KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Yet again Spurs sign another big name..

The certain calibre is just excuse to gain more time to look around. What calibre is he referring to? What i see is all squad players. Till then, deadline would had arrived to fimd the correct calibre.

I don't think it is an excuse at all... I'd say we've aimed pretty high for players. Mkhitaryan chose Dortmund, Costa chose Atletico, Willian would have chosen Chelsea anyway... You might not believe we had intent, but I'm assured we did in all 3 cases. Believe what you want in that respect... But in the past we've settled for average players and it has taken years to move them on... At least we're not putting ourselves in that position.

There are non champions league teams e.g. spurs who are signing top players, yet on a global and financial level we are much better than them. How does it make sense we are less attractive to players?

Spurs have AVB - a widely respected coach. They have an asset, in Bale, they are selling for a world record price... The signing of a couple of top players, immediately makes them an attractive place to go... Perceived ambition... They play in London, which is an easy place to live/work/travel in and from, and they also have European football. It doesn't take a genius to work out that they've finished above us for several seasons now.

Hold, i believe we had the intent to get them. Intend was there, action was not taken. Thats the ting im tired of. Like mkh case, linked first, drag on, didnt put a bid and pop comes dortmund, bid made immediately, they got him. Before dortmund were interested, mkh were interested in us, but we didnt put in any bids. Look at pur current team depth, with so many injuries hit after the notts game, do you think we can last thru jan? Yes, we had young players, but young players is not the answer to the first team. What we fans wan to see is the intent of the club to bring us forward, but we dont see at all. Tts why Suarez wanted to leave and i believe if i were suarez, i will see more intent in spurs now then us!

I'm not saying it is a certainty that they'd all pick Spurs. They now can't guarantee attacking players regular football. In a world cup year, that can be very important to players, especially those on the fringes. Spurs think by signing all these top players, they're going to win things, but United didn't need top players in their entire squad. I wouldn't trade Evans for anyone in our back-line. I wouldn't trade Anderson for anyone in the middle of our midfield. The game is about playing as a team, not just individual talent. And keeping those players happy is a tough ask, especially if they don't play.

Yes however we are a widely respected club, significantly more so than Spurs. We have a world class player in Luis Suarez which itself is a lift to our ambitions of remaining a top club. This should be a lure to players, but apparently its not.

I'm assured that isn't true. Out of a mark of respect, the club basically said he could chose whichever club made him the most attractive offer, and they'd let him go so long as they offered the price they wanted. Liverpool made it clear we'd offer more than them, but he wanted Dortmund. In the end, Shakhtar settled. Our "late bid" basically just proved he didn't want to come.



I don't believe our business is done. I don't believe Spurs' ambition is purely measured in transfer spending. I don't believe a "marquee signing" is the only thing Liverpool can do to compete. There is way too much placed on "a saviour" when in fact, we should be critically assessing ourselves. Like Gerrard mentioned that having the younger players in the squad may have affected seeing the game out against Notts County. Learn fast.

I'm not saying I wouldn't love a £60m spend in the last few days of the window to get us a 3/4 immediate improvements. I'm saying, realistically, they're going to need to settle/adapt. But ultimately if the club are aiming high, and the players are too under instruction from the manager, then we should be, irrespective of whether 2 or 5 players come into Anfield.

Maybe we aimed too high... Maybe we chose players that other big clubs already targeted. We can't compete with Dortmund right now. And irrespective of history, Liverpool have not competed in the CL in over 3 years now. I'd like to still think anybody would love to come to us, it just plainly isn't true though.

I am sure we are capable of luring top players. We did so with Suarez and Coutinho. And this transfer window, I would have thought we would get rid of some of the 'deadwood', which we have. And replace them with better players, which we have not done.