Quote Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory View Post
It's funny because I was arguing with this same guy about the type of strikers we sign and I questioned why we never signed Suarez from Ajax before Liverpool. Masterminds excuse was the Dutch league and Ajax were shit.

We can extend that further to questioning why is it that Ajax were able to sign Ibrahimovic and Saurez as young players? Did our scouts miss them or not see what they were capable of? We had Ibra here on trail. How comes we end up signing young players that turn out to be so underwhelming? It's not as if we weren't looking for the next big stars at that time. We were poaching the best players from academies across the globe. Taking advantage of 16 year olds turning professional. It's hard to understand why we've been so unlucky. I can understand not producing many talented English local players but we've been poaching the supposedly best players from Spain, Germany, South and Central America, France...we've had scout everywhere so something has gone wrong or we've got some serious bad luck.

Most of the other top teams don't give young players a chance like we do. Mastermind mentions Man Utd but forgets they had Pique and Pogba signed up as young players but never gave them an opportunity. We don't do that. We give our young players chances. Well, most of them. We've got so many, guys like Coquelin and Campbell are discovered late and on the verge of leaving before getting a chance.
It is a matter of record that we tried unsuccessfully to sign Ibra even before he went to Ajax. Something along the lines of "Ibrahimovic does not do trials" and Suarez. Well Wenger was still besotted with Chamak at the time so had no eyes for Suarez. when he finally saw the light he offered Ł1 above the release clause. Pool pretended it did not exist. I blame Suarez` agent. He must be an illiterate not to know what was in the agreement his player recently signed.