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Right before this extraordinary Premier League season began Kenny Dalglish took a metaphorical open palm swipe at Arsene Wenger and Arsenal by saying that it was his intention to rebuild Liverpool with a British or English spin.
This was reflected in his spending of somewhere in the range of $160 million on the likes of Andy Carroll, Stewart Downing, Jordan Henderson and Charlie Adam, all of whom have been some of the most monumental busts in Premier League football history. This was done by spectacularly overpaying for all four of them and using naïve new owners who just wanted to keep the fans onside, to justify such a spending spree.