The Anfield faithful remain confident that reinforcements will arrive in January and the club’s hierrarchy is doing what it take to do some good business in the transfer window as the recent past has not been good in terms of players brought in to the club. It remains to see how long will the supporters be patient with the club.
Brendan Rodgers has warned that there are two substantial impediments to him spending heavily in January – availability and affordability.
Liverpool are in 12th place currently and asked about the potential European qualification position, he said:
“There is a bigger picture for sure and it goes back to affordability. We will spend money in January to try and bring fresh faces into the group and give us that support at the top end. But the reality [about] all the names bandied about is ‘Are they going to be available?’ Certainly we will bring in what we can and help us and then we will revisit it again.
“All our problems were never going to be solved in this window because the January window is one of the least productive and the least movement goes on there. But we will look to solve some of our problems then and then we will look to revisit it in the summer knowing that in the summer we will be better placed than the previous summer.
“There is no doubt we will get reinforcements in and there is no doubt that we will get the backing, but it will come down to two things. The availability and affordability of players – I see lots of names bandied about that are pie in the sky because there won’t be too many top players moving about in January because clubs want top money. But there is no doubt that we want to bring in goals and we want to bring in players who can assist in scoring goals. If we can do that then that will set us up and then we can really reinforce when the transfer market opens up in the summer again.”