The club has been in decline for years and no one could come in and turn that around overnight. Spuds and Liverpool have won nothing in three seasons and yet the pundits are in awe over their current managers.
As a club, on the playing side, we've been run poorly both on and off the field. in four of the past five seasons, we've recouped just £28m from player sales. We did rather better in 2017/18 at £105m by off loading Giroud, Theo and Ox.
The wage bill remains one of the highest in the league and yet player valuations must be the lowest of the top 6 sides in the PL. Paying Ozil over 300k a week was a pure act of desperation for a player with his inconsistency. At least today, he was spared the humiliation of going missing, again.
No CL income in the last few seasons has also impacted upon the club's ability to bring in top players.
By contrast, Klopper has spent over £600m and recouped £419m in the last 5 seasons.
Emery, or anyone else, would need to work miracles to get us back into serious contention in the space of 12 months.
He's had a decent start and it's not *his* players who are largely under-performing.
Let's just see what he's able to achieve over the next couple of windows before we begin preparing the gallows.
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