As the days, hours and seconds of the transfer window ticked away, Melwood remained quiet. Dalglish himself admitted that “there’ll be no one moving in or out” and but for an audacious bid to prize wantaway Carlos Tevez to Liverpool, there was very little to excite the fans.
Rewind a year and there could not have been a starker contrast. Following the arrival of Luis Suarez from Ajax, Fernando Torres sensationally switched to Chelsea, opening the door for Liverpool to break their transfer record to sign Andy Carroll for a staggering £35m.
This year, Liverpool had yet again been in the hunt for a new striker according to the gossip columns. With Andy Carroll and Dirk Kuyt struggling for goals, Liverpool have relied heavily on Craig Bellamy and Luis Suarez for moments of inspiration.
Dalglish clearly recognises that this is a problem and if his outrageous offer of a swap deal involving Carroll and Tevez had paid off, it would have been seen as a real coup.
Jermain Defoe was another name mentioned. His predatory instincts and clever movement would have seen him score many goals for Liverpool, who have created countless chances this season but struggled to turn this superiority into goals.
Luis Suarez has undoubtedly been a revelation since arriving of Merseyside, yet his strike rate of just nine goals in 31 appearances for the club is proof that he is not a natural goalscorer.
Bellamy chips in with his fair share of goals, but rarely plays as a central striker. Dirk Kuyt has been a consistent scorer for Liverpool, despite regularly playing as a right winger, but has had a very poor season so far. His late winner against Man Utd does not hide the fact that he needed to be moved on in January.
Liverpool’s lack of goals hasn’t been a problem of late, with Kuyt, Carroll and Bellamy all scoring in the last three games. But if Liverpool are to make the top four this season, a goalscorer was needed.
Bring tevez in and will assire you will get top four or more next season..
200000£ per week ! It’s joke , it’s gamble for a foolish like him
I have doubt . We need to win , not matter with 4 goals or one different . We are in right track and potential more than so far this season . in 2nd part of season we can goalscoring better and better like previous season . Just sit and watch
So why didn’t Dalglish make any January signings?? Your heading is not borne out by anything in your report! Lazy journalism.
Exactly, I’m still waiting to hear, where is the rest of the article???
true…title and contents are miles apart…rubbish article…!!!!
Why torres going to chelsea ? i think because we buy suarez . so if we sign a striker more emmm suarez go ? i think we need creativity in midfield , not a striker more
Why Dalglish did not make any January signings? Because he wouldn’t dare, that’s why. Having spent more than £100 million on a donkey (Carroll) and some mules (Henderson, Downing & Adam), would the so-called King still dare to enter the transfer market for more of such pathetic and woeful footballers.
Get a life Turner!
what a mug turner is
Turner is obviously either a manc in disguise or just a Dick. Those players will take time to settle. To be honest, I think they have settled better than expected. Hendo is going to be quality, Downing has been let down as people havent scored from his hard work. Adam is a good squad player.
However you are probably one of the numpties who were slagging Lucas off a few years back and Spearing as well.
Get a life
@judgestevep: Give the new players more time? That’s what you’ve been saying for more than 2 decades. Carry on with that kind of mentality and it would be another twenty years of empty shelf space in the trophy room.
UTD 119 years to get above Liverpool. Yes 119 years to actually be the better team. Forever in our shadow.
I agree turner also do the board trust cheque book kenny to waste any more of their millions. I wouldn’t if it was my money. Wish KD would do the honourable thing and resign he is a dinosaur and keeping the likes of a mourunho out the running for this great club of ours. Would love to c mourunho or someone of that ilk come to us with a 100m to spend then we would see a team challenging for the major honours and not the mickeys mouse cup.
He didn’t sign anyone as he didn’t need to. He has at least 4 strikers available, the problem previously was he has been too reliant on Suarez to create and score goals. What he needs is a 3 pronged attack with Carroll up top, Bellamy one side and Suarez the other, with Gerrard playing behind.
There was no need to sign a new striker, we had a £35m one sat on the bench. The solution was and still is to get the best out of him.
So where do you describe the reason why Dalglish made no signings. Your title has nothing to do with your article. If this were an English paper – you would have failed. Lazy journalism again. And thankfully Tevez never came here. Don’t want that mercenary anywhere near Melwood – he’s poison. Had he come in, it would have been a travesty – not a coup as you put it.
suarez is a natural goal scorer we just have not seen the best of him yet
how can you say he is not a natural goal scorer???????? he got the golden boot in the copa america!!! NOT MESSI< AGUERO< NEYMAR< or any of the most mentioned players! luis suarez out scored them all, also you havent mentioned how many times he has hit the bar! what is wrong with you silly journalist who have no base to their articles!
last thing to mention was his 81 goals in 110 appearances for ajax! the more i think about this article the more it annoys me grrrrrr
we mush sing 1 playes
Wondering why u guys jumped at Turner as if he was an escape route from a burning city. How can a Reasonable Fan say Downin ‘has been let down’ when recently a Lfc Legend claimd dat Downin lacks self believe. Mayb some of u fans shld try to remove Sentiments from d game & always b truthful. What i’ve noticd is dat most fans say d truth when we lose a match but they forget d truth when we win one or 2 matches. Ynwa
Terrible article that never really answers the question posed in the title…..
My thoughts exactly!
Wasted time reading this rubbish ..will never visit this blog again!
What a **** poor article, no reference as to your title..Go on, tell us why he didn’t make any signings…lazy lazy journalism, if you can even call it that.
Can’t believe that there are people out there that actually believe that Dalglish was in for Tevez and a swap deal with Carroll. ust cannot believe it!!!
STEVIE H / FEBRUARY 4, 2012
I agree turner also do the board trust cheque book kenny to waste any more of their millions. I wouldn’t if it was my money. Wish KD would do the honourable thing and resign he is a dinosaur and keeping the likes of a mourunho out the running for this great club of ours. Would love to c mourunho or someone of that ilk come to us with a 100m to spend then we would see a team challenging for the major honours and not the mickeys mouse cup.
Kenny has joined NATO (No Action Talk Only)
Lol!!