Jim05 wrote:JK wrote:Jim05 wrote:JK wrote:How good is Dempsey? I don't for a minute think Carroll is worth anywhere near the 35mil quid we paid for him, but I think he still has the potential to be a damaging player
Dempsey is a decent player but Liverpool have a history of turning good players from other EPL sides into duds in the last few years

Like who? (genuine question)
Carroll, Downing, Adam, Henderson, Shelvey, Konchesky, Enrique, Cole off the top of my head.
All of these guys were amongst the best players at their old EPL clubs yet since transferring to Liverpool most have been ordinary. Im prepared to give Carroll more time but for one reason or another the others havnt fitted in.
Not only that but you have paid well over the odds for some of these jokers, cant believe you paid over £20m for Downing when we got Young for £15m, i know which one id take

Hang on, so by your own admission Downing wasn't anything special (seeing we paid over the odds - which is true), but we turned him into a dud?
Carroll's had injury and off-field issues, Adam was a big fish in a small pond at Blackpool, Henderson wasn't a good player he just had potential, Shelvey is decent and has been ok with us, Cole was injury prone and past his best (which was at Chelsea with much better players around him than we had).
Reasons or excuses, I'm not sure maybe a combination of both?
Definitely we paid too much for most/many of those names
