I don't want to be that guy but Livepool haven't signed a world class player in the premier league era; FSG or not. The world class players that we have had (Alonso, Mascherano, Gerrard, Torres and Suarez) were all bought (or in Gerrards case developed in house) way before that standard. We havent recruited world class players for as long as I've supported Liverpool because we simply aren't in a position to do so. Putting a player on 150k a week doesnt guarantee success. See many of City and Uniteds horrible signings the last 2 or 3 years.
This is such revisionist nonsense. Fernando Torres was a superstar in waiting, he scored 7 goals in qualifying for the 2006 World Cup and then three goals at the real thing. He'd hit double figures five seasons running at Atletico and was talked about for years. He was a
massive signing and many pundits tipped us to win the league in 2007/08 almost entirely because we had finally signed a top striker, seen as the missing piece of the jigsaw under Rafa.
The others weren't necessarily in the 'world class' bracket but Suarez was also a big coup for us; individually he wasn't on the same global scale as Torres - less handsome, questionable character, playing in a lesser league and from a lesser country - but he was excellent at the 2010 World Cup and plenty of clubs had their eye on him, but were put off by the biting scandal a few months earlier. The same goes for Mascherano with regards to third party ownership; everyone knew of his quality and had done for a few years, but we were the big club which decided to take the risk. West Ham got him and Tevez in the first place for a reason.
'World class' is a subjective term which tends to involve a very small group of players who frankly aren't often available. They take a massive wedge of money, both in terms of transfer fees and wages, a massive slice of luck, or a combination of both to attain. We don't need to sign 'world class' players, moreover I'm not sure we can without bigger investment and bigger success, but more ready-made first-team players with added scope for improvement like the three lads above would certainly help. We haven't had enough of them in recent years, but Mané is along the right lines.