In fact, I have found a lot of such comments before, that is, the team lost the chance to win the championship or even the possibility of top four because of the shortage of center backs this season, mainly because of the team owner's ineffectiveness. It so happens that recently, after going through some articles and messages from other fans, I found that there are quite a few people who agree with such a conclusion.
So decided to post an article to address this topic to address this topic to discuss, and did not want to deliberately exculpate which party (such as the owner is all right this kind of idea), purely for such a discourse to put forward some personal views, hoping to provide another perspective to understand the team or other parties to understand the stance and choices, in particular the protagonist of this piece FSG (Fenway Group), is also
Liverpool (England)
The gold master behind the current stage.
The team started the season with VanDijk + Gomez + Matip as the main players, with two juniors, Nat and Williams, and occasional substitutions from Fabinho. As we all know, all three starters were out of action in the first half of the season, and Fabinho was out for a while, and even the captain had to go down to center back for a while (and has yet to come back from his injury).
Here's where a lot of fans probably get upset or even explode, tarting up the team owners for why Gomez and Matip weren't in the summer when they knew they were both injury-prone.
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It's time to fill the obvious gap, especially with the departure of Lovren, the original fourth center back. There's no denying that such a setup looks a bit risky, both before and after the fact.
But here's where it's just a very thought-provoking place to be, the whole
Liverpool (England)
How likely is it that everyone from top to bottom would fail to see this so glaringly obvious risk at the same time? Even if it's true that FSG has no experience running a professional soccer team, how likely is it that with nearly 20 years of experience taking over the Red Sox of Major League Baseball, it would fail to see this kind of problem that is so obvious even to us as fans?
Since FSG surely saw the problem and still didn't buy anyone, isn't the pot still well and truly full? That's probably where most people's thinking probably ends, and there's no point in continuing down the line when you've found the bad guys anyway (which is a shame really). . If you can read this far, give yourself a moment to think about what could be the possible reasons why FSG didn't buy someone on the spot when it was obvious that they saw a problem? Is it possible, as many fans say, that the owner just loves money in order to make money so he doesn't want to spend (or save) it? Of course there is this possibility (but there is a huge fallacy in this argument, which will be mentioned below). But is it possible that after all the evaluations, it was decided that we could wait a little longer, say until the winter (unfortunately this cannot be verified)?
What are the chances that the team would be so naive as to think that this idea could hold up with three center backs + Fabinho carrying the team all season? But why did I emphasize before that such a setup would be reasonable for the opening season?
First, while Gomez / Matip are both injury-prone, the likelihood of them both missing extended periods of time at the same time would have been relatively small (a reasonable prognosis would probably be that you get hurt and I get hurt and we all rotate down the line), and even if that did happen, there'd still be Fabinho and the rest of the juniors who could hold out until they returned with VVD sitting in.
Secondly, VanDijk's good health record in the past, coupled with the fact that the playing style has always been relatively pampered, makes it a perfectly reasonable maneuver from the team's point of view to think about going into the first half of the season with such a depth setup that allows the team to make a better decision in the marketplace without rushing into a buy just for the sake of buying (and it's still important to emphasize here that the point of whether or not the team decides to make a move in the winter beforehand is something that's hard to to go back and verify now). Of course, as a fan may not be satisfied with the team's overconfidence in VanDijk's health record, but objectively speaking VanDjik's reimbursement for the season is indeed a very low probability event (how high is the likelihood of being knocked down by the opponent's goalkeeper on a strike and still appearing as a center back?)
Thirdly, every team has been affected by the epidemic, not only financially, but naturally also in terms of roster depth. Therefore, at this point in time, it is obvious that no team will be so quick to meet the team's requirements, and even take the opportunity to find a chance to knock you down a peg is also a very reasonable operation. Fans may say
Manchester City football club
You bought Dias, didn't you? Yeah, but you know what?
Manchester City football club
Bought at what premium?
Manchester City football club
It cost 68 million euros at the time, but Dias was assessed at less than 40 million euros market value at the time.
Many fans like to use the fact that the owner is a businessman as a basis for criticizing FSG, arguing that the owner is just out to make money rather than spend it. But there is a huge logical fallacy in that argument itself:
First, in the world of capitalism is there any boss who can make a lot of money by not spending a lot of money? So the very thesis of not being willing to spend money in order to make money is very contradictory, replace it with the idea that the bosses are just cheap so they don't want to spend big money, and the author finds it all more discussable.
