How bad/stupid/wasteful (pick your own if these don’t work) has Liverpools transfer policy been ? I don’t know anyone who thinks its even half decent but lets try to put it in to perspective by comparing the price Liverpool paid for an average centre back Lovren (£20m) with the cost of Evertons first choice defence.
Howard £3m Baines £6m Stones £3m Jagielka £4m Coleman £0.6m Total £16.6.
And here is another interesting question, how many of Liverpool’s defence of 5 would make it in to the Everton team ? Im not 100% sure any of them would, Clyne and Can are both good players but better than Evertons ? Mignolet is on a par with the error prone Howard whose better days are now behind him. Skirtel and who ever they pair him with would not get a look in against Jags and Stones and do not forget Everton have outstanding cover in the very promising Galloway whose fee was not disclosed but was most certainly less than £4m.
Everton are far from perfect overpaying for the likes of Lakaku and McCarthy but Everton, Swansea and Southampton all highlight just how wasteful Liverpool have been and the common denominator with these 3 is the strong relationship between the owner/chairman and the manager and having the nous to walk away from silly deals.
FSG, Ian Ayre and co have so much to learn and to do before Liverpool win another trophy.
