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Liverpool chairman Werner: We believe in our transfer strategy
Liverpool chairman Tom Werner stands by their transfer policy - despite the departure of football director Damien Comolli.
The likes of Andy Carroll (￡35m), Stewart Downing (￡20m) and Jordan Henderson (￡16m) have failed to live up to expectation and the best deals have been for Craig Bellamy, who came in on a free but has no re-sale value because of his age, Jose Enrique (￡6m) and Luis Suarez (￡22.8m).
"We've had a strategy that we have agreed on. There was some disconnect on the implementation of that," said Werner, who confirmed they had made the decision to remove Comolli.
"That strategy is a strong one and it will continue.
"We need to build a strong system under the first team. We're hard at work identifying transfer targets and we will be better next year.
"Frankly, we make these decisions with a great deal of care because it's our track record in Boston to give people authority and we've had great success with our manager, who was there for eight years, and our general manager, so we prefer stability.
"But when it's time to act, we need to act. We're coming close to the end of the season and the transfer window for the summer, and we felt it was important to make this change expeditiously.
"We feel there is enough talent on the pitch to win and I would say we certainly have the resources to compete with anybody in football.
"But we're also talking about the future - we have a strategy we need implemented and we felt Damien was probably not the right person to implement that strategy. | 
Post time 14-4-2012 09:44 AM
