That the exact definition of a fair weather fan - only happy when things are going well, or we're spending loads, or when all the transfers go really well.
We could've bought a midfielder this summer but bought a striker instead. We could've bought a midfielder last season but bought a defender instead. We could've bought a young midfielder in 2020 but bought an injury prone 29 year-old, a back up LB, and another striker instead. We tried to buy a midfielder this summer but he went to Real Madrid.
Who exactly has run the midfield into the ground again? Do you think if we'd had Ox/Keita available for most of the last 4 years that we'd be in this position, or we would've extended Milners contract?
None of us knows what happens behind the scenes, but it doesn't stop posters like you using hyperbolic phrases like 'run into the absolute ground' or 'coasted in the market'. It's all just made up to try and prove a point, when we all know in reality there's an army of well paid analysts, scouts and negotiators at the club, who deserve more credit than the petty insults they get from people on here when things don't work out.'Incompetent mess' is just one of an endless list of exaggerated opinions and conjecture that surface when things don't go our way. The kind of clickbait we see on Talkshite from ex players and goons looking for attention, or on Twitter from angry keyboard warriors.
The amount of people that think a £multi-billion club of our standing and our resources has well-paid professional teams that are so 'incompetent' or 'negligent' never ceases to amaze me. As if they are somehow doing it on purpose despite knowing the issues we have and the challenges we face.
Unless you can provide me a list of the players we scouted, the deals we pursued, the negotiations we tendered, or the contracts we offered, then it's yet against just more hot air just because the season hasn't started well.
That really is quite funny but utterly sad. You seem to blaming the recruitment team and Klopp for actually bringing in players.
The best bit is the absolute nonsense about Klopp having the choice of bringing in a midfield player or a centre back.
You are complaining about bringing in Konate you know to give us the basics of 4 centre backs.
You are also complaining about Jota saying it was our choice to bring in Jota instead of a midfield player. Are you for real mate.
What did you want for us to do stick with Mane, Bobby and Salah until the end of time. Then you say it was our choice to bring in Tsimikas, completely ignoring the fact that we had little cover for Robbo who was playing a stupid number of minutes.
Then you moan about buying Thiago who is world class and one of the first names on the team sheet.
You must have hated the Rangers game seeing Tsimikas, Thiago and Jota all starting. Those players and Konate aren't unecessary extravagant whims. They are part of the here and now and the likes of Jota and Konate will be a huge part of our future.
Melo is highly unlikely to be either.
We have highly experienced recruitment team who simply aren't being allowed to do their jobs.
The club is being run like you would run an ageing car. The engine was due a rebuild but it has been postponed because we had to fix the brakes. Then it got postponed again because the gearbox broke.
Three years ago Arsenal were in a similar predicament. They had an ageing team and a huge wage bill. Their answer was to have a net spend of 400m. They stopped patching things up spent money and have a young hungry team with an average age of 25. We have spent 90m Net and are continuing to look for short term fixes like Davies and Melo.
The greatest irony is that Juve spent most of the January window trying to palm Melo off on Arsenal.
Over the last 3 seasons our net spend has been the 15th in England and the 25th in Europe. Sheffield United have had a bigger net spend than us. That would be fine is we had a young vibrant team but we haven't we have an ageing midfield and borrowing a Melo sized plaster from Juve simply isn't going to fix things.
