I was watching El Classico on Saturday evening and the number of familiar players got me thinking back to an earlier post I’ve put on here. These two teams were fighting out the ‘biggest club game in world football’ (according to almost all football fans) and I was watching Alvaro Arbeloa, Xabi Alonso and Javier Masherano take part after watching them all play at Anfield not so long ago. I was thinking about some of our poorer signings and remembering that we don’t always sign players that don’t work out, all three of these were excellent for us and were sold on for a profit, giving us good football memories and good business practice, two essentials in modern football. It was a big thumbs up to our scouting department.
Then I started noticing the other players and subs. Dani Alves, Sergio Busquets, Gonzalo Higuain, Fabio Coentrau – all strongly linked to us during Rafa Benitez’ spell in charge. Cristiano Ronaldo – almost joined us during Gerard Houllier’s reign. Tello and Granero – both linked with us in the January transfer window. That gives us a total of ten players involved in such a big game that our scouting department have at some point picked up on. How different things could have been…
As I’ve made previous mention of, the scouting department finds players, it’s then up to the management and the moneymen to see whether or not it’s a deal that can come to fruition. These transfers don’t always happen but in a time when we’ve been heavily criticised for our signings I think it’s important to point out the calibre of player we’d like to bring in, it just doesn’t always turn out that it is possible to sign them, or to keep them once we have them at Liverpool.
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