A change in the dugout is a good start for Liverpool, but if the club is serious about succeeding, it will need to alter a scattered method of recruitment, says Melissa Reddy.
Sixty-four. That is more or less the average number of Premier League points Liverpool has managed over the last five seasons. It is also, remarkably, the figure of transfer deals completed during Brendan Rodgers’ three-year tenure.
Thirtyone players were recruited under the Northern Irishman at a cost in excess of $445 million and 33 were ejected. There is a split on where to place blame for such silly and expensive bulk business, with the 42-year-old the subject of the finger pointing along with the club’s fumbling transfer committee.