Last night Fulham's Director of Communications said we only ever offered 3 million for Dempsey. Ben Smith was told Brendan only realised his £20m transfer budget included wages very late in the transfer window. Dont know how you can spin any of that without thinking major cock up.
Sorry thats a kop out - I remember a certain previous LFC manager being cut no slack whatsoever when an enforced down sizing of playing staff, a bad run of injuries and luck (including freak beach ball goals, goals that shouldnt have been disallowed etc etc etc) ultimately led to us being knocked out of the top 4.