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Snakeye, I am literally astounded. I know people tend to have short memories when it comes to football, but i've never seen anything like it.

Have people ALREADY forgotten how bad our squad was last season?!

I'll provide a reminder. We had such players on our books such as:
Poulsen,
Cole,
N'Gog,
Degen,
El Zhar,
Konchesky,
Jovanovic,
Insua,
Kyrgiakos.
Have I forgotten any others?

That's 9 players who weren't good enough to play for LFC that we offloaded. We hadn't got a squad that was great in either quality or numbers, and regardless of what way you look them, that is NINE players out of the squad, making the squad a hell of a lot smaller and stretched. So I find it hard to fathom how people can say they would have preferred 2 or 3 quality players instead of the 7 we got (Enrique, Bellamy, Adam, Coates, Downing, Henderson & Doni). It's not really viable. What if a few players got injured? We'd be f*cked, because we'd be dipping into the reserves/academy to find a replacement. In an ideal world, we'd have signed 6 or 7 'top quality' players, but this isn't an ideal world. People need to start thinking logically and realise that you can't have everything. Unless you're Man City. Then you can.

I'm delighted we've a better squad, delighted about the weeding of the squad. This is nothing but good for the future. But then as we'll have relatively few games this year, would the acceptible target of 4th ( I hate that this is our target), not have neen achievable with less but better players given what Jose did with a small but excellent chelsea squad.