Damien Comolli, Liverpool’s director of football strategy, believes he has identified potential bargains in the January sales, with Europe’s financially stricken clubs desperate to sell their best players.
“My feeling about it is that in this economic recession there are so many clubs that are in trouble abroad, more than England. These clubs are under enormous pressure to sell. So this January window could be a very different window from what we have seen previously.
“Players that we would never have thought would be available could be. So that’s why we are working away, thinking that if there is the right opportunity we should do it. Strange things could happen,” he said.
The January window has proved a poor time to invest in the past and NESV, Liverpool’s new owners, are cautious about making promises.
Comolli is keen to stress that the club will not buy a player just to make a statement of intent: “I think the owners are clear minded enough to step back from that pressure. We are going to do what is right, not just for now, but what is right for the club in the next three or four years.
“Roy [Hodgson] is totally onside with that. Why do it if it’s not right? If it’s right in the summer we’ll do it then.”
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