The Jury: Liverpool FC fans on the club's lack of activity on transfer deadline day
Sep 3 2009
Liverpool Echo
PAUL ANDERSON, Orrell Park
SHOULD anyone out there still actually be backing our American owners surely the moment the transfer window slammed shut on Tuesday was the final insult and enough to make them lower their star-spangled banner.
The most deceptive statistic of the season so far shows that Liverpool were the second biggest spenders in the league. However, the fact is outgoings have been more than recouped in sales.
Benitez has been forced to bring in a bargain bucket centre-half, whilst teams with far less recent success and income are awarded an open cheque book.
After finishing second we should have been in a position to strengthen and add the final piece to the title winning jigsaw, as it is, any hope of glory hangs around the shoulders of a very thin squad.
FOLLOWING yet another below-par performance against a Bolton side that will clearly be relegation candidates, there are still a lot of questions to be asked regardless of the fact we managed to pick up maximum points.
It was a win at all costs game for a Liverpool side that at present, look completely out of sorts and the feeling of sheer relief coming away from the Reebok was one that no fan expected to be living so early into the season.
Despite the character shown like so often during Rafa's reign, the reality was that before Bolton were reduced to 10 men we looked anything but a side destined for three points. Reality indicated early, following yet more false promises from the two Americans, that there would always be a lack of activity in the transfer market but this is virtually the same side that towards the back end of last season, looked almost unplayable on occasions and the bar needs to be quickly raised once again.
