Originally Posted by
Insidious
Ah I see. Yeah, the injury crisis issue was a nightmare.
However, it was January. So to be fair -
- How many clubs would be willing to sell centre-backs in January? Particularly ones that are good enough to genuinely improve us?
- We acquired two centre-backs in the end.
- One got injured right away, rotten luck.
- We did ultimately finish high enough with players that Klopp trusts, so it's (thankfully) ended up being a non-issue and besides, had we won even 2 of the 6-in-a-row losses at Anfield, we would have finished second if I recall rightly (we finished 5 points behind Man United was it? So two wins would have done, if I have remembered correctly)
- Had we indeed acquired more players in the January window, we would be having even more trouble with the selling aspect of our current transfer window as we would have at least one more space needing to be freed up. Or we could be stuck with not registering someone like Shaqiri and pouring £80,000 a week down the drain during a Pandemic, which, asides from anything else anyone might think about the owners, would be a baaaad look for a club in a working-class city.
Currently we're in the process of tying up what will be the core of the side to extended/bigger deals, so we are spending. I also (some will say this is too optimistic, that's fine) am of the belief that we are doing so in advance of getting a "star" or two next window (not Mbappe/Haaland level, but still good) as it will be easier to bring someone into an environment where our lads have had contracts negotiated, rather than bring someone in who is earning equal to/more than the players at the club who have really earned it over the last 2-5 seasons, though I could be super wrong on that score and it's a separate issue really.
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