Dalglish didn´t bought mostly english players! Three of nine players he bought are english. Adam isn´t english, Bellamy as well..they can be considered british. He bought all in all british + foreign players.. but he also got rid of some of them to get the club on his image as any coach would do..
green are non british players,
blue are british:
Sold:
Ryan Babel, Hoffenheim, £5,800,00, 25 January 2011
Fernando Torres, Chelsea, £50,000,000, 31 January 2011
Paul Konchesky, Leicester, £1,500,000, 13 July 2011
Gerardo Bruna, Blackpool, Undisclosed, 18 July 2011
Thomas Ince, Blackpool, Undisclosed, 3 August 2011
Milan Jovanovic, Anderlecht, Free, 5 August 2011
Daniel Ayala, Norwich, £800,000, 16 August 2011
Nabil El Zhar, Levante, Free, 18 August 2011
Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Wolfsburg, Free, 22 August 2011
Emiliano Insua, Sporting Lisbon,, Undisclosed, 27 August 2011
Christian Poulsen, Evian Thonon Gaillard, Undisclosed, 31 August 2011
Raul Meireles, Chelsea, £12,000,000, 31 August 2011
David N'Gog, Bolton Wanderers, £4,000,000, 31 August 2011
Philipp Degen, Free Agent, Free, 31 August 2011
Martin Hansen, Viborg FF, Undisclosed, 31 January 2012
Bought:
Luis Suarez, Ajax, £22,800,000, 31 January 2011
Andy Carroll, Newcastle, £35,000,000, 31 January 2011
Jordan Henderson, Sunderland, £16,000,000, 9 June 2011
Charlie Adam, Blackpool, £7,500,000, 7 July 2011
Alexander Doni, Roma, Free, 15 July 2011
Stewart Downing, Aston Villa, £20,000,000, 15 July 2011
Jose Enrique, Newcastle, £6,000,000, 12 August 2011
Sebastian Coates, Nacional, £8,000,000, 30 August 2011
Craig Bellamy, Man City, Free, 31 August 2011
I think Dalglish makes no difference in players nationality and that nationality isn´t the first thing he is looking by wanting to sign a player...nobody is bashing Ferguson for spending milions on england talent they can afford, the same Chelsea...Liverpool wanted to get english spine no less than 3 years ago, many were moaning there is not enough english LEADER type of players except Gerrard and that we are one man team...
now we play mostly with foreign players in the lineup..
Reina, Skrtel, Agger, Enrique, Lucas, Kuyt, Suarez are
NOT ENGLISH and i consider them regulars in starting lineup..
Spearing, Kelly, Flanagan, Robinson are english, but they are home grown players they were free for us..
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Here are numbers of games of Liverpool´s british players this season (including substitutions - not just full matches):
33 - Henderson
32 - Downing
32 - Carroll
28 - Adam
25 - Bellamy
20 - Johnson
18 - Carragher
17 - Gerrard
15 - Spearing
10 - Kelly
09 - Shelvey
05 - Flanagan
01 - Sterling
Now compare that to league leaders british players that were most used this season:
31 - Rooney
29 - Welbeck
28 - Evans
27 - Ferdinand
27 - Carrick
26 - Jones
23 - Giggs
22 - Young
17 - Smalling
14 - Scholes (in 8. Jan.)
09 - Cleverley
08 - Fletcher
02 - Fryers
01 - Amos
01 - Gibson (out 12. Jan.)
01 - Keane
01 - Owen
I ask, is the number of appereances of United´s british players lower?
I think the first criteria we buy is again the fact if player who has the quality to give us something is avileable for the team salary structure + avileable to be bough and his willingnes to join us, then we look obviously on his age and possible revenue or posibility of growing with the team..
Nationality has nothing to do with it imho.. We bought british players becouse we wanted to get more depth in squad and becouse we needed some proven premier league players who don´t need to aclimate to the league after big sell out of previous managers dead wood...
Now phase two is hopefully begining in summer... i realy don´t know what to expect.. hopefully only good news about transfers targets...