Unsettling a successful team with too many news signings is risky…
Tottenham proved that you might be able to sign a huge handful of stars with the money made from one sale, but that doesn’t necessarily give you a team. As players tried to settle in and adjust to life in the Premier League, so the club struggled for form. With the results not going their way, the new signings became disheartened and also began to struggle. Spurs had a group of talented players, but not a team accustomed to playing together.
Consistency is the key for Liverpool, who must retain at least a dozen of their key players from last season’s squad. Brendan Rodgers has been cleverer than Tottenham here, in the fact that he is getting his business done early – allowing players a pre-season campaign to become accustomed with each other. Unlike Spurs, he as already signed a couple of Premier League players, who will need no time to adjust to the league, the language or the culture. Even so, he needs to guard against disrupting a team that was so successful last season.