But now its crunch time. The sale of Morientes and impending sale of Cisse means Liverpool need strikers and unfortunately our recent record for buying good prolific strikers is awful. Morientes, Cisse,Diouf and Heskey cost Liverpool over £40million, near enough £1million per goal (not a great return) This puts additional pressure on Rafa to get it right, especially as Chelsea, United,Newcastle,and Spurs are all after strikers as well.
Every season start is as crunch time if you ask me, I don't think last summer the pressure was any smaller, we had a CL league, we had to start the season very early, and we had to buy some players in order we kept up the Champions of Europe reputation. The pressure was really, high, it's always like that at this level. Now Rafa has the same pressure, but more credit in the "Patience of People" account, as he has won another major title. Of course he'll have to get it right, and as last year, he'll do the best he can, and then the market will say if he can bring exactly what he wants, or second choices. And time will tell as always if he's right.
Did he got it right? well, he did what he could, with some successes and failures. Sucesses like signing up Reina, Failures, in that if in winter we were in a need of a new striker (Fowler) and a RW (we tried to sign up people like Victor) and that means we didn't finnish the task of reinforcing in summer (