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Two turkeys in Carroll and Downing, a helmet in Adam. We are used to shoddy buys from Benitez but has The king taken it to a new level. Discuss?

Liverpool have agreed a deal to sign Fiction Alplayer on January 1st. Young Uruguayan striker. Deal thought to be around £5million

12 months nearly since Dalglish's return to the club. Club legend, has us playing pass and move football again,on the periphery of the top 5. But let's assess his signings? In my opinion, although we are a stronger team and squad, he ha bought poorly particularly the Carroll,Downing and Adam signings. All bought from relegated and mid tier Premier League teams. Did you really expect excellence from any of those three all bought for a combined 62m. How a top manager could spend that on three very moderate, underwhelming players defies logic. What has let LFC down the past 20 years give or take the Hicks and Gillet era is ineffective management in the transfer market. I just hope Dalglish doesn't go the same way. Bent? Just another British journeyman. Mediocre. Has Kenny learned his lesson after multiple poor signings? Hope so

62 million quid wasted on abject mediocrity. When will we ever learn. Ineffective management in the transfer market has let liverpool down for 21 years, give or take the Hicks and Gillet era. Anyone who thinks Dalglish has bought well since January needs their head examined. The first is Downing. I've tried to stay positive with the lad, I really have, but he's struggling badly now and it doesn't matter if he's on either wing. If we're being perfectly honest, Downing was bought with Carroll in mind, but neither seem able to get on each others wavelengths. There were a couple of times yesterday when Downing received the ball in space and running at the defence when I did move to the edge of my seat, only to sit back a moment later with yet another woeful attempt at a cross or pass. His end product is non existent, and has been all season. Very worrying. Charlie Adam. He looked like a lame horse out there the other day, being led off to be put down. It's no coincidence that our midfield improved 100% with Gerrard on in his place. Suddenly Henderson had someone competent and able to play in the position, and a partner who actually has an engine that's not seized and in need of repair. His passing was awful, his decision making was awful, defensively he's the biggest liability on the team but a country mile and I'll be honest here, he's a very big and glaring reason why we were so poor on Monday Andy Carroll.. At Newcastle the entire team was designed to make him score and it worked very well. Here, he needs to do a lot, lot more. But that being said he still had 3 chances to find the net. Part of me is saying "the finishing was pathetic" whilst the other is saying "what do you expect with that being only his 4th start in the prem all season". Unfortunately we play teams that set up primarily not to get beat by us and maybe nick something if they're lucky. All 3 of the lads i've mentioned have never played in teams that face this before and i honestly am struggling to see the potential in them to adapt to having to break down "park the bus" teams.

62 million quid wasted on abject mediocrity. When will we ever learn. Ineffective management in the transfer market has let liverpool down for 21 years, give or take the Hicks and Gillet era. Anyone who thinks Dalglish has bought well since January needs their head examined. The first is Downing. I've tried to stay positive with the lad, I really have, but he's struggling badly now and it doesn't matter if he's on either wing. If we're being perfectly honest, Downing was bought with Carroll in mind, but neither seem able to get on each others wavelengths. There were a couple of times yesterday when Downing received the ball in space and running at the defence when I did move to the edge of my seat, only to sit back a moment later with yet another woeful attempt at a cross or pass. His end product is non existent, and has been all season. Very worrying. Charlie Adam. He looked like a lame horse out there the other day, being led off to be put down. It's no coincidence that our midfield improved 100% with Gerrard on in his place. Suddenly Henderson had someone competent and able to play in the position, and a partner who actually has an engine that's not seized and in need of repair. His passing was awful, his decision making was awful, defensively he's the biggest liability on the team but a country mile and I'll be honest here, he's a very big and glaring reason why we were so poor on Monday Andy Carroll.. At Newcastle the entire team was designed to make him score and it worked very well. Here, he needs to do a lot, lot more. But that being said he still had 3 chances to find the net. Part of me is saying "the finishing was pathetic" whilst the other is saying "what do you expect with that being only his 4th start in the prem all season". Unfortunately we play teams that set up primarily not to get beat by us and maybe nick something if they're lucky. All 3 of the lads i've mentioned have never played in teams that face this before and i honestly am struggling to see the potential in them to adapt to having to break down "park the bus" teams.

Charlie Adam is a mediocre mid-table player, at best. We need top quality, especially at the most creative role on the team. Charlie Adam has got his chance to impress, and he has failed. Red card, missed penalty, own goal. All of that on top of some abysmal defending and inconsistent passing. At the age of 26, he is no longer a talented prospect, and he won't improve much. We don't have the time to nurse him. The sooner he is demoted to the bench and is replaced by some top quality player, the sooner we will start to climb up the table. At the moment, he is by far the weakest link in our starting XI. With him as our starting creative midfielder, we are an Europa League team.ad

dalglish's recruitment policy in 2011 has been poor. Enrique aside and maybe Henderson in time, the rest have been very poor

most of dalglish's signings have been very poor

12 months nearly since Dalglish's return to the club. Club legend, has us playing pass and move football again,on the periphery of the top 5. But let's assess his signings? In my opinion, although we are a stronger team and squad, he ha bought poorly particularly the Carroll,Downing and Adam signings. All bought from relegated and mid tier Premier League teams. Did you really expect excellence from any of those three all bought for a combined 62m. How a top manager could spend that on three very moderate, underwhelming players defies logic. What has let LFC down the past 20 years give or take the Hicks and Gillet era is ineffective management in the transfer market. I just hope Dalglish doesn't go the same way. What are your thoughts on KD signings.

exactly. KD deserves time of course but the majority of his buys have been dreadful, overpriced garbage. One thing is certain he's going to need a better recruitment policy in 2012 or he'll be coming under pressure

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Liverpool lack offensive class in wide areas and through the middle. There is also a complete lack of pace across the fiorward line. Kenny has to address this in the next two windows. Downing and Carroll were poor signings in my opinion. Both are very average players. We need better quality in offensive positions.

He wasn't even bad last night, he was terrible.... it aint nice saying it, but it's true. Nothing he did last night looked like coming off, in fact, he didn't really try anything that might or might not have come off. You could see from the get go that he was just doing the safest thing possible every single time. For me, in games like this you need something else. Give me a winger that loses the ball 10 times a game, but puts in the match winning cross any day, over a winger who continually shows very little desire to beat his man and passes the ball 10 yards back the way. I touched on it in the post match thread, his movement was really bad tonight. Like Championship, League 1 level bad. Every time he got the ball, he lacked the confidence and intelligence to make sure his first touch left him with the ball ahead of him and his body facing the Wigan goal. It changes the picture of the game when a midfielder picks the ball up between the lines and his first touch is a forward one towards the oppositions goal mouth. It forces defenders to step out, it forces full backs to leave their man, it forces midfielders to dive in... tonight we saw none of it. He looked so frightened of trying something different in the fear it might not come off, and that for a 20 million winger is very worrying. In my opinion he will never be good enough for LFC. Most worrying for me was dalglish last night, saying he was happy with the performance. You have to wonder did he see what we all saw before our eyes, lack of pace, creativity, guile and craft with no end product. I hope it's a case of Kenny supporting his players but behind the scenes knowing full well what's required

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