have made themselves first team regulars by the end of the second season.
The aim being that the collective unit being better than the sum of the individuals because you've put together a group of players that compliment each other, both in their individual partnerships (central defensive pairing etc), sub units (back four, midfield combos) and as an entire 'eleven'.
What he conveniently overlooks is the amount spent on defenders and the numbers brought in, and that despite all that, the defending is far more comedic than my attempts on Comolli's name, and has been a constant in that state since day one. Also, despite Rodgers referring to the defensive problems, and increasingly more often as his reign lengthens, there's no signs of an improvement and despite regularly acknowledging it, any signs that Rodgers actually knows the 'how to', certainly not on a consistent or prolonged basis. I'm not talking about isolated, semi promising, single, games, as we have had one or two of them punctuating the norm.
