KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum If we had £30 million to spend in Jan... Who would you buy?

Realistic: I'd say Sturridge & Walcott. Would be good to have them and Suarez all playing in the front 3, rotating in all 3 positions. If rumours are true and Huntelaar is gonna cost about 5m, then him as well at a squeeze.

Fantasy: Cavani. Can't see Napoli letting him go for less than 30m, but he's the kind of player that could really turn the vast majority of our chances into goals. If he could have the kind of impact Suarez did when he first joined, we easily be pushing for top 4.

I think our choices will be very restricted in the January window as clubs wont want to do business, except for players they're trying to offload, and the question is do we really want those players? I'm thinking of players like Sturridge, Walcott and Bent, would Man U or Man City sign any of those players and if not why should we?
I suppose its a case of beggars not being choosers and since we desperately need to boost our strike capacity we'll just have to take the best of what's available, what a horrible position for our incompetent owners to put us in, the striker situation should have been sorted last summer, but they cocked it up big time.

Because these players will improve our starting team at a cost that we can afford and are realistic targets.

Despite their cock up last summer, do you think the calibre of striker we would have attracted would be the same as what the top 3 were after?

Not if if our poverty stricken owners couldn't or wouldn't put up 7m for Dempsey, who was a cheap car boot purchase anyway!
Isn't that the nub of the problem Maxi? We have owners who will only want buy on the cheap and are prepared to drop the manager in the sh*t rather than stump up a miserable 7m for a 2nd rate player at the 11th hour of the summer transfer window.
How can we expect to compete with the top 4 clubs if we are not prepared to compete with them on the transfer market? If we keep buying mid table quality can we realistically expect a top 4 finish? That is just living on hopes of a miracle, it could happen, but they don't happen very often. Putting your club in the position where it has no option but to accept whatever rejects your competitors are prepared to sell to you, or else finish a whole season without a striker is a horrible way to run a PL football club. Finally Maxi, I don't accept that top level players would refuse to join our club if we were prepared to pay the going rate for fees and wages

Spot on Annefield. Most refreshingly honest assessment I've read in a while. And for the record, I dont buy into this silly notion that we cannot attract top level players either. If we are prepared to cough up the dough and have the right vision, the players will come.

I still don't see that the owners cocked it up last summer, yeah we didn't buy Dempsey but that might have turned out to be a blessing in disguise if his performances so far are anything to go by.

Of course we would all like to have more striking options but we are only a win and a draw away from 4th.

The cock up was the spending sprees that had gone on previously and if we have to survive another couple of weeks till Jan to get someone else in but be in a stronger position financially for it then fair enough.

Had we signed Dempsey on deadline day what were people honestly expecting us to achieve this season?

A couple of steady additions to the side in Jan, lets work our way up the table and get some stellar signings in the summer.

(hard hat on take your best shots!)

Dempsey was never the quality player we needed, the only reason we were chasing Dempsey in the first place was because he was american, he was comparatively cheap and the owners wanted him (we were lead to believe), but when it came to the money they balked.
You talk about spending sprees JimBob, United came within goal difference of the tittle last season but were prepared to spend as much on one player this season as we did net on a major rebuild over a season and a half, Man City have spent 600m on their rebuild so far.
Chelsea gave us more for one player than our net spend since FSG took over this club. We needed a major rebuild JimBob, and in this age that costs hundreds of millions not tens of millions as you and FSG seem to think.

I'd give Alex Ferguson a 3 yr contract @ £10m per season. That would give us a much better chance of winning the league than the signing of any striker.

Not sure we'll win the league if he is not given money to spend (I think even Fergie would need an average of at least 30m net yearly for 2 years). I think we'll definitely be in the top 4 though (but we will still need the 20 million yearly as currently)

I've lost count of the amount of average players that he has made into premier league winners. If he can do it with butt, o'shea, fletcher, those brazillian twins, evans, park, neville, brown, hargreaves, fortune etc etc then he can surely do it with our current squad.