It’s always going to be a raw topic until we win the league again, and that’s how close we came to winning it in 2013/14 and what happened afterwards.
Indeed, we were within a handful of points of finally taking the title under Brendan Rodgers but things went against us as we all know and that would be that in terms of a challenge up until this point at least.
Certainly, 2014/15 proved a real step-back and, as quoted by the Liverpool Echo, former manager Rodgers has reflected on the failure to bring in Alexis Sanchez as the moment where things began to go into reverse.
We tried to sign the Chilean after it became clear Luis Suarez was going to leave but he instead went to Arsenal. We were then left with the likes of Mario Balotelli – a gamble that didn’t work – and Rodgers would be out of the job just over a year later.
Reflecting he said:
“We felt like Luis (Suarez) was going to move on.
“And we needed to get a world-class operator to go like-for-like.
“We finished second in the league playing a great level of football.
“Players were flexible in how they could play and then it was about trying to make that next step.
“And for that we needed to get a replacement. And we deemed Sanchez to be that one.”
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