Liverpool spent around £300 million during the Brendan Rodgers era, and where has it ultimately gotten them? Scrapping to avoid mid-table mediocrity, that’s where.
Of all of Rodgers’s signings, how many can we call an out-and-out success? Philippe Coutinho, certainly. Daniel Sturridge… until his Anfield career became a mire of injury torment. You can certainly fight the corners of Emre Can and James Milner, yet for every hit, the Brodge era produced five Kopp flops, and expensive ones at that.
Sure, there have been flops – Aiden McGeady, and Arouna Kone, to name but two – but Martinez’s overall record in the transfer market is more hit than miss and he’s bolstered the Blues on a fraction of the funding handed to Rodgers by the boatload.
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